American Redstarts flash their wings and tails while feeding, thought to startle insect prey so the redstarts can find them easier. Have you seen any redstarts this month?

Prothonotary Warbler is an incredible living lemon. This one was feeding and singing in a parking lot, and is perched on my car in this video!

The motionlessness of a thrush—watching for the next meal. Wood Thrush, Texas.

Swainson's Warblers can really belt it out, this one near Memphis, Tennessee

Spring in the plains...Dickcissel singing in a flowery sea.

I haven’t been streaming for the last few weeks…thankfully it’s just been due to being on the road for work and birding (like pictured here, in Tadoussac, Quebec). Going to try to get going again in the next few weeks. What fun birds have you been seeing?

King-of-Saxony Bird-of-Paradise, oil on canvasboard. A painting I've started last November, and could finish yesterday! It's based on my visit to the Snow Mountains of New Guinea 3 years ago.

Summer birding on Martha’s Vineyard—nearly 3,000 Roseate Terns 😳🤯 #birds #birding Mass Audubon Amer. Birding Assoc. The Trustees

Discovered a *never before seen* #shorebird this week in Massachusetts (pictured here on left). Any guesses? I'll talk about this bird live on 10 Aug at 7p Eastern at twitch.tv/thebirdsguy

CAPE VERDE SHEARWATER offshore of Chatham, Massachusetts this morning. First Mass and apparent 2nd North American record. Killer spot by Jeremiah Trimble on our little boat of 5. I’ll talk about the discovery and identification live on Sunday 14 August at twitch.tv/thebirdsguy

If you didn't catch the livestream discussion of the identification of the new hybrid shorebird I discovered last week (White-rumped x Semipalmated Sandpiper), you can check out a recording here: youtu.be/vLG_w-JbaWw

Unreal morning of birding above Los Angeles today: more than 20,000 warblers flying through Bear Divide: ebird.org/checklist/S134…

Over 100,000 warblers in Tadoussac today, and still going at 1000/minute. Absolute heaven.

Today we saw a QUARTER MILLION warblers fly past Tadoussac, Quebec. >85,000 Bay-breasted Warblers, and >50,000 each of Cape May and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Full details, photos, and video here: ebird.org/checklist/S139…

Incredible experience on Cape Cod today with Massachusetts' first Mountain Plover in 107 years.

Incredible to see Massachusetts' first Lesser (Siberian) Sand-Plover today, found yesterday. One of about a dozen all-time records for eastern North America 🤯 ebird.org/checklist/S147…

Flame-faced Warbler, a completely fictional bird. What bird do you wish was real?

Eye contact with an Albatross. There's nothing like it.

So excited for this new original art from Dan Derbyshire…maybe the largest Least Sandpiper ever?

Fewer than 1,000 King Shags exist in the world, entirely on the islands of the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand.