Black sicklebill( Epimachus fastuosus)
NIKON CORPORATION (NIKON D610)
04/Jul/2017
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Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis)
samsung (Galaxy S24 Ultra)
08/Jun/2025
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Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina)
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Variegated Fairy-wren (Malurus lamberti)
NIKON CORPORATION (NIKON D100)
15/Sep/2007
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Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus bracteatus)
NIKON CORPORATION (NIKON D100)
25/Aug/2011
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White-breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus)
NIKON (E950)
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Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii)
NIKON (E950)
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Emperor bird-of-paradise( Paradisaea guilielmi)
NIKON CORPORATION (NIKON D610)
04/Jul/2017
From PNG.
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Double-barred Finch (Taeniopygia bichenovii)
2.00
NIKON CORPORATION (NIKON D100)
29/Mar/2010
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Regent Bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus)
NIKON (E950)
Male - gold and black
Female - mottled brown
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Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea)
NIKON (E950)
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🌎 Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) The Brewer's Blackbird is a medium-sized songbird native to North America. Appearance: Males (pictured) are glossy black with a striking yellow eye; in sunlight, their plumage reveals a purple-blue sheen on the head and a greenish tint on the body. Females are a subtle, unstreaked greyish-brown with dark eyes. Distribution: They are widespread across central and western North America, often expanding eastward. They inhabit diverse open areas, from mountain meadows and marshes to urban parking lots. Behaviour: Highly social, they forage in large flocks and walk with a distinctive head-bobbing motion. Conservation status: Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: While some are permanent residents, others are "West-bound" migrants. Instead of flying south, some Canadian populations fly west to the milder coasts of British Columbia to wait out the winter. Gemini 3 (Edited) 📷: Photo by Wunderphotos1951 via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/brewers-blackbird-blackbird-bird-8751988/ OQSL
🌎 Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) #NorthAmericanBirds | #BrewersBlackbird #EuphagusCyanocephalus | #Blackbirds #NewWorldBlackbirdFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Wunderphotos1951🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌎 Rufous-collared Sparrow or Andean Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis) Appearance: This small sparrow is distinguished by its namesake rufous collar and a grey head marked with bold black stripes. It features a white throat, a small black breast patch, and a streaked brown back. Distribution: One of Latin America’s most widespread birds, it ranges from southern Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, including Hispaniola. It thrives in diverse environments—from sea level to high Andean peaks—though it is notably absent from the dense Amazon Basin. Behaviour: Highly adaptable, it is common in gardens and parks. It forages on the ground for seeds and insects, often in pairs. It is famous for its regional song dialects. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: While they mostly eat seeds and ground insects, they are surprisingly clever foragers. They have been observed "stealing" food by picking trapped termites and insects directly out of spider webs! Gemini 3 (Edited) 📷: Photo by FranciscoJavierCoradoR via Pixabay 2023 https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-sparrow-ornithology-avian-8313775/ LRKL
🌎 Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis) #SouthAmericanBirds #CentralAmericanBirds | #RufousCollaredSparrow #AndeanSparrow #ZonotrichiaCapensis | #Sparrows #AmericanSparrows #NewWorldSparrowFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by FranciscoJavierCoradoR🦉 #MyBirdcards #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌏 Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda) The Rufous Treepie is medium-sized bird with a long, graduated, bluish-grey tail tipped in black. It has a black head and chest, and a bright rufous (reddish-brown) body, with a noticeable white wing patch. Native to the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, it thrive across various habitats from open forests and scrublands to urban gardens. An agile, arboreal, and omnivorous member of the crow family (Corvidae), the Rufous Treepie is very conspicuous, often seen in pairs or small groups. It is known for its loud, musical calls and adaptable feeding habits. Up to eight subspecies are recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: It is known to engage in a rare relationship called cleaning symbiosis with large mammals like the Sambar deer. The bird will perch on the deer's back and feed on ectoparasites (like ticks) right off its hide, which the deer seems to permit. 📷: Photo by balouriarajesh via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-rufous-treepie-7659917/ XWHQ
🌏 Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda) #AsianBirds | #RufousTreepie #DendrocittaVagabunda | #Treepies #CrowFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by balouriarajesh🦉 #MyBirdcards #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌍 Dunnock (Prunella modularis) The Dunnock is a small, brown-backed bird with a distinctive slate-grey head and breast, making males and females visually identical. Widespread across Europe and into temperate Asian Russia, it is a resident species common in gardens, parks, and hedgerows, where it maintains a shy and secretive nature. Often called the 'hedge sparrow,' its typical behaviour involves hopping or shuffling along the ground beneath cover, frequently flicking its wings. Seven subspecies are currently recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The Dunnock is notable for its unusually complex and variable breeding strategies that often involve non-monogamy. 📷: Photo by Gruendercoach via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/dunnock-passerine-bird-animal-8602735/ NMYM
🌍 Dunnock (Prunella modularis) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds | #Dunnock #PrunellaModularis | #Dunnocks #Accentors #AccentorFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by Gruendercoach🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜
