#Birder

[specimentality]

like give the other corvids some love

#birds #corvid #raven #crow #birder #birding #birdblr

[atinorx]

pigeon, night jar, & allen’s hummingbird

#pigeon #birblr #birb #birb art #nightjar #hummingbird #atinorx #art #colorful #my art #illustration #artists on tumblr #bird art #birder #birds #ghibli aesthetic #animal art

[sabtastique]

🍵 Chickadee Chai, brewed fresh just for you!

#chickadee #black capped chickadee #birder #birding #ornithology #bird #birb #art #illustration #drawing #handmade #tea #caffeine #chai #teacup #teapot #fairycore #fairytale #fairy #small #fantasy #sabtastic #sabtastique #artist #cozy #winter #warm #fluffy #baby #chibi

[blarplesnoot]

Caught mid-grackle!

It's finally warming up and the massive flocks of grackles are returning to my home state of CT.

Many don't know, but they're an introduced species that flourished in the states, and now unfortunately outcompetes many native species.

^ this is wrong and I apologize. The Great Tailed Grackle is the introduced and invasive one. This image is a common Grackle! Thanks to the commenter for the catch :)

They're still cute when they call though 🥰 I took this picture at the Forest Park Zoo in Springfield. Check it out it's a great little zoo!

#birder #photography #bird photography #birding #birds #nature #wildlife #wildlife photography #grackle #grackles #nature photography #neature #artists on tumblr #art #my photos

[birdhism]

#awebo #a werewolf #rock ptarmigan #funny #cute #meme #bird meme #animals #art #illustration #cuteness #birb #birb art #bird art #birdblr #bird #cute bird #pet bird #bird photography #birdwatching #birding #birder

[neighborhoodbirdwatch]

collecting fluff for a nest I assume

#nature #photography #birds #birdlovers #birdwatching #birder #animals #biology #the goldfinch #finch

[nepeteaa]

attended Biggest Week in American Birding and it was AMAZING

#art #meet the artist #birding #birds #birder #artists of tumblr

[cornaby]

Another warbler for the collection! This one's an icon, the Yellow Rumped Warbler is a common and recognizable songbird throughout its extensive range in North America :3 I based this particular design on the "Myrtle" subspecies, as these occur in my area (Florida) but there are several different subspecies with varying plumages. If you'd like to grab this guy on a sticker or something, you can find it here:

#nats art #my art #bird #birder #birding #birdwatching #birds #bird art #sfw #cute #geometric

[lifewithchronicpain]

Get ready to say goodbye to a lot of familiar bird names, like Anna's Hummingbird, Gambel's Quail, Lewis's Woodpecker, Bewick's Wren, Bullock's Oriole, and more. That's because the American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English names of all bird species currently named after people, along with any other bird names deemed offensive or exclusionary. "Names have power and power can be for the good or it can be for the bad," says Colleen Handel, the society's president and a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska. "We want these names to be powerful in a really good way."

The move comes as part of a broader effort to diversify birding and make it more welcoming to people of all races and backgrounds. "We've come to understand that there are certain names that have offensive or derogatory connotations that cause pain to people, and that it is important to change those, to remove those as barriers to their participation in the world of birds," she says. The project will begin next year and initially focus on 70 to 80 bird species that occur primarily in the United States and Canada. That's about 6 or 7 percent of the total species in this geographic region. (Read more at link)

As a birder, I like the idea. Descriptive names are helpful in birdwatching. And as the article explained, some names have already been changed like a longspur named after a confederate general. It's not like the birds care what they are named, any preference for current names is just sentimentality on our part.

#birding #bird watching #birder #birds #bird names #ornithology #article

[newbirder]

These Sandhill Cranes at Sweetwater Wetlands in Gainesville were NOT happy. They continually squabbled with each other near the path.

