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Female Sparrowhawk which perched obligingly for 20 mins outside the Estuary Tower at Slimbridge WWT!
Perdiz-comum, Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
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Green-crowned Woodnymph - Woodnymphs (Thalurania) are medium-sized hummingbirds with a slightly decurved, black bill; the males also have a noticeably forked tail, and glittering throat and belly. They inhabit the understory of humid lowland forest and in adjacent advanced second growth, and often are common. The Green-crowned Woodnymph is the representative of this genus that occurs from eastern Panama south to southwestern Ecuador. As the name implies, this is the only species of woodnymph in which the crown of the male is glittering green. Four subspecies of Green-crowned Woodnymph are recognized. The three northern subspecies all are very similar: the male has a green throat but a blue breast and belly, while the female has a gray throat and the belly is mixed dark gray and dark green. The southernmost subspecies, hypochlora of southwestern Ecuador, is very different, however: the male is entirely green below, while the underparts of the female are all pale gray.
Picture taken at San Miguel de los Bancos, Ecuador.
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Photographed in the Cirencester area in the UK, this busy little Whitethroat was constantly collecting insects at an alarming rate for its hungry young.
Plectrophenax nivalis
During the last ice age, it was widespread throughout continental Europe.
Unlike most passerines, it has feathered tarsi, an adaptation to its harsh environment. No other passerine can winter as far north as this species apart from the Common Raven.
Sandy Hook, NJ
Oil painting style
Behavior of these birds:
Probes into sand or mud with its long bill for aquatic invertebrates. Sometimes walks while probing or takes a few steps before burying its bill into the mud. Social outside of the breeding season; forages in groups and also with Willets, Whimbrels, and Long-billed Curlews.
source: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Marbled_Godwit/id
seen on the sim: Endless: Permafrost, Haraiki Bay
flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/permafrost/
Blacktoft Sands has seen a great influx of people, birdwatchers to see the white tailed Plover. This bird has been very mobile and indeed on our day the Plover was seen at almost every hide by myself and Phil Smithson.
The photo, although okay was the only flight shot I have that is usable and to get this took all my skills as a 40 year image manipulator to get
New Britain Pa.
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The Chestnut-naped Antpitta is a typical ground-dwelling Grallaria, although it sings from a low perch, and which strongly prefers bamboo thickets in humid montane forest at 1900 to 3150 m. Its geographical range extends from north-central Colombia to northernmost Peru. As is typical of the Grallariidae, very little has been published to date concerning this species’ ecology, although the eggs have been described, and the Chestnut-naped Antpitta is presumably a fairly strict insectivore. Three species of the Chestnut-naped Antpitta are recognized and these differ principally in their crown colour and the intensity of the saturation to the underparts, although there are also some differences in their vocalizations. The basic plumage pattern, common to all three, is of gray underparts with a darker face, and rufous-brown upperparts, usually brightest and most rufescent over the crown and nape. doi.org/10.2173/bow.chnant1.01
Picture taken at Zuro Loma Birding - Ecuador. Have a Peaceful Friday.
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Empidonax Flaviventris
Right place, right time. We went looking for a special Warbler. Didn't find it, but this guy surprised us.
Schwenksville, PA
Female Sparrowhawk which perched obligingly for 20 mins outside the Estuary Tower at Slimbridge WWT!
A Dark-eyed Junco pauses briefly with a trove of nesting material before taking it to add to a structure hidden among grasses on the ground. This bird was seen at Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site near Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Low level acrobatics preformed to perfection!
A group of 8-10 Cliff Swallows feast on a hatch of gnats near the shores of Patoka Lake, Indiana.
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I returned to the park where the nuthatches and chickadees will handfeed. That didn't happen on this very cold day, in fact, there were very few birds (or people) to be seen. The White-breasted Nuthatch was quite happy to stay on its snowy perch.
White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis
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Northern Bald Ibis
The name of this specimen is "El comandante" and is equipped with a GPS device as the species is the subject of a reintroduction project.
The American bushtit inhabits mixed open woodlands, often containing oaks and a scrubby chaparral understory ; it also inhabits parks and gardens. It is a year-round resident of the western United States and highland parts of Mexico, ranging from Vancouver through the Great Basin and the lowlands and foothills of California to southern Mexico and Guatemala.
The American bushtit is one of the smallest passerines in North America, at 11 cm (4.3 in) in length and 5–6 g (0.18–0.21 oz) in weight. It is gray-brown overall, with a large head, a short neck, a long tail, and a short stubby bill. The male has dark eyes and the adult female, yellow. Coastal forms have a brown "cap" while those in the interior have brown "mask."
The American bushtit is active and gregarious, foraging for small insects and spiders in mixed-species feeding flocks containing species such as chickadees and warblers, of 10 to over 40 individuals. Members of the group constantly make contact calls to each other that can be described