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Sploot; then sploot + staring

#mockingbirds #BirdsOfMastodon #birds #TropicalBirds #Brazil #birbs

Some Brazilian birds for ya.

#parakeets #macaws #canaries #birds #birbs #BirdsOfMastodon #TropicalBirds #Brazil

‘There’s nothing else that we can do’

A brightly colored tropical bird turning up in snowy Maine might sound like a rare treat for birdwatchers…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #AveryBerkowitz #Berkowitz #birdwatchers #CentralAmerica #globaltemperatures #Houlton #HoultonHumaneSociety #Maine #purplegallinule #Science #tropicalbird #tropicalbirds #WAGM
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/443619/

#birds #tropicalbirds

https://islandinthenet.com/last-morning-with-the-doves-shiny-cowbirds-mockingbirds-grassquits-bananaquits-and-western-cattle-egrets-in-the-yard-at-dorsetshire-hill/

Antillean Crested Hummingbird in the Ixora

On our last morning in Bequia, Bhavna spotted an Antillean Crested Hummingbird feeding among the red Ixora blooms at the Bequia Beach Hotel.

https://islandinthenet.com/antillean-crested-hummingbird-ixora/

Climate change and extreme heat play a role in decline of tropical bird population, study finds https://www.byteseu.com/1278950/ #BirdlifeAustralia'sConservationStrategy #CarpentarianGrasswren #Climate #ClimateChange #decline #ExtremeHeat #GlobalWarming #GoldenBowerbird #impact #populations #TropicalBirds

Female Shiny Cowbird

https://islandinthenet.com/female-shiny-cowbird/

I didn’t even remember taking the photo—until I a look at the Lightroom catalogue showed me a Pale-vented Pigeon I’d missed entirely that morning.

#Birds #PaleVentedPigeon #BirdLifer #IslandBirds #CaribbeanBirds #NaturePhotography #SaintVincent #BirdingLifer #TropicalBirds #LesserAntilles

https://islandinthenet.com/pale-vented-pigeon/

Pale-vented Pigeon on the Wire

I didn’t even remember taking the photo—until I a look at the Lightroom catalogue showed me a Pale-vented Pigeon I’d missed entirely that morning.

https://islandinthenet.com/pale-vented-pigeon/

An encounter with a Broad-winged Hawk on a rainy Vincentian road.

#Birds #SaintVincent #SaintVincentandTheGrenadines #Hawk #ButeoPlatypterus #BirdsOfTheCaribbean #LesserAntilles #WindwardIslands #TropicalBirds #IslandBirds

https://islandinthenet.com/broad-winged-hawk-buteo-platypterus/

Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus)

An encounter with a Broad-winged Hawk on a rainy Vincentian road.

https://islandinthenet.com/broad-winged-hawk-buteo-platypterus/

Two quick shots through thorns was all the Carib Grackle gave me—but it’s the clearest I’ve caught so far.

#CaribGrackle #IslandBirds #TropicalBirds #SaintVincent #BackyardBirding #BirdsOfTheCaribbean #LesserAntilles #WindwardIslands

https://islandinthenet.com/grassquit/

Carib Grackle

Two quick shots through thorns was all the Carib Grackle gave me.

https://islandinthenet.com/grassquit/

A bright yellow Bananaquit greeted me on the veranda the morning of our big hike, singing boldly from the bougainvillea and leaving an outsized mark on the memory of the whole trip.

#Birds #Bananaquit #IslandBirds #BirdsoftheCaribbean #TropicalBirds #LesserAntilles #Grenadines

https://islandinthenet.com/sugar-bird-in-the-bougainvillea/

Sugar Bird in the Bougainvillea

A bright yellow Bananaquit greeted me on the veranda the morning of our big hike, singing boldly from the bougainvillea and leaving an outsized mark on the memory of the whole trip.

https://islandinthenet.com/sugar-bird-in-the-bougainvillea/

A late afternoon Gray Kingbird sighting in the Orchid Tree

#Birds #BirdsoftheCaribbean #IslandBirds #TropicalBirds #GrayKingbird #LesserAntilles

https://islandinthenet.com/kingbird/

A quiet verandah morning turns memorable with a lifer St. Vincent Wren, flitting through bougainvillaea vines.

#Birds #LesserAntilles #IslandBirds #TropicalBirds #StVincent #BackyardBirding

https://islandinthenet.com/st-vincent-wren/

Darting anoles and a surprise Grassquit.

#Birds #TropicalBirds #LesserAntilles #IslandBirds #Grassquit

https://islandinthenet.com/between-leaf-and-ledge/

I’d never seen Eared Doves before, but they felt oddly familiar—like Mourning Doves.

#Birds #LesserAntilles #EaredDoves #IslandBirds #TropicalBirds

https://islandinthenet.com/the-steves/

The Steves

I’d never seen Eared Doves before, but they felt oddly familiar—like Mourning Doves.

https://islandinthenet.com/the-steves/

A fleeting encounter with the Green-throated Carib (Eulampis holosericeus) at dusk.

#Birds #CaribbeanBirds #SaintVincent #LesserAntilles #IslandBirds #TropicalBirds #HummingBirds #GreenThroatedCarib

https://islandinthenet.com/green-throated-carib-eulampis-holosericeus/

Green-throated Carib in the Garden

A fleeting encounter with the Green-throated Carib (Eulampis holosericeus) at dusk.

https://islandinthenet.com/green-throated-carib-eulampis-holosericeus/

A Yellow-bellied Elaenia greeted me in a flowering tree I’d known since childhood—an unexpected lifer, identified hours later as it perched in the Orchid Tree just after I landed in St. Vincent.

#Birds #CaribbeanBirds #Grenadines #Elaenia #TropicalBirds #SaintVincent

https://islandinthenet.com/yellow-bellied-elaenia-orchid-tree/

Three new lifers—Eared Doves, Gray Kingbirds, and a Scaly-naped Pigeon—greeted me during a slow walk through the garden on Day One in St. Vincent. I didn’t expect their company to feel so personal.

#Birds #CaribbeanBirds #SaintVincent #LesserAntilles #IslandBirds #TropicalBirds #KingBird #EaredDove #ScalynapedPigeon

https://islandinthenet.com/gray-kingbird-tyrannus-dominicensis/

Wires, Wings, and Watchers

Three new lifers—Eared Doves, Gray Kingbirds, and a Scaly-naped Pigeon—greeted me during a slow walk through the garden on Day One in St. Vincent.

https://islandinthenet.com/gray-kingbird-tyrannus-dominicensis/

Pink Flamingo 🦩🦩🦩
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pink-flamingo-jan-matson.html

A textured oil painting of a pink Flamingo. This pretty tropical bird was painted mostly with a palette knife giving a luscious feathery look.

#flamingos #PinkFlamingo #TropicalBirds #birds #bird #BirdArt #BirdPainting #OilPainting #artist #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #BirdOfTheDay #MastoBirds #painting #FediGiftShop #nature #birdsite #JanMatson #birding #art #FediArt #artwork #birdwatching #CreativeToots #creative #OriginalArt #pink

#PaperArt #Birds #TropicalBirds
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/12/paper-ark-parrot-project/

#451 Jack Brown - The Tropical Bird Gardens, Padstow, North Cornwall: Souvenir Guide. Tropical Bird Gardens, Padstow, printed by Beric Tempest & Co, St Ives, c.1973, 1st edition. #JackBrown #Cornwall #Padstow #TropicalBirds #Birds #BookOfTheDay