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Thank you :) I do plan on submitting!

WOAH! That’s the BEST PICTURE I’ve ever seen! :open_mouth:

Thank you! A little backstory: Every week through my city’s nature club (Waterloo Region Nature) we go to this private farm to do nest box monitoring on Tree Swallows. Two weeks ago, I noticed that when we were working on a certain nest box, the male would perch on this rusted metal bar. I was hopi…

Cornell Lab MUST take this as a species profile picture! It’s LEGENDARY!

A question to ya’ll : Do you have a ‘spark’ bird? If so, how did you find it? I (unfortunately) haven’t found mine yet. Hopefully I’ll find one soon .

I actually have a lot of spark birds. All of them are endemic to Hawai’i and learning about how they’re declining and how many species are already extinct was what first made me passionate about birding.

My beloved Northern Bobwhite, of course! I learned of quail when I was 11, and got my first quail soon after that. I then realized how much I love them, and have since then done all I can to learn more about them! NOBOs are definetely my favorite though. Blue Jays also got me into birding. [imag…

My spark bird was the Cedar Waxwing. After my first couple birding walks I found my first flock of Cedar Waxwings, they are super cool birds. They are definitely the ones that got me fired up in the birding world.

[image] thebirdersway: My spark bird was the Cedar Waxwing. That was actually one of mine too! I saw a bird I had no idea what species. I took a picture and I thought if this bird can exist what others are around! I also saw a Bobolink with a grasshopper which helped. I would say seeing my fi…

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oksanaetal May 22, 2025, 3:27pm 1909

Peregrine Falcon, although a fictional one.

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