Aha, Golden Weaver, Thanks Moosefinch! San Diego Zoo

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

© Paul Fenwick

come with me

I'm going to choose to believe that, for once, I'm just hearing the echoes of far off fireworks. Yeah, definitely fireworks.

Owner got his lizard a pair of wings which move as he breathes

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thought autocomplete would take me to outlook dot com not realising id forgotten the T before i pressed enter. However was very much pleased at what it took me to instead. I think I don't want to see my emails now. I think I will stay with the oul.

Beautiful Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)

© Vilijandas Bagdonavičius

Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)

© Rui Pereira

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On the topic of owl coloration though, lets have some appreciation for the variation of color found in great horned owls.

(All images are from the Macaulay library run by ebird.)

This is only scratching the surface of variance of this bird as well.

Mallard duck, female … Trap Pond State Park, Laurel, Delaware … 4/12/22