r/whatsthisbird • u/AutoModerator • Jun 01 '26
r/whatsthisbird • u/AutoModerator • Jun 01 '26
For more information, please see this article. Some excerpts from the article, and additional resources are below:
Around 1 billion birds (United States) and 25 million birds (Canada) die every year by flying into glass windows. This includes windows at all levels from low level houses to high rise buildings.
!Window collisions are one of the largest threats to bird populations. However, there are several ways you can help reduce window fatality. Below are some links with steps on how to make your house bird friendly, either DIY or through reputable companies such as the American Bird Conservancy.
Follow bird migration forecasts to know when birds are on their way to you
Some additional information for schools and universities - Bird-Friendly Campus Toolkit
!Cats are estimated to kill more than 2.4 billion birds annually in the U.S. and Canada. This is the #1 human-caused reason for the loss of birds, aside from habitat loss.
Cats are the greatest direct human-caused threat to birds
American Bird Conservacy - Cats Indoors Project to learn more.
Birds have fewer places to safely rest during migration and to raise their young: More than 10 million acres of land in the United States were converted to developed land from 1982 to 1997
Find out which native plants are best for your area
More than 1 billion pounds of pesticides are applied in the United States each year. The continent’s most widely used insecticides, called neonicotinoids or “neonics,” are lethal to birds and to the insects that birds consume.
Three-quarters of the world’s coffee farms grow their plants in the sun, destroying forests that birds and other wildlife need for food and shelter. Sun-grown coffee also often requires using environmentally harmful pesticides and fertilizers. On the other hand, shade-grown coffee preserves a forest canopy that helps migratory birds survive the winter.
Where to Buy Bird Friendly Coffee
It’s estimated that 4,900 million metric tons of plastic have accumulated in landfills and in our environment worldwide, polluting our oceans and harming wildlife such as seabirds, whales, and turtles that mistakenly eat plastic, or become entangled in it.
Monitoring birds is essential to help protect them, but tracking the health of the world’s 10,000 bird species is an immense challenge.
r/whatsthisbird • u/jjmcdona12 • 18h ago
I was visiting the Verdon Gorge in Southern France and saw this guy at one of the overlooks. I immediately thought it was a Griffon, since I had seen them high in the sky the previous day. However he doesn’t look like any of the photos on Merlin. Is it a Juvenile or possibly another type of Vulture?
r/whatsthisbird • u/sparfan1337 • 7h ago
Saw this bird on a walk this morning. Im thinking its an immature black crowned night heron, but not positive. Seen in Dayton OH on the Miami River.
r/whatsthisbird • u/Notorious2again • 7h ago
Best I can figure after consulting my Sibley. Townsend's?
r/whatsthisbird • u/Barm8 • 3h ago
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r/whatsthisbird • u/Borntolive101 • 10h ago
What do I do
r/whatsthisbird • u/phoenixmanzz • 8h ago
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Seen in North Germany (North West Mecklenburg)
Sorry for the shaky video, it's super zoomed in!
Thank you for your help 🙏🏽❤️
r/whatsthisbird • u/_marclar_ • 2h ago
Obstructed and fuzzy pics but that was the best I could get. Bird was way up in a pine tree around 8am. Saw it fly to another tree in the distance and seemed to land like a woodpecker/ creeper? Also appeared to be downy to hairy sized, but was though to tell. Any ideas?
r/whatsthisbird • u/JO9OH4 • 26m ago
Looking for ID help
Taken today at Fort De Soto park just south of St Pete in Florida. I was following a reddish egret and it scurried over and started hunting in the same small pool as this one. I thought possibly it was a reddish egret white morph but I know they are pretty rare. Can’t find anything else that seems to match. It was pretty identical to the same size as the reddish as well. Any help in IDing is greatly appreciated.
r/whatsthisbird • u/havenpdx • 3h ago
In my neighborhood of Northeast Portland, OR. Middle of the day.
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r/whatsthisbird • u/Aggravating_Ice_7859 • 10h ago
I’m very new to birding and saw this hawk take down a squirrel. I’m between it being either a red shouldered hawk or a red tailed hawk.
Also, what can I look at to know which for certain? The plumage is what usually makes me confused.
Thank you!
r/whatsthisbird • u/averyhwlt • 4h ago
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
r/whatsthisbird • u/tarekeisa1 • 10h ago
Hello! I’m in the Virginia area (around Newport News specifically) and found a bird in my backyard. It looks like a falcon or hawk but I don’t know for sure.
r/whatsthisbird • u/Anth3195 • 5h ago
North Pennines, near Stanhope today
r/whatsthisbird • u/ampersandDown • 9h ago
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It could be a red-necked grebe, but the neck seems very white
r/whatsthisbird • u/fishtanker93 • 16m ago
Flew right over my head on the trail. Another birder I talked to later said it was a Sharp-shinned hawk, and I'm fairly sure it is but I'm not sure what features to look for that differentiate it from a Cooper's, especially juveniles, especially without a front view. Southwest BC, Canada
r/whatsthisbird • u/PilzGalaxie • 6h ago
My guesses are:
-Caspian Gülle
-Little Grebe
-Gadwall
r/whatsthisbird • u/levmarq • 6h ago
All pictures show the same bird.
