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Kettle in southern Germany
Hello, I was recently riding a bus in southern Germany near Salzburg, Austria and observed a kettle of about a dozen large birds high in the sky near a mountain. It reminded me of Turkey Vultures back home in the US and I'm wondering what species this might have been in Germany. It looked...- TKbird
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Mystery bird outside Munich, Germany
Hello, I was riding in a train outside Munich and noted a bird flying away from me low over a field. Size was around a blackbird, maybe a little bigger. Shape reminded me of a Northern Mockingbird. It looked grayish and had an obvious white patch on each wing and white in the tail. Very brief...- TKbird
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Odd goose in Germany
Hello, I was recently traveling in Germany and observed this goose at the English Garden in Munich. Clearly it has Bar-headed Goose genes, but I'm wondering what else might be involved. Partly domestic or a hybrid? Thanks for any thoughts! TK- TKbird
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The first new lifer of the year - Common Redpoll!
On my first birding walk I managed to actually see a new lifer, a Common Redpoll! There was a small flock of around half a dozen or so near my apartment looking for food.- mjohanning
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Black Stork saying hi!
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- black stork cleaning germany preening roof scratching stork
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Moorhen Relaxing
I love moorhens, their beaks are so colourful and quite unlike anything I've seen around here! It's a shame they're on the "nearly threatened" list here in Germany.- mjohanning
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New Lifer — Northern Wheatear!
A new nature reserve has been opened to the public near my office. It's a hill that used to be an old landfill but that has been rewilded over the past few years. A few weeks ago, it was opened to the public. I took a quick trip there today in what was way too hot weather: but it was worth it...- mjohanning
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Black Stork Surprise
Saw a very surprising and unexpected visitor at the rainwater retention basin next to my apartment yesterday, a Black Stork!- mjohanning
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- bielefeld black stork germany schwarzstorch stork water
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Beautiful Mandarin Duck
A beautiful Mandarin Duck Drake in a pond in the woods. If you listen closely you can hear her quiet calls.- Michael Billerbeck
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- aix aix galericulata audio call calling duck germany mandarin duck north rhine-westphalia sound video
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White-cheeked Pintail or Bahama Pintail
A White-cheeked Pintail, Bahama Pintail or Summer Duck (Anas bahamensis) swimming in slow motion in a canal of a flood control area in Dortmund, Germany.- Michael Billerbeck
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- anas anas bahamensis bahama pintail duck germany north rhine-westphalia slow motion summer duck video white-cheeked pintail
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Goosander (♀) with Ducklings
A female Goosander (Mergus merganser) with her Ducklings in a creek at- Michael Billerbeck
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- baden-württemberg chicks creek ducklings female germany goosander kaiserstuhl merganser mergus mergus merganser video vogtsburg
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Great Grey Shrike
A Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) perching on the twigs of the bushes on a fallow field in a nature reserve.- Michael Billerbeck
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- germany great grey shrike lanius lanius excubitor north rhine-westphalia shrike video
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Black Woodpecker (♀)
A female Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) on a tree trunk in a forest area in the nature reserve "Dingdener Heide", North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.- Michael Billerbeck
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- black woodpecker dingdener heide dryocopus martius female female black woodpecker germany nature reserve north rhine-westphalia video woodpecker
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Hooded Merganser (♂)
A beautiful male Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) in a canal in a city in North Rine-Westphalia. This must be an escapee. They are usually native in the USA.- Michael Billerbeck
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- germany hooded merganser lophodytes cucullatus merganser north rhine-westphalia video
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Common firecrest
It took a long time until I got this compo (no feeder)/on top of a single twig.- jbpixels
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- common firecrest regulus ignicapilla germany munich
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Brambling
I recently read a report that it is difficult for wildlife photographers in the Camargue or in the Grenoble area to spot bramblings. If you live there, please do not become desperate. You have already access to incredibly beautiful species. 😁😉👍Sorry b....- jbpixels
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- brambling brambling / fringilla montifringilla fringilla montifringilla germany munich
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Short-toed treecreeper
aka groundcreeper. I believe stc.- jbpixels
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- certhia brachydactyla germany munich short-toed treecreeper
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Long-tailed tit
Above 0C and the snow is melting.- jbpixels
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- aegithalos caudatus aegithalos caudatus europaeus germany long-tailed tit munich
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Alarm Call of the Eurasian Blackcap (♂)
This was the first time for me that I have heard this call of a male Eurasian Blackcap in the forest area on the hill (Lenzenberg) in the Kaiserstuhl area, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. I have never heard this "agitated" sounding call of the Blackcap before.- Michael Billerbeck
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- agitated call alarm call audio baden-württemberg blackcap call calling eurasian blackcap germany kaiserstuhl lenzenberg sound video warning call
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Common Ringed Plover
I was so happy to be able to film one of these Ringed Plovers in September 2022 a few hours before sunset at the Zingst beach shore.- Michael Billerbeck
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- baltic sea beach shore charadrius charadrius hiaticula common ringed plover germany mecklenburg-vorpommern plover ringed plover shore video zingst
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Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
A Nightingale singing in the shadows of hedgerow and trees.- Michael Billerbeck
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- ahsewiesen audio call common nightingale germany lippetal luscinia luscinia megarhynchos nature reserve nightingale north rhine-westphalia rufous nightingale singing song sound video
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Crested tit
Regular visitors at my feeding place. Too much populism on this planet. I wish I could change what.- jbpixels
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- crested tit crested tit - lophophanes cristatus germany lophophanes cristatus
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Common Scoter (♀)
I have taken this video of a female Common Scoter swimming in the Baltic Sea on New Year's Day in Travemünde, Lübeck, Germany.- Michael Billerbeck
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- baltic sea common scoter duck female germany lübeck melanitta nigra mytilidae scoter sea sea duck travemünde video
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