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The number of active members here keeps going down 😢 but I will never leave. I will keep posting beautiful birds, both common and unusual, for you all to love.
Like this one. It's called a Buffy Helmetcrest, from Colombia. 🤎 🤍 💚 💜 These South American birds are really extraordinary.
Vertical photograph; click for full effect.
The photographer is Javier Zurita Wildlife Photography. Mr. Zurita specializes in unusual, colorful, tropical birds.
Long live Birds.Town! :buzzard: 🖤
#Birds #BirdPhotography #TropicalBirds #BirdsOfMastodon #AmazingBirds
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The number of active members here keeps going down 😢 but I will never leave. I will keep posting beautiful birds, both common and unusual, for you all to love.
Like this one. It's called a Buffy Helmetcrest, from Colombia. 🤎 🤍 💚 💜 These South American birds are really extraordinary.
Vertical photograph; click for full effect.
The photographer is Javier Zurita Wildlife Photography. Mr. Zurita specializes in unusual, colorful, tropical birds.
Long live Birds.Town! :buzzard: 🖤
#Birds #BirdPhotography #TropicalBirds #BirdsOfMastodon #AmazingBirds
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The number of active members here keeps going down 😢 but I will never leave. I will keep posting beautiful birds, both common and unusual, for you all to love.
Like this one. It's called a Buffy Helmetcrest, from Colombia. 🤎 🤍 💚 💜 These South American birds are really extraordinary.
Vertical photograph; click for full effect.
The photographer is Javier Zurita Wildlife Photography. Mr. Zurita specializes in unusual, colorful, tropical birds.
Long live Birds.Town! :buzzard: 🖤
#Birds #BirdPhotography #TropicalBirds #BirdsOfMastodon #AmazingBirds
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The number of active members here keeps going down 😢 but I will never leave. I will keep posting beautiful birds, both common and unusual, for you all to love.
Like this one. It's called a Buffy Helmetcrest, from Colombia. 🤎 🤍 💚 💜 These South American birds are really extraordinary.
Vertical photograph; click for full effect.
The photographer is Javier Zurita Wildlife Photography. Mr. Zurita specializes in unusual, colorful, tropical birds.
Long live Birds.Town! :buzzard: 🖤
#Birds #BirdPhotography #TropicalBirds #BirdsOfMastodon #AmazingBirds
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The number of active members here keeps going down 😢 but I will never leave. I will keep posting beautiful birds, both common and unusual, for you all to love.
Like this one. It's called a Buffy Helmetcrest, from Colombia. 🤎 🤍 💚 💜 These South American birds are really extraordinary.
Vertical photograph; click for full effect.
The photographer is Javier Zurita Wildlife Photography. Mr. Zurita specializes in unusual, colorful, tropical birds.
Long live Birds.Town! :buzzard: 🖤
#Birds #BirdPhotography #TropicalBirds #BirdsOfMastodon #AmazingBirds
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I posted this a while back, but it's time to post it again. Everyone needs a laugh. 🤣
We're used to seeing that sweet little conehead, the tufted titmouse, with its crest raised, but often don't realize it can raise it as a form of aggression. This one is pissed off at a camera for intruding into its lunch plate.
Video from Tufted Titmouse (what an original name!) on Bluesky.
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I posted this a while back, but it's time to post it again. Everyone needs a laugh. 🤣
We're used to seeing that sweet little conehead, the tufted titmouse, with its crest raised, but often don't realize it can raise it as a form of aggression. This one is pissed off at a camera for intruding into its lunch plate.
Video from Tufted Titmouse (what an original name!) on Bluesky.
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One of my absolute favorites: the Tufted Titmouse! 🩶 🤍 🖤 🧡
Photographer - Danielbirdwatcher
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One of my absolute favorites: the Tufted Titmouse! 🩶 🤍 🖤 🧡
Photographer - Danielbirdwatcher
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One of my absolute favorites: the Tufted Titmouse! 🩶 🤍 🖤 🧡
Photographer - Danielbirdwatcher
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One of my absolute favorites: the Tufted Titmouse! 🩶 🤍 🖤 🧡
Photographer - Danielbirdwatcher
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Two tufted titmice in flight. One tuftie is just taking off, its wings spread wide but its toes are still in contact with the branch. That's great split-second timing! The photographer is Mark Olsen.
