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Sports fans in some cities get an extra show during night games: kestrels perching on light standards or foul poles, tracking moths and other insects in the powerful stadium light beams and catching these snacks on the wing. Some of their hunting flights have even made it onto TV sports coverage.
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) fishing for minnows. They have adapted to using minnows as a winter food source where open water is available and the minnows concentrate. There were two types of small fish in this pond, one is the minnow noted in the image and the other is a species of Stickleback. There is a small seep or spring keeping the water open on a small pond in an urban park in northeast Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The light conditions were poor so fill flash was used to bring out some more detail in the bird.
11 January, 2016.
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American Tree Sparrow (Spizelloides arborea) is a hardy northern sparrow with plump body, small bill and long, thin tail. Note rusty cap and rusty (not black) eyeline, gray head and unstreaked grayish breast with dark smudge in center. Small flocks hop on ground, foraging for seeds, giving a soft, musical twitter.
An American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) roosts on a drift wood log in the middle of a stream Waterton National Park, Alberta, Canada.
20 August, 2014.
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American Black Ducks are large ducks with a profile nearly identical to Mallards. They have rounded heads, thick bills, and bulky bodies. Like other dabbling ducks they sit high in the water with their tails high.
The American mink differs from members of the genus Mustela (stoats and weasels), as well as the other members of Neogale, by its larger size and stouter form, which closely approach those of martens.
The berries are a source of food for some songbirds, but are poisonous to humans.
From the autumn 2019 archives
Ithaca, New York
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Kleb Woods Nature Preserve
Tomball Texas USA
The American robin is a migratory songbird of the true thrush genus and Turdidae, the wider thrush family. It is named after the European robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the Old World flycatcher family.
American Border Peak on the right and Canadian Border Peak to the left from Yellow Aster Butte. Tomyhoi lake is nestled beyond the ridge in this shot looking Northeast. Mount Larrabee is visible a well just to the right of American Border Peak.
An American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) leisurely swims on an urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
4 June, 2018.
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Female with a treat !
Great Swamp NWR, NJ
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I was surprised I was able to get a shot of this male...Been around for a while on his territory ...He likes no one...lol !
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Lol my last 4 shots have gotten explored. let's see if I'm guaranteed exploration forever.
Finally finished the corresponding blog post for this: ybrt.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/a-taste-of-east/
Taken during feeding time of this duck on Vancouver Island.
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This female American Kestrel is giving me the eye as she banks in the air. Kestrels are our smallest falcon, Falco sparverius. I would have guessed that "sparverius" had something to do with the military prowess of Sparta but, alas, it means "relating to a sparrow", alluding to the bird's size and prey.
An American Wigeon (Anas americana) relaxes on an urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
3 May, 2021.
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An American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) in non-breeding plumage at Last Mountain Lake near Watrous in east central Saskatchewan, Canada.
31 August, 2012.
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