What is this bird?

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A community dedicated to helping people identify birds

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Bird identification only. No memes, jokes, or awesome bird photos (that you know the species of). There are other communities out there for that. Please mark posts about the community with META
Any sign of birds are allowed, this includes but is not limited to: photos, blurry photos, feathers, eggs, audio, Ms Paint drawings, verbal descriptions, etc.
Mark dead or seriously injured birds as NSFW
Please try to provide any information you possibly have. Rough Location, terrain, time of year, and time of day can all be helpful. But please don't dox yourself, within 30 miles is usually just fine, no need for gps coordinates.

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Mrhatman

[Meta] Introduction and feedback request (self.whatsthisbird)

submitted 1 year ago by Mrhatman to c/whatsthisbird

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Hello everyone, I wanted to introduce myself and get some feedback on what this community might want. I am a fairly active birdwatcher and I enjoy talking photos of birds while hiking. I am a software developer by day (more on that later). I wanted to start this community as I loved helping over on Reddit but as RIF was my primary interaction point and I can't just jump on and answer a few anymore. I also wanted to create a place to help others and myself with learning more about our feathered friends.

As I mentioned before I am a software developer and I would like to create a bot to help with identification. Starting out you will just be able to request links via all about birds/ebird via double square brackets like [[American Robin]] and it will reply with a few links. I will start testing that this week so if you see some test posts, you can ignore ( or try it out) Other than that I want to get feedback from the community about what they might want to be added to the bot.Please feel free to reach out to me if you have questions or concerns as I have little experience with modding s community like this.

Finally if you have a logo/banner for the community please post it, I am not an artist so I would love to get community help there.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I am so happy whatsthisbird has found a home here, I realized after leaving Reddit that it was the only community I legitimately missed! I'm pretty amateur but happy to throw my two cents in--if the old community taught me anything, it's how to identify a black-crowned night heron and distinguish between a sharpie and a coop so at least we'll have that

[–] dirthawker0 1 points 1 year ago

Also a reddit refugee. I'm curious if the bot there had any use other than linking to the ebird page (end of year statistics maybe?)

For North American birds the Feather Atlas has always been a good resource. It would be nice to find a way to rope that in when people post feathers, not sure how easy or hard that might be.

I'm happy to help ID, mostly raptors.