Green heron
Butorides virescens
Kansas City, Kansas, USA. May 2026
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Green heron
Butorides virescens
Kansas City, Kansas, USA. May 2026
Green heron
Butorides virescens
Kansas City, Kansas, USA. May 2026
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citrea
Dallas-area, Texas, USA. May 2026
It feels cool to be "in" on celebrity gossip before anyone else. I ran into Californian Condor V9 and looked her up on the condor lookup website. It says her current mate is dead and she has no kids but I saw her with a new man AND a juvenile.
Red-shouldered hawk
Buteo lineatus
Dallas area, Texas, USA. April 2026
It’s FLEDGLING BIRD SEASON here in North America…
…which means it’s time for an annual reminder not to kidnap baby birds. Fact: most species of birds have almost no sense of smell. Someone probably told you that if you touch a baby bird, the mother will smell you on it and reject her baby. THAT IS NOT THE CASE. If you’ve found a baby bird and you touched it, all is not lost, you can still return it to mom and dad!
Pictured: a young Mourning Dove, after being rescued from the tender mercies of my dog, circa spring 2005. It’s a fledgling! Note how it has most of its feathers, but still looks a bit awkward and scruffy, and, being unable to properly fly, can be caught by an elderly husky or a child.
Help, I found a baby bird on the ground, what do I do???
Hatchlings/Nestlings: IF it is naked or covered in fluffy down and/or pinfeathers and cannot flutter successfully, it’s a hatchling or nestling, and has fallen from its nest prematurely. Look for the nest- if you find it and can reach it, return baby and then leave and let the parents return. If you can’t find the nest, or if you find it in pieces on the ground, use a small box/yogurt container lined with dried grass and attach as close as possible to where you found the bird or where you think the nest was. If it’s cold, warm it in your hands for a few minutes before putting it back. RETURN BABY!!!!
Fledglings: If you spot a young bird covered with feathers (may have a few patches of fluff) on the ground, it’s a fledgling (bird tween) who is currently working on flying 101 homework, which is normal and fine. Hanging out on the ground is part of the learning to fly process! If it looks like it’s in immediate danger (i.e. of being run over, stepped on, or eaten by a cat or dog), the best thing you can do for it is to gently scoop it up and place it in the low branches of a nearby tree or shrub, and then LEAVE. The parents are likely nearby watching, and will return once the coast is clear. If it flutter-hops away from you and you can’t catch it, then don’t worry! It just successfully avoided a predator (you), and therefore can probably continue to do so. LEAVE BABY ALONE!!!
DO NOT: Try to feed it, bring it into your house or car, or take it to your local domestic animal vet or shelter.
IF it IS actually for-real injured (bleeding, broken limb, attacked by cat, struck window), you can catch it, put it in a dark cardboard box (with NO food or water, young birds can aspirate easily) and contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation professional, but keep in mind that they get a LOT of fledgling birds, and those birds have a pretty high mortality rate. They may tell you that there is nothing you or they can do but allow nature to take its course, and that’s hard, but important to hear and respect.
it’s that time again! all the birding subreddits are filled with people who kidnapped baby birds and I want to believe you can be better than that, tumblr.
i should start doing like r/kitchencels posts but for birdwatching
i fear that my inability to care for myself bleeds into every relationship i stumble into, inevitably ruining any chances i had at true human connection. red-crowned amazon.
Look at the beautiful feathers on this Blue Jay!
I love our pastel goths
Disclaimer: These were taken during a bird banding operation! All handling of the birds is done with training and supervision to ensure the safety of the birds. Birds were released back to their location unharmed. The data collected during the banding process helps us track the size and health of bird populations in our area.
American Wigeons
Mareca americana
Dallas area, Texas, USA. February 2026
some birds are very intuitively named. looked up a sparrow going chipchipchip in my yard, it was a chipping sparrow. saw a black bird with red wings, it was a red winged blackbird. gray bird that sounds like a cat? gray catbird. the first time i saw a house finch it was perched on a windowsill. However, some birds are the red-bellied woodpecker
I gotta google something real quick
who named this bird
Official ornithology post
what are you guys talking about
My Valentine Cards
baby black vulture (and her parents) I found living in a collapsed house last summer
Domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
give me one thousing dollars 💵💸
Little Egret
Egretta garzetta
Tokyo, Japan. April 2025.
Plus a bonus Great Egret (Ardea alba) in the last photo