There is something quite special about terns and this dapper Inca Tern with its magnificent white moustache is no exception to this. It is not just the males which can be found sporting this fine moustache though, it is also shared by the females. Interestingly, the longer the moustache, the healthier the bird so naturally you are most likely to find those with longer moustaches with a partner who shares an equally impressive moustache. This striking tern was photographed by David Shackelford in Peru where its range extends into Chile.

Herring Gull feeding juvenile at Lodmoor RSPB reserve - Weymouth - Dorset

Northern Wheatear at Combe Heath - Arne RSPB reserve - Dorset

Whinchat on Salisbury Plain - Wiltshire

Sedge Warbler at Titchfield Haven

Skylark at Tealham Moor - Somerset Levels

Cuco-canoro, Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

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Birdwatching

A male mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) swimming.

Pica-pau-verde, Iberian Green Woodpecker (Picus sharpei)

White-throated sparrow posing with a gentle purple background behind

An adult swan shaking energetically with its wings

A male Kingfisher at Bradford-on-Avon - Wiltshire

Lyekka watching the birds in the garden.

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Zarah, my tsarina

Redwing at Slimbridge WWT - Gloucestershire

Zumbador Grande (Anthracothorax dominicus) Antillean Mango.

Libando las flores de a alpargata (Consolea moniliformis)

Parque Nacional Francisco Camaño. Azua Rep. Dominicana.

From lake Volvi, during midwinter waterbirds counting.

Guarda-rios, Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

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Water Rail at Slimbridge WWT

Whinchat - Salisbury Plain - Wiltshire

We get quite a lot of birds in our garden - sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes, finches, wagtails, robins and sometimes pidgeons. Wiggins likes to watch them, but he can't be doing with seagulls or magpies - he barks at them and chases them off!

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Chaffinch pictured at the Wildflower meadow hide

Pato Juarjual - Lophonetta specularioides.

Costanera Puerto Natales, Región de Magallanes y la Antártica chilena

Common Snipe at Slimbridge WWT

Bird research Shilute and Shilale Municipality April 2015

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Common kingfisher

Morning walk in the Spring

Kintai Fish Ponds - Birders paradise

RSPB Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire, UK