On the right, the second bird has completely left its branch. Love those curled-up toes! The photographer is Jeff Rosenberg.
Note that with both birds, their crests are plastered down on their heads so they're aerodynamically rounded and don't have have the characteristic "cone" shape. While some tufties do fly with their crests partially up, more often, they use their pointy heads as communication and aggression signals to other birds: "Leave my food alone!" "The exit from my territory's that way!" or "What is this strange thing I'm looking at?!" which is sometimes done when encountering a camera lens on a feeder. Normally, tufties are cheerful and social little birds, but when the crest very sharply goes way up, it can be a way of signaling irritation.
Again, photographer on the left is Mark Olsen. Photographer on the right is Jeff Rosenberg.
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Two tufted titmice in flight. One tuftie is just taking off, its wings spread wide but its toes are still in contact with the branch. That's great split-second timing! The photographer is Mark Olsen.
On the right, the second bird has completely left its branch. Love those curled-up toes! The photographer is Jeff Rosenberg.
Note that with both birds, their crests are plastered down on their heads so they're aerodynamically rounded and don't have have the characteristic "cone" shape. While some tufties do fly with their crests partially up, more often, they use their pointy heads as communication and aggression signals to other birds: "Leave my food alone!" "The exit from my territory's that way!" or "What is this strange thing I'm looking at?!" which is sometimes done when encountering a camera lens on a feeder. Normally, tufties are cheerful and social little birds, but when the crest very sharply goes way up, it can be a way of signaling irritation.
Again, photographer on the left is Mark Olsen. Photographer on the right is Jeff Rosenberg.
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Two tufted titmice in flight. One tuftie is just taking off, its wings spread wide but its toes are still in contact with the branch. That's great split-second timing! The photographer is Mark Olsen.
On the right, the second bird has completely left its branch. Love those curled-up toes! The photographer is Jeff Rosenberg.
Note that with both birds, their crests are plastered down on their heads so they're aerodynamically rounded and don't have have the characteristic "cone" shape. While some tufties do fly with their crests partially up, more often, they use their pointy heads as communication and aggression signals to other birds: "Leave my food alone!" "The exit from my territory's that way!" or "What is this strange thing I'm looking at?!" which is sometimes done when encountering a camera lens on a feeder. Normally, tufties are cheerful and social little birds, but when the crest very sharply goes way up, it can be a way of signaling irritation.
Again, photographer on the left is Mark Olsen. Photographer on the right is Jeff Rosenberg.
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An excellent article on the MIT homepage today about how important seed-dispersing animals (including birds) are to forest carbon absorption. The picture is of a Great Hornbill chowing down on a juicy fig.
Photographer - Christian Ziegler
#Ecology #TropicalForests #Biodiversity
https://news.mit.edu/2025/why-animals-are-critical-forest-carbon-absorption-0728
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Aww, poor baby! 😘
Photographer Ilkka Korhonen's caption is better than anything I could dream up:
"Onneksi firman pikkujoulut on vain kerran vuodessa."
"Luckily, the company Christmas party only comes once a year."
Eurasian Blue Tit. 💙 🤍 💛 🖤
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Well, isn't this a stunner? It's a White-Breasted Kingfisher in full wide-winged flight. 💙 🧡 🤍 🤎 🖤
Photographer - Ehsan Ali Biswas
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Today is International Vulture Awareness Day. 🖤 🤍 ❤️ 🥰
Not every bird is tiny and cute. Not every bird sings a beautiful song. But we love vultures just the same, including their grunts, hisses, and clacks (they don't have a syrinx, so they can't sing like other birds). Without them, the world would be a messy place with dangerous diseases spreading everywhere. Nature made vultures her cleanup crew and gave them stomach acid with a pH of 1 to destroy things like rabies, anthrax, and botulism. When vultures are killed or die off, feral dogs often take their place, and disease (especially rabies) begins to spread.
Vultures are beautiful birds. They are clean and love to bathe as often as possible and preen after every meal. They mate for life and are wonderful parents. To watch them soar is to see beauty on the wing.
Below is an #IVAD poster created to honor Andy N. Condor, one of the greatest ambassadors for vulture you could ever imagine. He had a long life with many friends, passing away just two weeks ago.
