From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: a Wood Duck does a solo dance program on the ice for the Avian Olympics. 🦆 🧊 😁

#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Ducks #WoodDucks #IceSkating #WinterOlympics #BirdVideos

And since we're on California Quails...

It's so much fun to watch these borbulous birbs as they dust bathe, peep and cheep, preen, and just look so cute I can't stand it!

Video - The Bird Muse (there are all sorts of quail videos on this channel)

#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdVideos #CaliforniaQuail #Quorb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWdnWZjFIsU

Three wonderful minutes of watching a California Quail family go about daily life. 😊 🥰 😘

Video - Peter Steuart

#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdVideos #CaliforniaQuail #Quorb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvl5w6cxyes

Now we know why the Northern Cardinal is the face (and voice) of Angry Birds! 🤣 🐦 🤣

Filmed at someone's feeder cam (I don't know who).

#Birds #BirdVideos #BirdsOfMastodon #AngryBirds #NorthernCardinal

A #WilsonsSnipe in a pool of icy water. They search out food while they bounce up and down; this one might also be trying to keep warm. Dance, birdie, dance!

The video is by "WALLMIKA."

#Birds #WaterBirds #BirdVideos #FunnyBirds

Das hier ist Klaus-Dieter. Klaus-Dieter ist damit unzufrieden, dass der Meisenknödelhalter ohne Inhalt ist. Klaus-Dieter tut seinen Unmut mindestens 3× täglich, um 06:00, um 10:00 und um 11:00 durch lautes Klopfen an das Fenster kund.

#möwe #seagull #birdvideos

@wurzelmann @aizenmi @horatiorama @Elenyafinwe @mimikaetzchen @ZurichCrowCollective @corvid @CORVUSPHERE

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

Small birds tend to move erratically, often hopping from branch to branch. They rarely sit still long enough for the photographer to focus and get the shot and birds rarely pose in a way that exposes their bodies without a leaf or twig obscuring a part of the bird's body. And even when the bird’s body is unobscured, the background is either too distracting or backlit. This plays tricks on the camera's autofocus and autoexposure settings. I have tried using fully manual controls but it’s [...]

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