Fat Bird Pics

ho ho ho. credited pics only, pls and thank you.

[fatbirdpics]

penguins can be super good parents. we're late enough in the season where they need to be fattening up for their own molts, but they're still feeding their too-late-season chicks 😭 (there was a massive snowfall in the west Antarctic peninsula, which is one of the spots most strongly affected by global warming, so they couldn't lay eggs until *weeks* later than usual)

(if you like what I'm doing, please donate to your local bird rescue/society!)

[photogdenography]

The Capped Snacker

Wilson's Warbler - Golden Gardens Park, WA

[greenmagicksblog]

I took some bird pictures yesterday, and this was the shot of the day! 📸🧡

Cuddled Speckled Mousebirds, photo taken by me (2026).

[fern-bird]

Robin season has really kicked off here in Victoria, and what a wonderful season it is!

These sweet little birds are male Red-capped robins, and usually when you see a photo of them they are side on, I actually didn't realise until taking these pics that they have a funny little square bib 😅 I think it's cute though. It's so square.

Each year, several species of Aus robins migrate down from their summer higher elevation ranges to all across the country. It's just amazing to be able to see such vibrant creatures so close to home!

[fatbirdpics]

I had to stop for an emu in Exmouth, Western Australia and I’ve been telling my friends this is a standard Australian experience

[sugiichi]

Cisticola juncidis [セッカ,Zitting Cisticola]

ギシギシに乗っかりました🥰

[yoshitaka-koga]

マミチャジナイ

[fatbirdpics]

Eyebrowed thrush

[handbasket-to-helen]

[nemertea]

love 2 photograph birds in absolutely normal poses

Bushtit Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland, WA April 2, 2026

[liliummartagon]

Pyrrhula pyrrhula. Ladies and gentlemen.

[hideki-koga]

オオルリ（Blue-and-white Flycatcher）

[fatbirdpics]

Birds with white bellies and dark bodies 🤌

[jadewolf-photography]

Red-Footed Booby

Brown-morph Sula sula Bahia Darwin, Isla Genovesa Galápagos, Ecuador

[textless]

Not great photos, but I was really excited to get so close to this scaled quail.

Most of the quail I see around here are Gambel's quail, and they are charming, but scaled quail are fewer and shyer. This one was determined to crow at dawn, and let me walk right up to take pictures with my macro lens.

Cochise County, Arizona, July 2025.

[pacogabby]

White-faced ibis at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

[lost-lycaon]

Lilac breasted roller, surveying the insect buffet on the savanna.

[fatbirdpics]

Stunning birds, also sometimes called "rainbow birds." Very sad I didn't get a good view of one in flight!

[thegenderal]

as a denizen of this busted ass website for half my life now i do know how staff works and i’m going to lay out what they think will happen as someone who has witnessed this exact thing play out

People get very mad for a few days and then roll over and accept the change to the enclosure. This is what they are betting on. They have had meetings about this.

Getting around it: set an alarm. Get mad not just now, but in a few days, a week, two weeks. They are expecting people to sigh and get over this very odd edit to the site in a few days. Keep flooding them for more than just tonight. Be mad for the week, for the month. Leave a message every day.

[thegenderal]

like . I cant even blame them for being like “we’ll monitor for the week”. Remember when they changed the blue back in like 2015? This website acted like staff had gone into their house and shot their dog. We’re here because we’re allergic to change and therefore it’s hard to parse if people hate the change because it’s bad or because we go into thermonuclear meltdown over what color blue the background of the website is. Just continue to bug them beyond today and beyond this week.

[longingforrotkehlchen]

Yeh, fuck that shit.

Graugans (greylag goose) am Max-Eyth-See, Mühlhausen.

[fatbirdpics]

I knew about their mouths but I didn't *know*