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@lowekeyone.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:53 PM

Great blue heron is so confident in its beakspear that it doesn't mind sticking its tongue out. #BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks #birds #photography

@paulspics.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:51 PM

Great Blue Heron

#BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks
#Birds #Photography

@metapa3625.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:51 PM

#BestBeaks as #BirdOfTheDay theme; a bird with a beak/bill with striking colours, bold profiles or an interesting shape.
Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani). mi favorito.
Cartagena, Colombia.

@marsha8of9.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:50 PM

Happy #FeatheredFriday Friends... today's #BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks features my friend, the Cattle Egret with a beak like dagger great for capturing frogs and fish, but short enough to grab grasshoppers and other insects with great agility. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #Naturephotography #ECK🪶📷🦉

Center right of frame, facing and looking viewer's left. Known for their short yellow beak, reddish crown body highlights.

@jrrosin1.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:46 PM

#BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks
I have to share these Keel billed Toucans outside my sisters patio in Costa Rica.

Keel billed Toucans posing for their glamour shot in Costa Rica

@robertabirder.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:44 PM

A 'twofer' for #BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks Great White Pelicans and Lesser Flamingo. Lake Nakuru, Kenya

@jaxonsigns.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:43 PM

#BirdOfTheDay is #BestBeaks, alt #YellowElements

@iolantherosa.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:40 PM

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay them is #BestBeaks. After considering obvious choices like Pelicans and Flamingos, I have settled on the Anna's Hummingbird and its small but deadly beak 🗡️ 🪶

An Anna's Hummingbird on the feeder, looking a bit borby. Its perched facing the camera withhead looking to the right, emphasizing the its long, sharp, thin bill.

@lyndyphotos.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:39 PM

This Van Der Deckens Hornbill has one of the #BestBeaks I saw in the Serengeti. While I enjoyed breakfast al fresco, this hornbill mooched for morsels. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds

@angrykem.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:35 PM

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestBeaks. The beak of the #NorthernShrike is not dramatically large or colourful. However, that little hook gives this songbird an edge in its hunting, allowing it to function somewhat like a tiny bird of prey.

#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #shrikes

A Northern Shrike, a greyish-white songbird with a black eye mask and a distinctive beak with a little hook on the end, perches on a twig and poses somewhat fluffily against a deep blue sky.

@amylawscigeek.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:34 PM

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BestBeaks.

Alt: #YellowElements the colour yellow found on a bird.

There. That little bit of yellow on its wing and on the base of its tail is all you get for yellow with a pine siskin.

And I have nightmares about siskin's pointy little beaks.

A small brown bird with bold black striping on its chest perches on a dried sunflower head, a seed in its beak. It has just a hint of yellow on the wing feathers and at the base of its tail. Its beak is needle sharp.

@dwightreads.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:30 PM

Per Helen @helenbennett.bsky.social, today’s #BirdOfTheDay is #BestBeaks, striking colours, bold profiles or interesting shaped beaks.
The Alt theme is #YellowElements, yellow found on any bird.
#Ibis #wadingBird #birds #nature #wildlife #Florida #thelittlethings #ECK #photography

A head and neck photo of a White Ibis, which has a distinctive down-curved red-orange bill and light blue eyes. Blue water in the background.

Interesting information:
This ibis is almost entirely white, save for the black-tipped wings and brilliant reddish pink legs and bill. The bare skin around their blue eyes is also reddish pink. Juveniles (fall through winter) are brown above and white below with a streaky brown neck. The legs and bill of juveniles are orange-pink. Immatures (first summer birds) are splotchy brown and white above as they molt into adult plumage.
An ibis is a medium-sized wading bird with a long neck, spindly legs, and a distinctive long, downward-curving bill. Colors vary by species. The White Ibis is brilliant white with black wingtips, the Scarlet Ibis is vivid red, and the Glossy Ibis has dark, iridescent chestnut and purple feathers. They live in warm regions worldwide, frequenting shallow wetlands, marshes, lakes, mangroves, and mudflats.
Ibises are carnivorous. They eat aquatic invertebrates, crustaceans (like crabs and shrimp), insects, small fish, and occasionally small frogs or snakes. Ibises are highly social birds. They forage, fly, and breed in large, sometimes vast, colonies.
They usually build compact stick nests low in trees, shrubs, or dense reeds near water, often sharing nesting spaces with herons or spoonbills.

@misteroy.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:25 PM

@helenbennett.bsky.social has chosen #BestBeaks for
#BirdOfTheDay Celebrating any bird with a beak or bill with striking colours, bold profiles, or interesting shape. The Fulmar is one of my favourite seabirds.
#Birds #BirdsInFlight #Fulmar #RSPB #BemptonCliffs

@the-old-kid.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:24 PM

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestBeaks

Here are some weirdos

#AmericanWhitePelicans #peleicans #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #photography #birds #waterfowl #largebirds #PelicansAreWeird #🪶

@motherflicker.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:22 PM

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is celebrating birds with the #BestBeaks! I love the long needle bill of Jacamars, a male Coppery-chested (Galbula pastazae) in this case. WildSumaco Lodge, Guamani, Ecuador, June 2026.

🌿🪶 #birds
#birding
#wildlife
#photography
#ecuador
#jacamars
#BirdsSeenIn2026

@noplanetbphoto.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:16 PM

The #bestbeaks of the Northern Emerald-Toucanet #photographed in #CostaRica #BirdoftheDay #birdphotography #toucan #naturephotography #EastCoastKin #birds #bird #birdsofbluesky #ECK #birdsky
#noplanetbphotography
www.noplanetbphotography.art

Medium-sized, grass-green toucan of humid tropical forest in foothills and highlands; also very locally in lowlands. Usually in pairs or small groups, moving through the canopy or feeding at fruiting trees. Nothing similar in its range. Note the rusty tail tips, best seen from below. Pattern of black and yellow on bill varies from region to region.