Birdboozled

🐥 Snapped this piping plover near Warwick a few weeks ago. Good news: despite this little bird being classified as "near threatened" by the IUCN, its population is actually increasing thanks to conservation efforts undertaken by a few states on the east coast.

🐓 Five red-necked pharalopes were feeding near a small tidepool on a black sand beach in Iceland, and didn't mind me getting close for a few images! 😊 These guys are miniscule,
only weighing up to 35 grams (1.2 oz) and are only as large as sparrows. They breed in the arctic circle in the summer, and can be found all the way south of Argentina in the summer.
Side note: they are SUPER difficult to take photos of. They float quickly back and forth with waves and are hyper-active, so the vast majority of shots that don't have motion blue are totally out of focus. Only two of dozens of images turned out sharp.

🐦 The barn swallow can be found everywhere around the world other than Antarctica, migrating from northern Canada, Europe and Russia, to southern Chile, South Africa and southern Australia each year. These birds re-use previous nests and are social, living in pairs and groups of pairs.

🐿 The incredibly adorable Townsend's chipmunk napping on a log. This omnivorous rodent devours insects, plants, and even bird eggs!

🦜 Rufous hummingbirds are some of the most aggressive, attacking and defeating competitors at feeders and flowers, sometimes overpowering species twice their size. These tiny creatures can migrate from southern Mexico all the way to Alaska each year.