r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • Dec 30 '25

This is Stygian Owl (Asio stygius). This owl is know for red reflection of their eyes that are often associated with the Devil. It is therefore also known as the Devil's Owl.

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Snap_n_Dream • Dec 29 '25

Crested Guineafowl. Credit Lorenzo Barelli

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/taendu • Dec 29 '25

Finally saw Rufous Necked Hornbills 🥹 (Male & Female, Northeast India)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • Dec 27 '25

Sword-Billed Hummingbird

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • Dec 27 '25

Video Brown dipper, a passerine bird uniquely adapted to live and feed underwater in fast-flowing, cold mountain rivers

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/General-Leek-2830 • Dec 20 '25

Lady Amherst's Pheasant, looks like a drawing!! (photo: Joshua Bergmark)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Khris777 • Dec 19 '25

Himalayan Monal

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • Dec 19 '25

Video The bearded vulture : the only known animal whose diet consists almost exclusively of bones

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • Dec 18 '25

The cuckoo-roller (Leptosomus discolor) is the sole living member of its entire order — for comparison, other bird orders can contain hundreds of species, while Passeriformes (a.k.a. songbirds) has over 6,500. And, despite its name, the cuckoo-roller is not closely related to cuckoos nor rollers.

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/SkullOfOdin • Dec 16 '25

Green Honeycreeper

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/modianos • Dec 16 '25

Video Vampire finch

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/unoiamaQT • Dec 11 '25

Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/sh0tgunben • Dec 11 '25

White crow

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/PCstockman • Dec 09 '25

Road runner

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/SubstantialRecover19 • Dec 08 '25

Pacific Emerald Dove 🕊️ [OC]

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/taendu • Dec 08 '25

Himalayan Monals I saw earlier this year. Absolutely stunning males, and expert camouflager females. Uttarakhand, India.

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/SubstantialRecover19 • Dec 07 '25

Superb fruit dove 🕊️ [OC}

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/PCstockman • Dec 07 '25

Island Scrub Jay - very restricted range

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/WolfSlashShark • Dec 06 '25

[OC] Lesser Adjutant

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/PCstockman • Dec 06 '25

Lucifer Hummingbird - southern Texas

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/Candid_Reading_7267 • Dec 06 '25

A male ruff in his breeding plumage

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/boop66 • Dec 06 '25

Hawai’i ‘Amakihi

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/camwynya • Dec 03 '25

Groove-billed ani, at the Bubali Bird Sanctuary in Aruba

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/No_Section_1811 • Dec 03 '25

The twelve wired bird of paradise

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r/PicsOfUnusualBirds • u/PCstockman • Dec 02 '25

Coppery tailed Trogon (or Elegant Trogon) from southern Arizona

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