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Tony Rinaud
@tonyrinaud.bsky.social
🇫🇷 PhD, interested in species interactions. Omics enthusiast and bino/camera holder! He/him
#BirdsSeenIn2025 challenge host, summaries: 19pm CET on Sundays!
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And that's it: Brazil got first rank, by reaching also first the 700 species mark recorded this year in the #BirdsSeenIn2025 challenge !

Notable changes are few in the top 40 but Canada overtook Argentina for the rank 9.
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Run into this Polynesian triller , scavenging on the ground by the beach at Denarau Island( Fiji )
#birdsoftheworld #polynisiantriller #birdsoffiji #birdsoftheworld #blueskymonday #birdsofbluesky #oiseaux #naturephotography #photographie
August 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Beautiful day yesterday @ Azraq Wetlands ( Jordan)
Lots of blue - cheeked bee eater .
They were many other birds , but these were lifer for me , and so much fun to watch them .
#birdsoftheworld #birdoftheday #blueskymonday #naturephotography #canon
September 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Currently in Oaxaca ( Mexico ) and hummingbirds are everywhere.
Was lucky to catch the ruby throated hummingbird , broad bill , male , female and I believe immature .
#blueskyfriday #hummingbirds #colibri #oiseaux #birdsoftheworld #birdoftheday #birdspin #photography #birdphotography
October 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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These yellow rump Myrtle warbler were everywhere in Oaxaca( Mexico) but so fidgety , hard to catch them .
I believe this one was an immature .
#warbler #warblerWednesday #blueskywednesday #birdsoftheworld #birdpins #photography #photographie #bird #oiseaux
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This social flycatcher landed in some vines , while I was in Oaxaca ( Mexico ) and proceeded to start singing , then his head feather started changing colors 🤩
It seemed it has a vermilion crown .
#vermilioncrown #birds #birdsoftheworld #birdpins #birdoftheday #oiseaus #aves #photography #mexico
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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August 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Red-vented bulbul found in Viti Levu island ( Fiji), more precisely on Denarau Island , first in one , on beach , 2nd one in the marina.
#birdsoftheworld #naturephotography #fijibirds #birdoffiji #fiji #photographie #canon #oiseaux
August 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Gull-billed Tern is are in Nova Scotia unless we get a hurricane of Dorian quality, so I went to see one at a lovely beach in Lunenburg County. I did a blogpost about it at capesablebirding.wordpress.com for those who like that sort of thing. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #NovaScotia
September 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Skimming the Autumn Light: Three Terns at Aammiq

On a warm September morning at Aammiq Wetland—the largest remaining freshwater marsh in Lebanon—wildlife photographer and SPNL Birdwatcher Chadi Saad caught a fleeting trio in perfect light: Gull-billed Tern, White-winged Tern, and Whiskered Tern.…
Skimming the Autumn Light: Three Terns at Aammiq
On a warm September morning at Aammiq Wetland—the largest remaining freshwater marsh in Lebanon—wildlife photographer and SPNL Birdwatcher Chadi Saad caught a fleeting trio in perfect light: Gull-billed Tern, White-winged Tern, and Whiskered Tern. The images distill what Aammiq does best in early autumn: turn migration into a living classroom. A meeting place on the flyway Cradled in the West Bekaa, Aammiq sits on one of the world’s great migration corridors, where reedbeds, open pools, and flooded meadows offer exactly what traveling terns need: calm water, insect hatches, and room to rest.
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October 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Definitivamente los Celestinos (Thraupis sayaca) de tonos verdes son de mis aves "comunes" favoritas

#AvesArgentinas #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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This singing New Caledonia Streaked Fantail was photographed this morning here on South Province showing well its long fanned tail and white chest with black arrowheads [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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As snow blankets Alaska things are just getting going in the southern hemisphere. Here's a White-tufted Grebe tending its grebelings in Buenos Aires #Argentina 🪶
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Southern Lapwing flyby. Note the spurs sticking out of the wrists, this bird means business! Montevideo #Uruguay 🪶
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Noswaith Dda-Good Evening
Glaw trwm fan hyn, felly 'nôl i'r haf eto a Gwenoliaid y Glennydd wrth ymyl Cronfëydd Dŵr Llysfaen a Llanisien ym mis Awst
Heavy rain here,so back 2 the summer again with Sand Martins around Llysfaen & Llanisien Reservoirs in August
#BirdsSeenIn2025
Cariad mawr o Gymru!
❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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A day and a half scouring Colonsay and Oronsay failed to turn up any of the hoped-for rare waders, but the stunning scenery and excellent views of the resident Choughs and raptors more than made up for it! 3/4 #BirdingScotland
September 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Here’s a record shot of the 3rd Black Heron for Oman we saw yesterday at Khawr Mughsayl. Oman rocks!

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Oman #omanbirding #zootherabirding #ukinoman
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Miscellaneous Sulawesi #songbirds
The one-island #endemic Sulphur-vented Whistler & Sulawesi Brown Flycatcher are confined to mountains & lowlands respectively. Sulawesi Babbler & Sulawesi Myna also occur on smaller #islands in Sulawesi Region.

#BirdsSeenIn2025 #birding #birdwatching #naturebeauty
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Orange-bellied Parrot, Critically Endangered, at Western Treatment Plant, Melbourne. Photographed by Elke Link. #BirdsSeenIn2025 @tonyrinaud.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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When someone says ducks it's easy pick a Mallard.
Getting out of water now, that proved not so easy.

#Austria #BirdPhotography #BirdsInMotion #TakeOff

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #DucksOutofWater #BirdsSeenIn2025 #OnTheRiver
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Female Long-tailed Duck taking a short stop in a small pond during it's migration.
#BirdsSeenIn2025
#birds
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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🐦 Moustached Turca (Pteroptochos megapodius)
📏 22 cm
📍 Parque Mahuida, Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱
🗓 Feb 2025

#birds
March 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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🐦 Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
📏 10–13 cm
📍 Arenal, Alajuela, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
🗓 Feb 2025

#birds
March 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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🐦 Scrub Blackbird (Dives warczewiczi)
📏 21.5 cm
📍 Pantanos de Villa, Lima, Peru 🇵🇪
🗓 Mar 2025

#birds
March 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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🦉 Costa Rican Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium costaricanum)
📏 14.5–17 cm
📍 Savegre Valley, San José Province, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
📅 Mar 2025

#birds #owls
April 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM