Playback surveys at #wintering habitats for migratory #landbirds and #passerines! #SouthAsia

#CentralAsianFlyway #BirdMigration #COMPASS #birds #Highlands #Sholas #TeaPlantations

Photo: Maia E Persche

Red crossbill on a pinecone in a tree.

Red crossbill on a pinecone in a tree.

Male blackbird on a tree covered with ivy.

Slightly better images of one of the crossbills I saw in the #NewForest yesterday. Here in the north, we associate crossbills with temperate conifer forests, but they occur in the American and Asian tropics too. Also - bonus Eurasian blackbird visiting ivy for fruit. #passerines #birds

Siskin in woodland along the Solway Firth, Scotland #birds #finches #siskin #yellow #passerines #scotland #solwayfirth #nature #wildlife #rspb

Just a couple of crows #crow #corvid #passerines #wildlife #nature #pnw #pacificnorthwest #wa #washington

Pretty thrilling to have THIS animal singing in the garden today (volume up!). It's a male Blackcap, a sylviid warbler that migrates to southern and SE Europe and Africa as far south as Malawi and Mozambique. #birds #passerines

Tell Me Something Interesting About Dunnocks — Tetrapod Zoology A small, familiar, supposedly boring Eurasian passerine bird sure does have quite the complex sex and social life…

The Tet Zoo dunnock article from 2019 just had an editorial overhaul and now looks much better.... tetzoo.com/blog/2019/7/... #birds #passerines #ornithology

🍒🐦Fruit use and fruit processing by euphonias, specialized avian frugivores

📷 Mathias Pires

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#DigestiveMorphology #Frugivory #FruitTraits #FruitChemistry #Neotropical #Passerines

This is a photo of a small bird perched on a tree branch from below. The pink-brown breast colouring is getting lighter towards the belly. The visible parts of the upper side are mainly grey. The bird has a thick short pink beak. Blue sky and some branches in the background.

Chaffinch / Buchfink
(Gerabronn, Germany)

#birds #finches #passerines #chaffinch #buchfink #vögel

Five red-brown songbirds with short, thick beaks are sitting in a bush with some berries. Pale-blue sky in the background.

Linnets / Bluthänflinge (Groß-Rohrheim, Germany)

#finches #birds #passerines #vögel #finken

This situation in the #CentralAsianFlyway is reflected in the report by @stateofindiasbirds.in - most high priority sps were migrants: ducks & wadersv that were once very common.

Wonder about the situation of #passerines with very little data

@birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @anandchau.bsky.social

The image shows a small bird with a fluffy, light-colored body and dark wings. The tail is almost as ling as the body. It hangs upside down on a small leafless branch. Its short beak is opened, as the bird is eating a red berry.

#feedingtime for this long-tailed tit. Quite pleased with this photo as they often are quite uncooperative and fast. #birdoftheday

Long-Tailed Tit / Schwanzmeise (Biblis, Germany)

#birds #passerines #vögel #schwanzmeise #meisen

A small brown bird with streaked feathers stands on a wet, partially frozen surface. The background shows patches of snow and ice, and the bird’s reflection is visible in the shallow water beneath it.

Water Pipit / Bergpieper (Biblis, Germany)

#birds #pipits #vögel #passerines #pipits #winter

A hose sparrow male, feeding on a flower box with snow. It is looking directly into the camera. The form of the bill and the black eye stripes give the bird an annoyed look

Exactly the same facial expression as me, when I’m interrupted during lunch…

House Sparrow / Haussperling (Lampertheim, Germany)

#birdoftheday #shortbeaks #sparrows #passerines #birds #vögel #spatz

Chiffchaffs and What Are 'Old World Warblers' Anyway? — Tetrapod Zoology The wooded places of Europe, Asia and northern Africa are home to a warbler with a distinctive song, a song that explains its English common name…

That's my ID as well, thanks for your thoughts. A 2022 article I published on Chiffchaffs .... tetzoo.com/blog/2022/2/... #birds #birding #passerines

A greenfinch on a tree top. Its legs are spread to grab two different twigs. The downward curve in ints thick bill and the black area around the eye give the bird a rather grumpy look. Clear blue sky in the background.

Grumpy Greenfinch (secretly enjoying the sun)

Greenfinch / Grünfink
(Gerabronn, Germany)

#angrybirds #finches #birds #vögel #grünfink #grumpybirds #passerines

Robin, sitting on the end of a fir branch, enjoying the sun. It is lit fron behind. Grey background.

I hope you haven‘t had enough of robins yet, I photographed this one on my morning walk today.
Happy holidays to all of you!

