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Black Terns are colony nesters found in shallow lakes, marshes, sloughs,and wet meadows where there are extensive shallows and emergent vegetation. Black Terns are noisy and fierce defenders of nests and will dive bomb intruders. (Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta)
At the Big Lake Interpretive Trail, the nests are often just a few meters away from the trail in a clump of vegetation in the shallow water. I spotted the mate of this one sitting on her nest and he hovered over me while vocalizing his displeasure with my presence. They will also fly right at you at eye level and then rise up about a meter from your head and give a final squawk and sometimes drop a "bomb". They will keep doing this until you move on.
Big Lake Interpretive Trail. Parkland Conty, Alberta.
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in a winter plumage. A flock of noisy Black-headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) landed on the river when a passer-by started feeding resident swans. They didn’t stay for long though.
In the past the scientific name of this species was Larus ridibundus. Larus in Latin ‘larus’ or in Ancient Greek ‘laros’ apparently meaning “gull” or “seabird”. The epithet ‘ridibundus’ means in Latin “laughing lot” referring to its characteristic call resembling laugh, and a noisy behaviour of the flock. 20 years ago, all black-headed species moved to a separate genus ”Chroicocephalus”. This name is an amalgamation of two Ancient Greek words ‘khroizo’, “to colour", and ‘kephale’, "head”, i.e. ‘colour-headed’ – makes more sense… in summer, when they are in a breeding plumage. In winter months their heads mainly white with few dark streaks and spots. The river Avon’s riverside, Bath, BANES, England UK.
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Photographed at Harris Neck NWR
From Cornell:
With sooty black plumage, a bare black head, and neat white stars under the wingtips, Black Vultures are almost dapper. Whereas Turkey Vultures are lanky birds with teetering flight, Black Vultures are compact birds with broad wings, short tails, and powerful wingbeats. The two species often associate: the Black Vulture makes up for its poor sense of smell by following Turkey Vultures to carcasses. They soar high in the sky and keep an eye on the lower-soaring Turkey Vultures. When a Turkey Vulture’s nose detects the delicious aroma of decaying flesh and descends on a carcass, the Black Vulture follows close behind. Highly social birds with fierce family loyalty, Black Vultures share food with relatives, feeding young for months after they’ve fledged.
I have over 100 folders of unprocessed photos from the past 6 years which I’m currently going through, this is one of those. Note – many of these re-visit an already posted subject. I've gotten through the first 11 folders.
Black-shouldered Kite, Elanus axillaris
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A few weeks back I put up some shots from a nesting pair. They had set up a nest in the top of a dead tree, in the open. Most unusual.
A week or so later after some large storms, rain and wind, we checked and the nest was no longer in use. The adults were still around, but not attending the nest.
Conclusion: They lost the clutch.
Wrong! This morning we found them working with three very active young.
Determanation is built into Black-shouldered Kite dna.
Juvenile black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) perched on a sign.
Młody kopciuszek (Phoenicurus ochruros) siedzący na tabliczce.
The adult male bird was sleeping whilst standing on one leg, and was suddenly awoken by the arrival of one of its juvenile birds!
Two pairs of these amazing leggy birds have successfully been breeding at RSPB Frampton Marsh { Lincolnshire, UK} during 2023 {where this photograph was taken}.
Snoopy is about the happiest Black vulture that you could ever meet. He's an unreleasable, rescued bird that has spent the past twenty years with the American Wildlife Refuge here in the Triangle of North Carolina.
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The Black-collared Hawk is a striking raptor measuring 17 to 20 inches long, with an impressive wingspan of up to 4 feet. Found throughout Central and South America, this bird thrives near wetlands and rivers, primarily preying on fish.
The remarkable bill of the Black Skimmer sets it apart from all other American birds. The large red and black bill is knife-thin and the lower mandible is longer than the upper. The bird drags the lower bill through the water as it flies along, hoping to catch small fish.
Red-tailed black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii) on the banks of the Darling River. Also known as Banksian or Banks' black cockatoo the populations in southeastern Australia are threatened by deforestation and other habitat alterations. Paroo-Darling National Park, New South Wales, Australia.
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No I haven't been to the south Atlantic - this was taken off Bempton Cliffs on a boat trip (Yorkshire Coast Nature) in the summer. It was certainly a matter of right place, right time. Amazing to view the bird up close as we had seen it perched on the cliffs from a great distance.
Albie is "thought to be the only albatross of its kind in the Northern Hemisphere...
This magnificent long-distance traveller from the south Atlantic, with a wingspan of over 2.4m, has been living in the Baltic Seas around Denmark and Germany since 2014 after being blown off course from the South Atlantic oceans. It has remained in the Baltic area ever since, making occasional forays across the North Sea to RSPB Bempton Cliffs, near Flamborough, East Yorkshire, where it was first spotted in the summer of 2017." RSPB