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Migratory shorebirds: Bar tailed godwits:  More bar tailed godwits:  If you look at the middle bird, it's preening itself midflight. I had no idea that they did that. Migratory shorebirds are crazy. Eastern curlew: 
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I met a couple different birds on a road trip back in 2017.    
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Love me some chickadees https://i.imgur.com/gPPjxbS.mp4
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Got a Nikon 200-500 today Great Horned Owl by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr Dark Eyed Junco by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr Blue Jay by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr Black Capped Chickadee by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr
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neckbeard posted:Got a Nikon 200-500 today A good lens! I love the colours of these birds Here is a rainbow bee eater: 
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toggle posted:A good lens! Lovely bird!  Hen Harrier female by Aves Lux, on Flickr
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jarlywarly posted:Lovely bird! drat. Nice bird.
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Get real close to your local Cedar Waxwings
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 Kraa! It has been very bleak January here and also I hurt my toe few weeks back so haven't taken any photos until today
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Loving the face colour there! Seagulls are turds, but funny to watch.
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There's been some sightings of Cedar Waxwings at a park in town, so spent 3 hours in -17 air temp with a windchill closing in on -30 looking for them. Only found Bohemian Waxwings and couldnt get any decent shots. There were however at least 100 robins at the park which seemed quite odd for this time of year American Robin by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr
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The spring songs have started here in Eastern PA in earnest. I feel like everything is running about a month ahead of schedule, robins included.
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Anxious for spring to hit. In WI we just got a pile of snow. Lots and lots of Blue Jays and Cardinals tho.
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my cat is norris posted:does anyone else remember the animated movie "the last of the curlews" because that poo poo left a scar, i cried so so much Thanks for sharing this. I'd never heard of it. Its surprising this made in 1972, progressive bordering on subversive. I feel like the dad teaching his son the "right" way to hunt was probably taken literally by most viewers back then, but they dared the audience to reject that, too.
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^^^ that iridescent lil duck!! that shy lil towhee!  Bulky Bartokomous posted:Thanks for sharing this. I'd never heard of it. Its surprising this made in 1972, progressive bordering on subversive. I feel like the dad teaching his son the "right" way to hunt was probably taken literally by most viewers back then, but they dared the audience to reject that, too. i'll need to watch this again through a more mature lens. you've made me very curious about what impact it might have on me these days compared to my first watch experience of "omg this is devastating."
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Thanks for sharing this. I'd never heard of it. Its surprising this made in 1972, progressive bordering on subversive. I feel like the dad teaching his son the "right" way to hunt was probably taken literally by most viewers back then, but they dared the audience to reject that, too. I'd never heard of this either, what a crazy little film! This was 10 years past Silent Spring and about when Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act so the timing fits with the environmental movement of the time. Whoever designed it legit knew their birds even the South American ones. It's pretty rad to see animated screamers and sunbitterns. I remember having field guides with Eskimo Curlew in them growing up, maybe even the 1st edition Nat Geo? Maybe it's just me but this seems like a forgotten species compared to Passenger Pigeon or even Carolina Parakeet. I'd occasionally throw this into a lecture about extinction and somewhere I had a scan of an old menu from the 1800's listing Esquimeaux Curlew. It may not have been billion plus like passenger pigeon but there were many millions of these things just 150 years ago.
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Rainy weather finally cleared up in the last couple weeks so I've finally been able to get some outings in. This little Sharpie got himself a sparrow in my back yard.  Red tailed Hawk coming in for a landing.  Pair of Barn Owls getting ready for spring.  Juvenile Red Shouldered Hawk 
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I love this thread! You all are inspirational. Here's one from my last outing. 
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Jerm324 posted:Rainy weather finally cleared up in the last couple weeks so I've finally been able to get some outings in. this owns
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BetterLekNextTime posted:I'd never heard of this either, what a crazy little film! This was 10 years past Silent Spring and about when Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act so the timing fits with the environmental movement of the time. I can't remember which audiobook I listened to last year that had it, but it had a chapter about the last Great Auks and it was the soul crushingly sad. This is a TLDR version: The last colony of Great Auks lived on Geirfuglasker (the "Great Auk Rock") off Iceland. This islet was a volcanic rock surrounded by cliffs which made it inaccessible to humans, but in 1830 the islet submerged after a volcanic eruption, and the birds moved to the nearby island of Eldey, which was accessible from a single side. When the colony was initially discovered in 1835, nearly fifty birds were present. Museums, desiring the skins of the auk for preservation and display, quickly began collecting birds from the colony. The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 July 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.  Bulky Bartokomous fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I can't remember which audiobook I listened to last year that had it, but it had a chapter about the last Great Auks and it was the soul crushingly sad. wtf awful I just finished a book called Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina. He goes out to Midway Island and follows researchers studying the Laysan Albatross, it's not a bad read. Anyway, there was a section where he talked about the guano mining they did on some of these tiny islands, and when that stopped being profitable they then went in using the birds for their feathers. Stories about chicks being boiled alive, to parents being clubbed while on their nests guarding an egg and other assorted terrible tales. 
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