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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.
A long abandoned cottage in Connemara, West of Ireland. The hearth grown cold; its people moved on; their hardships forgotten.
This youngster got very excited when a barn owl flew overhead carrying prey
Taken in the golden hour, Cambridgeshire Fens
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What an amazing find and sight. I've never been able to find one of these guys in the wild and here one was sitting in a relative clearing in a coniferous tree. This Long Eared was constantly scanning the surrounding area (this park is loaded with squirrels) until finally it decided to close it's eyes and return to napping. Although large in the frame this is heavy crop for an A7RIV.
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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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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Long-eared owl (Asio otus) looking at a photographer while perched ona wooden pole.
Uszatka (Asio otus) patrząca na fotografa siedząc na drewnianym paliku.
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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Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the United States and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257. In addition, Long Beach is the second largest city within Greater Los Angeles Area, after Los Angeles, and a principal city of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area.
The city is a dominant maritime center of the United States. The Port of Long Beach is the United States' second busiest container port and one of the world's largest shipping ports. The city also maintains a large oil industry with wells located both underground and offshore. Manufacturing sectors include those in aircraft, car parts, electronic and audiovisual equipment, and home furnishings. It is also home to headquarters for corporations including Epson America, Molina Healthcare, and SCAN Health Plan.
Downtown Long Beach is located approximately 22 miles (35 km) south of Downtown Los Angeles, though the two cities border each other for several miles on Long Beach's southwestern portion. Long Beach borders Orange County on its southeast edge.
Long Eared Owl on a photographic day at the British Wildlife Centre near Lingfield Surrey
Always a really special time on their photographic days
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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Long-tile boats on the Ao Nang Beech, Krabi Province, Thailand.
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