We will miss you, Andy. Soar high on the thermals, look down on us, and keep us safe. 🖤 🤍 🖤 💗 💚 🌈 🌈 🌈
#Vultures #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay #Birds #AndeanCondor
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I am so sad 😢 😭 Andy N. Condor, the beloved Andean Condor and Vulture Ambassador at Tracy Aviary in Utah, has passed away at the age of 64 of natural causes. He was active up until his very last day, taking walks with visitors and interacting with other birds (especially Chewie, the black vulture) and his keeper and best friend, Helen Dishaw. He lay down to sleep that night, and quietly passed on.
This is the announcement that was written on his Facebook page by Helen, who is devastated. She once said this is the price we will eventually have to pay for loving an animal, but we love them anyway.
By the way, I'm proud to be the one who told her of the legend "Once the condor enters your life, it will never leave." She used it in Andy's obituary, and it's so true.
Soar high on the thermals, Andy. We will meet again. 🖤 🤍 🖤 💗 💚 🌈
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Andy N. Condor, his best friend Helen Dishaw, and lilacs... what's not to love? Look at them smiling at each other! 🥰
The photographer is probably a member of the Tracy Aviary staff.
#Birds #Flowers #BirdsOfMastodon #AndeanCondor #BirdPhotography
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Andy N. Condor of Tracy Aviary is here to remind everyone of a wonderful Andean legend: "Once the condor enters your life, it will never leave."
We hope not, Andy. You have made friends for condors and vultures all over the world. 🖤
Photographer — probably Helen Dishaw; if not, then a member of the Tracy Aviary staff.
#Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #TracyAviary #Vultures #Condors #AndeanCondor
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For Valentine's Day from Tracy Aviary and Andy N. Condor...
You are Condor-able! 🖤 🤍 🖤 💗 💚 😘 🥰
Look at Andy's sparkling green eyes! Only the male Andean Condors have that color; the females have deep red eyes.
The Aviary did not give the photographer, although they often use Dee Otter, Cassandre Crawford, or Joel Sartore for special photos. Then again, it's just as likely a staffer took this beautiful picture.
#Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #AndeanCondor #ValentinesDay
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Happy 64th Birthday to Andy N. Condor at Tracy Aviary! 🥩 (Andy doesn't eat cake, but like all vultures and condors, he does love meat)
Andy is taking a walk with Helen Dishaw, his best friend in the whole world. 🖤 🤍 🖤 💗 💚
The Photographer is unknown. Might be an Aviary staffer, might be a visitor.
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A close-up of Andy N. Condor, who lives at Tracy Aviary in Utah. The fleshy caruncle (comb) on his head and his green-gold eyes give away the fact that he's a male. In fact, the caruncle is present upon hatching.
The photograph was not credited, but my best guess is that it was taken by Helen Dishaw, Andy's keeper and BFF.
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Is there anything more adorable than teeny little birdie toes? 🥰
Red-billed leiothrix.
Photographer - Sushmeet Kathuria
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Meet Chewie, a magnificent Black Vulture who is resident at Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The photograher is an unnamed member of Tracy Aviary's staff.
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Tracy Aviary's beloved Andy N. Condor has had a life-sized bronze memorial statue completed and placed in the Aviary's entrance plaza. We miss his living presence immensely, but the statue captures his look and personality remarkably well. The sculptor is Adam Matano.
Here, Chewie, the Aviary's black vulture, visits the memorial to his friend, with whom he used to go on daily walks.
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Lots of pictures from photographer Daniel Cadieux documenting American Robins catching small fish and eating them during a snowy Canadian winter.
#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #AmericanRobins #FishingBirds #CanadianBirds
https://www.dancadphotography.com/something-fishy-about-this-american-robin/
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Two Canadian photographers captured American Robins fishing and gobbling down their catches! Who knew they did this?
1. (left) Photographer Daniel Cadieux
2. (right) Photographer Wido De Hauteville
After this, I will post a link from Mr. Cadieux to his blog documenting this behavior, with lots of pictures.
#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #AmericanRobins #FishingBirds #CanadianBirds
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Time for some adorableness. 🥰 😘
This is a piping plover on the beach standing guard over her two chicks. They are TINY.
Photographer - Karl Ramsdell
Edit: I am informed by @Avloky that she is being a "Mombrella," shielding her babies from the sun and other weather. A perfect description! 🏖️