@alan678.bsky.social's alt theme #YearRound is pertinent now as some birds due to climate warming are forgoing migration & specifically the Chiffchaff that I'm now happily seeing all year on my allotment.
So glad it stays & finds what it needs in & around my small plot.
#BirdOfTheYear #ECK #bird
The @aba.org has named the Horned Lark its Bird of the Year for 2026. I don't get to see them very often here but it's a great choice! #birds #birdoftheyear #hornedlark #HOLA
A Horned Lark perched on a dead stalk of corn, in a field that has been harvested. The background is blurred out browns. It is looking over its shoulder to the right side of the image. Its tiny horns are showing well.
The @aba.org has named the Horned Lark its Bird of the Year for 2026. Great choice! #birds #birding #birdoftheyear #hornedlark #HOLA
My first Birds of the Year were these two whiskered terns on the Mekong River Delta in southern Vietnam. #birds #birding #birdoftheyear #tern #terns
Three kingfishers sit on a branch and seem engaged in a debate
Move over, robin.
This is my year, bitches.
#BirdOfTheYear #VogelDesJahres #Eisvogel #Kingfisher #Rotkehlchen
Common loon my New Years drawing from friends and family. #art #artwork #drawing #digitalart #procreate #birdoftheyear #loon #birddrawing
Tawny Frogger update - the fluff muppets are out of the nest!. Four in a row. I was sure to count them for the bird count. #birds #birdcount #tawnyfrogmouth #birdoftheyear
A nesting Tawny Frogmouth, its grey-brown plumage and stiff posture helping it to camouflage almost perfectly with the surrounding branches. The photo is credited as being taken by Jensen Chua, Getty Images.
Branch or bird? 👀
This master of disguise is none other than the freshly crowned #BirdOfTheYear.
As Tawny so expertly reminds us, there’s a whole world of birds out there, sometimes hiding in plain sight.
There’s no better time to look: the #AussieBirdCount has started: aussiebirdcount.org.au
Big day for tawnies!
Dragged a few pics from the archives for the occasion … 😀 #tawnyfrogmouth #birdoftheyear #birds #NotanOwl
Congratulations to the Tawny Frogmouth!
Finally you are our Bird of the Year and I am thrilled for you.
#auspol #BirdOfTheYear #GoodStuff
Yay, we’ve got a winner. Tawny frogmouth. #birds #Birdoftheyear
The Tawny Frogmouth is hypnotizing you
@belungerer.bsky.social
Well that was predictable!
#BirdOfTheYear #TheGuardian #RiggedElection
#TawnyPottyMouth
A worthy winner - if you can spot it! HT Tawny frogmouth named 2025 #Australian #BirdoftheYear via @australia.theguardian.com #birds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A ruggedly handsome chap in his mid 50s holds up a copy of Curlews on Vulture Street, by Darryl Jones. The book has a blue cover featuring a Bush Stone Curlew, even more ruggedly handsome than the chap holding the book.
For any #birdoftheyear folk out there I can thoroughly recommend this book. Curlews on Vulture Street, by Prof Darryl Jones. Great stories about the birds who live where we do, and the science that has helped to understand them. @gingerandhoney.bsky.social
Follow our live blog with best birder @gingerandhoney.bsky.social for the official 2025 Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year winner announcement www.theguardian.com/environment/... #birds #birdoftheyear
Votng has closed and we wait with baited breath for #BirdOfTheYear - I’ll be happy so long as it’s something rare or threatened - not kookaburras or little penguins which are common www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Go Willie Wagtail!
You made the top ten, here’s to a maiden victory for the feisty little neighbour.
#BirdOfTheYear
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Screen shot of text, which reads: “Please return to the Guardian’s website from 11.30am on Thursday 16 October to find out the winner. Our live blog begins at 11.30 and a video live stream, where the winner will be announced, begins at 12.30pm.”
By the time this is over, will anyone care? This year’s announcement of the winner of the Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com #BirdOfTheYear is going to be a long, drawn out process…
Final votes friends. Let's go Team Southern Emu-wren and highlight the plight of one of its subspecies which is under threat from a ridiculous planned rocket range on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. #birds #birding #birdoftheyear #southernemuwren
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#TeamMuppet for me. All about the Tawny Frogmouth. #Birdoftheyear
My vote for the wedge tailed eagle in the Bird of the Year poll
Sadly the Peregrine Falcon has fallen out of polling. I’ve upsized and voted for the Wedgie - and you should too
#birdoftheyear
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Penultimate Day to learn something new about a featured feathered friend and vote for one you wish to survive. It's a jungle / wetlands / desert / lucrative Bauxite mining site out there!
#birdoftheyear #Australianbirds
#birdphotography #pleinair
Little Penguins.
Our local small colony on Penguin Island south of Rockingham, WA. Conservation efforts continue by university staff, Naragebup Environment Centre naragebup.org.au + other volunteers.
www.penguinisland.com
#birdoftheyear #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography
Final day of voting is today
Time to get amongst it!
PS. Hope your favourite bird made the short list. 🦜
#BirdOfTheYear #AusBirds #Birds #Australia #Birdlife
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote now for your favourite.
C’mon everyone, soar with the majestic Wedgie.
#birdoftheyear
@australia.theguardian.com
Photo of a Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor), swimming in water
It’s the final day of voting in @australia.theguardian.com #BirdOfTheYear. #LittlePenguin has made the final ten; the only flightless, & only aquatic, bird left in the poll. It won’t win, but your vote can help it soar higher than ever before. #TeamLittlePenguin
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tawny Frogger update. Little known fact - Tawny camouflage is so effective it interferes with phone camera focus. This is the watch frogger, the other frogger is on the nest with two baby fluff muppets just visible beneath him/her #WildOz #Birds #TawnyFrogmouth #BirdOfTheYear #Birdlife
