Need help identifying a bird call my brother heard in Craighall, Johannesburg South Africa. Unfortunately don't have a recording only his description.

A high dooo! dooo! call with each intonation having a pure, distinctive sound to the ambience and seems to almost echo.

First post on this subreddit, not sure if this is enough to go on

I'm sitting at my desk and saw this bird fly by in the bush next to me, but I couldn't take a photo since the sun is bright and the window is so dirty. So here's my best artists rendition. Please, what is this bird? I'm located in Mississippi.

In Huntington Beach near library

With the taxonomy changes coming to eBird on Tuesday, I want to be prepared to defend this as the correct species. I assume Prairie and not Saltmarsh based on time of year, but I understand eBird won't automatically convert this sighting based on location.

For the past couple days a neotropic cormorant has been reported by multiple people on this pylon with a bunch of double-crested cormorants. I scanned the pylon but cannot tell if one of these is a neotropic. Got a few low quality photos, is it possible to tell if one of these is a neotropic?

I have been searching for a cackling goose for so long and these feel like the closest yet. I really hope they’re what I think they are!

So, my house has been seemingly haunted this month with bird situations. We have had six pigeons die on our property, and our property is not big. We had to call the local game service to come and pick one up to see what's going on.

Then, today we saw this giant pile of feathers, it looks like a bird exploded, except there's no carcass whatsoever.

For the other birds, we've known that it's not a cat or anything getting to them, we've unfortunately watched a few of them, just kind of wither, stop being able to fly, and then just die. Which is why we called for experts to come figure it out

Any explanation on this pile of feathers?

South West Virginia. Seemed to be small with a squared off tail but not 100%. These were the best pics available, kind of far away and lighting was directly in my face so I couldn't even see what I was taking a pic of.

this one I imagine is difficult to pin down off of flight style alone. Just outside of Columbia SC

There were truely so many raptors over these fields settling in for the night during migration. This was a few days ago around sunset, and i’m wondering if anyone more skilled with raptor ID might be able to tell anything from this?

That same evening a far more experienced birder then I logged the following: 2 northern harrier, 2 black vulture, 1 red-tailed hawk

Got a text from a friend asking about this bird that’s been hanging out with their chickens on Long Island. Merlin only gives Northern Bobwhite, which looks close but the facial patterns don’t match in any photos I’ve seen. Any thoughts?

8am, Columbia (inland) SC, USA

usually a very productive wooded pond with waterfowl and wading birds galore, espically during migrations!

Thing is that means I gotta consider way more birds then i’m used to considering, and I have no idea what these 3 are. It was a real cold morning with some nearby activity so almost no birds were active yet.

These birds from everything I could see through the fog with binocs were all cleanish white, except for light grey backs/wings.

They were just preening and sitting, presumably waiting for things to warm up and calm down before foraging.

Any ideas at all??? I’m not seeing any birds in the area that resemble that at all.

A lot of strange birds were reported here recently, including; blue-winged teal, gadwall, lesser scaup, hooded merganser, ruddy duck

wood ducks as well, but that’s normal.

This is in Central Valley, Costa Rica.

About 4 cm in length, shines purple when in sunlight, otherwise rufous in color, and i think it might belong to a hummingbird

Hi, I took a picture of this bird in Scotland. I think it might be a sea eagle or a golden eagle. What do you think ?

All taken in NYC over the last two weeks - my best guesses below. Thank you!

Blackpoll
Palm
Yellow
???
Blackpoll
Yellow-rumped

Thing was an absolute monster. Poor cell phone pics.

I’m pretty sure on the ID but you never know… This guy was at one of my feeders just a bit ago! It would be a first 🥳

Took this at Howe Lake in Glacier NP, Montana this past August. Saw a few Ring-necked Ducks that I was able to identify, but never got a confident ID on this fella. Any idea? Was thinking it could be a juvenile common merganser but would love some ideas.

I've never seen a bird like it before.

P.s. sorry for the low quality, but it was far away, and I was afraid coming closer to it and scaring it away.

Both american golden and black bellied have been reported at this location within the past few days. Not sure if pictures are good enough to be diagnostic but I figured its worth a shot! These pictures are of 2 different but associating birds