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Jen
@birdsnbooks.bsky.social
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Love nature, wildlife (birds!), reading, music, art, gaming, cats and keeping up with what’s going on. NorCal
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ʻUaʻu Kani chick!

Thanks USFWS volunteer and biologist Dan Rapp for a close up view of a younger ʻUaʻu Kani (Wedge-tailed Shearwater). See more in comments about how this chick got here!
#Birds
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy.
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
A bull African Buffalo crosses a river in Kruger park, South Africa. He is walking towards us and has quite large horns. He is carrying about a dozen red-billed oxpecker birds on his back. The oxpeckers are eating ticks and parasites off the buffalo and also acting as sentinels to warn the buffalo about approaching predators.
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Of the hour I waited for the rare LeConte’s sparrow of Jamaica bay, it spent roughly 58 minutes tunneling through tall, dense grass, out of sight despite being within 15 feet.

#🪶 #birds #birdsofbluesky #birdwatching #nature #birding
A small sparrow with buffy, golden coloring above and below its eyes and along its flanks, a whitish stripe bracketed by two blackish stripes running back to front along the top of its head, and dark streaking on its back, breast and flanks, perches facing sideways on a branch among a tangle of branches. A small sparrow with buffy, golden coloring above and below its eyes and along its flanks, a whitish stripe bracketed by two blackish stripes running back to front along the top of its head, and dark streaking on its back, breast and flanks, perches facing forward on a branch among a tangle of branches.
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Owls are here 😁😊🥰
#birds 🌿
Huge white owl with black barred feathers on her breast and bright yellow eyes. She is perched on a wooden power pole.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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To all of my BlueSky friends,

I don't really pitch or sell things on this platform, but I want to share this fundraiser.

I've spent some time in the Wayuu community and the people there are lovely and warm. But the children are at a severe disadvantage.

gofund.me/8e4f56eb2
Donate to Support Wayuu Children with School Essentials, organized by Michael Melton
Here’s a draft you can paste into GoFundMe and edit as needed: --… Michael Melton needs your support for Support Wayuu Children with School Essentials
gofund.me
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll). Our cam once showed nearly empty landscape; now thousands of Mōlī (Laysan albatross) returnfor breeding season with black-footed albatross (ka’upu) in the mix.
Over 1 million more albatross will soon arrive at the world’s largest albatross colony.
🎥 Watch it LIVE!
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I mean c'mon, I'm gonna take these photos to the barber next time I need a haircut
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Splish Splash.
#birds
Photograph of an immature male Satin Bowerbird perched on the edge of a bird bath, looking at the water with Intentions. The bird is jade, olive, brown, and yellow, with violet eyes and a creamy-coloured beak. Seconds later, the bowerbird has dived into the water and started flapping his wings. It is protecting its eyes with its nictitating membrane (inner eyelid). There are droplets of water flying in all directions. The bowerbird is back on the edge of the bath, facing away from the water, shaking off the excess droplets which are shining in all the colours of the rainbow as they catch the sunlight. From this angle it's clear that the bowerbird has some of his mature black satin feathers on his left shoulder and around his eyes.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Enjoy this little demon, #Bugsky

At first I thought this was just a small fly, but when I got my macro on it I found this alien creature. I think it's in the genus Poppea, a type of treehopper. Found at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #nature #insects
Close-up macro of a tiny spiny red-and-black insect with horn-like projections and bright red eyes standing on a green leaf.
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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First snow - Dark-eyed Junco
Amherst, NY USA
November 9, 2025
#birdsinsnow #OM-1MarkII #OM-1 #photography #birds #wildlifephotography #nature #winterwildlife #birdphotography
#photographersunited #animalphotography #naturephotography #juncos
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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White-browed Scrubwren.
#birds
Photograph of a small passerine bird standing on reddish rock with grass. The bird is brown, grey, white, and black, with distinctive white lines running back from its beak over its brows.
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Another species of clearwing #butterfly, the Rusted Clearwing-Satyr (Cithaerias pireta) at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#butterflies #nature #bugsky
Close-up of a delicate butterfly with transparent wings edged in orange and a single eyespot, perched on a green leaf against a softly blurred background.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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One of my favorite rainforest butterflies, the Ithomia diasia is one in the family of clearwings. They have translucent areas of their wings. At @casabentbill.bsky.social

#Butterflies #butterfly #bugsky
Close-up of a transparent-winged butterfly perched on a green leaf, showing brown-edged, blue-tinted panes and a soft green background.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Eagle Ray making off with a mouthful of an unlucky Red Pencil Urchin. Nature can be brutal. 🫢🦑

#rays #ocean #diving #snorekling #photography #underwaterphotography #scape #seascape #eastcoastkin #beautiful #maui #outdoors #travel #hawaii
Black and white eagle ray swimming over a coral reef of many different colors with blue-green water in the background. In her mouth is a red pencil urchin - it looks like a spiky red ball.
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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To quote my favorite @effinbirds.com shirt: "Oh my god! What the fuck!" 🪶
Bald eagle perched on a power pole, screaming
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Even Ravens need to floof now and again. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography
A Common Raven, a very large black bird, perched on a thick cable having just floofed up its feathers which are mostly sticking out. Greenery out of focus in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Camera traps at new heights. 📸

In Arunachal Pradesh, at 4,200m above sea level, WWF India have documented some incredible species living at this altitude, including 6 wild cat species!

Part of our ongoing work to support snow leopards and their prey, with thanks to #DarwinInitiative.
A pallas’s cat standing in the snow, crouched in a curious stance as if it's ready to pounce. Colour camera trap image of a red fox standing in a snowy mountainous landscape. The sun is shining bright; it stands with its eyes closed. Colour camera trap image of a snow leopard walking to the right of the frame in a snowy and rocky landscape. The light is dull and the snow leopard blends well to its rocky surroundings. Black and white camera trap image of a Himalayan wood owl mid-flight. Its wings spread up tall.
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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The fox is a majestic animal. What a treat to be able to see one so close.
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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sandyhorne.bsky.social
I go for caffeine first thing in the morning.
Galahs are happy with a drink of water.
And they really throw themselves into the activity 😆
October 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Look at this beauty - a female Rusty Blackbird. And no, that’s not snow, that’s Snow Goose feathers. There were thousands of them on the lake so drifts of feathers on the shore #birds (2 wks ago)
Multi-toned bronze bird with yellow eye standing in profile on the edge of a lake surrounded by white feathers that look like snow.
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The first time I saw an American Pipit, it was January on Northerly Island, I was freezing and the bird was halfway up a hillside. Cool to see so far out of season, but I was not wowed. :) This month, in the setting sunlight and much closer, beauty! And look at that hind toe! #birds
Photo of a Pipit walking in the glowing sunlight on a beach near a little tangle of drying algae with blurry grey-blue lake water in the background
October 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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tremble before the power of the Mighty Chicka-squeee 🥰😂 #birds
A Black-capped Chickadee on a table with birdseed. The wings are partially open and the bird is looking at the camera. There is a blue chair in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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#Singing #BirdoftheDay

It's common to hear the song of the Thicket Antpitta, but getting it to sing to you in the open is a whole different challenge.

At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #nature
October 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Her Ladyship, Dame Yellowthroat, holding court in her sage bush kingdom #birds
Darling but plain little yellowish bird on a curling purple sage stem, surrounded by a sea of similar stems
October 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM