#nuts_about_birds

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Common Tern with head turned upside down right after a dive!

[starbirdpnw]

Glad to made it to Skagit for the shorties. Always fun and pleasure to watch and photograph.

[karlrincon]

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light.

[brooklynbridgebirds]

American Crow enjoying a Modelo in Brooklyn Bridge Park. 😁

[brooklynbridgebirds]

White-throated Sparrow Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Mourning Doves Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1 Long Pond

[brooklynbridgebirds]

American Woodcock demonstrates "distal rhynchokinesis," the ability to flex the end of its bill. This allows it to grab earthworms it encounters when probing in soil. Other shorebirds, including Dunlins & Sanderlings, can bend their bills in this way. 😃

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Eastern Towhee Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 5 uplands