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2024 Status Update: My Birding Year So Far
Hey, everyone. You may have realised that I have not posted an update on here in ages. This was mainly due to my declining mental health, which led to my decreased motivation in recording my sightings whenever I go casual birding (as well as sharing my sightings and adventures on this site). I...- MohoNobilis
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- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Oystercatcher by the sea.
Oystercatcher on the rocks.- Falco Cherrug
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- oystercatcher scotland seabird
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Diver peeping
Taken off Great Bernera in the Atlantic, I watched / photographed a few Divers over the week, is this GND?- Scozmos
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- diver gavia immer gnd great bernera great northern diver isle of lewis scotland seabird
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Storm Petrel ID - Hawaii - February
The tail seems too forked to be Band-rumped. Leachʻs perhaps. Any thoughts? The bird was confused by lights and came down onto the deck of a ship at night offshore of Kauai. Thanks.- Shorebirdidiot
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- hawaii petrel seabird storm-petrel
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Shearwater or Petrels? South Pacific / Tonga
Hello, seeking some IDs on the attached photos. Most photos are different birds, but there may be the same in there I assume they're all the same species, but I suppose they may not be if similar species co-existing. Taken late Oct 2023 South Pacific Ocean a few 100km west of Tonga. Riding...- Mikayla
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- seabird tonga
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Ardersier - Arctic Skua overhead.jpg
I'd had a "moment" when I watched what I thought was a dark tern among all the other Terns, then it almost flew into me while chasing a tern with a catch!- Scozmos
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- ardersier bonxie chanonry point\ fort george great skua (bonxie) moray firth scotland seabird skua
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Turn, Tern, Turn
This Tern would not turn for me ..... did eventually of course. Walking along Ardersier shore, Highland, Scotland- Scozmos
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- ardersier common tern - sterna hirundo fort george scotland seabird tern
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Gänsesägerin | Female Common Merganser
Female Common Merganser with ruffled feathers blowing in the wind- Vogelflüsterin
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- sawbill.duck sawbills seabird
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American Oystercatcher
Banded American Oystercatcher at local beach. Protected habitat.- MicheleFla
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- american oysercatcher oystercatcher seabird
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Herring gull juvenile - Caledonian canal
One of those tame/greedy/hungry birds that's not scared off easily by humans or long lenses :) On the banks of the Caledonian canal- Scozmos
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Seabirds ID Request - Pakistan
Hi everyone, can anyone help me ID these seabirds? Posting it on behalf of a friend. The first bird is a jaeger which apparently looks like Parasitic/Arctic Jaeger to me based on the two pointed tail feathers but I'd still like to see a a response regarding its correct identity, preferably with...- Azan Khan
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- #seabirdsidpakistan arctic/parasitic - jaeger/skua bird id flesh-footed shearwater identification request karachi pakistan pelagic persian shearwater seabird
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Northern Gannet
- Keith Dickinson
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- bempton cliffs gannet morus bassanus northern gannet seabird
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California large flock over ocean
Hoping someone can help identify what these birds are. This video was taken from Redondo Beach in California on Dec 28th, 2021. Large flock of birds that appear to be going after schools of fish. There were hundreds of birds but unfortunately too far away to get any closeups. Sorry about...- tui-time
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- california ocean seabird
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Black Noddy / White-capped Noddy
While I was on the Heron Island, in the Great Barrier Reef, the Black Noddies came back in the early evening or late afternoon to rest on the many trees on that island. Although I have also tried to film some of them arriving on that island, this was the best opportunity to film them. Hereby I...- Michael Billerbeck
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- anous anous minutus audio australia black noddy call calling grand devil's claw heron island laridae noddy pisonia pisonia grandis queensland seabird sound symbiotic video white-capped noddy
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- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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A shag on a rock
- Karl Weller
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Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-legged Kittiwake on an ice flow during high tide at Teller, Alaska.- Mross
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- arctic black-legged kittiwake island nesters kittiwakes pelagic. rissa tridactyla seabird
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Nesting on the cliff edge
Another from the Isle of May- DMelrose10
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- bird gull hering gull seabird
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Puffin coming into land
Another from the Isle of may- DMelrose10
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- bird isle of may puffin seabird
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Tern
Another tern from the isle of may- DMelrose10
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- bird seabird tern
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The flight of the Puffin
These guys are very fast but I managed to catch a few in flight.- DMelrose10
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- bird isle of may puffin seabird
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View of the Gannet
This gannet came pretty close to the boat on the return journey home. I think I caught him just nice as he was looking at me- DMelrose10
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- bird gannet seabird
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One good tern deserves another
Lovely Artic Tern in flight. A beautiful day on the Isle of May most of the puffins were at sea but I got a few- DMelrose10
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- bird seabird tern
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Cormorant
Another pose from this big chap- DMelrose10
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- black cormorant large seabird wings
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cormorant
This guy was sunning himself for hour on the broken pier at Loch Long.- DMelrose10
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- black cormorant large seabird wings
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