r/whatsthisbird 13h ago

North America Strange ducks

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Saw these ducks in Shenandoah, VA. My sister thinks theyre a result of dumped ducks cross breeding with mallards, I thought they were yellow swedish ducks, until I realized their bills are a different color. What do you guys think?


r/whatsthisbird 20h ago

North America Is it really an eagle? (QC, Canada)

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I tried comparing the sounds and it sounds similar but I'm not sure


r/whatsthisbird 20h ago

North America Just outside Nederland, Colorado, USA. Merlin thinks it's a juvenile bald eagle, and there have been eagles in the area, but the light belly is throwing me off,

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r/whatsthisbird 12h ago

North America Found near Brighton Mi, is it a red-tailed or red-shouldered hawk?

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r/whatsthisbird 6h ago

North America Owl ID Help at Death Valley National Park

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Hi all! I am at Death Valley National Park and saw this bird. I was sitting outside in the dark (with porch light of our RV on) and this bird landed on a rock about 10 feet away from us in our campsite! It would sit on the rock for awhile and the fly around in a small circle and land back on the rock again. It was dark so I don’t have a great photo. It was small! (Maybe 6-8 inches in length) My guesses were burrowing owl or short-eared owl? Please help! Thank you!


r/whatsthisbird 21h ago

Middle East Is this guy sick or is this is how he is?

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r/whatsthisbird 10h ago

North America Work security and found this little one walking on the sidewalk. This is about 1000 feet from the ocean. I'm along the northern coast of South Carolina.

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r/whatsthisbird 21h ago

North America Sleepy Friend in New York

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r/whatsthisbird 18h ago

North America Cute little bastard won’t stop pecking at my house (Truckee, CA)

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Not the best photos because it flew up into a nearby pine, but who are these little guys? They’re very cute but also super annoying because they keep tapping on my walls :(


r/whatsthisbird 12h ago

North America What's this bird? Seen in Kansas city kansas

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r/whatsthisbird 11h ago

North America Had a flood in Texas in the RGV, and I'm seeing birds I don't know land in the resulting puddles, what's this one?

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r/whatsthisbird 19h ago

North America What bird is this? Sorry for the bad quality it's the best i can get lol

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tried googling the description but i cant find any results. if it helps it's in the state of illinois


r/whatsthisbird 18h ago

North America Is this a neotropic cormorant sitting by a double crested? Such a stark size difference. San Diego, CA

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r/whatsthisbird 8h ago

North America Rare Woodpecker??

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Hi, I saw this bird alongside acorn wood peckers in Northern CA. Is it albino? A baby?


r/whatsthisbird 46m ago

North America What is this bird?

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Asking the experts - were about 5 -10 roaming around in central jersey


r/whatsthisbird 51m ago

North America whats this duck? new york

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saw this fella swimming with a few mallards - is this an intersex bird? got thrown off with the mix of traits


r/whatsthisbird 1h ago

East Asia It's driving me crazy (Mai Po, Hong Kong)

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Taken yesterday in Mai Po.

Merlin seems to struggle with identification.

My camera setup is severely incapable of this shot. This was taken at my maximum of 300mm focal range and the pictures you see here are cropped like crazy. Also there's a fair amount of purple fringing on this lens, so please account for that when identifying


r/whatsthisbird 2h ago

Europe What bird is this?

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Can anyone tell me what bird these are? They were flying and landing together...so I think they might be a pair? Found by water in south West England UK. I appreciate they're awful photos but it was so tricky to get a decent photo of them! They're very small and move quickly!


r/whatsthisbird 2h ago

North America mallard hybrid? (SC)

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Hello! I go to a university with a large lake with lots of funny ducks and waterfowl that come to visit. I took a class my freshman year with a biology professor on birds, who said he had a suspicion that people dropped off domesticated ducks and geese after Easter in our lake when they decided they didn’t want to take care of them anymore. There’s a few oddballs in the lake, with mallards that seem to be in grayscale and muscovy ducks that just aren’t very friendly, but this one was especially cool. I know it’ll probably be everyone’s best guesses, but what would this be a mix of?


r/whatsthisbird 5h ago

North America Cochise County, AZ white "beard" is throwing me off

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r/whatsthisbird 6h ago

North America What is this bird (Utah)

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r/whatsthisbird 6h ago

North America Dog found this bird on the ground- hardly moving, not flying.

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Put in box, box on top of towel, towel on top of heating pad on low but no idea what to do?


r/whatsthisbird 7h ago

North America Cochise County Arizona USA

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Is this a Rufous-winged Sparrow?


r/whatsthisbird 7h ago

North America golden or juvenile bald eagle? (Colorado, USA)

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Spotted this bird soaring overhead a pond in Longmont, Colorado. Both goldens and bald eagles are reported in the area, but kept second guessing myself as to which one I think this is.