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📖 Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago
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January 28, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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A quiet moment with a Golden-throated Barbet 🌿

A Himalayan Golden-throated Barbet (Psilopogon franklinii franklinii) resting on a branch and looking around.

📍Baihualing (general area), Yunnan, China by @josep_del_hoyo
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January 10, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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🌍🌏 Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds #AfricanBirds | #TawnyOwl #BrownOwl #StrixAluco | #Owls #TypicalOwls #TrueOwlFamily #BirdsOfPrey 📷: Photo by TheOtherKev🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌍🌏 Tawny Owl or Brown Owl (Strix aluco) Appearance: The Tawny Owl is a stocky, medium-sized bird with a large rounded head, dark eyes, and no ear tufts. Its mottled plumage—usually reddish-brown or grey—provides excellent camouflage against tree bark. Distribution: Widespread across Europe and Western Siberia, they are common in the UK but notably absent from Ireland. They favour broadleaf woodlands, though they adapt well to parks and large gardens. Behaviour: Strictly nocturnal and highly territorial, they typically mate for life. They are famous for the "twit-twoo" duet and hunt rodents using silent flight and exceptional hearing. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: Tawny Owls are incredibly sedentary. Once a pair establishes a territory, they rarely leave it. In fact, many Tawny Owls live their entire lives within 1km of where they were born. Gemini 3 (Edited) 📷: Photo by TheOtherKev via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/tawny-owl-owl-bird-animal-8445463/ XGAK
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🌏 White-bellied Sea Eagle (Icthyophaga leucogaster) #AustralasianBirds #AustralianBirds #AsianBirds | #WhiteBelliedSeaEagle #WhiteBreastedSeaEagle | #Eagles #SeaEagles #EagleFamily #BirdsOfPrey 📷: Photo by pen_ash🦉 #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 White-bellied Sea Eagle (Icthyophaga leucogaster) The White-bellied Sea Eagle, also known as the White-breasted Sea Eagle, is a majestic bird of prey with a white head, breast, and belly, contrasting with dark grey wings and a short, wedge-shaped tail. Found from India and Southeast Asia to Australia, it inhabits coastal regions, estuaries, and inland waterways. This daytime predator is highly territorial and monogamous, often remaining with one partner for life. It is an opportunistic hunter, swooping to snatch fish, sea snakes, or turtles from the water. They are also known for loud, goose-like honking and spectacular aerial courtship displays. No subspecies are recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: Their legs are covered in thick, heavy scales. This isn't just for show—it acts like a suit of armor to protect them from the bites and stings of their more dangerous prey, like venomous sea snakes. 📷: Photo by pen_ash via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/white-bellied-sea-eagle-sea-eagle-9722759/ ABVU
December 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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🌏 Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda) #AsianBirds | #RufousTreepie #DendrocittaVagabunda | #Treepies #CrowFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by balouriarajesh🦉 #MyBirdcards #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda) The Rufous Treepie is medium-sized bird with a long, graduated, bluish-grey tail tipped in black. It has a black head and chest, and a bright rufous (reddish-brown) body, with a noticeable white wing patch. Native to the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, it thrive across various habitats from open forests and scrublands to urban gardens. An agile, arboreal, and omnivorous member of the crow family (Corvidae), the Rufous Treepie is very conspicuous, often seen in pairs or small groups. It is known for its loud, musical calls and adaptable feeding habits. Up to eight subspecies are recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: It is known to engage in a rare relationship called cleaning symbiosis with large mammals like the Sambar deer. The bird will perch on the deer's back and feed on ectoparasites (like ticks) right off its hide, which the deer seems to permit. 📷: Photo by balouriarajesh via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-rufous-treepie-7659917/ XWHQ
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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🌍 Dunnock (Prunella modularis) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds | #Dunnock #PrunellaModularis | #Dunnocks #Accentors #AccentorFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Gruendercoach🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌍 Dunnock (Prunella modularis) The Dunnock is a small, brown-backed bird with a distinctive slate-grey head and breast, making males and females visually identical. Widespread across Europe and into temperate Asian Russia, it is a resident species common in gardens, parks, and hedgerows, where it maintains a shy and secretive nature. Often called the 'hedge sparrow,' its typical behaviour involves hopping or shuffling along the ground beneath cover, frequently flicking its wings. Seven subspecies are currently recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The Dunnock is notable for its unusually complex and variable breeding strategies that often involve non-monogamy. 📷: Photo by Gruendercoach via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/dunnock-passerine-bird-animal-8602735/ NMYM
