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There she is, Mrs.Lesser Stag Beetle. Just a little debris still on her eye, but she will manage to remove it herself.
After a week of raptors, about time to move to waterbirds. So what can be better than this Lesser Yellowlegs, strolling along the shore? On the East Pond, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, New York.
Taken in San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica. Done without a flash! Not quite like yours, Eric, but not too bad!
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Every summer here in the Rio Grande Valley we have a number of animals that can be found that are not found during the winter. One of these is the Lesser Nighthawk, which looks very similar to a Paruraque (I think I have a couple misidentified). I believe this one is a male due to the white markings on the throat. According to National Geographic website they are rare in the United States but are considered in the category of least concern on the IUCN Red List.
We found this Nighthawk on a stair step railing under an overhang. They enjoy the shade and are pretty tolerant of humans. I have been able to get within 10 feet of them on occasion. They are rarely active during the day. It is just over 104 degrees according to my weather station.
Still processing my forays into shorebird life, and it was made more urgent by the need to have some green in an image. Completely snow-covered in Ottawa, and it is hard to believe that this was a pretty recent image.
Occurs in shallow, weedy wetlands and flooded fields across North America during migration. It's smaller with a shorter bill than the Greater Yellowlegs, but otherwise very similar. It breeds in the meadows and open woodlands of boreal Canada.
The lesser goldfinches have pretty much taken over one of the feeders now. So, they get shot a lot -
Things were pretty slow today at Peaceful Waters Sanctuary, but I caught this Lesser Scaup coming in for a landing in interesting light. (Aythya affinis) (Sony a1, 200-600 lens @ 600mm, f/6.3, 1/3200 second, ISO 1000)
I thought I would upload a female Lesser Redpoll as it’s usually males that take centre stage.
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From Wiki: The lesser violetear (Colibri cyanotus), also known as the mountain violet-ear, is a medium-sized, metallic green hummingbird species commonly found in forested areas from Costa Rica to northern South America. This species and the Mexican violetear were formerly considered as conspecific and named the 'green violetear'.
Species: Lanius minor.
Location: Greece.
The Lesser Grey Shrike, like other black, white, and grey species, is a striking, neat-looking, handsome bird. It behaves like other shrikes in perching on open perches much of the time, but like them, can be frustratingly elusive on occasions. Info:RSPB.
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Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna) flower in full bloom.
Kwiat ziarnopłonu wiosennego (Ficaria verna) w pełni rozkwitu.
Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
The lesser yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a medium-sized shorebird. The genus name Tringa is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific flavipes is from Latin flavus, "yellow", and pes, "foot".
This species is similar in appearance to the larger greater yellowlegs, although it is more closely related to the much larger willet; the fine, clear and dense pattern of the neck shown in breeding plumage indicates these species' actual relationships.
A medium-large shorebird, the lesser yellowlegs measures 27 cm (11 in). The legs are yellow. Compared to the greater yellowlegs, the bill is shorter (visually about the same length as the head), slim, straight, and uniformly dark. The breast is streaked and the flanks are finely marked with short bars.
Their breeding habitat is clearings near ponds in the boreal forest region from Alaska to Quebec. They nest on the ground, usually in open dry locations.
They migrate to the Gulf coast of the United States and south to South America.
This species is a regular vagrant to western Europe, and the odd bird has wintered in Great Britain.
These birds forage in shallow water, sometimes using their bill to stir up the water. They mainly eat insects, small fish and crustaceans.
The call of this bird is softer than that of the greater yellowlegs.
Lesser yellownape | Picus chlorolophus | Nilgiris, India | Sony Alpha 1 | Sony FE600 mm F4.0 | f 6.3 @ 1/100 | ISO 2500
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Lesser Yellowlegs
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Charadriiformes
Family:Scolopacidae
Genus:Tringa
Species:T. flavipes
Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) perched on a branch.
Piegża (Curruca curruca) siedząca na gałązce.