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🥰 is truly the best emoji there is it can be used for a myriad of different occasions like for example when you see a bird or when you hear a bird or when you think of birds

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i have a disgusting amount of dreams that just involve me identifying birds like i come out of my dreams with lists of birds that i saw and i was like "i know who that is. Great Blue Heron. Cedar Waxwing"

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Off to Costa Rica til the 21st 😎 oh God first time in neotropics and barely studied

#let's go birding

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northern flickers my beloved

@todaysbird

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🐜🐜🐜 ANT WORLD 🐜🐜🐜

For each of these ant-names there are usually multiple genera. Nearly all of these birds are from Central and South America (except for some exceptions at the end...) Note that sharing an English common name doesn't guarantee a close taxonomic relationship!

1. Antwren (61 spp, Thamnophilidae)

Including Streaked-Antwren (2 spp)

Example: Predicted Antwren, a recently described bird of the Amazon. Photo: Hector Bottai

2. Antshrike (53 spp, Thamnophilidae)

Including Slaty-Antshrike (5 spp)

Example: Barred Antshrike. Photo: Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes

3. Antvireo (8 spp, Thamnophilidae)

Example: Rufous-backed Antvireo. Photo: Hector Bottai. Yes, Antvireos are real despite winning the poll!

4. Antbird (96 spp, Thamnophilidae)

Including Warbling-Antbirds (7 spp)

Example: Bicolored Antbird. Photo: Matt Dres

5. Antpitta (72 spp, Grallariidae and Conopophagidae)

Example: Jocotoco Antpitta. Photo: Patty McGann

6. Ant-Tanager (5 spp, Cardinalidae)

Example: Crested Ant-Tanager. Photo: Félix Uribe

7. Antpipit (2 spp, Tyrannidae)

Example: Southern Antpipit. Photo: Dario Sanches

8. Antthrush (12 spp, Formicariidae)

Example: Rufous-capped Antthrush. Photo: Hudson (BirdsRio).

NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH...

9. Ant-Thrush (2 spp, Turdidae)

A thrush from central Africa?!

Example: White-tailed Ant-Thrush. Photo: Corey Husic

10. Anteater-Chat (2 spp, Muscicapidae)

An old-world flycatcher from southern Africa?!

Example: Southern Anteater-Chat. Photo: Peter Kondrashov

11. Antpecker (3 spp, Estrildidae)

A waxbill finch from East Africa?!

Example: Red-fronted Antpecker. Photo: Adam Riley

So, Ant-Hunter was the fake bird!

If you made it to the end of this post, thantks for reading! And antjoy some ants for the road ahead 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

Inspired by me trying to study for a Costa Rica trip and there's just so many Antguys.

#birds #antbirds #ants #taxonomy #grallariidae #conopophagidae #thamnophilidae #formicariidae #turdidae #cardinalidae #tyrannidae #muscicapidae #estrildidae #passeriformes

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For something a bit different, here's a silly little video of a silver gull hunting flies. The area had been hit by a storm recently which washed massive amounts of kelp and other sea weed onto the beach which in turn attracted enormous numbers of flies.

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The Seaside Sparrow, Ammodramus maritimus, under the pier at Virginia Beach.

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american kestrel

tell me your favorite bird of prey :-)

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Inspired by me trying to study for a Costa Rica trip and there's just so many Antguys.

#oops wrong blog. #anyway please vote #when the poll ends next week i will provide w comprehensive list of antfreaks #(antfreak is not a real name bht should it be? who can say)

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“Lay Your Head on My Shoulder”

Yellow-crowned Night-Herons on the nest. Photo by Andy Clemens, reposted with permission.

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Crested Caracara & Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

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🪶🌑great-eared nightjar🌑🪶

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some birds declared extinct this year

bachman's warbler | bridled white-eye | kauai akialoa

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Wordle for bird ID!

A daily game where you get a series of tightly cropped images of a North American bird. You have six guesses before the full image is revealed.

#reminder to play this #got todays in 1

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Inspired by me trying to study for a Costa Rica trip and there's just so many Antguys.

#birding #ornithology #taxonomy #birds

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American Woodcock demonstrates "distal rhynchokinesis," the ability to flex the end of its bill. This allows it to grab earthworms it encounters when probing in soil. Other shorebirds, including Dunlins & Sanderlings, can bend their bills in this way. 😃