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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🌏 Cerulean Kingfisher (Alcedo coerulescens) #AsianBirds #IndonesianBirds | #CeruleanKingfisher #AlcedoCoerulescens | #RiverKingfishers #KingfisherFamily #Kingfishers 📷: Photo by feathercollector🦜 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Cerulean Kingfisher (Alcedo coerulescens) This small, metallic blue kingfisher with white underparts is endemic to parts of Indonesia. It lives in low-lying aquatic areas like streams, estuaries, and mudflats. It is a resident species, hunting by diving from a low perch or hovering over the water to catch aquatic insects, crustaceans, and small fish. No subspecies are recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The Cerulean Kingfisher thrives in coastal, low-lying habitats like mangrove creeks, tidal estuaries, and fishponds, showing a strong preference for saltwater or brackish environments compared to many other river kingfishers. 📷: Photo by feathercollector via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/common-kingfisher-kingfisher-jade-8376008/ ZWSM
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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🌍🌏 Great Tit (Parus major) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds #AfricanBirds | #GreatTit #ParusMajor | #Tits #TitFamily #ChickadeeFamily #TitmouseFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Ruiterlijk🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌍🌏 Great Tit (Parus major) The Great Tit is a large member of the Tit, Chickadee, and Titmice family, sporting a deep blue-black head, white cheeks, olive-green back, and bright yellow underparts with a black central stripe. It is widespread across Europe and Asia, thriving in woodlands, parks, and gardens. The Great Tit is an active, adaptable, and bold bird, known for its resourceful foraging, dominance at feeders, and loud, distinctive 'teacher-teacher' song, especially during the breeding season. Fifteen subspecies are currently recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: Highly intelligent birds, Great Tits learned to open the foil caps on traditional glass milk bottles delivered to doorsteps to steal the cream, a behavior that spread rapidly in the mid-20th century. 📷: Photo by Ruiterlijk via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/great-tit-bird-forest-nesting-8673894/ NVHR
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🌏 Pallas's Rosefinch (Carpodacus roseus) #AsianBirds | #PallassRosefinch #CarpodacusRoseus | #Finches #Rosefinches #CarduelineFinches #TrueFinchFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Takashi_Yanagisawa🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Pallas's Rosefinch (Carpodacus roseus) The Pallas's Rosefinch is a medium-sized, stocky finch where the adult male is conspicuous with a rose-red body, head, and rump, contrasted by a streaked blackish back, while the female is much duller, being mostly tannish-brown with heavy dark streaking. This species is distributed across the Eastern Palearctic, primarily inhabiting boreal forests and shrublands in Central and Eastern Russia, Mongolia, and China, with most populations being migratory or nomadic, wintering in regions like Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Outside of the breeding season, it is generally gregarious, forming flocks to forage mainly on the ground or in low vegetation for seeds, buds, and insects. Two subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: This finch is a fan of the cold! It breeds primarily in the boreal forests (taiga) and shrublands of Central and Eastern Siberia, often up to 3,000 meters in elevation. 📷: Photo by Takashi_Yanagisawa via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-natural-outdoors-wild-animals-3219533/ XCSA
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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🌍🌏 Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds #AfricanBirds | #GreyHeron #ArdeaCinerea | #Herons #HeronFamily #WadingBirds #Waterbirds 📷: Photo by dragh🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌍🌏 Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) The Grey Heron is a large, tall wading bird with ashy-grey plumage, a white head featuring a black stripe and crest, and a long, sharp orange bill. It's widely distributed across Europe, Asia, and Africa, often found by shallow water like rivers, lakes, and marshes. The Grey Heron's behaviour is characteristic: it often stands motionless on long legs, patiently ambushing fish, amphibians, or small mammals with a lightning-fast strike. It flies slowly with its neck retracted in an S-shape and nests communally in "heronries," usually high in trees. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: If a heron catches a mammal like a rat or vole, it's been observed sometimes dipping the prey in water first to help soften it up before swallowing it whole and head-first. 📷: Photo by dragh via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/heron-grey-heron-lilypads-pond-9029702/ DGYK
