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The name of this species could be misleading: it is 'short-billed' only by comparison to the Long-billed Dowitcher, and longer-billed than the average shorebird. Flocks of Short-billed Dowitchers wade in shallow water over coastal mudflats. They often seem rather tame, allowing a close approach when they are busy feeding. ~ Audubon.org
also known as sulfur-breasted toucan or rainbow-billed toucan.
Why the bright colors? In the jungle, where the light is dimmer, these colors aren't bright. The various colors brake up his contours and helps hide his shape from predators.
This little Yellow-billed Oxpecker is sitting on the “boss” of Buffalo.
The oxpecker-mammal relationship is more complex than was previously thought. These little birds feed almost exclusively on what they can clean from the skin of large African mammals.
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A Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) perched on the dead wooden core of a cactus in the Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
12 December, 2017.
Slide # GWB_20171212_0083.CR2
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New General Electric C44-9Ws are lined up at Bill, Wyoming, ready to haul Chicago & North Western coal trains on the Orin Line in Powder River Basin on July 7, 1994. The unique Bill station sign stood in front of C&NW’s yard office at the tiny Wyoming burg.
Yellow-billed Cardinal is not a crested species, so other than having red on the head, there is nothing very cardinal-like about it at all. It is a very striking species though! The head is bright red, turning black on the throat, making it look like it has a black bib. As the name states, the bill is yellow, almost orange in fact and about the same color as the legs. The underparts are white and the upperparts blackish, and these are separated by a white half collar from the red head. This cardinal is a species of streamside vegetation, being found also around lakes and swamps and often feeding right from the water’s edge. Where it overlaps with the larger Red-crested Cardinal (Paroaria coronata), Red-crested takes habitats in drier and shrubbier habitats, while Yellow-billed is more of the wetland species. However, they both overlap to some extent. The bright coloration and nice song has made them a prime candidate as a cage bird, through parts of Argentina and southern Brazil. It has been successfully introduced to several of the larger islands in Hawaii! Birds of the World.
This fellow was photographed at Pantanal - MT - Brasil.
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A Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) feeding in the mud flats of Miquelon Lakes southeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
7 August, 2014.
Slide # GWB_20140807_1854.CR2
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The Sword-billed Hummingbird is a charismatic species from Andean South America. It is found from Venezuela and Colombia in the north to Bolivia in the south. The species belongs to a monotypic genus, Ensifera, and is quite different from all other hummingbirds; metallic green and bronzed overall, with a black bill that is slightly upcurved and longer than the body length. This is the only bird species with a bill length that exceeds the body length. When seen perched, the species usually holds its bill quite upright, presumably because of balance issues stemming from this long and relatively heavy structure.
doi.org/10.2173/bow.swbhum1.01
For me one of the most amazing hummingbirds of Ecuador! Taken at the amazing Zuro Loma Reserve.
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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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A Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) feeding in the shallows of a wetland along the roadside east of Beaverhill Lake near Tofield, Alberta, Canada.
9 May, 2022.
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The Sword-billed Hummingbird is a charismatic species from Andean South America. It is found from Venezuela and Colombia in the north to Bolivia in the south. The species belongs to a monotypic genus, Ensifera, and is quite different from all other hummingbirds; metallic green and bronzed overall, with a black bill that is slightly upcurved and longer than the body length. This is the only bird species with a bill length that exceeds the body length. When seen perched, the species usually holds its bill quite upright, presumably because of balance issues stemming from this long and relatively heavy structure.
doi.org/10.2173/bow.swbhum1.01
For me one of the most amazing hummingbirds of Ecuador! Taken at the amazing Zuro Loma Reserve.
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Colibrí Picoespada, Sword-billed Hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera.
Hacienda El Bosque
Departamento de Caldas
Colombia
Its long bill is short only in comparison with the very similar Long-billed Dowitcher. This one looks like a non-breeding adult.
Taken near Fort Myers, Florida.
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Prong-billed Barbet, really interesting birds. Costa Rica
The prong-billed barbet is a distinctive, relatively large-billed bird native to humid highland forest of Costa Rica and western Panama. It often has been placed with the other barbets in the Capitonidae. However, DNA studies have confirmed that this arrangement is paraphyletic; New World barbets are more closely related to toucans than they are to Old World barbets.-Wikipedia
A female broad-billed hummingbird emerges from the shadows at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. If I were to choose my perfect bokeh, it would not be beige, but living in the desert there tends to be a bit of beige around. So you shoot what you see. At least the hummingbird brings a sparkle of green to the scene.
This Northern Shoveler drake gives me a look at that broad bill of his as he comes more in my direction.
Taken 18 May 2019 at Spenard Crossing, Anchorage, Alaska.
Strong-billed Woodcreeper - Santa Rosa Bird Lodge, (The Birdwatcher's House, Mindo, Ecuador
Bird Species (# 340) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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Unlike most terns, the Gull-billed Tern has a broad diet and does not depend on fish. Instead it commonly feeds on insects, small crabs, and other prey snatched from the ground, air, or even bushes. It is also known to eat small chicks of other tern species.
293) LongBilled Spiderhuter
Long-Billed Spiderhunter, Arachnothera robusta, Kelicap Jantung Paruh Panjang
This spiderhunter can be found in the rainforest of SouthEast Asia. Usually hunting in the highest part of the canopy, thus not easy to spot. The long bill is the obvious characteristic that differentiate it from another spiderhunter species.
I don't usually photograph the Gulls but this one was so close and posing quit well so I fired off a quick shot.
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Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) relaxing on the shores of Miquelon Lakes southeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
2 August, 2013.
Slide # GWB_20130802_6092.CR2
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Broad billed motmot, Panama.
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Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) strolling the mud and sand flats along the beach of Miquelon Lake southeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
7 August, 2014.
Slide # GWB_20140807_1702.CR2
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A Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) searches the grass coverage for scraps of food in an urban park in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
17 April, 2017.
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Red billed Firefinch, South Africa.
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A pretty Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) has caught a fishy prey in Pasir Ris Park Mangrove Forest.
Explore with me in my blog: A Return To Pasir Ris Park and Mangrove Forest
*Note: More pics of Birds in my Wild Avian Friends Album.