/r/Ornithology
Welcome to Ornithology, a subreddit dedicated to the scientific study of wild birds.
This is a place to discuss wild birds in a scientific context — their biology, ecology, evolution, behavior, and more.
Welcome to Ornithology, a subreddit dedicated to the scientific study of wild birds.
This is a place to discuss wild birds in a scientific context — their biology, ecology, evolution, behavior, and more.
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No posts or comments supporting harming birds.
Keep comments and posts civil and non-toxic.
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Tiny egg found on garden path this morning, Oregon.
It is about 1 inch big.
19:54 UTC
What on earth is this bird doing?
I mean aside from pooping all over her mirror and door!
This bird keeps doing this to my daughter’s car. Any help understanding its behavior would be appreciated. I’m just curious tbh
13:06 UTC
I found this skull off the coast of North Carolina, I'm pretty sure it's a gull, but can anyone help narrow it down?
11:39 UTC
Errant Breeding Plumage?
Hi there. I saw this Great Egret in what appears to be breeding plumage yesterday (11/30/24) in Alameda, CA. My understanding was these birds would be pretty far outside their breeding season. Am I missing something?
01:58 UTC
Disencourage nesting with best intent
We have a sing trush trying to build a nest in a bush very close to the house that 100% will be culled in 2 weeks time.
We take out all the little grass the birds bring every 1-2 hours, hoping they will build in another,safe place.
They do not stop coming back and re-start over and over again.
There are many, many trees and bushes around.
Why are they so fixiated on this bush and what can we do.
The landlord will 100% remove the bush to build a carport, "let the bird build" is not helpful.
00:45 UTC
Magpie with strange wing pattern?
This little guy visits my garden pretty often and is fairly recognisable from his expressive personality. As well as that, he has this strange pattern on his wings. I know magpies have white ends on their wings, but I've never seen feathers like this while they're closed. What's up with this?
22:30 UTC
downy woodpecker using one of my whittling projects to his advantage
I thought this was fascinating… this downy woodpecker is using a knothole in one of my whittling projects to help him crack sunflower seeds
20:01 UTC
I need help with Restaurant/Store Bird Puns!
I need some bird puns for stores and restaurants! They don't need to be the best in the world as long as they make some sense and are appropriate (2 I've been able to think of myself: Crowger and Starlingbucks)
18:25 UTC
This flock of blue herons that flew over today in central Indiana
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02:39 UTC
What is this woodpecker?
15:04 UTC
Please tell me how to keep her comfortable until the rescue opens tomorrow, found her on the cold concrete, cannot walk or fly
04:28 UTC
Suborder Organization
I have a copy of Nat Geo’s Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America and I noticed on there visual index to Passerine families the organization seems deliberate but it it’s never explicitly stated in the text.
I labeled the families as Non-Oscine (Yellow circle) Oscine (no circle), 9 Primaried Oscine (Blue circle) and to denote new world 9 Primaried Oscines I circled the Old world 9PO’s (red circle) which should be excluded from the blue circle. Was my categorization correct?
Btw I’m unsure of Vireos (green circle).
23:38 UTC
Hello, I saw this bird in western Montana. Any idea what might be wrong with the poor thing?
23:30 UTC
Birds and Colour
I've seen much kerfuffle about parrots and teaching them colours and stuff, seeing what colours birds recognize, but isn't it kinda pointless when they see colours differently than we do? Black to us might not be exactly black to a parrot or other bird, and that black might be the same as another colour to them. So I don't understand why people try to teach colours to parrots when we don't know what the colours actually look like to them. So how is this taken into account when people do research and such?
19:22 UTC
Hummingbirds dropping from feeder to ground
14:19 UTC
Any ideas of what this is? Found in driveway suburbs of Chicago.
09:33 UTC
What type of bird made this?
Not sure if this is the right place to post but I was curious what type of bird built this. We have owls, crows, hawks, falcons and a variety of smaller birds where I live: Southern California, but I never seen a nest this big. Any ideas?
00:10 UTC
Cheeky Magpie scoping out the laundromat
21:51 UTC
What bird is depicted in this art?
Not the traditional post but saw this and was curious as to what kind of bird this is?
00:05 UTC
Today i met this hooded crow, is it seriously sick or just elderly?
23:02 UTC