European Robin / Rotkehlchen
(Gerabronn, Germany)

#birdoftheday #holidayrobin #FestiveDailyRobin #birds #robin #passerines #rotkehlchen

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Aerial map of farmland area, with green & red points on map indicating hedgerows in organic and conventional farming respectively. It highlights the pesticides compounds found in the blood of passerines (pictured at the bottom of the graphical image) and the correlation between conventional farming vs. organic farming.

Pesticide exposure in farmland wild passerines: bio-indicators of a widespread contamination despite organic farming | Environmental Research | doi.org/10.1016/j.en... | #ornithology #pesticides #passerines 🪶🐦

Feeding sparrows in Scotland #sparrow #housesparrow #scotland #birds #nature #wildlife #peopleandnature #passerines

A small bird with brown and cream-colored plumage perched on a thin, leafless branch. The bird has a slightly fluffed appearance, and the background shows blurred trees and foliage

Reed Bunting / Rohrammer (Biblis, Germany)

#birdsontwigs #birdoftheday #birds #autumn #passerines #vögel #rohrammer

A brown finch with red feathers on its head and face, singing on a tree top with a wide open beak.

Common Rosefinch / Karmingimpel (Rügen, Germany)
#birdoftheday #songbirds

#birds #vögel #rügen #birding #finches #passerines

Close-up of a goldfinch‘s head and shoulder, perched near vibrant purple thistle flowers. The goldfinch has a red face, black and white head, yellow wing patches, and brownish body. Green background.

Goldfinch / Stieglitz

#birdoftheday #headshot #birds #passerines #stieglitz #finches #vögel #finken #nature #thistle

So happy that this cutie came to visit<3

I love this time of year.

#Passerellidae #Passerine #AmericanSparrows #ZonotrichiaAlbicollis #songbird #songbirds #passerines #AmericanSparrow #Sparrow #Sparrows #white-throatedsparrow #bird #birds #cute #birdwatching #birding #BirdPhotography #photography

The evolution of extreme sound frequencies in bird songs Abstract. Bird songs differ widely among species and can show peculiar phenotypes, such as extreme or unusual sound frequencies for a species’ body size. A

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#SPEetologia

#BirdSong #Passerines #Bioacoustics #Evolution #VocalConstraints #AvianBiology #SoundEcology #AnimalCommunication #MorphologicalAdaptation #Ornithology

A grey warbler with red breast and red eyes, singing from a bent electricity wire. Grey sky in the background.

#birdoftheday theme for today is #birdsonwires.

Eastern Subalpine Warbler / Balkan-Bartgrasmücke (Gijrokaster, Albania)

#birds #warblers #passerines #vögel #singingbirds #albania #birding

Cute fluffed-up robin, sitting on a twig against a grey sky.

Festive fluffball

European Robin / Rotkehlchen
(Lampertheim, Germany)

#birdoftheday #FestiveDailyRobin #birds #robin #holidayrobin #passerines #rotkehlchen

A small bird with a grey head, yellow underparts, and a long tail is perched on a stack of smooth white rocks in a grassy outdoor setting, against a blurred green background.

Usually I’m not a fan of such piles of rocks, stacked up by tourists who think they need to enhance the beautiful landscape around them. This one though at least provides a nice lookout for this grey wagtail.

Grey Wagtail / Gebirgsstelze (Ramsau, Germany)

#birds #birdoftheday #passerines

Figure 1 in Nousiainen et al. (2025): "Map of the spatial distribution of the constant effort ringing sites (CES) chosen for the analysis, colored by the ringing scheme. Acronyms of countries belonging to the same scheme are listed. The three schemes of Spain are separated with letters A, B, and C. CZE = Czechia, DEU = Germany, ESP A = Spain Aranzadi, ESP B = Spain, ESP C = Spain Catalonia, FIN = Finland, GBR = Britain, IRL = Republic of Ireland, HUN = Hungary, ITA = Italy, NLD = Netherlands, SWE = Sweden"

New publication: Adult survival has a stronger role than productivity in the annual population change of European #songbirds. #biodiversity #populationchange #passerines
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Birdwatching in Tajikistan, Part 2 — Tetrapod Zoology Welcome to the second of my articles on birdwatching in Tajkistan in Central Asia….

Do you like #birds? I saw a whole bunch of them in Tajikistan. Identifying them was often not easy... (an article from 2023) tetzoo.com/blog/2023/10... #ornithology #passerines

Two swallows with black back and orange-white bellies and orange head sitting on a power line, facing each other. One has an open beak, its calling. Blue sky in the background.

Two beautiful swallows for the #birdoftheday - #twosday crossover.

Red Rumped Swallow / Rötelschwalbe (Ksamil, Albania)

#swallows #birds #birding #passerines #albania