There were hundreds of them today, and I apologize if the picture quality leaves a lot to be desired, I have a potato phone camera

Here is there website:

https://www.mrbo.org

You can ask them anything! Submit your question early here and I will repost them tomorrow, or you can ask your question live tomorrow. You can help us by upvoting this announcement and the AMA tomorrow.

Topics are expected to be:

Missouri birds
Native plants
Conservation
Human impacts and challenges
Environmental loss
The politics and law of bird conservation
About their non-profit
Interaction between birds, humans, plants, and other wildlife

i'd love to get like pictures of birds and have to identify like a set. or match pictures of birds to their calls and things like that. as much as i love Merlin i'd love to not be so relient on it

East Harbor State Park Beach.

Middle Harbor Wetland View Point. Lakeside Marblehead, Ohio

Southern Mississippi.

Winter Sparrows slowly trickling in. Birdfy says Swamp but Chipping are more common in past years. Who are they?

Most of us look at bird song as a spectrogram — frequency going up,

time going right. I wanted to see what it looks like if you let it

become a structure instead of a flat image.

Each point is a frequency the bird is actually producing at that

moment. The lines connect them in different ways: when a note slides

up or down, when overtones stack into a harmonic, and — the part I

find most interesting — when two moments in the song sound alike even

though they're seconds apart.

That last one ends up being a repeated-phrase detector. Birds repeat

themselves constantly, and those connections light up every time a

motif comes back.

This is [SPECIES], recorded by [vos / xeno-canto + autor + link].

To be clear about what it is and isn't: it does NOT identify species.

It measures and draws, nothing more. Merlin already does ID far better

than anything I could build. What this gives you is a way to see the

structure of a song — how repetitive it is, how tonal or noisy, how

the phrases relate to each other.

It runs on a phone, and you can feed it your own recordings. Free and

open source if anyone wants to try it with their own:

https://github.com/gustaavoq94/birdgraph

I'd genuinely like to see what it does with a mimic — a mockingbird or

a lyrebird. If anyone has a decent recording of one, I'd love to run it.

Mindo Ecuador 📍

Yesterday one flew into my window.

Hello!

I was wondering if someone could please help by letting me know what I should do with this little Blackbird. We recently moved into a rural property in the U.K., and this bird comes bounding out of the bushes every time one of us enters the back garden.

I can see that the previous owner regularly fed the birds here as there are feeders all over (will be topping them up), so I am assuming that it’s comfort around people may be due to that? I could be wrong (I’m not very knowledgable) and it could be an indicator that something is amiss.

It has a bald spot at the back of its head. It can fly, Moves about freely and forages for insects under the leaves in the garden. I did try to search for advice online but it seems that the balding could be due to multiple reasons; fledgling, parasites, injury, etc. Could anyone please suggest the most likely cause and what I should be doing? Currently, I’m feeding it suet and high fat things as per online advice. I can sit next to it and it doesn’t flinch!

Thank you in advance!

Great Blue Heron, Bald Eagle (he was flying quick), Hooded Mergansers, goofy Downy Woodpecker, Northern Blue Jay, (not) Red Bellied Woodpecker, White Breaster Nuthatch, Dale. (Other Birds seen Black Capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Mallards, Hairy Woodpecker)

Got lucky and snagged these two photos while on a nature walk with my wife. New to birding this year and have always had a soft spot for Jays of any kind.

Missing the summer birds already 😭

I know the image is extreme blurry but it was taken in north western ontario today and i’m trying to figure out what kinda bird it might be! I figure the white streak might help hopefully! 🤞

(Not endorsing the littering of this takeout container! Lol but the raven got to it before I did) and some dude scared the bird off (lame) so he/she didn't ingest any Styrofoam before it got thrown away.

Didnt have time for any fancy pictures and I didn't want to alarm or bother him/her, but this is the closest I've been to the local ravens I've been watching. He/she found what looked like a peanut butter sandwich and broke open the container.

Didn't mind the people walking by and let me hang out next to him/her for a bit. I'm talking to it in the first picture and apparently being listened to lol

Thought I'd share my exciting moment (I'm a major fan of ravens, especially my local ones)

i put out a platter of peanuts, it’s a circular metal mesh tray. i would fill it up every once in a while, and suddenly daily it’s being emptied. zero shells or evidence. i would always hear jays but rarely see one. 😂