EASTERN NECK WILDLIFE REFUGE
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Another bird species that was on my bucket list is shown here, and again a bird that I most of the time could only photograph far far away. This is the black necked grebe. Last year I saw that a group of 6 adults was staying in a pool not too far away, and after two visits to the area ("de groene jonker") I caught this grebe close to the shore while sleeping. Another wonderful bird species! Now added to my list is when they carry their chicks around!
The buff-necked ibis (theristicus caudatus), also known as the white-throated ibis, is a fairly large ibis found widely in open habitats of eastern and northern South America.
Its diet consists mainly of insects, spiders, frogs, reptiles, snails, invertebrates and small mammals found in soft soils. The female usually lays two to four eggs in a platform nest, made from twigs and branches, in a tree.
The Pantanal is a tropical wetland and the world's largest wetland of any kind. The Pantanal ecosystem is also thought to be home to 1000 bird species, 400 fish species, 300 mammalian species, 480 reptile species and over 9000 different subspecies of invertebrates.
Pantanal, Brazil
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Kafue National Park, Zambia
also called Red-necked Spurfowl
pternistis afer
roodkeelfrankolijn
francolin à gorge rouge
Rotkehlfrankolin
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This is a pair of "Ring-necked Ducks". The male is behind, and shows the typical view of him. The thin, faint brownish ring coloration in his neck is seldom visible. But both the adult male and female show a strong "white ring" on their bills. I have often wondered why this species was not called "Ring-billed Ducks".
This pair was seen among a group of about twenty Ring-necked Ducks at Celery Fields, Saratoga County, Florida.
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The streak-necked flycatcher (Mionectes striaticollis) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae.
It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Never saw one perched off the ground. The hunters were out in the fields. Think the birds know if they get to the gates, they are safe.
Red-necked Grebe's apparently starting a nesting project. I did not know that they will build a floating nest of rotting plant material, continuously adding material to it.
The Red-necked Grebe breeds on small inland lakes in Canada and Alaska, and winters along both coasts of North America. Boldly marked, vocal, and aggressive during the breeding season, it is quiet and subtly attired in winter.
A Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) protects its nest and egg during the early stages of nesting on an urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
4 June, 2018.
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This was my first opportunity to photograph a Stilt on dry land. They are appropriately named.
Lamont County, Alberta.
A Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) relaxes in the shallow waters of a prairie wetland east of Brooks, Alberta, Canada. It is spring and potential mates are actively pursuing each other for the right to breed and initiate nesting for the year.
16 May, 2013.
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A Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) strides through the mudflats of a wetland on the prairie landscape east of Brooks, Alberta, Canada.
15 May, 2013.
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A last look at the Red-necked Phalaropes. They are on their way to their breeding gronds in Northern Canada and Alaska.
More shorebird species to appear on my photostream over the next few days.
Murray Marsh. Surgeon County, Alberta.
A Black-necked Stilt () wades in the shallow waters of a prairie wetland in search of a morsel near Brooks, Alberta, Canada.
15 May, 2013.
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There is a lot of care and planning goes into preparing for a successful brood, this red-necked grebe carefully places the eggs and regularly rotates and inspects.
I have observed this nest for a number of years, this pair arrives on almost fixed dates and has successfully raised many chicks. Red-necked grebe are little special in their anatomy, there legs are situated at the very back which makes these grebes little awkward on dry land, no problem on water where they spend most of their time.
A pair of Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) perform the annual ritual to continue the growth of their population on the prairie landscape east of Brooks, Alberta, Canada.
As we are now approaching the dormant period of our annual cycle on the prairies - what we call winter - it is good to dream of new life life beginning with the arrival of spring.
17 May, 2013.
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A Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) rests on a small urban pond it has claimed as its nesting territory in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.
3 May, 2015.
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... nearby Starzach - shot in April.
Germany. Infrared landscape. Neckar River. Nearby Horb and Starzach. f/7.1. 18mm. 1/1000sec. ISO 200. Nikon D40. Using infrared 720nm filter. Red/Blue channelswap and SW reduction in post.
A Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) resting in a small roadside pond east of Beaverhill Lake, Alberta, Canada.
9 May, 2022.
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