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The Australian Bird of the Year 2025 has been announced!
Congratulations to the Tawny Frogmouth! A beautiful bird and a well deserved winner.
There aren't many coins featuring the bird, one in fact - and it came out just this year - the 5c piece in the Aussie Bubs set from the Royal Australian Mint features a cartoonish representation of the bird. Pictured is the coin - courtesy https://en.numista.com/464491
And the bird, from the Guardian article where you can learn more about the contest and this year's short-listed birds: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2025/oct/16/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-winner-announcement-live
#Bird #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOf2025 #News #Poll #Winner #BirdOfTheYear #BOTY2025 #Numismatics #Numismatic #Coin #CoinCollecting
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There are worse names for birds, but perhaps none so inaccurate. I have seen these pretty little dudes nearly every year of my adult life, and never once have I seen them take down so much as a limping doe. False. Advertising.
88) Killdeer
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Another glorious day at Finley NWR, with 22 species of birds in about 3.5 hours. The highlight, other than the gorgeous blue bunting, was watching a hairy woodpecker feed his mate in the nest. That's going to be one of the best bird moments of my year, for sure.
84) Ring-necked Duck
85) Common Yellow throat
86) Black-headed Grosbeak
87) Lazuli Bunting -
Rock pigeons' (unearned) bad rap has poisoned the word pigeon a little. But pigeons, rock and otherwise, are great birds. From British Columbia to Peru, this is the Pacific coast's signature native pigeon, and I love them.
83) Band-tailed Pigeon
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And speaking of swallows. That will do it for the everyday ones. I hope to still see bank and maybe cliff, but I'll have to go looking for those.
82) Violet-green Swallow
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One swallow does not a summer make. But now all the swallows are here, flitting around eating a ridiculous number of mosquitoes and other insects, and making the world just noticeably more beautiful and comfortable for all of us. Swallows rock, and these common, gorgeous ones are my favorite.
81) Barn Swallow
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Grainy proof of probably my best ever experience with one of my favorite Northwest birds. This one flew around us and sat in perfect light, calling and pecking and generally being great.
80) Pileated Woodpecker
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Just a glorious day at Finley National Wildlife Refuge. 26 species total, 5 new for the year, and more than that, the unforgettable experience of seeing both osprey and juvenile bald eagles successfully dive for fish. What a treat.
75) Cinnamon Teal
76) American Wigeon
77) Black Phoebe
78) Tree Swallow
79) Marsh Wren -
A beautiful little gem of a bird that is sadly in decline all around the Northwest. It should never take this long to see my first of the year, even with my lackluster birding effort.
74) Rufous Hummingbird
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One more east coast bird before I return to Oregon. As with most of the others, it's a common enough bird, just not where I live. Homeward bound soon.
73) Laughing Gull
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Today I went and walked at the first park I ever knew as a park, the first place I looked at birds and had any idea what I was seeing. Peace Valley Park, Bucks County, PA. So strange that I hadn't seen a cormie all year in Oregon, but such things happen when you don't visit water as much as you should. The phoebe was a treat, a bird I probably haven't seen in a decade.
68) Double-crested Cormorant
69) Osprey
70) Hairy Woodpecker
71) Eastern Phoebe
72) Eastern Towhee -
A couple of ducks I should have seen in Oregon this winter but somehow didn't, picked up at the Reservoir in Central Park.
66) Gadwall
67) Ruddy Duck -
Now This is Birding, Central Park edition. If you're ever in New York City on a weekday and it's raining, go to the park. Lots of birds, almost no people. Glorious.
Palm warbler is an eBird lifer! Gorgeous bird.
61) Blue Jay
62) White-breasted Nuthatch
63) White-throated Sparrow
64) Common Grackle
65) Palm Warbler -
I haven't had a chance yet to go Proper Birding on the east coast - maybe tomorrow - but one nice thing about leaving home is that even the backyard birds are new ones. I've missed cardinals. Not being bitten by them when I used to take them out of mist nets, but otherwise.
58) Northern Mockingbird
59) House Sparrow
60) Northern Cardinal -
This is definitely not the first time I've seen or heard a Mourning Dove this year. But I hadn't listed it until today, because I was always doing something else or away from my phone. One of the most recognizable bird calls in North America, and I have to think, the first call many beginner birders ever learned.
