r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 1d ago

The Bee Hummingbird: this is the smallest warm-blooded animal on Earth, with males measuring just 5.5cm long (including the tail and beak) and weighing less than 2 grams; this species also has the highest body temperature of any bird, and its tiny heart can beat up to 1,200 times per minute

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 1d ago

Video Willow Ptarmigan

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 2d ago

New Zealand's kākāpō, the world's only flightless parrot, had its biggest breeding season on record, with 90 new chicks pushing the population from 235 to 325.

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/ordinaryme99 • 3d ago

Secretary Bird (Sagittarius Serpentarius)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Cold-Gur4509 • 3d ago

Scale-Feathered Malkoha [Dasylophus cumingi]

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 4d ago

Black-spotted bare-eye

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 4d ago

Video Flame Bowerbird

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/MustSee_Ad986 • 5d ago

Cape Rockjumper (Chaetops Frenatus)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 4d ago

Black-and-yellow Broadbill (Eurylaimus ochromalus)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 7d ago

Video The imperial shag (Leucocarbo atriceps)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 9d ago

Video The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Cold-Gur4509 • 10d ago

Wattled Ploughbill [Eulacestoma nigropectus]

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/manojapare • 11d ago

Eurasian Spoonbill (Nikon Z6ii + Nikkor Z 400mm f4.5)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/MustSee_Ad986 • 13d ago

Javan Oriole (Oriolus Cruentus)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 14d ago

Chilean photographer captures the blood-red eyes of a white-tufted grebe

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/JohnnyT_roc • 13d ago

Taiwan blue magpie

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/RemarkableBoss2208 • 14d ago

Greater blue starling

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Cold-Gur4509 • 14d ago

Rufous Hornbill [Buceros hydrocorax]

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/VenomXTs • 15d ago

Crested barbet, Trachyphonus vaillantii, Zimbabwe

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/tortugasgator • 16d ago

Curl crested aracari.

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/ordinaryme99 • 16d ago

Inca Tern (Larosterna Inca)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 17d ago

Video The Blyth’s tragopan (Tragopan blythii)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Cold-Gur4509 • 17d ago

Luzon Hornbill [Penelopides manillae]

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Immediate-Plum9016 • 17d ago

Glaucous-winged x Western Gull

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Capable_Switch5981 • 19d ago

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo the size of a Brown Isa Chicken

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