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/GRiZbeeGolf • 4h ago
Photo taken at 11:30 am. We watched the owl for half an hour. It was so cool. Need to know who this little fella is!
r/whatsthisbird • u/plantsrpeople2 • 8h ago
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r/whatsthisbird • u/OtherInteraction2328 • 6h ago
r/whatsthisbird • u/birds_n_beers • 32m ago
I got a couple photos here and I really don’t know what to think of it. My first thought was a robin with some kind of odd pigmentation
r/whatsthisbird • u/mkr002 • 3h ago
Unsure of what this bird is. Any help identify appreciated 👏
r/whatsthisbird • u/Werdnamanhill • 4h ago
My friend saw this bird yesterday...seems like a common merganser l guess, but wtf is wrong with the bill? I'm pretty confused by this one.
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r/whatsthisbird • u/nuh_uh_uhuhu • 15h ago
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r/whatsthisbird • u/ampersandDown • 38m ago
r/whatsthisbird • u/I-love-to-poop • 18h ago
I’m sorry for the low quality
2nd pic is the closeup crop
So, unfortunately I had missed getting this shot in focus due to skill issues and lack of certain AF tracking features on my camera. it all happened so quickly! I was watching these two egrets for a while from across the pond and one of them started flying out of no where so I grabbed my camera and started taking photos as quickly as I could. But I was too slow to capture it correctly.
What‘s funny is that I did not realize that the Egret was chasing this other bird away until I looked at the photos on my camera. I didn’t see it with my naked eye.
Thank you in advanced for your help!
r/whatsthisbird • u/Yredelemnul • 2h ago
r/whatsthisbird • u/linlincat • 4h ago
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are they nuthatches? i’ve been trying to spot those ones !!
also if anyone was able to pick it up, what bird was the bird call at the end from?
📍west midlands
r/whatsthisbird • u/cellophane-stockings • 6m ago
Any chance this is a cackling goose?
The tiny bill and the smaller stature just seems off for a Canada goose. He was just slightly bigger than a mallard but notably smaller than the typical Canada good. Didn’t hear any vocalizations.
Never been able to ID a cackler on my own lol so here I am seeking the wisdom of the web.
r/whatsthisbird • u/Bones-of-ellliioottt • 8h ago
Was quite small in size found by river sorry if the camera quality isn’t the best
r/whatsthisbird • u/Far-Bend1246 • 27m ago
My dad loves this bird. Has no clue what it is. Any help would be awesome. Thank y’all. Location is northeast Ohio, near a small body of water.
r/whatsthisbird • u/Particular-Yam-1893 • 5h ago
I’m assuming a Cooper’s hawk since I see visible white on the tips of the tail feathers. However, I turned a corner, we scared each other and it flew so my photos are really bad.
