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12z.bsky.social
Tales of Euphonia
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Have a good week ahead #birds
A Tennessee warbler skips among the bright red blossoms of a bougainvillea plant
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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snailposting
a white snail with a brown white shell oozes across a chainlink fence
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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>called tales of euphonia
>posts birds that aren't euphonias

uhh how about you shut up also have a great week #birds
A female yellow-throated euphonia, a small, dirty-yellow bird, eats a large pinkish berry
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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#Sunlit in the shade

#Birdoftheday
A blue gray tanager crouched in a branch. It's in the shade, but a sharp ray of light catches its cheek and right side
October 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Jays to the World Series!

An action shot from a recent trip to Toronto #birds
A blue jay takes off from the ground to chase a flying insect. Of the three baseball birds this one was the last I photographed. Oriol was easy since it migrates to Costa Rica, but I had to travel for the Jay and Cardinal
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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squirrel cuckoo from October Big Day #birds
A large brown bird with a grey tufted chest sits among naked branches. It has a long, dark tail that ends in white spots
October 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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white warbler wednesday
white warbler wednesday
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Branches and leaves for a frame within which a black and white warbler (small white bird with long horizontal black stripes) spreads its wing, which appears translucent against the bright mid morning light
October 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Gen 3 VGC league is off to a great start
Simpsons mobster looking at homer and krusty dressed as a clown: "im seeing double here. four krustys!" but the krustys are blissey and chansey
October 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Reposting this masked tityra for #birdoftheday (primarily white birds). I feel like white is pretty common for water birds but rare otherwise? Wonder why that is.
A mostly white plump bird with black facemask and feathertips. It has a red eye ring and beak. People call these pajaro chancho here - pigbirds - for the sounds they make. Every time I talk about tityras I have to google how to spell it and even then I'm sure I fucked it up somewhere lol
September 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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monday sparrow #birds
A female house sparrow close-up. She is looking into the camera - shiny black eyes and yellow beak. Brownish overall, with a splotch of black feathers in the chest. Saw a bunch of these in Toronto, though I see them in Costa Rica as well. They seemed to bunch up in tight flocks a lot more than they do here. I will always love common birds, sorrt if theyre boring
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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A small bird sits among branches. It is very colorful - broad bill is bright yellow, the wings a dull green. the eponymous red head feathers change to orange and yellow towards the chest.
September 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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#birdoftheday - red headed barbet I saw with my brother in the valley of Providencia, Dota, Costa Rica
September 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Something peaceful for your timeline if you need it.

Red-legged honeycreeper #birds 🇨🇷
A stunning blue bird with bright red legs and black wings sits on top of a papaya. It has a light blue crest. I don't generally like posting or taking feeder photos, as I don't frequent them and am somewhat unsure that they're good for birds (at least these more exotic ones), but this bird is so beautiful... Please take a moment out of your day for some self care. Be good to yourself and animals.
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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birds slipping: an underrated genre of photography
A southern house wren attempts to climb a large branch. Does not succeed.
September 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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First warbler of the season! Look at the claws on this little guy

#birds 🇨🇷
Woah what is that tiny zebra doing up on that tree? Haha no. It's the aptly named white and black warbler - a tiny white bird with horizontal black stripes. It has large orange claws it uses to climb on branches, much like a treeceeper.
September 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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moonmisting my rogue into a land to dodge removal
The MDFC card Blackbloom Rogue
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The rule change is to allow things like this work. Eddie is a Modal DFC (you can cast either side, note that Venom also has a mana cost) AND you can transform from the Eddie to the Venom side with its ability. This was previously unsupported by the rules -mdfc stayed on the side you picked when cast
September 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Bonus motmot repost #birds
Lesson's motmot with some caterpillar thing it its beak. The beak is black and serrated. Red eye, black facemask with iridescent blue. Orange body with cerulean tones. Do people eat caterpillars or do we just enslave them for silk? Anyway this one wont get to be a butterfree lol
September 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Kingfisher!

I find it cool that one of the main things these guys share with motmots is that they make nests in dirt walls. It's like finding out your cousin also shares your weird behaviors such as storing ketchup in the pantry. #birds #costarica
Ringed kingfisher sits on a branch, its back to the camera. Crest is fluffed; blue overall except for white neck ring and red underside. Its looking pensive; what could this little guy be thinking about? Probably fish. You can eat fish during lent, friend. It's fine.
September 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I still sometimes go to this place but I draw the line at a nearby dinner where a friend saw, quote, "a wall of cockroaches"
rat on a bar table next to a beer. caption reads "rata cae sobre mesa en bar en San Pedro" - "rat falls on table in bar in San Pedro"
September 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Finally found these! I've been hearing their calls for months. Called "saltarín toledo" in Spanish because their call sounds like someone calling out to "to-le-do". Long-tailed manakin (chiroxiphia linearis) #birds #costarica
Two long-tailed manakins sit on a branch in the dense woods. The left one is an adult male: black body with bright red cap and blue coat over its back. It has the characteristic strand-like double tail. The other is either an immature male or a female: olive brown with a red cap. Both have bright orange feet.
August 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Hummingbirds eating bugs is such a cool behavior I didn't know happened until I started birding. Look at this rascal stealing from an honest spider.
A hummingbird pulling a bug from a cobweb
August 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#birds
4 silhouetted brown pelicans at sunset. Foreground are reeds on the beach, out of focus.
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I play ONE game of gen 1 LC and this happens. Truly, a format curse by God
A slowpoke 1/256 misses twice in a row
August 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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It's nice to peck softer wood every now and then - lineated woodpecker #birds 🇨🇷
August 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM