Birds of Atlanta

Birds of Atlanta. Photos by @JoshJackson

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Great Kiskadee snacking on a berry. We saw them going into their nests in Belize.

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Lifer of the day in Belize: yellow-bellied elaenia.

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The Dickcissel is a sparrow-like bird that’s more closely related to grosbeaks and cardinals. This female was a rare sight at Legacy Park.

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Watched a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers build their nest in a tree hollow at Legacy Park.

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Summer tanagers are 🐝 specialists and this female caught a wasp at my backyard stream.

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First Indigo Bunting to visit the backyard stream!

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Mama mallard has her wings full with 10 little ducklings at Legacy Park.

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I found a brand new bird for Legacy Park early this morning. A greater yellowlegs is the 180th species recorded at the park. It’s a migrant shorebird that breeds mostly far up into Canada.

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First time seeing this mating display from a yellow-crowned night-heron. So cool! Clyde Shepherd, Decatur, GA.

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Our smallest songbird, the golden-crowned kinglet, foraging for tiny bugs in the canopy.

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The purple martins are back at Panola Mountain.

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Belted kingfisher adjusting her catch midflight. Legacy Park, Decatur.

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ATL bird #206 and second new one of 2025 is the American Golden-Plover, seen at Tribble Park in Gwinnett Co.

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The Eastern Blueborb. A spherical cousin to the Eastern Bluebird.

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Two yellow-crowned night-herons showed up at Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve in North Decatur this weekend in their beautiful breeding plumage.

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Walking around Austin, you have to be wary of wandering too far into black-crested titmouse gang territory.

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We have a handful of non-native bird species in Atlanta but nothing quite like the Egyptian Goose of Austin, Texas.

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The aptly named red-shouldered hawk showing off those red shoulders.

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Cedar Waxwings eating berries—my favorite genre of nature photography.