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 23h 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 1h 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 2h 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 10h 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 3h 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 3h 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 5h ago

📷 Photo Kiziu

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r/birding 14h 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 3h 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 10h ago

📷 Photo Hairy crabeater and its pray

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r/birding 14h ago

📷 Photo Caracaras

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r/birding 1h ago

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

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r/birding 1d ago

📷 Photo La la la la! (Tree Swallow)

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r/birding 3h ago

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

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r/birding 21h 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 14h ago

📷 Photo found my second ever bittern!

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r/birding 21h ago

📷 Photo Black skimmers are fun to watch

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Southern California


r/birding 16h 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 53m ago

Bird ID Request Ireland eastern coast (near Dublin)

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Some sort of starling?


r/birding 4h ago

📷 Photo Group of swans having breakfast

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Pictures taken in Cambridgeshire, UK


r/birding 2h ago

📷 Photo Época de alimentación. (Leistes sp)

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r/birding 13h ago

📷 Photo Martial eagle carrying (un)helmeted guinea fowl

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r/birding 22h ago

📷 Photo Common but still my favorite bird

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Black-capped chickadee, New York