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kategardiner t1_j2dlc0i wrote on December 31, 2022 at 1:47 PM

Reply to Spotted in Van Vorst park today, any ornithologist around can identify it? by spypol

balcony](https://www.instagram.com/p/CmFIewIJ8jR/?igshid=YWJhMjlhZTc=) and someone told me it was a [juvenile female American kestrel](https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/american-kestrel). (We are in Paulus Hook

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‘Like Finding a Unicorn’: Researchers Rediscover the Black-Naped Pheasant-Pigeon, a Bird Lost to Science for 140 Years

TIL there are only two species of turkey. The Wild Turkey, and the Ocellated Turkey of Mexico, whose call has been described as “ting-ting-ting—co-on-cot-zitl-glung”.

TIL The most abundant wild bird on planet earth is the Red-billed Quelea. The birds fly in flocks of 2 million or more and in such tightly synchronized masses they can be mistaken at a distance for clouds of smoke. Single colonies can cover hundreds of acres, totaling tens of millions of birds.

TIL: Black Herons turn their wings into an umbrella to “canopy feed”. The umbrella provides shade, which draws fish to the surface where they can be seen and caught more easily.

kategardiner t1_j2dlc0i wrote on December 31, 2022 at 1:47 PM