Welcome to /c/birding, a community for people who like birds, birdwatching and birding in general! Feel free to post your birding photos or just photos of birds you found in general, but please follow the rules as outlined below.
This should go without saying, but please be nice to one another. No petty insults, no bigotry, no harassment, hate speech,nothing of that sort! Depending on the severity, you'll either only get your comment removed and a warning or your comment will be removed and you will be banned from /c/birding.
This is a community for posting content of birds, nothing else. Please keep the posts related to birding or birds in general.
When posting photos or videos that you did not take, please always credit the original photographer! Link to the original post on social media as well, if there is one.
Absolutely no AI-generated content is allowed! I know it has become quite difficult to tell whether or not something is AI-generated or not, but please make sure that whatever you post is not AI-generated. If it is, your post will be removed. If you continously post AI-generated content, you'll be banned from /c/birding (but it's obviously okay if you post AI-generated stuff once or twice without knowing you did so).
Please provide rough information location, if possible. This is a more loosely-enforced rule, especially because it is sometimes not possible to provide a location. But if you post a photo you took yourself, please provide a rough location and date of the sighting.
Southeast US. Finally got this fella at our patio. I've seen him hanging out at the edge of the woods where the other suet block is, but he finally got brave enough for us to see him up close! What a pretty guy.
Ornithologist (sees a bird with a bright red head): yes, let's call it red-bellied bird. I am a scientist. Logic. Science. Yeah...
Their bellies have such a tiny red spot and it's so hard to see, I've always been puzzled about this bird being named as such.
Lest we forget the actual red-headed woodpecker. But I agree, I want to call this guy the red-headed woodpecker so bad. Only other WPs I see around here are Downys.
Red-headed for full-red-head. Red... I don't know... capped for the one on the photo. Still distinguishable but also logical. I'm sure it is possible to find even better name if someone would actually care.
Love red bellieds! I have a couple that has started visiting my feeder, and I'm really hopeful for babies this year 🤞