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🐦‍⬛ Birder / 🦬 Manitoba 🇨🇦 🌍 Originally from the Western Palearctic

Mississippi Kite - a raptor bird, gray overall, with paler head, black tail, short hooked bill, perched in a tree.
Scarlet Tanager on a branch: a passerine bird, bright red overall, black wings and tail, dull yellow bill.
Brown Creeper, a small passerine bird crawling up the tree trunk. It is white below, brown/white streaked above, with long, slightly downcurved bill, long tail and long toes.
A couple of Hooded Mergansers (ducks) on the water. Male black overall with reddish sides and large white "ear" behind the eye. Female gray/reddish with noticeable crest.
Short-toed [Snake] Eagle - a raptor bird in flight, dark brown head, underside mostly light with dark-brown streaks.
Close up of a head of a male Eurasian Blackbird (a thrush) - black plumage, bright yellow beak and eyering.
Great Blue Heron, a bird that resembles an airplane, having wide wings, pronounced front and tail parts.
Northern Pintail, a duck, gray above with brown head, long thin white neck. In flight over the snowy background.
A Bald Eagle: a large eagle, brown overall with white head and massive yellow hooked beak; sitting on top of a conifer tree.
Barred Owl - an owl with round head, vertically streaked breast, sitting on the edge of a cavity in a tree trunk. (Photo taken with a telephoto lens from a distance and cropped, no disturbance to the owl).
Pileated Woodpecker - a large woodpecker, black back and wings, white stripe on the face, red cap and crest, long bill; on a tree trunk.
Eurasian Jay, a corvid bird, cream-coloured overall with black and white on wings and a blue pattern; perched on a tree branch.
Pine Grosbeak - a large finch, mostly intensely red, with black wings with white edges, with massive beak, feeding on berries.
American Three-toed Woodpecker: a woodpecker with black and white stripes, on a tree trunk with some bark scaling.
Whooping cranes - eight tall white birds with long necks, long legs, long beaks and red/dark faces standing in a field.
Steller's Jay: a black-bluish bird with a crest.
A Cooper's Hawk (bird of prey) bathing in a bird bath, with his head submerged in the water.
A congregation of gulls, with American Herring Gull, California Gull and Ring-billed Gull.
Golden-winged Warbler: a small warbler with golden crown, large black bib and golden wing stripe.
A purple heron (large wading bird with long neck and legs) standing in the reeds.
Bohemian Waxwing on an crabapple tree.
A picture of a Eurasian Sparrowhawk perched on a branch.
Goldcrest (a very small kinglet with gold bar on the head) in a pool of thawing water.
Screenshot from a video, depicting a Barred Owl.
A rough-legged hawk (a dark and white Buteo raptor) in flight.
A photograph of an Evening Grosbeak, a brown-yellowish finch bird with massive beak and wide yellow eyebrow.
Willet (larger shorebird with long legs and bill) wading in the water.
Sardinian Warbler on a lawn.
Low quality photo of a Mountain Bluebird, but good enough to identify.
A photo of a Horned Lark from behind, sitting on a rock near the water.
Screenshot of E. Thompson "The Birds of Manitoba" calling Whooping Crane a "Flying Sheep".
Eurasian Jackdaw