🌎 Chestnut-bellied Thrush (Turdus fulviventris) The Chestnut-bellied Thrush (Turdus fulviventris) is a medium-sized bird (about 25 cm (10 in) long) with a distinctive appearance: the male features a striking contrast between its black head/throat, dark grey back, and a vibrant rufous (chestnut) lower breast and belly. It is found across the northern Andes of South America, spanning from Venezuela to Bolivia, where it prefers humid montane forests and forest edges. It is a relatively solitary species, usually seen singly or in pairs, and its behavior is characterized by foraging both in the canopy and on the ground among the leaf litter for fruits and invertebrates. No subspecies are recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: This bird is specialized for life in the high-altitude, humid montane forests—often called cloud forests—at elevations between 1,400 and 2,600 meters (4,600–8,500 ft). 📷: Photo by Keishpixl via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-ornithology-9112050/ IQOW
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Grey Butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus)
NIKON (E950)
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Grey Butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus)
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🌍🌏 Great Tit (Parus major) The Great Tit is a large member of the Tit, Chickadee, and Titmice family, sporting a deep blue-black head, white cheeks, olive-green back, and bright yellow underparts with a black central stripe. It is widespread across Europe and Asia, thriving in woodlands, parks, and gardens. The Great Tit is an active, adaptable, and bold bird, known for its resourceful foraging, dominance at feeders, and loud, distinctive 'teacher-teacher' song, especially during the breeding season. Fifteen subspecies are currently recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: Highly intelligent birds, Great Tits learned to open the foil caps on traditional glass milk bottles delivered to doorsteps to steal the cream, a behavior that spread rapidly in the mid-20th century. 📷: Photo by Ruiterlijk via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/great-tit-bird-forest-nesting-8673894/ NVHR
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White-breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus)
NIKON (E950)
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🌏 Tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) The Tūī is a common medium-sized bird native to New Zealand, instantly recognizable by its striking appearance: while appearing black at a distance, its plumage possesses an iridescent blue, green, and bronze sheen in good light, complemented by two distinctive, coiled white throat tufts (poi). Distributed widely across the main and offshore islands in both native forests and suburban gardens, the Tūī is renowned for its complex and varied vocalizations, which range from melodic notes to harsh clicks, and for its highly territorial and aggressive behavior, often seen performing dramatic, noisy display flights to chase off competitors. Two subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: The Tūī possesses an unusually structured voice box (syrinx) with two separate sound sources. This allows it to make a wide variety of complex sounds, and sometimes even produce two different notes simultaneously. 📷: Photo by Manubird via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/tui-new-zealand-6993918/ FYAK
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Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus bracteatus)
2.10
NIKON CORPORATION (NIKON D100)
11/Aug/2011
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Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis)
samsung (SM-G998B)
18/Nov/2021
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Grey Butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus)
NIKON (E950)
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Metallic Starling (Aplonis metallica)
2.00
NIKON CORPORATION (NIKON D100)
28/Aug/2009
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🌏 Pallas's Rosefinch (Carpodacus roseus) The Pallas's Rosefinch is a medium-sized, stocky finch where the adult male is conspicuous with a rose-red body, head, and rump, contrasted by a streaked blackish back, while the female is much duller, being mostly tannish-brown with heavy dark streaking. This species is distributed across the Eastern Palearctic, primarily inhabiting boreal forests and shrublands in Central and Eastern Russia, Mongolia, and China, with most populations being migratory or nomadic, wintering in regions like Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Outside of the breeding season, it is generally gregarious, forming flocks to forage mainly on the ground or in low vegetation for seeds, buds, and insects. Two subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: This finch is a fan of the cold! It breeds primarily in the boreal forests (taiga) and shrublands of Central and Eastern Siberia, often up to 3,000 meters in elevation. 📷: Photo by Takashi_Yanagisawa via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-natural-outdoors-wild-animals-3219533/ XCSA
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Lawes's parotia( Parotia lawesii)
A bird of paradise from PNG
NIKON CORPORATION (NIKON D610)
04/Jul/2017
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🌎 Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) The male Western Tanager (Pictured) has a striking red-orange head, bright yellow body, and black wings, back, and tail. Females are yellow-green and blackish. They breed in open coniferous and mixed woods across western North America, from Alaska down to Mexico, where they also winter. A long-distance migrant, it forages for insects and fruit, often high in the canopy. Its song is described as a hoarse, burry robin-like sound. No subspecies are recognised. Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: Unlike most red birds, the male's scarlet head is not colored by typical plant pigments (carotenoids) but by a rare pigment called rhodoxanthin. They likely acquire this unique pigment indirectly by eating insects that have fed on conifer needles or buds. 📷: Photo by Veronika_Andrews via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/western-tanagers-bird-wild-bird-7315833/ HUAV
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Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis)
samsung (SM-G998B)
18/Nov/2021
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