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A Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) perched on the dead wooden core of a cactus in the Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
12 December, 2017.
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This Long-billed Dowitcher was photographed near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, during breeding season, standing tall on a tundra perch like he was auditioning for a solo in the Arctic choir. And he was. Males take the high ground to deliver rapid, piping calls—keek-keek-keek-keek-keek!—part love song, part turf warning. Rivals are notified. Females, ideally, are swooning. If not, well—he still looks fabulous doing it.
Dowitchers are shorebirds engineered for mud. Their bills don’t just stab and slurp—they pinch. The flexible tip works like forceps, able to grasp prey deep in the muck without opening the beak and filling it with sludge. It’s like using chopsticks with built-in fingers.
Inside those bill tips are Herbst corpuscles—pressure-sensitive nerves that detect the faintest wiggle from prey hiding below the surface. Even when they can’t see the food, they can feel it moving.
He’s a performer, a mud-prober, and a living multitool—proving once again that Arctic love songs are better with tweezers.
Had a great day out in Portland Bill yesterday and the light was just perfect in every way. Made very good use of my K5 with a circular Polerizing filter
New General Electric C44-9Ws are lined up at Bill, Wyoming, ready to haul Chicago & North Western coal trains on the Orin Line in Powder River Basin on July 7, 1994. The unique Bill station sign stood in front of C&NW’s yard office at the tiny Wyoming burg.
Yellow-billed Cardinal is not a crested species, so other than having red on the head, there is nothing very cardinal-like about it at all. It is a very striking species though! The head is bright red, turning black on the throat, making it look like it has a black bib. As the name states, the bill is yellow, almost orange in fact and about the same color as the legs. The underparts are white and the upperparts blackish, and these are separated by a white half collar from the red head. This cardinal is a species of streamside vegetation, being found also around lakes and swamps and often feeding right from the water’s edge. Where it overlaps with the larger Red-crested Cardinal (Paroaria coronata), Red-crested takes habitats in drier and shrubbier habitats, while Yellow-billed is more of the wetland species. However, they both overlap to some extent. The bright coloration and nice song has made them a prime candidate as a cage bird, through parts of Argentina and southern Brazil. It has been successfully introduced to several of the larger islands in Hawaii! Birds of the World.
This fellow was photographed at Pantanal - MT - Brasil.
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Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) searching for a morsel on the prairie landscape east of Brooks, Alberta, Canada.
16 May, 2013.
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The Sword-billed Hummingbird is a charismatic species from Andean South America. It is found from Venezuela and Colombia in the north to Bolivia in the south. The species belongs to a monotypic genus, Ensifera, and is quite different from all other hummingbirds; metallic green and bronzed overall, with a black bill that is slightly upcurved and longer than the body length. This is the only bird species with a bill length that exceeds the body length. When seen perched, the species usually holds its bill quite upright, presumably because of balance issues stemming from this long and relatively heavy structure.
doi.org/10.2173/bow.swbhum1.01
For me one of the most amazing hummingbirds of Ecuador! Taken at the amazing Zuro Loma Reserve.
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A Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) searches the amongst the grasses for a morsel on the prairie landscape near Brooks, Alberta, Canada.
16 May, 2013.
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A Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) in short grass prairie near the Great Sandhills south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
3 June, 2011.
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A Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) checks for danger on the prairie landscape east of Brooks, Alberta, Canada.
15 May, 2013.
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A Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) roams the prairie landscape through the tall grasses in search of food in the area around Brooks, Alberta, Canada.
16 May, 2013.
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A Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) feeding in the shallows of a wetland along the roadside east of Beaverhill Lake near Tofield, Alberta, Canada.
9 May, 2022.
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Wikipedia: The green-billed malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tristis) is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found throughout Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The birds are waxy bluish black with a long graduated tail with white tips to the tail feathers. The bill is prominent and curved. These birds are found in dry scrub and thin forests.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-billed_malkoha
Conservation status: Least Concern
Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) wanders through the grasses in search of food on the prairie landscape east of Brooks, Alberta, Canada.
16 May, 2013.
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Haven't seen her in a while. I hope she off building a nest somewhere nearby.
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Tucson, Arizona
A female broad-billed hummingbird emerges from the shadows at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. If I were to choose my perfect bokeh, it would not be beige, but living in the desert there tends to be a bit of beige around. So you shoot what you see. At least the hummingbird brings a sparkle of green to the scene.
A Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) probes the water and shallow mud for food in a small marsh near Dewar lake east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
4 October, 2020.
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Its long bill is short only in comparison with the very similar Long-billed Dowitcher. This one looks like a non-breeding adult.
Taken near Fort Myers, Florida.
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Strong-billed Woodcreeper - Santa Rosa Bird Lodge, (The Birdwatcher's House, Mindo, Ecuador
Bird Species (# 340) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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A closer look at Portland Bill Lighthouse.
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A Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) rests on the waters of the wetland in Hawrelak Park in the river valley of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
19 April, 2016.
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Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) relaxing on the shores of Miquelon Lakes southeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
2 August, 2013.
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Red-billed leiothrix -Leiothrix lutea
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A Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) rests along the shoreline during its southerly migration at Miquelon Lakes southeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
2 August, 2013.
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A Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) searches the grass coverage for scraps of food in an urban park in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
17 April, 2017.
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Smooth-billed Ani - Sani Lodge, Sucumbios, Ecuador
Bird Species (# 570) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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Ring-billed gull.
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Saddle-billed Stork - Victoria Nile River, Murchison Falls National Park, Paraa, Uganda
Bird Species # (572) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
Morning river cruise on the Victoria Nile from Paraa to the Delta. Private small boat trip provided by Wild Frontiers Uganda Safaris.
On this trip to Uganda we used Ngoni Safaris Uganda. They provided excellent service. I highly recommend them.
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