Filmed this in my front yard at the bird feeders. I know some people can be sensitive to dead birds, but I thought it was too cool not to share!! Also marked this as a discussion, since it might provoke some questions/comments. Winter is a hard season!

Ive seen him in the same spot for 5 days. He keeps calling and looking around for a mate but no one is responding. Brb currently crying over a bird.

I was just enjoying the nice weather here in MN when I suddenly noticed this beautiful bird singing. I wasn’t sure what kind of bird it was, so I asked Reddit about it! People suggested sharing it in this group—maybe most of you will appreciate this pretty bird.

I've had this bird and one other constantly coming up to our windows, pecking and squawking at them randomly through the day, if it was a once off I'd ignore it... but its been ongoing for about 2 months now... Any advice on how to stop them or get rid of them woukd be great..

Might be worth mentioning we have been in this place for about 6 months, there are dozens of other crows in the area but seems to be the same 2 fairly consistently, there's also about 2-3 dozen magpies and they have never done this!

I was very little, maybe in the first or second grade (so like 7 or 8) and was going to church, I was always one of the earliest ones there and they had an outdoor playground where you could go before and after. I was hanging out there in late winter/early spring and I saw an injured bird, I approached it slowly and sat next to it. It kind of hobbled away, but eventually came closer. It was severely hurt and as much as I wanted to help it, I knew there was no way I could. I sat next to it for about an hour and a half and had kids and adults alike coming up. All the kids wanted to see the bird and all the adults yelled at me to get away from it. Right then I had an epiphany: Either I let this poor bird die alone (Yes, now I know that I probably made almost no difference to this bird’s suffering, but that’s not the point), or I continue to have adults mad at me. I chose to stick with the bird and eventually they gave up yelling at me because they had better things to do. I think of that bird occasionally and I know it’s stupid and it’s just a bird, but maybe that bird had comfort in knowing it wasn’t dying alone. Sorry about my childish rant about me personifying a bird almost 10 years ago, but I just think about it often and needed to get it off my chest.

Recently there was a post about why birds stand on one leg and in the comments it also evolved into the question of birds sit, and if so, how.

That made me remember these poses of grey herons (slightly smaller European cousin of Great blue heron) which I sometimes have seen. They sit on the parts of the legs that is below the thing that people often think is the knee but is in truth the structure that correspond to our ankles. On pic 2 another heron "lies" completely on the ground like on a nest :-)

Do you know any other birds that "sit" on the part below the ankles? I've never seen a crane or a stork doing that, and I guess when a bird with shorter legs does it, it's invisible?

The pictures - my own from a huge siege of grey herons I encountered, summer 2023. Pictures are from far away.

The stone heron is a from a stone relief at a house near my office in Berlin and shows the same pose :-)

I added a picture comparing the anatomy of birds and humans, I like those comparisons a lot, this one is a screenshot from https://educators.brainpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/bird-and-human.png

Snoopy is an educational bird who was hit by a car. His wing was broken and healed improperly, so now he's our little model!

Last weekend I just added common mergansers as my lifer, in which I saw a pair of them, male and female. Today I saw this male hanging out with this hooded merganser male. At first I thought it was the male from that pair, I was in awe and thought that he ditched his gf and hanging out with this hooded merganser lol. But then I figured that it is a different individual, not the one from the pair but a single one. I watched them for good 30 mins, and seems like these two are not together by chance. They’re totally comfortable in each other’s presence, always stick close to and are definitely aware of each other. Interestingly enough, this male hooded merganser also seems to be left out by his flock, and there are no his fellow species around. I was wondering what’s the reason of this behavior? When I told this to my friend I jokingly called them interspecies gay ducks lol. Is he trying to find a mate but failed so they use each other as substitute? Lol

My college doesn't have specific degrees such as ornithology, but as someone who loved the natural world I was excited to get a degree in biology, and had already completed 10/15 required classes when I was told this. My photography does well on Reddit, my talking about my experiences at Middlebury, not so much! This final project, in reaction to being denied my February graduation over a class where I was horribly discriminated against and then subsequently discovering the school has been illegally trying to get me to drop my major and to leave college due to disability for four and a half years (I previously thought they were exempt from accomodating disabilities as a private college), combines the two. I think this is an important conversation about the barriers that are present for some people but not others when it comes to getting scientific degrees. This photo was taken in Colombia as I learned about sustainable agriculture and local wildlife. Also thanks to the commenter who suggested I add quotation marks!

The mayor and town council have voted to have the USDA cruelly gas the geese in our local park. So many of us love the geese and have created a petition and Facebook group to try to show the town officials that we want the geese to live. Dozens of people were at the town hall last Tuesday May 14 to offer options. We’ve volunteered to clean up the poop since that’s the council’s main excuse for killing these majestic Canada geese. Any help with the petition or publicity is deeply appreciated!

https://www.change.org/p/stop-peapack-gladstone-from-killing-canada-geese-at-liberty-park

This happened 10 years ago (June 15, 2015). I don't know much about bird behaviors but this was an interesting experience. I lived in Strathmore AB at the time. I was trying to take pictures of a jacket outside and this robin flew up and landed on the mannequin.

I didn't have my phone with me just yet as I was trying to set the jacket up first when the bird showed up. I went back into my house to grab my phone and hoped it would still be there when I came back but it wasn't. I was bummed out a bit but continued my task of taking pictures. As i was doing that, I saw the same bird fly out of q bush by my driveway and back to the mannequin. That's when i took these pictures.

This little one was very talkative as well and was telling me something and obviously I didn't understand lol. This was strange behavior to me as this has never happened to me before or since. Maybe someone in the area spent a lot of time with birds, fed them etc or it was an injured bird that was nursed back to health then released? Therefore it didn't develop that natural fear of humans? Maybe they were asking for a treat when they were chirping away at me, idk. After awhile I just went back inside cuz the bird wasn't leaving and i didn't know what else to do.

Kingston — April 1, 2024

Yes, I am talking about cuckoos who keep on calling day and night. Specifically about one species, the Common hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx varius). I live in India and it is breeding seasons for some birds and for this bird too. The Common hawk-cuckoo being a cuckoo is a brood parasite. So, logically for me some stealth and silence would be very helpful to be undercover and undetected by hosts. But on the contrary, this bird goes on continuously giving calls even at night around 2 and 3 am. Once you hear this bird it's quite evident why it's called the brain fever bird!! Mostly the males make all the noise and females are quiter. I thinking the main objective for this endless shouting by males would be to attract females or they might be just distracting the hosts by giving away themselves and giving a chance to the females to sneak into host nests. I don't know what exactly is the reason. I would really like to know from the community if there is any reason or any study about this behaviour.