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nightjars really are the birds of all time

just look at them

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im tired of online discourse. look at this family of quails

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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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Another pic I did for a grocery donation! A great-eared Nightjar. :}

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Least Bittern my love....fundamentally unserious beast

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every single day I think about how american black vultures are known for engaging in allopreening (preening between different species)

and they have a specific relationship with crested caracaras, in which the black vultures assist them by not only preening them after meals but also leading them to food in the first place— due to their superior sense of smell— while the caracaras assist the black vultures by acting as a warning signal in case of danger

and while this is more typical of black vultures, this is not common at all for any member of the falconidae family— it’s a special bond!

yet another post in favor of vultures everyone , hope you enjoy:) and I implore you to do some more research on these incredible birds !!

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Hi I just learnt that grebe the bird existed and I am intrigued do you have any knowledge to drop on the dudes

BOY DO I! grebes are my favorite waterfowl!

they're specialist divers and fish hunters, and they're a pretty wide group with a LOT of species!

and they're all freaks. every single one of them.

they're most closely related to FLAMINGOS, of all things, which is why their feet are so weird! they evolved completely separate from other waterfowl like ducks and geese, so they did the flipper thing totally backwards.

this is going to be a theme, nothing these birds do is normal.

unlike other specialist diving birds (coughcough LOONS coughcough), they aren't totally incompetent on land! just, again. total freaks about it.

aaagh I love them so much I might actually explode

also they swim like frogs, babies can dive pretty much immediately after hatching, and adults can minutely adjust their buoyancy in the water at will like a fucking submarine. you just can't make any of this shit up.

weirdest fucking bird 100/10

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Black-throated Blue Warbler

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🪶🌑great-eared nightjar🌑🪶

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The Bearded Vulture is the only known animal whose diet is almost exclusively bone.

The bone-eating giant bird which coats itself minerals like copper to get its rusty hue for unknown cosmetic reasons, most likely to show dominance. The brighter the hue, the more dominant the male.

They probably need the copper because its anti-bacterial properties. useful if you’re a carrion eater.

The bird has a 9 ft wingspan.

Bearded Vultures provide an indispensable service to the ecosystem, checking the spread of disease by consuming corpses. But the bearded’s diet is 95 percent bone. It can wait for the other scavengers to strip the body clean, then stroll in at its leisure to take its fill.

#god i love them

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Blackbird/koltrast. Värmland, Sweden (March 17, 2018).

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herons would love middle aged man fishing culture i think

do you understand my vision

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warbler id is so fucked. these are all different guys

(in order: yellow warbler, hooded warbler, wilson's warbler, mourning warbler, nashville warbler, connecticut warbler)

but at the end of the day Theyre all sweet and awesome and they eat sooo many bugs everyday with precision and grace

#I can’t id warblers I’m so bad at it #I make Merlin id their songs for me

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Round 1 Group 10

African shrike-flycatcher - Megabyas flammulatus

Black-necked grebe - Podiceps nigricollis

Blue rock thrush - Monticola solitarius

Blue-footed booby - Sula nebouxii

Cinnamon teal - Spatula cyanoptera

Common kingfisher - Alcedo atthis

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Round 1 Group 9

American robin - Turdus migratorius

Bald eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Canada jay - Perisoreus canadensis

Carolina wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus

Common grackle - Quiscalus quiscula

Common nighthawk - Chordeiles minor

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#need