r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 12h ago

Video A 3,300-year-old mummified foot of an upland moa bird discovered in a New Zealand cave in 1987, showing intact skin, claws, and feathers running all the way down to its ankles, preserved by dry cave breezes

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/ordinaryme99 • 1d ago

Southern Crested Guineafowl (Guttera Edouardi)

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376 Upvotes
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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/boop66 • 3d ago

Caatinga cacholote

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Lehsa196 • 3d ago

Turkey Vulture, Indiana

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/NajeedStone • 5d ago

Curl-crested aracari

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659 Upvotes
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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/CaroleTurek • 5d ago

Video The Endangered Mangrove Hummingbird: My 300th Hummingbird Species

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Mohammad_ali_13 • 7d ago

Red-naped Ibis (Indian Black Ibis)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/iechega • 9d ago

Some Cocks of the Rock

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503 Upvotes
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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/ordinaryme99 • 9d ago

Sword-Billed Hummingbird (Ensifera Ensifera)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 9d ago

The pilotbird (Pycnoptilus floccosus) follows the superb lyrebird through the forests of southeastern Australia, snapping up insects and worms churned up by the larger bird’s claws.

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Ok_Hat_1107 • 10d ago

Southern Ground-Hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) in the Kruger national Park

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/manojapare • 10d ago

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

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146 Upvotes
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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Virtual_Bowler3736 • 11d ago

Seven Colored Tanager. This bird is only found in one specific area, the Atlantic forest habitats in northeastern Brazil.

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846 Upvotes
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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/manojapare • 12d ago

Nilgiri Flowerpecker (Nikon Z6ii + Nikkor Z 400mm f4.5)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 13d ago

Video This is a baby flamingo. Flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a dye called canthaxanthin obtained from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Educational_Key1206 • 13d ago

Pesquet’s parrot commonly called Dracula parrot, found in New Guinea they are a protected species.

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/ordinaryme99 • 14d ago

Bearded Reedling (Panurus Biarmicus)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 14d ago

Video What Hawaiian seabirds do when reunited with their mates

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 14d ago

Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 16d ago

The critically endangered black robin (also known as the karure), which was named New Zealand's 2026 Bird of the Year after recovering from just five surviving individuals in the 1980s to around 350 adult birds today.

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990 Upvotes
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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • 16d ago

A completely black King Penguin, one of the rarest color mutations in the wild. Spotted on South Georgia Island

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

Congo Peafowl [Afropavo congensis]

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/manojapare • 17d ago

Stork-billed Kingfisher (Nikon Z6ii + Nikkor Z 400mm f4.5)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/meaoww • 20d ago

Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)

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528 Upvotes
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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/ordinaryme99 • 22d ago

Black-Throated Bushtit (Aegithalos Concinnus)

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