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Local Child Extracted From Great Peril Says ‼️

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This is the most devastatingly accurate birding meme I've ever seen, bar none

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turkey vulture fly-by from about a month ago

there were close to 30 of them scavenging dead fish from a dried up lake

may 10th, 2025

turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)

nebraska, US

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Can we get some pictures of corvids?

EVERYBODY WANTS CORVIDS UNTIL ITS TIME TO PAY THE PIPER!!!

Here are a few favorites...

Tufted Jay (Cyanocorax dickeyi), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Mexico

photograph by Daniel Garza Tobón

Yucatan Jays (Cyanocorax yucatanicus), L - juvenile, R - adult, family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico

photograph by Shawn Conlon (@shawnconlonphotography)

Green Jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, near Roma, TX, USA

photograph by Alan Wilson

Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), family Corvidae, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

photograph by @mikullashbee

Rufous Treepies (Dendrocitta vagabunda), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Jahalana, India

photograph by Charles J. Sharp

Clark’s Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), EAT A TASTY PINE NUT!!!, family Corvidae, Siskiyou Crest, OR, USA

photograph by Frank D. Lospalluto

Bornean Green Magpie (Cissa jefferyi), family Corvidae, Crocker Mountain Range, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

photograph by Henrick Tan

Common Green Magpies (Cissa chinensis), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Latpanchar, West Bengal, India

photograph by Pranab Kumar Misra

Yellow-breasted or Indochinese Green Magpie (Cissa hypoleuca), BATH TIME!!!, family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Viet Nam

photographs by Leo Ngo

Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, western USA

Photograph via: US Fish & Wildlife Department

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in the nest with mama

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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Here, have some fluff for the start of the weekend - black-headed gull with their fluffy chicks.

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Himalayan Vulture (Gyps himalayensis), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Uttarakhand, India

photograph by Sarwan Deep Singh

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Hands down my fave thing about hurricane season is when zoos put their birds in the bathroom to protect them from the wind and we get images like this

Photo from St Augustine Alligator Farm

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Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), father with chick, family Casuariidae, order Casuariiformes, northern QLD, Australia

Photograph by Robert Tidey

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I think the fattest wild pigeon in a given city should be venerated as a sort of civic deity.

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Gadwall ducklings Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 4 beach

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A morning song, from Smaug to you!

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Busty Tusty

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Today’s bird is this house sparrow sunbathing; when he was warm enough on one side he turned to warm the other and it was adorable