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A raptor has landed on a tree outside our window! It’s SO big, I could tell immediately from its swoopy landing that it was not a regular birb, and then I found my binoculars and yeah, it’s a biggun. A hawk I think?

Looks a little floofy, like it’s been through it a bit (or maybe it’s just a juvenile?). But seemed healthy, spent a good ten minutes peering down at the town, swaying back and worth as the tree moved in the wind.

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Photo through binoculars, clumsily taken. The top of a tree and a large white-chested bird with a hooked beak is sitting at the top.
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he taking a photos runnn! #birds
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Es scheint so, als wäre sie sehr zufrieden. (:
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Eine Krähe steht mit einer Erdnuss im Schnabel auf einem Stromkasten.
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Here's another family of baby birds from my travels this week. It's a female Pāpango / NZ scaup with seven ducklings (scauplings?).

I saw them on the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River on my bike ride home from work yesterday.

I briefly stopped to get better photos and the longer I stayed the fewer scauplings there were to see. They're diving ducks, after all. 😀

inaturalist.nz/observations/32…

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The first in a sequence of photos I took of a female scaup (a small brown diving duck) with her seven smaller mottled brown ducklings, all swimming on the river.
The second of my photos of a female scaup (a small brown diving duck) with her smaller mottled brown ducklings, all swimming on the river. Now there are six ducklings, as one has dived underwater.
The third of my photos of a female scaup (a small brown diving duck) with her smaller mottled brown ducklings, all swimming on the river. Now there are only four ducklings, as the other three have dived underwater.
The fourth of my photos of a female scaup (a small brown diving duck) with her smaller mottled brown ducklings, all swimming on the river. Now there are only three ducklings, as the other four have dived underwater. The mother stayed on the water watching me. I let them be after this.

Pāpango (New Zealand Scaup) (Aythya novaeseelandiae) observed by Jon Sullivan

New Zealand Scaup from Christchurch including Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand on November 21, 2025 at 06:36 PM by Jon Sullivan. Mother scaup with seven ducklings.
iNaturalist NZ
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Here are some baby birds I've seen this week, all in and around Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ.

There's baby Canada geese along Sparks Road (the first time I've seen baby geese in this area of the city): inaturalist.nz/observations/32…

There's teeny baby ring-necked pheasants running across McDrurys Road: inaturalist.nz/observations/32…

There's grey teal ducklings with parents on an emphemeral creek along Robinsons Road (the first time I've seen baby grey teal here in the 22 years I've been biking this road to work): inaturalist.nz/observations/32…

And, there's teeny baby California quail running across Latters Spur track: inaturalist.nz/observations/32…

Of these, only the grey teal are NZ natives.

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A photo of young yellow goslings of Canada geese, next to two adult birds.
A photo of three tiny little baby birds with long legs dashing across a road. These are ring-necked pheasants and a car saw them and stopped to wait for them to cross (following their mother).
Two grey-brown adult ducks with red eyes, on a pond, with a group of young grey-brown ducklings. These are NZ grey teal.
A photo of two tiny speckled baby birds running across a gravel path. These are California quails.

Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) observed by Jon Sullivan

Ring-necked Pheasant from Selwyn, Canterbury, New Zealand on November 20, 2025 at 09:47 AM by Jon Sullivan. They followed their mother across the road.
iNaturalist NZ
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In der Oranienbaumer Heide kann man laut #reddit Wiedehopfe (Upupa epops, 🇬🇧 Hoopoe, 🇵🇱 dudek) sehen. Das ist nicht weit von mir. Ich habe den Ort in Google Maps auf gut Glück markiert und auf geht's. Als ich dort ankam, hörte ich diesen unverwechselbaren Gesang. Wegen der Entfernung und der Lichtverhältnisse sind die Fotos nicht grandios, aber ich bin trotzdem unglaublich glücklich!

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Das Bild zeigt einen Wiedehopf in Seitenansicht, wie er auf einem trockenen Ast sitzt. Im Vordergrund sind einige Pappelzweige mit Blättern zu sehen, die den Schwanz des Vogels verdecken. Im Hintergrund ist ein grauer Himmel zu sehen.
Das Bild zeigt einen Wiedehopf, der in einem trockenen Busch sitzt. Er ist von blattlosen Zweigen und Ästen umgeben. Der Hintergrund ist ein grauer Himmel.
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"I found that penguins differed in their reactions to being hoisted between human legs. Some were calm, mildly befuddled at how they got a foot off the ground. Others acted as if they were possessed, squirming and slapping and biting. Penguins are beefy birds, sleek bullets of swimming muscle, torpedoes of power, and they slapped impressively hard."

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What It’s Like to Live on Antarctica and Study Penguins As a Scientist

How I came to feel at home in what some call the last wilderness on Earth—Antarctica.
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Hi Mastodon. I'm Mick, a wildlife guide based in Granada region of #Spain. I'm looking forward to connect with fellow birders, botanists & entomologists throughout the Fediverse.

Regularly out in the countryside of Andalucia & further afield posting info & images about my adventures & encounters with the natural world.

Here's a photo of a close encounter with Iberian Lynx I took a few years ago.

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A couple of Iberian Lynx on a small rock ledge
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While waiting for the ferry, I spotted this gull eating a starfish, looked like chocking at first…

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Closeup capture of a Gull while eating a yellow starfish. The pink tongue of the gull is hanging out and saliva dripping. Portrait shot.

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Also this Tuesday morning up at Whiskeytown, a Steller's Jay combing the moss on an oak tree for stashed acorns.

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A Steller's Jay is seen from behind perched on a vertical moss covered large oak trunk. The bird has a black head and crest, blue forehead stripes, black shoulders and blue back.
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The number 1 rule of photography is to capture the things that give you joy. I went to the lake tonight, I missed the best light and thought I wouldn't get anything good. But it was warm, and peaceful and as the sun sank the water turned pink and the pied stilts came across the shore right in front of me and I thought it was beautiful so I took some photos of them and their reflections. I've had to apply some serious de-noising as these photos were taken in the almost dark and I've also taken the liberty of removing some little black splodges that were marring the mirror perfect water. I think these give a good FEEL of the serenity of the moment, although obviously I can't capture the whole experience of sunset outdoors on an unseasonably warm Autumn night. #birds #birdphotography
A pied stilt and it's reflection - the stilt is facing the camera and it's legs merge into those of the reflection and just go on forever and ever with a little teeny chubby body on either end.
A pied stilt hunting through a pink hued sunset lake. There are a few drops of water falling from it's bill and it's red legs make crazy geometric shapes with their own reflections.
A pied stilt facing the camera with it's bill and legs merging with those of it's reflection.
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Ok I'll post the aurora photos soon, but look at this photo!

A Heron tries to fish under the auroral glow.

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a bay at night. the whole scene is lit by a faint green glow from the aurora. in the horizon, the crescent moon sets behind the mountains. the moonlight reflects off the surface of the water, and in the middle of it, the silhouette of a heron is visible
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behold the purple martin!!

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an iridescent blue purple bird with wings spread wide and little feet tucked up into their body. they are facing the camera and have their head to the side so their shiny eye is visible. every feather in their wings and tail are spread wide as they hover in the air next to a martin house where the tail of another martin is visible. they are in front of an out of focus bright green background
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I love how France has both so many birds and also so many wind farms. We can build sustainable solutions that support powering our economy and a also wildlife.

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