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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🌏 Forest Kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii) #AustralasianBirds #AustralianBirds #AsianBirds | #ForestKingfisher #MacleaysKingfisher #BlueKingfisher #TodiramphusMacleayii | #TreeKingfishers #TreeKingfisherFamily #Kingfishers 📷: Photo by polettix🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Forest Kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii) The Forest Kingfisher, also known as Macleay's Kingfisher or the Blue Kingfisher, is a strikingly blue and white bird. It features a bright blue back, wings, and tail, contrasting with a white breast and a distinctive black eye-band through the eye. Males have a white nape, while females have a blue one. It is found in coastal regions of northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia, inhabiting open forests, woodlands, and mangroves. This kingfisher is usually solitary or in pairs. It hunts by sally-pouncing, watching from a high perch and then diving to the ground or water to seize invertebrates, small frogs, and lizards. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: These birds have a tough way of making a home! They reportedly fly with such force, striking an arboreal termite nest with their bill repeatedly to chip away material, that observers have occasionally found birds that have died from a broken neck during the process. 📷: Photo by polettix via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/kingfisher-bird-nature-alcedinidae-821252/ GBCK
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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🌍🌏 Knob-billed Duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos) #AfricanBirds #AsianBirds | #KnobBilledDuck #AfricanCombDuck #SarkidiornisMelanotos | #Ducks #DuckFamily #Waterbirds #Waterfowl 📷: Photo by dragh🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌍🌏 Knob-billed Duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos) The Knob-billed Duck, also known as the African Comb Duck, is a large duck with iridescent blue upperparts and a white head/underparts. Males are larger and have a distinctive, fleshy black knob on the bill, which is absent in females. It's found in tropical and subtropical wetlands across Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and South Asia. They are largely resident, with some seasonal dispersion based on water availability. They often perch in trees and are usually seen in flocks that can reach up to 100 in the dry season. Males are polygamous, mating with multiple females, and the species nests mainly in tree holes. They feed by grazing or dabbling for vegetation, seeds, and invertebrates. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: Despite its striking appearance, this species is typically very silent. Its most common vocalization is a low croak or grunt, usually heard only when the bird is disturbed or flushed. 📷: Photo by dragh via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/buttonbilled-duck-duck-bird-animal-8940585/ ZZHH
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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🌏 Black-faced Bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) #AsianBirds | #BlackFacedBunting #EmberizaSpodocephala | #Buntings #OldWorldBuntingFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by bitnikgao🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Black-faced Bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) The Black-faced Bunting is a small bird with a striking grey-black head contrasting with a bright yellow belly in breeding males. It's a migratory bird, native to Asia, breeding across eastern Siberia, northern China, and Japan, and migrating to winter in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. These buntings are often seen in small, mixed-species flocks. Their vocalizations are very short, metallic, high-pitched notes. No subspecies are generally recognised. Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The bird's common name comes from the bold black markings on its face that can give it a "masked" appearance, particularly in males. 📷: Photo by bitnikgao via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-animal-branch-beak-plumage-9360034/ BXFT
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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🌍🌏 Common Blackbird, female (Turdus merula) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds #AfricanBirds | #CommonBlackbird #EurasianBlackbird #Blackbird | #Blackbirds #TrueThrushes #Thrushes #ThrushFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by susannp4🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌍🌏 Common Blackbird, female (Turdus merula) The female Common or Eurasian Blackbird has an overall sooty-brown plumage, contrasting with the male's glossy black. Her breast is often mottled or streaked with darker brown. She has a brown bill and brown legs and feet. Widespread across Europe, North Africa, and Asia, they are often found in gardens, parks, woodlands, and hedgerows. Typically seen hopping on the ground while foraging for insects, worms, and berries. They are generally solitary but pair up during the breeding season. Several subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The female is solely responsible for constructing the nest. She weaves a solid, cup-shaped structure out of grass stems and small twigs, then packs it with mud and lines it with finer grasses. 📷: Photo by susannp4 via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/wildlife-bird-nature-songbird-3213931/ NOTG
