@annika@xoxo.zone Yep!

@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works Probably an Aussie or Kiwi accent, actually. Here’s the Australasian Harrier, from NZ in 2015

#birds #Aotearoa

@pissed_eagle@birdbutt.com Red-tailed Hawks are highly variable; not all of the plumages are shown in the typical field guide. Here’s a fun link with lots of pics https://arkansashawkingassociation.org/pdf/grintailsmod[1].pdf

@thestrangelet@beige.party It looks like this.

@edwilk@mstdn.social Good story! If it was a dark-morph Western (calurus) redtail, it probably had a lot of red on the tail; hopefully it took off and showed him that tail!

@pv_man@lor.sh OM1 Mark I with the 150-400 Oly zoom

@Dahna@mastodon.social It’s an artifact of the lighting in that shady space. They are actually just gray.

@sciencebase@mastodon.social Yes, a male Merlin of the Taiga subspecies (F. c. columbarius).

@peachfront@toot.community Don’t be too jealous, the caption is incorrect. This is actually a Parasitic Jaeger; I had the right tag in the metadata, but failed to look at that before I posted this morning!

@rain_worl@lemmy.world All pictures posted on my account are my pictures, unless otherwise noted. And I have no clue how to nominate it for wikimedia commons. Can you elaborate, or point me toward a site that will guide me?