57) Mourning Dove
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I'm pretty sure these aren't the first I've heard this year, but again, I'm overly careful IDing purely by sound. These two, calling to each other across my little local patch of woods, were unmistakable, the closer one almost straight above my head.
56) Great Horned Owl
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Yesterday was a very special day, almost a sacred day on my calendar. I saw my first vulture of the year. My favorite of all birds, soaring high and saving us from deadly diseases. I am blessed to live in a vultured place.
55) Turkey Vulture
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I'm very careful with listing birds by call, because I don't trust my ears or knowledge that way. I'm fairly good at visual ID, pretty poor by ear. But this is a bird I've only seen, clearly, once in my life, out of the dozens of times I've heard them. Today was the first clear one this year, at Jackson-Frazier Wetland in Corvallis.
54) Virginia Rail
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I'm pretty sure I already saw one of these a few weeks back, but I wasn't sure enough to list it. We had some sun today, tucked between rain storms. I'm glad I was able to get out, even just for a short walk, and this was a nice bonus.
53) Red-breasted Sapsucker
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Every year, there is at least one common bird that I just don't see weirdly late into the new year. This year, the "where is it?" award goes to a bird with a brilliantly simple name. Also new today is a bird who is overdue for a simpler, less white-dude-infused name, like so many others. Spring is coming.
51) Red-winged Blackbird
52) Townsend's Warbler -
One of my favorite Oregon birds. I saw this orange stripey boy digging for grubs in the snow and dirt today, after missing them all winter so far. Always a pick me up.
50) Varied Thrush
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One of the most common and easily seen birds in the world, and it barely squeezes into my first 50 of 2025, because I spent most of January out in the countryside. You know them, you love (or hate, or possibly ignore) them. Give it up for the great survivor of human urbanization. Personally, I like them. It's not their fault everything we build looks like a cliff.
49) Rock Pigeon
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I took a quick break on a busy day, and saw what, at first glance, looked like maybe a warbler. But then it finally settled down and showed its spots. This was a nice surprise today.
48) Hermit Thrush
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I had a really good day. Lots of winter farm work and a bunch of time in the woods with some very cooperative and curious birds. Days like this are gifts, and this one came right when it was needed.
44) Canada Jay
45) Chestnut-backed Chickadee
46) Pacific Wren
47) Fox Sparrow -
I went out on this very frosty morning looking specifically for my first bald eagle of the year. Sometimes, just sometimes, they cooperate. A beautiful full plumage adult perched low and posing. A good omen, I hope, for our divisional game in a few hours, or, more likely, just a great bird on a cold morning.
43) Bald Eagle
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Another morning at Willamette Park, another bird for the list. Not the one I was looking for, but that's one of the many great things about birds. I was pretty sure at first glance, just based on behavior—none of our other sparrows flock and flitter quite this same way—but waited for a closeup look to see just the barest spot of gold.
42) Golden-crowned Sparrow
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Weird Duck Season continues, with a quick visit to Willamette Park and a beautiful breeding pair of one of the best American ducks, in my opinion.
41) Hooded Merganser
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Big morning for year birds. I hadn't had a real Weird Duck Day (TM) yet this year, but today was that and more. My favorite was the lone canvasback, but it's also always a great treat to see two closely related species right next to each other, in this case the cackling and Canada geese.
31) Cackling Goose
32) Canada Goose
33) Northern Shoveler
34) Green-winged Teal
35) Canvasback
36) Bufflehead
37) Common Merganser
38) American Coot
39) Pied-billed Grebe
40) Great Egret -
We have gotten some perfect winter days here lately, between the rain storms. Today's birding spot was Bald Hill Natural Area in Corvallis, and featured a male harrier snacking on a kill and both kinglets in the same few meters of trail. Couldn't have been much better.
27) Northern Harrier
28) Common Raven
29) Ruby-crowned Kinglet
30) Golden-crowned Kinglet -
A quick walk to get the mail gave me my first encounter of the year with our neighborhood dinosaur pack. Turkeys aren't native here, but they are pretty common, and for all their nuisances, I like having them around. Also my favorite little western wren, who deserves its new decolonized name yesterday.
25) Wild Turkey
26) Bewick's Wren