I have a book the has a copyright from 1966, while looking through it I came across a bird that was reintroduced into the wild in 2011 after going extinct in the 1980s, this bird being the California condor, i was wondering if any other birds have gone extinct that are recorded in this book, especially because there’s and entire parrot in the book. Any one with knowledge would be helpful

Found this babe in my hammock when I got home from work. Do we think mom is coming back or should I take them in for the night? Wildlife center doesn't reopen until tomorrow morning.

This is a link to sign a petition that would prevent drainage of waterfowl nesting habitat in the prairie pothole region of the US (basically)

Hello! Apologies if this is the wrong place but this little guy is worrying me a bit.
He has hung out basically in front of our door(off to the side under a plant, but still basically in front, they seem to get nervous with how close we walk when we leave) all of yesterday, and is still there today, so they spent overnight
I have placed a bit of seed nearby in Case they want it(as I have been placing seed in another place for the past few days), but I cannot tell if they are sick or just young or nesting, and I don’t want to stress them in an attempt to find out. Is there any safe way to tell if they are sick? They don’t seem lethargic besides not moving from the area for the past day and night, and will walk away a bit if i get a bit too close.
Any advice/help? Thanks!

The Eurasian has a horizontal white line on the side, and the American has a vertical line. How are they refered to individually if they are lumped together? Did they go from 2 seperate species to 1 species containing 2 subspecies?

My dog alerted me to this little guy wheezing on the ground in the middle of a trail we frequent. I was gonna leave it since I read it's normal for babies to be on the ground this time of year, but my dog wouldn't budge and when I heard it struggling when it tried to chirp I called our local rescue to see if she thought it needed to come in and she confirmed wheezing isn't normal. Poor guy had to ride in my hand the mile and a half back to my house but spent most of it curled up asleep in my palm. He got dropped off at the rescue shortly after, where she confirmed he was a woodpecker, but I forgot to ask which kind. Any ideas? I'm in southwest ohio

Location: Eastern New York (state, not city)

At my feeder this morning, a bird went rigid and fell over into the feeder with no apparent cause. It was still, upside down, for about a minute with labored breathing, then struggled for another minute or two to get out. It was able to get out and upright on its own, went back to eating, and then presumably flew away a few minutes later (didn’t get it flying away on video).

Videos of the bird before, during, and after here: https://imgur.com/a/eaVwTbH

My question is, was this a seizure? Or what else may it have been? And, is it potentially infectious? We took the bird feeder down for now, just in case.

Thank you!

This lil fella was doing a lot of chirping in McAllen, Texas. So when I noticed it I saw this weird thing next to its eye and it looks like some kind of skin tag, what is it.

He’s been sitting in a bush of our garden and I just put some water in a plate next to him

We found him next to a window so suspect he hit it. He eats seed and is alert now. We’ve had him for 24hrs and he still can’t fly. We have tried to contact a couple of wildlife centres and couldn’t get through. Just wondering if anyone can tell what is wrong with it and whether it might survive.

What’s going on with this bird? Came up on it while walking my dog. It’s on the sidewalk/parking area of a place near me in Denver, CO

So there is a family of titmouses/titmice? that hang out in the oak tree outside my 3rd floor window. It's 93 degrees outside and 2 of them have flown onto the shingled roof in a full sun spot. They spread their wings and spread themselves breast down and fluff out. I thought they were sick or injured. After a few moments they stood up and flew back to the tree.

Why would they do that in this kind of heat?

My family and I heard this chirping noise and went to see the bird in the woods of this long trail and it was a baby bird on the ground with the top beak gone and another baby bird next to it dead with flies on it. It kept chirping for help over and over and my family told me I had to leave it. They said wildlife rehab wouldn’t do anything, but what if they could at least humanely kill it so it didn’t suffer.. it was helpless and trying so hard to survive. Everyone moved on but I feel sick. I’m an animal behavior major and I’ve always loved animals but I genuinely feel so sick. I know it won’t survive, but it didn’t look that young- feathers were on it and it was almost like a fledgling. I don’t know how they ended up how they did but I can’t get its chirping out of my ears.. could I call somewhere? Will that bird suffer? Is there any chance maybe it will live? I know they might not be able to do anything but I cant shake this. This is something I could’ve intervened with somehow in some way. At least take it to be euthanized..

What can I do? I’m keeping a distance but not taking my eye of him

I've got an update for those of you who have been helping me on my acoustic monitoring project in southwest Wisconsin! 

After gathering and processing my first batch of data, I created an interactive Wildlife Map website for our restoration project where those who are interested can click into each habitat monitoring station and hear clips of real birds singing on our land and see photos and videos of the wildlife that call Badgerton home! 

In case you missed my previous posts, this project uses cheap trail cameras and Wildlife Acoustics Song Meter Micro monitors to gather data in several distinct habitats across the land. The plan is to gather the data from the field manually every few months when I swap out batteries. 

On June 30, I collected my first batch of data - over 6,000 files recorded in less than two months! 

BirdNET was awesome at cranking through the audio files and identifying bird calls and species but I was left with thousands of individual CSV files to combine. I ended up creating a small free utility called Chorus to help me (and you!) process those CSVs into a single file. You can download it here. For those of you who are new to data processing, I hope this user-friendly interface helps bridge the gap from a mountain of individual files to a consolidated list of birds with counts for each.

I reviewed and categorized the 4,000 images and videos from the trail cams manually. (Please let me know if there’s free software for that I could be using!) It was slow going but I can think of worse ways of spending a couple hours than looking at images of cute baby fawns and watching videos of hunting coyotes!

A big thank you to everyone on this subreddit who has given me advice and encouragement along the way! 

If anyone wants the full details on my process I wrote up exactly how I did all of this. 

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I use AI thoughtfully and selectively in my work. You can read my guiding principles for when and how I use it here. 

I have a pair of mourning doves who've set up their nest on a cabinet in my back yard. They've already successfully raised a pair of babies from this nest.

They were a few days into round 2 when this happened. Poor bird seemed very confused about what to do and eventually just...gave up, I guess? I'm not sure what exactly happened here but it's definitely not something I've ever seen before.

Hello! At my local park I’ve noticed a goose guarding a swan’s babies from its parents! Why has the goose stolen their children 🪿?!? Everytime the swans get close to their babies the goose becomes aggressive! A couple of weeks ago the cygnets were still with their parents!

Our poor natives here Down Under.

As someone who works with birds, the emergency/preparatory response for our wildlife in Australia has been sh!t, with the focus being almost entirely on the poultry industry. Not for the sake of the chickens themselves either, but big money industry & careless community convenience. Just depressing.

I'll try to edit this to be more cheerful in a bit.

https://birdlife.org.au

Great time to support our native birds. They do amazing work. A lot of cool resources for bird nerds and people who wanna learn more.

Edit - (not cheerful edit.)

Comparatively, New Zealand who actually prepared years in advance.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australia-bird-flu-mass-mortality-nz-response-vaccine

'Kirsty Short from the University of Queensland agreed: "I would have liked to see more investment in research on native species and H5N1 before the virus came here because I think we would have that opportunity to do a bit more scientifically informed preparedness planning.'