#sandhill crane #birding #birds #bird watching #birder #ornithology #florida #gainesville

[jb-fotoz]

House Finch

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #artists on tumblr #original photography #birding #birdwatching #birder #birders gallery #nature photography #wildlife #house finch #birds nature #birds of virginia #bird portrait

[guudlobster]

okay okay, but look at this beautiful tea set i got from my grandma!! i love it so much, it has sparrows, chachfinches and goldfinches on it. all of those are local birds in czechia, which makes me even happier, since its kinda hard to find stuff with birds that actually live around here. all i always find are toucans, flamingos and hummingbirds. its not that i dislike those species, but i simply aprecciate the local fauna much more.

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dobrá, hoši, ale pohleďte na tenhle krásnej čajovej set, co jsem dostala od babičky k narozeninám. zbožňuju ho, vzhledem k tomu, že jsou na něm vrabčáci, stehlíci a pěnkavy, což, jak všichni jistě dobře víme, jsou všechno druhy, které se běžně v česku objevují. vzhledem k tomu, jak složité je objevit "merč" s našimi ptáčky, mám z tohohle setu o to větší radost. vždycky nacházím spoustu věcí třeba s tukany, plameňáky nebo kolibříky, což jsou všechno sice ptáčci, které mám taky ráda, ale prostě to není ono.

#bird #birds #sparrow #european goldfinch #goldfinch #birdlovers #birdlover #birder #tea set #tea #tea pot #tea cup #čumblr

[fanfoolishness]

Me, a birder: nice, Bufflehead ducks

Me, an intellectual: every day I’m Buffling

#birds #bird nerd #birder

[sock-ness-monster]

Hehe bbl

#birding #birds #birdwatching #ornithology #ornithologist #bbl #hozier #bird memes #birder #birdblr #bird banding

[blarplesnoot]

While some might consider them "boring" due to how common they are, I find Crows both amazing to interact with and watch, as well as photograph. They're remarkably intelligent, omnivores, and always seemingly up to something or other.

This one here was with their buddy, hunting for worms and stuff in the grass. I think he was also hoping for some of the ever elusive chips that the children running around might have dropped from their own snack patch.

They grabbed something fun here, looked at me curious, then flew up to a tree where this bird wiped it's beak on a branch for a solid minute. Very curious.

I really like the challenge of photographing these birds because they're extremely hard to get exposure correct on and be able to capture detail. Also possible I'm horrible at this and they're not that difficult, just my newbie-ness showing :) Either way, they're great practice!

This beauty was photographed at 500mm and a 1/500 shutter speed. ISO was around 400, it's a very overcast day.

#photography #bird photography #birding #birds #nature #wildlife #wildlife photography #Crow #american crow #birder #bird pics #bird photos

[robbie-roo]

do you guys wanna know about the drama in the bird world right now?

too bad I'm telling you anyway because it's crazy so basically there's this birder who had worked in Nat Geo for YEARS and produced/authored several bird field guides over the years his name is Jon L. Dunn

and his guides are great they're really informative and his last one was the 7th edition

TURNS OUT he was fired by Nat Geo but didn't find out until he saw it ON SOCIAL MEDIA

and so of course he's pissed so he decides to write his own field guide without Nat Geo's limitations except there's drama with naming too

there are over 190 bird names that include a human name in it, like Darwin's Finch for example, and basically ornithologists are coming together to rename them all to take the human names OUT of all bird names from here on out so that means going back and renaming over 190 birds which may sound kinda easy but they all have to go through a process and get approved one by one and this is world wide by the way! it's gonna take a WHILE

meanwhile the 8th edition of Nat Geo's bird field guide is set to be released in 2025 and Jon Dunn is still writing his own guide but these names haven't been released/approved yet ALSO Nat geo has stopped producing the 7th edition in preparation for the 8th which is written by this new guy who is much younger than Jon Dunn so of course all the hard-core birders are PISSED

but now there's this grey area of no new field guides coming out until after the new names are released but they have to time it properly because Jon Dunn is also suing Nat Geo for firing him like that (or something??) so of course there's the competition of both books coming out at the sameish time but also going against national geographic? unheard of

anyways that's the bird drama abridged I think it's so interesting

also go support Jon L. Dunn's field guide once it comes out! he does a really good job with 7th edition and I've heard his new version will be just as if not better than this one

#birds #birder #ornithology #bird watching #national geographic #Jon L. Dunn #zoology #science drama