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INTRODUCTION

Hi there! I'm Ricky (he/him) and this is my birding blog! :)

I am NOT a professional and shouldn't be credited as such. Please expect the occasional mistake, and feel free to correct me!

I’m a high school junior striving for a career in field ornithology or environmental conservation

Have any birds you want identified? Feel free to send me an ask, tag me in a post, or even PM :3 I'll do my best to help.

If you'd like me to explain my process on any individual identification, feel free to ask in RBs!

I'm from the US, and thus, I don't have many federal wildlife resources listed for other countries. I plan to add some eventually! If any non-USAmericans have good resources, please send 'em my way :)

Tumblr Life List (archive)

USEFUL TAGS

#not an id <- Posts without bird identification

#feather id <- Identifying birds based only off feathers

#call id <- Identifying birds based only off calls

#unidentified <- Birds that have stumped me!

#not 100% certain <- IDs I'm very unsure of; take with a grain of salt

#incorrect id <- Birds I've incorrectly IDed, usually paired with...

#corrected id <- previously incorrect IDs which I've revised

#id request <- posts I’ve been tagged in

MY TOOLKIT

Merlin Bird ID app

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds, Western Region, Revised Edition

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

National Audubon Society

eBird

US Fish and Wildlife Services

GENERAL RESOURCES

How to Begin Birding - Audubon

Birding Hotspots - eBird

Feeding Birds in Your Backyard - HSUS

What to do if you find a baby bird, injured or orphaned wildlife - USFWS

I Found a Baby Bird. What Do I Do? - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Find a Migratory Bird Rehab Facility - USFWS

importantpics

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BIRD IDENTIFIED: +Fledgling+ Barn swallow [x6]

Re:Note: Barn swallow clutches commonly have anywhere from 4 to 5 eggs, but it isn’t particularly rare to see clutches ranging from 3 to 7 eggs, either; 6 chicks in a brood is still very much in the realm of plausibility!

#reblog #barn swallow #fledglings and chicks

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Today I saw a female peacock doing a feather display

Oh and this guy she was ignoring

#not an id

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Gray heron

#no spoons for my regular format but thats him alright #gray heron

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bird marginalia

from the bible of borso d'este, illuminated by taddeo crivelli and others in ferrara (italy), 1455-61

source: Modena, Biblioteca Estense, MS.V.G.12 (= Lat. 422)

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BIRD IDENTIFIED: Eurasian Goldfinch (Cardeulis cardeulis)

European goldfinch - Wikipedia

NOTE: this is also the bird in image #9

BIRD IDENTIFIED: Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria)

Wallcreeper - Wikipedia

BIRD IDENTIFIED: Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

Eurasian jay - Wikipedia

NOTE: rather unsure but this is my best guess; I believe this is also the bird in image #7

BIRD IDENTIFIED: Gray heron (Ardea cinerea)

Grey heron - Wikipedia

BIRD IDENTIFIED: Little egret (Egretta garzetta)

Little egret - Wikipedia

NOTE: very, very unsure of the black birds with the egret, so I’ll leave that for someone else

BIRD IDENTIFIED: Rock partridge (Alectoris graeca)

Rock partridge - Wikipedia

BIRD IDENTIFIED: Egret (Egretta sp.)

Egret - Wikipedia

NOTE: I have no idea what kind of egret that is, but I am pretty sure of the genus at least!

BIRD IDENTIFIED: Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

Helmeted guinea fowl - Wikipedia

#eurasian goldfinch #wallcreeper #eurasian jay #gray heron #little egret #rock partridge #egret #helmeted guineafowl #wow I am. really rusty

I er uh lowkey forgot about this blog I need to start queuing ids

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BIRD IDENTIFIED: Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)

Mourning dove - Wikipedia

#mourning dove

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Purple Starling

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Purple Staring

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BIRD IDENTIFIED: Purple Starling (Lamprotornis purpureus)

Purple starling - Wikipedia

#purple starling

They said the neck was longer… maybe it was a particularly lanky juvenile?

Definitely could be! The heron in the photo I attached previously doesn’t have his neck fully extended, though. I’ll add one with its neck fully extended below

Black-crowned night herons do tend to have shorter necks than most herons; if this still seems to short than a juvenile yellow-crowned night heron seems plausible too!

Here’s some photos of them, with a relaxed and extended neck respectively

Spotted today in Galveston Texas:

Brown spotted (almost leopard like) coloring, tan belly, tan-ish beak about 5-6 inches, big amber eyes on the sides of the head (took up about a third of the head), head appeared too big for the neck, long skinny neck, long feathered thighs, orange-red legs, 3 webbed toes with talons, about two seagulls tall, ~2.5 feet standing at full height, neck extended.

It freaked tf out of my sibling while we were fishing, and we’ve been trying to figure out what the hell it was for the past few hours

Thank you for the description, that’s very thorough and certainly made my job a lot easier :)

It does sound sort of like a juvenile black-crowned night heron to me! Here’s a photo of one

They tend to get as big as 28 inches (2.3 feet) which is a little smaller than what you described, but maybe you spotted a particularly big one?

If you don’t think this is it, I can keep trying!

#id request

Do you think you could try and identify a bird by description?

I’ll give it a go :)

howtocan

Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.

If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.

If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.

jumpingjacktrash

nakey bird = accidentally fell out, is cold and scared, put back in nest! if you can’t reach the nest, try to put it on a wide branch or fork so predators can’t get at it as easily.

scruffy feather bird = starting to try the fly thing, not very good at it. only put in nest/branch if predators abound, i.e. you have four outdoor cats and they’re licking their chops.

fluffy feather bird = smol fly guy! do nothing. can probably get away from predators and will flip its shit if you pick it up.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Reblogging this because I’d always heard the ‘Don’t touch a distressed bird its mom will reject it’ thing treated as fact before now, I didn’t realise it wasn’t true…

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Spring is coming, time to reblog this again.

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It’s not uncommon to find young birds away from their nests during spring and summer. But should you help them? That depends.

#psa #resources #not an id

the-identifier

i dont even identify shit anymore

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Me neither brother

#not an id #i have like 30 things queued for ID #since I’m home sick today I reckon I should work on them

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Confuse a Gimmick Blog for 10s (1/1)

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ABC EFG I KLMNO RS U

15/26

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[Image ID: a pink 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Seville /End ID]

1960 Cadillac Eldorado Seville

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Image ID: a

pink 1960 Cadi

llac Eldorado

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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Ok.

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Achievement Unlocked:

Break The Gimmick

What is going on??

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Item: Cadillac of Confusion; allows wielded to cast indecision upon targets when the engine is revved, making them unable to determine their next move.

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confuse a gimmick blog for 10s

abc efg i klmno r s u

1960 cadillac eldorado seville

beep boop! i look for accidental haiku posts. sometimes i mess up.

ok

achievement unlocked:

break the gimmick

what is going on?

item: cadillac of confusion; allows wielded to cast indescision upon targets when the engine is revved, making them unable to determine their next move.

dragons detected!