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The bird of the day is the American flamingo, whose chicks are raised in crèches. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Americ...

Today's bird is the Zenaida dove. www.audubon.org/field-guide/...

Yesterday's bird was the northern shoveler. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northe...

Today's bird is the black scoter. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black_...

Today's bird is the common loon. www.mass.gov/info-details...

Yesterday's bird was the perpetually embarrassed red-faced warbler. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-fa...

The bird of the day is the mottled duck. www.audubon.org/field-guide/...

Today's bird is the rough-legged hawk...which was me until I shaved my legs about 20 minutes ago. rosemarymosco.com/comics/bird-...

The bird of the day is the black-whiskered vireo. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-...

Today's bird is the ferruginous pigmy-owl, a ruddy little bad-ass. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ferrug...

Yesterday's bird was the lark sparrow—such a pretty face! www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Lark_S...

Today's bird is the American coot, which looks like a collection of other bird parts. Like a Baku bird, maybe, or Frankenstein's waterfowl. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Americ...

I forgot to post yesterday's bird, which was the hepatic tanager and apparently is actually in the cardinal family, not the tanager...and which isn't, for the most part, "liver-colored." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatic...

Today's bird is the tiny, adorable, and not at all vulgar bushtit. urbannature.blog/2020/03/15/c...

The bird of the day is a "mysterious seabird"—Murphy's petrel. www.audubon.org/field-guide/...

Today's bird is the crescent -chested warbler, a cute little druid who hangs out in oak trees. ebird.org/species/crcwar

The bird of the day is the hook-billed kite, which, unlike other kites, loves escargot and never gets stuck in trees. peregrinefund.org/explore-rapt...

Today's bird is Gambel's quail. ebird.org/species/gamqua

The bird of the day is the long-tailed jaeger. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Long-t...

Today's bird is the yellow-eyed junco, who "shuffle[s] through the leaf litter of pine and pine-oak forests with fire in [her] eyes." www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow...

Today's bird is the American redstart www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Americ...

Today's bird is the great shearwater. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_...

Today's bird is the American kestrel. centerofthewest.org/2014/01/16/f...

The bird of the day is the yellow-breasted chat, which is in a family all by itself. For now. Until the ornithologists change their minds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-...

Today's bird is the golden-cheeked warbler. It only lives in Texas, poor thing. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden...

Today's bird is the dusky warbler. ebird.org/species/duswar

Today's bird is the trumpeter swan. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Trumpe...

Well, I went 92 days before forgetting my daily photo, which is much longer than most previous years.

The bird of the day is the brown-headed nuthatch, who has a voice like a squeaky toy. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown-...

Today's bird is the "boisterous," "conspicuous," and "pugnacious" thick-billed kingbird. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Thick-...

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Today's bird is a deep-diving little badass, the thick-billed murre. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Thick-....

My bird calendar has a different bird at the top of each month's page. January was the belted kingfisher; February and March were the eastern and western bluebirds, respectively. And April is the lucifer hummingbird—how apt for the "cruellest month"! 🤣

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Today's bird is the blue-winged warbler. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue-w...

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Today's bird is the Arctic warbler, a "dull [RUDE!], relatively unmarked olive-brown warbler with a prominent yellowish-white eyestripe, faint wingbars, and pale whitish underparts," who probably doesn't appreciate people commenting on its underparts. Who would, really? ebird.org/species/arcw...

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Today's bird is the northern gannet, unexpurgated. youtu.be/ZYlOV7K-xOU?...

Today's bird is the small and round Pacific Wren. klamathbird.org/callnote/bir...

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The bird of the day (or perhaps of the evening) is the vesper sparrow. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Vesper...

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Today's bird is the Cuban pewee. rollingharbour.com/2019/02/13/c...

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