Ivory-billed Woodpeckers & Others in the Campephilus Genus
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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
This image might appear out in the open, but was actually taken looking between branches leaves and twigs that were constantly moving in the breeze, hand held.
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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.
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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.
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.
Black-billed Gull - Lake Tekapo -- Tekapo, Mackenzie District, New Zealand
Bird Species (# 477) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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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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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) 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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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) 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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Wikipedia: The green-billed malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tristis) is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found throughout Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The birds are waxy bluish black with a long graduated tail with white tips to the tail feathers. The bill is prominent and curved. These birds are found in dry scrub and thin forests.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-billed_malkoha
Conservation status: Least Concern
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Cyclarhis nigrirostris
(Black-billed Peppershrike / Verderón piquinegro)
The Black-billed Peppershrike is a distinctive songbird of northwestern South America. Found in the subtropical zone on Andean slopes between 1300 and 2700 meters in elevation, this peppershrike inhabits canopy of humid forest in its range in Colombia and Ecuador.
As it remains hidden in the canopy of the forest, the best way to detect the Black-billed Peppershrike is by listening for the song, a rich warbling song composed of short, separated phrases.
Black-billed Peppershrike (Cyclarhis nigrirostris), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
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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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 pied billed grebe was downing this fish as I arrived at the edge of Commonwealth Lake. I managed to get a shot before the fish became a lump in the neck.
A Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) probes the water and shallow mud for food in a small marsh near Dewar lake east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
4 October, 2020.
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Colibrà 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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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.
I don't usually photograph the Gulls but this one was so close and posing quit well so I fired off a quick shot.
A Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) rests on the waters of the wetland in Hawrelak Park in the river valley of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
19 April, 2016.
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Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) relaxing on the shores of Miquelon Lakes southeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
2 August, 2013.
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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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I was stitting on a bench near the edge of the water when this one flew to a boulder close beside me. Here is a close up showing the red eye ring they sport during breeding season.
William Hawrelak Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
Broad billed motmot, Panama.
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Yellow-billed Shrike (Corvinella corvina) is a charismatic resident of West African woodlands and savannas. Highly social and often encountered in noisy groups, it is instantly recognizable by its bold yellow bill and crisp brown plumage.
These shrikes feed mainly on insects and other small invertebrates, which they forage actively from branches and foliage, occasionally taking small reptiles or other prey. Breeding is cooperative, with groups helping to defend territories and raise young - a behavior that makes this species particularly interesting from an ecological perspective. Their loud, chattering calls play an important role in maintaining group cohesion and alerting others to danger.
Saddle-billed Stork - Victoria Nile River, Murchison Falls National Park, Paraa, Uganda
Bird Species # (572) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
Morning river cruise on the Victoria Nile from Paraa to the Delta. Private small boat trip provided by Wild Frontiers Uganda Safaris.
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