October 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🌏 Fire-tufted Barbet (Psilopogon pyrolophus) #AsianBirds | #FireTuftedBarbet #PsilopogonaPyrolophus | #Barbets #OldWorldBarbets #AsianBarbetFamily #WoodpeckersAndRelatives 📷: Photo by BeanKurt🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Fire-tufted Barbet (Psilopogon pyrolophus) The Fire-tufted Barbet is a moderately large, predominantly green bird, noted for the fiery orange tuft of feathers above the male's bill and a yellow and black "necklace" on its throat. Distributed in the montane forests of Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, it typically forages in the high canopy, feeding on figs, other fruits, and arthropods. Its distinctive call is an unusual cicada-like buzzing. No subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Fun fact: Like many barbets, its diet is mostly frugivorous (fruit-eating), and it has a particular fondness for figs. This makes it an important agent for seed dispersal in its forest habitat. Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by BeanKurt via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/fire-tufted-barbet-bird-branch-6245618/ IUPI
October 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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🌍🌏 Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds | #AlpineChough #YellowBilledChough #PyrrhocoraxGraculus | #Choughs #CrowFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by mzter🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌍🌏 Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) The Alpine Chough (also known as the Yellow-billed Chough) has glossy black plumage, a short yellow bill, and red legs. It's distributed across high mountains from Spain through southern Europe, North Africa, to Central Asia and the Himalayas, often nesting higher than any other bird. These highly social birds are renowned for their acrobatic flight and are often seen in flocks. They are opportunistic, feeding on invertebrates and frequently scavenging near tourist sites in winter. Two subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The Alpine Chough is thought to nest at a higher altitude than any other bird in the world, with records of them following mountaineers up to over 8,000 meters on Mount Everest 📷: Photo by mzter via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/mzter-104756/ XATK
October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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New addition! 🌏 Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) #AsianBirds | #StorkBilledKingfisher #PelargopsisCapensis | #Kingfishers #TreeKingfishers #KingfisherFamily #Coraciiformes 📷: Photo by josibo🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) The Stork-billed Kingfisher is a very large kingfisher with a massive, bright red bill, green back, blue wings/tail, and a brown head with orange-buff neck and underparts. It is distributed across the tropical Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, preferring well-wooded habitats near water (rivers, lakes, coasts). It is a sedentary, sit-and-wait predator, perching quietly to hunt fish, crabs, frogs, rodents, and young birds. It is also highly territorial. Thirteen subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: During courtship, the male may perform a unique display called "Sky-pointing," where it holds its body vertically with its huge bill pointed straight up to the heavens. 📷: Photo by josibo via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-kingfisher-ornithology-species-6814909/ OCON
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🌍🌏 Eurasian Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds #AfricanBirds | #EurasianChaffinch #CommonChaffinch #Chaffinch #FringillaCoelebs | #Chaffinches #TrueFinches #OldWorldFinches #Finches #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Drosera74🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌍🌏 Eurasian Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) The male Eurasian Chaffinch is colourful, with a blue-grey cap, rust-red breast, and prominent white wing bars. The female is duller brown/grey but shares the white wing markings. It is widespread across Europe, Northwest Africa, and Western Asia, favouring woodland, parks, and gardens. They are social outside the breeding season, forming flocks. Males have a loud, distinctive song. Eleven subspecies are currently recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: Male Chaffinches have regional dialects in their song! Studies have shown slight differences in the typical song's final "flourish" depending on where in the country (or continent) the bird lives. 📷: Photo by Drosera74 via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/chaffinch-bird-finch-nature-9825010/ WUNE
September 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🌍🌏🌎 Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) #CosmopolitanBirds #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds #AfricanBirds #NorthAmericanBirds #SouthAmericanBirds | #GlossyIbis #PlegadisFalcinellus | #Ibises #IbisFamily #WadingBirds #Waterbirds 📷: Photo by BarbeeAnne🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds
