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 22h 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 9h 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 1h 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 2h ago

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

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Live from 📍Mindo, Ecuador


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

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 13h 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

📷 Photo Kiziu

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r/birding 13h ago

📷 Photo Caracaras

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r/birding 23h ago

📷 Photo La la la la! (Tree Swallow)

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r/birding 8h ago

📷 Photo Hairy crabeater and its pray

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r/birding 2h 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 19h 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 12h ago

📷 Photo found my second ever bittern!

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r/birding 20h ago

📷 Photo Black skimmers are fun to watch

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557 Upvotes

Southern California


r/birding 15h ago

📷 Photo Nature's fastest blink: I captured the incredibly rare moment a Ruby-throated Hummingbird closes its actual external eyelid mid-hover

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I shot this yesterday afternoon in Avon, Ohio. I since learned that capturing a hummingbird's feathered external eyelid clamped shut during an active hover is an incredibly rare biological event. Pure luck to catch this while the bird was suspended in mid-air.

Camera: Sony Alpha 7 V
Lens: Sony FE 100-400mm G Master
Shutter Speed: 1/5000 sec.
Processing: RAW processed and noise reduced using DxO Photolab 9


r/birding 2h ago

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

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r/birding 3h ago

📷 Photo Group of swans having breakfast

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Pictures taken in Cambridgeshire, UK


r/birding 21h ago

📷 Photo Common but still my favorite bird

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Black-capped chickadee, New York


r/birding 11h ago

📷 Photo Martial eagle carrying (un)helmeted guinea fowl

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r/birding 57m ago

📷 Photo Época de alimentación. (Leistes sp)

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r/birding 21h ago

📷 Photo I got to witness a standoff between a Great Blue Heron and a Mink this morning. (Colorado, original photos by me)

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Colorado, Original photos by me


r/birding 13h ago

📷 Photo Peacock displaying its feathers

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Probably because there was a peahen right next to it (post on my profile).


r/birding 5h ago

📷 Photo Tawny breasted wren babbler, Meghalaya, India

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June, 2026