Bird Of The Day, theme 'Eck'
Alan set today's Bird Of The Day theme as The Gathering, with LivingLandscape as an alternate and posts tagged ECK, asking images of flocks, colonies, or communal behavior. Contributors showed a Bar-tailed Godwit roosting with a large Dunlin flock on the seashore, a flamboyance of flamingos at Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, and goslings fleeing water as adults moved protectively to the pond's edge. One post noted that roughly 1.2 million snow geese travel from Alaska and Canada to California's Central Valley each winter along the Pacific Flyway, highlighting the scale behind many flock images. The theme spotlights social and migratory bird behavior and gives photographers chances to explore patterns, scale, and communal interactions in wild and captive birds.
![Peaceful scene in coral and shades of green at Schönbrunn Zoo:
About a dozen - truly coral-colored - flamingos in bright sunshine on a meadow in front of a thicket of bushes and trees, part of the birds reflected in the pond in the foreground.
"Schönbrunn Zoo (German: Tiergarten Schönbrunn; also simply called Vienna Zoo) is a 17-hectare (42-acre) zoo in the city of Vienna, Austria. Established in 1752,[1] it is the world's oldest zoo still in operation. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, being a part of the Schönbrunn Palace gardens." Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schönbrunn_Zoo](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:35w4kynk6eysgvbrhquqbk23/bafkreidkn75cgpkmff2ncy2xnfxogcx6xtruq5r7zrwsaizddp2ggncreq)