🌍🌏🌎 Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) The Glossy Ibis is a medium-sized wading bird with a long, decurved bill and glossy feathers. From a distance, it appears dark, but in good light, its plumage shimmers with iridescent green, purple, and bronze. It has a widespread distribution, found in warm regions across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, favoring wetlands like marshes, swamps, and flooded fields. This is a highly social species that forages in flocks, often probing mud and shallow water for invertebrates. No subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The tip of the Glossy Ibis's bill has special touch sensors that allow it to feel for prey like insects and crustaceans buried in the mud. 📷: Photo by BarbeeAnne via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/glossy-ibis-bird-wading-ornithology-2680553/ YCJU
September 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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🌏 Indian Pitta (Pitta brachyura) #AsianBirds | #IndianPitta #PittaBrachyura | #Pittas #PittaFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by shankarn🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Indian Pitta (Pitta brachyura) The Indian Pitta is a brightly-coloured, plump, short-tailed bird with vibrant plumage including green, blue, buff, and red. It's native to the Indian subcontinent, breeding in central and northern India and the Himalayan foothills before migrating south for the winter. This shy, ground-dwelling bird forages for insects in the leaf litter of forests, scrublands, and gardens. No subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The Indian Pitta is more often heard than seen, known for its distinctive two-note "wheeeet-tieu" whistle, which it often calls at dawn and dusk. 📷: Photo by shankarn via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-indian-pitta-ornithology-8055828/ TWTX
September 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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New addition! 🌍 Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) #AfricanBirds #ArabianBirds #AsianBirds | #Hamerkop #Hammerhead #HammerheadStork #Umbrette #ScopusUmbretta | #Hamerkops #HamerkopFamily #Pelecaniformes #Waterbirds 📷: Photo by Pixel-mixer🦜 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds
🌍 Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) The Hamerkop (Hammerhead in English) also known as the Hammerhead Stork, or Umbrette, is a medium-sized, brown wading bird with a distinctive hammer-shaped head crest. It is found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and parts of the Arabian Peninsula, typically inhabiting wetlands, forests, and savannas near water. Known for its industrious nature, the Hamerkop is a prolific and compulsive nest builder, creating massive, domed nests out of sticks. These birds are usually seen in pairs, foraging for fish and amphibians in shallow water. Two subspecies are recognized. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by Pixel-mixer via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/hammer-head-bird-animals-1105395/ CQDR
September 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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🌍 Western Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds #AfricanBirds | #WesternYellowWagtail #YellowWagtail #MotacillaFlava | #Wagtails #WagtailFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Karsten Madsen ❤️🦜 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds
🌍 Western Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) The Western Yellow Wagtail is a small, slender bird with a bright yellow underside and an olive-green back. Males are more vibrant than females. Its most notable feature is its constantly wagging tail, which gives it its name. They are found across Europe and Asia and migrate to Africa for the winter. It feeds on insects and lives in open, wet habitats. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Ten subspecies are recognised. Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Photo by karsten_madsen via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-wagtail-migratory-birds-beak-6352067/ KSEX
September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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New addition! 🌏🌎 Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) #NorthPacificBirds #AsianBirds | #SpoonBilledSandpiper #CalidrisPygmaea | #Sandpipers #TypicalSandpipers #SandpiperFamily #Shorebirds #Waders 📷: Photo by bitnikgao🦜 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds
🌏🌎 Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) The Spoon-billed Sandpiper is a small wader with a unique spatulate bill. Breeding adults have a red-brown head and breast, while non-breeding birds are grayish-brown. They breed on the coasts of the Bering Sea and migrate along the Pacific coast to wintering grounds in Southeast Asia. This critically endangered species forages by walking forward with its head down, sweeping its bill from side to side to sift for invertebrates in the mud and shallow water. 2.5 Flash (Edited) No known subspecies are recognised. Conservation status: Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by bitnikgao via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-nature-feathers-ornithology-9545397/ UEKC
August 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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BOC of Koklass Pheasant, one of our main target species near Pangot in Uttarakhand, India. #asianbirds
August 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Glad we didn’t dip on the Brown Dipper in Sataal, India as it completes the ‘world set’. @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social #birdsoftheworld #asianbirds
August 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM