crow feathers

verybluebird:

The Fairy Stretching ( by verybluebird )

Prothonotary Warbler, stretching on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh Ohio.

rhamphotheca:

dendroica: Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensyvanica)

(photo by polarlow on Flickr)

LTT (by glendel1)

Long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus)

Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) (via Male, singing in the reed)

Greater Flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus) (via A female bird on a coconut tree trunk)

Juvenile Glossy Ibis

Young Kiwi

Kiwis are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand.  They are the smallest ratites (flightless birds) in the world and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any bird species currently living.  There are five recognized species, all of which are currently endangered due to habitat destruction and invasive/introduced mammalian predators.

shedsumlight:

mandarin duck (by *LINNY *)

earth-song:

Yellow Billed” by Mario Moreno

Yellow-billed hornbill

earth-song:

Fiery-throated Hummingbird” by Glenn Bartley

(via redwingjohnny)

Eastern Towhee (by DistantFocus)

rhamphotheca:

heracliteanfire: Print of “Seven Birds in a River Landscape”

Plate 16. A Great Shrike standing on a tree branch at top, preparing to eat a dead mouse, watched by a Woodchat below, partly obscured by a Red-backed Shrike; a Kingfisher flying to left towards the water; a Creeper sitting on a tree trunk at top right, a Wryneck below, and a Nuthatch at a hole in the trunk

- one of four plates printed on the sheet; illustration to H G Adams and H B Adams’s ‘The Smaller British Birds’ (London: 1874, Bell); after Alexander Francis Lydon. c 1874, Wood-engraving, printed in colours

(via British Museum)

(via scientificillustration)

earth-song:

Collared Redstart” by Ian Billenness

earth-song:

Andean Cock-of-the-Rock” by Ian Billenness