Any birdwatchers?

[Britva415]

Here's a map of the world showing bird diversity by region. Coastal and tropical regions, unsurprisingly, have a lot more diversity.


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666 per... ?

100 km²? That's the "block size" referenced on the website but nowhere does it say whether the map legend uses the same unit.

 

[SimonDoom]

666 per... ?

100 km²? That's the "block size" referenced on the website but nowhere does it say whether the map legend uses the same unit.

Excellent question. I assume it's based upon species confirmed within 10 km by 10 km blocks based on what I understand from the source. That would make sense.

https://biodiversitymapping.org/ind... diversity include,, and small-ranged species.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

You should not be posting pictures you have not taken yourself.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

You should not be posting pictures you have not taken yourself.

Sorry. I didn't mean to ruffle anyone's feathers. It was such a pretty image, I thought I'd share. But rest assured, I won't be contributing anything else.

 

[Comentarista82]

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About the only thing that could top this pic would be after this bird eating that, seeing the next pic where it's enjoying a hot cup of Brazilian coffee to polish things off.

 

[Comentarista82]

Here's one I took with my former Canon SX10. Never knew until much later it came out tack-sharp at the full 12x (awesome for a bridge camera at the time).

 

[Comentarista82]

• Robin
• Cardinal
• Red-headed woodpecker
• Red bellied woodpecker
• Blue jay
• Chicken hawk
• Carolina wren
• Mockingbird
• Mourning dove
• Tufted tit mice
• Purple martins
• Killdeer
• Crow
• Eastern bluebird
• House sparrow
• Barn swallows
• Carolina chickadee
• White eyed vireo
• Mississippi kite
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Starling
• Brown headed cowbird
• Downy woodpecker
• White Winged Dove
• Eastern phoebe
• House finch
• Northern Flicker
• Common grackle
• Gray Catbird

Twenty-nine today...had they not been mowing at the city park and the "regulars" shown, this could have broken my record. Great day, though!

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Doves: Nature's Bobbleheads.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I used to be quite the birdwatcher before Jo, and I hooked up. The yellow-bikini street swallow, the tiny-black-dress ass shaker, the long-tongued twatlicker were among my favorites.

 

[Comentarista82]

Doves: Nature's Bobbleheads.

yeah, sometimes very comical to observe.

What kills me is you hear a mourning dove cooing but when you startle it, it flies off and sounds like it's laughing.

 

[LaBreia]

I'm Puffin away right now

 

[LaBreia]

Watching re-runs of "Friends"....

Owl be there for youuuu

 

[SimonDoom]

I used to be quite the birdwatcher before Jo, and I hooked up. The yellow-bikini street swallow, the tiny-black-dress ass shaker, the long-tongued twatlicker were among my favorites.

Millie, this is a G-rated thread. Shame on you.

 

[SimonDoom]

Watching re-runs of "Friends"....

Owl be there for youuuu

That show is a hoot.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Got a bald headed Cardinal out there. Normal red feathers from the shoulders down, just black 'skin' from there up.

 

[liqueur]

Seasons are changing up here in the north. Until recently, the day was filled with birdsong, from dawn till dusk, with the red-eyed vireos taking center stage. Suddenly it's getting so quiet. Vireos at dawn, still, with an occasional cardinal or robin in the background, then just the soft chittering of chickadees and tufted titmice— no song, just conversation— till dusk, when there's a little singing.

Soon the crickets will be increasing in volume and variety of species, as if to fill the aural gap. And the cicadas. And a little later, the katydids.

The insects fascinate me, but the diminishing birdsong fills me with a sense of loss..

 

[Britva415]

Seasons are changing up here in the north. Until recently, the day was filled with birdsong, from dawn till dusk, with the red-eyed vireos taking center stage. Suddenly it's getting so quiet. Vireos at dawn, still, with an occasional cardinal or robin in the background, then just the soft chittering of chickadees and tufted titmice— no song, just conversation— till dusk, when there's a little singing.

Soon the crickets will be increasing in volume and variety of species, as if to fill the aural gap. And the cicadas. And a little later, the katydids.

The insects fascinate me, but the diminishing birdsong fills me with a sense of loss..

Yeah - on paper it isn't half over yet but that late-summer wind-down energy, with the ennui and the anticipation of long nights coming soon, is in full effect.

 

[yowser]

It never ceases to astonish and delight me that Nature can invent a creature this large that lives off flower nectar and has to beat its wings a million times a minute to be able to do so. My arms and shoulders grow tired just watching them hover.

 

[Comentarista82]

I discovered two birds that Merlin will confuse if one happens to be singing, and that is the summer tanager. If it sings, and I don't know how frequently that is because I only saw it happen for the first time a few days ago when one sat on an oil derrick fence and sang where Merlin identified it as a Baltimore Oriole and that was the only bird singing anywhere at that time: I was 15 ft away and looking right at it. Usually I only hear a Summer Tanager do its little pit-a-tuck kind of chirp... so I learned something new.

 

[MelissaBaby]

We get a great number and wide variety of birds at our feeders, particularly as we live downtown in a big city. That's because we live across the street from one of the city's oldest cemeteries, dating back to 1846. (Yes, my European friends, in America, that's old). It is filled with many ancient, sometimes monstrously large trees.

Our favorite visitors have been the downy, hairy and red bellied woodpeckers who compete for a perch at our suet feeders.

A couple of weeks ago, city crews cut down three massive, mostly dead trees not far from our house. I assume that was their favorite nesting areas, as ince then we've seen no woodpeckers. I miss them, but I'm sure they just relocated to a different part of the cemetery and are doing fine. And I'm making friend with the new kings and queens of the suet cages, the nuthatches.

 

[SimonDoom]

Our favorite visitors have been the downy, hairy and red bellied woodpeckers who compete for a perch at our suet feeders.

I love woodpeckers. But I don't get them. From an evolutionary standpoint, it seems to me (obviously I'm wrong, but it SEEMS this way) that woodpeckers have evolved to do something (pounding their beaks at rapid pace into tree trunks to create holes, either to find bugs, to communicate, or to create a cache for acorns) where, intuitively, it seems like the calorie expenditure would be greater than the calorie benefit. Of course, this is just another example of how human common sense about the way the world works isn't worth beans.

Nuthatches are fun, too. The way they walk up and down tree trunks.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Come to think if it, I haven't heard a peckerhead in a while.

Hadn't noticed I hadn't noticed. (That one's for the grammar peckers).

 

[Jada59]

Me. I keep thinking I see a female peahen in my back yard. Flies very fast!

 

[Saythewords]

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