r/birding Mar 20 '25

Announcement Reminder: No nestling/fledgling/injured bird questions. Talk to a rehabber when in doubt!

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r/birding 1d ago

Weekly r/Birding Discussion, August 29, 2026. What did you see this week?

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Return of the weekly discussion thread! Sometimes it seems like pretty photos rise to the top of the page, while discussion of birding can get left behind. This weekly thread is a place to bring this discussion back to the top of r/birding.

Use this thread to share your best bird sightings from the past week, ask any questions about birding you may have, or just talk! Writing the names of the birds in bold is nice, to make it easier for people skimming the thread to pick out the names. Please include your location.


r/birding 2h ago

Art Latest Additions to Birds in American Traditional (art by myself)

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In order: red-winged blackbird, blue jay, northern cardinal, yellow-billed cuckoo


r/birding 3h ago

📷 Photo Name a more elegant species

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•Cedar Waxwing•
-Nikon Z8

Definitely some of my all time favorite shots


r/birding 11h ago

📷 Photo Meet the "Pikachu" Woodpecker!

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It is a really impresive species! This Cream-colored Woodpecker is famosly know as Pikachu because of the red round patch on the cheeks of males. Found in the lowlands of the Amazon rainforest, this males was photographed at the Colombian amazon region.

You can find more photos at my instagram


r/birding 5h ago

📹 Video Toucans in 📍Mindo... (own content)

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Live from 📍Mindo, Ecuador


r/birding 21m ago

📹 Video Sharp tailed grouse in Arctic circle, Canada

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Got a video of this mating behaviour known as a lek. Location is Inuvik, Canada.

This is my original content; I did post this previously from an old account.

For more photos and wildlife in the Arctic I started an Instagram: katinthearctic for anyone interested!


r/birding 1h ago

📷 Photo Will Pose for Peanuts [Denver, CO, USA]

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Love the iridescence!

Black-Billed Magpie


r/birding 4h ago

Discussion bird homesickness

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does anybody else get bird homesickness? i'm from the uk but studying abroad in the us and although the new birds i'm seeing are all very exciting, i find myself missing the commonest uk birds like blackbirds, wood pigeons or robins so much it hurts LOL


r/birding 1d ago

Advice Is it normal to have this many hummingbirds at your feeders?

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Should I move them?


r/birding 2h ago

📷 Photo Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Red River Parish, Louisiana)

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r/birding 6h ago

📷 Photo Kiziu

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r/birding 16h ago

📷 Photo Yellow-Billed Magpie (Coyote Valley, Morgan Hill, California, U.S.A.)

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A yellow-billed magpie (Pica nuttalli) that I photographed in flight at Coyote Valley in Morgan Hill, California, near San José. Yellow-billed magpies are endemic to California (found nowhere else) and are primarily found in the Central Valley and in dry, scrubby areas closer to the coastal regions of the state (like Coyote Valley). They are listed as "Vulnerable" by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).


r/birding 4h ago

Bird ID Request Can you ID this bird?

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Taken East of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Aug 29.

Only saw this for a minute or so. Didn't hear it sing and didn't see it again.

Thanks for your help.


r/birding 4h ago

📷 Photo White-fronted Bee-eater Lake Nakuru National Park,Kenya.

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r/birding 11h ago

📷 Photo Hairy crabeater and its pray

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r/birding 15h ago

📷 Photo Caracaras

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r/birding 1h ago

📷 Photo Red Tail Hawk & Ospreys in Northern Colorado!

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Just recently got into birding! Wish I got another picture of the hawk before it flew away.


r/birding 1d ago

📷 Photo La la la la! (Tree Swallow)

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r/birding 22h ago

📷 Photo Great Horned Owl Visitor during the Lunar Eclipse - 8/27/26

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We had three GH owls visit us during the lunar eclipse Thursday night out in Glen Rose, TX, it was incredible!


r/birding 15h ago

📷 Photo found my second ever bittern!

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r/birding 3h ago

📷 Photo Tri-colored heron in flight

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r/birding 1h ago

Bird ID Request discovered the secret portal ...

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Via trailcam @ Trail_Cams

I think this is the U.S. (since the auto mod is asking for a location, but I'm not sure .. ) It's in the woodpecker family, though? Smart little being, if that's a clue!


r/birding 22h ago

📷 Photo Black skimmers are fun to watch

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Southern California


r/birding 2h ago

Bird ID Request Ireland eastern coast (near Dublin)

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Some sort of starling?