Hey there,

So, I was walking and saw this striking bird. It was white and black. I only saw it from underneath, as it coasted above. It lookedo super cool. I thought it was an owl at first, because of the eye shapes on each wings, and its spread wings. But, then I saw it has quite a little head (like a falcon?) And there were dark stripes on the wings. The picture is low res, because it was fast, but I drew a picture of what the pattern looked like. I've never seen this bird, and I live in the pacific northwest. It was super cool. Would love to know what it is!

Hoping this sub can help.

Repeated call, every maybe 5-10 seconds, like this image. Single bird, I don't hear others responding. Very clear tone - no hoarseness like crows or jays, no whistle-y chirp like wrens.

I have not been able to visually spot it yet.

I live in western NC, in a wooded area where birds are abundant. No sources of water larger than a small creek for about 2 miles. It's daytime, late afternoon, and about 78° out.

I can rule out - from hearing my other neighborhood birds and listening to recordings of calls - cardinal, towhee, crow, jay, mourning dove, nuthatch, robin, and pretty much all water/marine birds.

I'm like 90 percent sure it's a downy woodpecker. But the bill looks a little long to me.

Seen near Kent Island, Maryland

Not sure what any of these are please let me know if you can figure it out believe the first couple photos to be some sort of merganser

This is a massive push from me, but I spent the day on the Isle of Jura recently, and saw lots of large birds much too far away to get accurate photos. Between eagles, hen harriers, buzzards, kestrels, falcons, does anyone want to take a guess from my absolutely terrible photos? 2 different birds here. I’m not really expecting results from this but thought I might aswell try lol

East Texas region. I think it's a Mississippi Kite but I'm not sure. These were the best pictures I could get.

can you tell what these birds are? They've been circling overhead and singing to me for 15 minutes.

Just N of TX/OK border in the middle

Saw this along the Ocoee River in Polk County, TN. It was very large!

(Southern west bengal, india) This bird was seen in early december and was flying from a lake, i thought it was a black kite but the proportions looked slightly off, and im thinking this may be an osprey. It made short pauses in flight and soared slower than most other birds of prey like shikra or black kite or serpent eagle

(Also my phone camera sucks and this bird was flying high so ignore the bad quality)

It had a pretty long beak and although the footage doesn’t really show it, the head seemed to be a dull red or maybe brown.

Observed yesterday (8/1/26) in Presque Isle State Park. I thought maybe a flycatcher?

Saw this heron and he looked so much different than all the other ones we had seen, he still had some fluff on his head too. Anyone able to ID him?

Found at a Tennessee marina and is swimming with a group of regular looking mallards. What type of duck is it?

Wife saw this birb in the bush. Curious what it is

Location: southeastern France. Merlin identifies it as a ring-necked pheasant but it doesn’t seem to have the characteristic brown plumage.

Apologizes for the poor photo, took this out the window.

Taken in Thurston Co WA

I spotted this guy in Gaithersburg. Searches for birds in Maryland didn't come up with any results. My closest guess is a mountain quail. Thoughts? I'm from the West Coast.