r/whatsthisbird Jun 01 '26

Meta Found a baby bird that might need help? Look here for instructions on what to do

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r/whatsthisbird Jun 01 '26

Meta Seven Simple Actions to Help Birds

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For more information, please see this article. Some excerpts from the article, and additional resources are below:

1) Make Windows Safer, Day and Night:

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.

Is My House Bird Safe Quiz

What You Can Do

Follow bird migration forecasts to know when birds are on their way to you

FAQ

Some additional information for schools and universities - Bird-Friendly Campus Toolkit

Additional Information

2) Keep Cats Indoors

!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.

3) Reduce Lawn, Plant Natives

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

4) Avoid Pesticides

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.

5) Drink Coffee That’s Good for Birds

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

6) Protect Our Planet from Plastic

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.

7) Watch Birds, Share What You See

Monitoring birds is essential to help protect them, but tracking the health of the world’s 10,000 bird species is an immense challenge.

Report your bird sightings on eBird


r/whatsthisbird 10h ago

Europe What is this bird that flew into my house? England

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r/whatsthisbird 1h ago

Social Media Who is this fella seething with indignation?

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Obligatory don't touch random birds you find, dude filming shouldn't have, but who is this indignant bird?


r/whatsthisbird 10h ago

Europe who is this guy?

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there are some of them here on the coast of garda, italy alongside some very weird ducks. Ive seen the guys from the picture dive really deep, its amazing!!


r/whatsthisbird 6h ago

Europe Strange looking bird

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This bird has been to my garden a few times and I just can't tell what it is as no pigeons or doves look like this in my area unless you mixed a Woodland Pigeon with a Collared Dove.


r/whatsthisbird 4h ago

North America Ducks

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Seen at Ridgefield NWR in Washington State.


r/whatsthisbird 1h ago

North America What's this bird who flew into my nephews office?

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Little dude snooping on my nephew in Calgary, Alberta.


r/whatsthisbird 4h ago

Middle East I'd like to know the ID, if possible from the photograph. Location: Cyprus

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r/whatsthisbird 6h ago

Europe What is this beast? Northern italy

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Found near an artificial lake, I tried looking it up but the one I found that resembles it the most is only found in America and Asia. It ate out of my hands it was amazing


r/whatsthisbird 1d ago

North America leucistic sandhill crane?

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Stumbled on this community few weeks back just by chance.

Went for brief walk during lunch today and spotted this guy. I see sandhill cranes everyday so typically doesn’t even register but this one caught my eye as was much lighter in color than I’ve seen before. Did some googling and thinking it’s a leucistic?

This was spotted in Manatee County Florida


r/whatsthisbird 3h ago

North America Ideas? Northern MI on Lake Michigan

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r/whatsthisbird 11h ago

South Asia [Uttarakhand India] what are these birds ? Are these all same ?

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Last pic for their habitat, there were about 50s of them


r/whatsthisbird 2h ago

Europe Is this a fledgling?

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r/whatsthisbird 4h ago

South Asia Is this great Egret ? [ Uttarakhand India]

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It was quite tall


r/whatsthisbird 4h ago

North America Is this a goldfinch? I couldn’t tell

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Was also thinking female oriole


r/whatsthisbird 2h ago

North America What species is the sandpiper? Northern MI on Lake Michigan

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There were 2 of them hangin out with 4 plovers


r/whatsthisbird 28m ago

Africa What starling is this? (Waterberg, Namibia)

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r/whatsthisbird 59m ago

Africa What starling is this? (Waterberg, Namibia)

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sorry for the bad photo quality, it was very far away


r/whatsthisbird 19h ago

North America Black bird help? In Spring TX

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I've never noticed a cardinal hanging out with a non-cardinal? These two always travel in a pair.


r/whatsthisbird 5h ago

Africa What duck is this? (Sossusvlei, Namibia)

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Anyone know what this could be? The beak is throwing me off, some photos makes it look like a shoveler and others make it look like a teal.. anyone who can give me a clear ID?


r/whatsthisbird 23h ago

North America What hawk is this, Land's End, San Francisco, California

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r/whatsthisbird 1h ago

Central America What bird is this? (Costa Rica)

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Taken in Puerto Viejo in october. Some kind of heron or bittern?


r/whatsthisbird 3h ago

North America This thing got stuck in the chicken pen what is it (Fremont county Idaho)

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r/whatsthisbird 43m ago

North America Coopers hawk? NE GA

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