A woodpecker can survive 1500 g-force units, and occasionally this.

A couple of shots of a Blue-Tailed Bee-Eater at #SuanRotFai, Bangkok. These birds are reliable in their appearance, with up to 8 hawking from a tree near the big lake at the Queen Sirikit end soon after sunrise. Oriental Bird Club Avibase (Denis Lepage) gregheath.net

ME: *invents the barn* BARN OWLS: finally

So many of the bird names on this brochure sound like insults: "Marbled Godwit", "Short-billed Dowitcher", "Lesser Yellowlegs", "Least Sandpiper", "Common Snipe"

Check out these incredible shots of birds eating, captured by last year's Audubon Photography Awards participants. ow.ly/GpNS30irYTq

Racket-tailed Treepie currently have three of these beauties visiting the garden everyday. Avibase (Denis Lepage) Oriental Bird Club

Adult HEERMANN'S GULL just stunning at moment, most gone to Mexico to breed but a few still around #SanDiego 25Feb2018 #seabirds Canon USA Corp.

Gaurav Deshpande witnessed a rare natural history tussle between a feisty red giant flying squirrel and a formidable Mountain Hawk-eagle at the #Namdapha NationalPark in #ArunachalPradesh. To read more about this encounter subscribe here: bit.ly/1CQE9OP

After a brutal earthquake hit New Zealand in 2016, scientists feared the worst for the rare Hutton's Shearwater. But the birds fared better than previously thought. ow.ly/fe7y30iEjvA

Whose bird is this? Ruddy Turnstone spotted on Amédée island (New Caledonia) on 28/02/18 (02/28/18) with a blue band. At IMBE Nouméa.

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“We started at the exact perfect time when ecotourism was starting – it was lucky! Plus, I love birds and birding & I begin to guide and did that for 12 years.” 10000birds.com/snow-in-costa-… Rancho Naturalista #CostaRicaBirding #birdwatchingRepublic #CostaRicaBirdChallenge #futuropa #ict

Red Junglefowl a female crossing a stream in Tat Mok NP Phetchabun Thailand: as I said yesterday not a great day for pics this is about the best I got. So "why did the chicken cross the stream?" Avibase (Denis Lepage) Oriental Bird Club

In 2015, American birder #NoahStrycker completed a global #BigYear, seeing 6,042 different bird species over the course of the year strimas.com//spatial/big-y…

At 10,000 Birds we like to encourage responsible gambling, and this seems very responsible. x.com/helentaylorcg/…

If I can pack half as much of this drama and intensity into the fight scene I’m writing, I’ll have succeeded.

Malaysian rail-babbler lives on the floor of forests. It is rarely seen. Its shyness and secretiveness has also made it hard to study the bird. #birdwatching #birds #birding #BirdPhotography Credit: Johnson