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From our Utqiagvik tour this past summer

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Faisão-comum, Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)

Êider, Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)

Photobombed

This little duckling was bombed by a sibling on Lake Washington during Seafair.

Gang of Painted Stock - Can you count them ?

The painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wader in the stork family.

Order:Ciconiiformes

Family:Ciconiidae

Genus:Mycteria

Species:M. leucocephala

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This is one of five long tailed tits that have been visiting our bird feeder this winter. I managed to get a few shots of them the other day, but this one was my favourite one. They are very cute little creatures.

A flamingo’s nest looks like a mini mud volcano, with room for one large egg. Flamingos are monogamous, and mom and dad are team players. Both help to build the nest and incubate the egg. Flamingo chicks hatch with white-gray, downy feathers and straight bills. It takes several years for them to acquire their signature pink color and hook-shaped bills.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo has been home to flamingos since around its founding more than 130 years ago. Bird House keepers have worked to breed flamingos since the early ‘90s and have welcomed more than 120 chicks over the years!

A flock of flamingos on nests made of mud that resemble mini volcanos. One flamingo in the foreground has a chick under its wings, others stand in the background.

Flamingos really are what they eat. Many plants produce natural red, yellow or orange pigments, called carotenoids. Carotenoids give carrots their orange color or turn ripe tomatoes red. They are also found in the microscopic algae that brine shrimp eat. As a flamingo dines on algae and brine shrimp, its body metabolizes the pigments — turning its feathers pink.

The term filter feeder may conjure images of baleen whales or oyster reefs, but flamingos are filter feeders too. They eat algae, small seeds, tiny crustaceans (like brine shrimp), fly larvae, and other plants and animals that live in shallow waters.

When it’s time to eat, a flamingo will place its head upside down in the water with its bill pointed at its feet. It then sweeps its head side-to-side, using its tongue to pump water in and out of its bill. Comb-like plates along the edge of the bill create a filter for water to rush out, while trapping food inside.

A group of pink flamingos with stem-like legs and long, curved necks stands in a pond in the winter. Snow can be seen on the surrounding trees and there is steam coming off the warm water.

In warm climates, flamingos keep cool by standing in water. Bird House keepers apply this natural thermoregulation to keep the Zoo’s flock warm in the winter, too. The flamingo pool is heated to 70 degrees Fahrenheit to keep the birds comfortable — even when it’s snowing.

A group of crows is called a murder, and a group of geese is called a gaggle. So, what is a group of flamingos called? A flamboyance! Other collective nouns for flamingos include stand, colony and pat.

The Zoo’s historic Bird House may be closed for renovations, but keepers continue to care for more than 60 Caribbean flamingos (also called American flamingos) behind the scenes. In the wild, flamingos sometimes gather by the thousands! Scientists estimate that there are more than 200,000 Caribbean flamingos in the wild, with populations in the Bahamas and Cuba, Mexico, and the Southern Caribbean — as well as a small group of about 400-500 in the Galápagos Islands.

In addition to Caribbean flamingos, there are lesser, greater, James’s (or Puna), Chilean and Andean flamingos. Greater flamingos are found in parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe. They are the largest and tallest flamingo species.

Chilean, Andean, and James’s flamingos are found only in South America. Andean flamingos are the rarest of the six species, with fewer than 40,000 birds. Lesser flamingos are found in parts of Africa and southern Asia. They are the smallest flamingos and the most abundant. There are more than 2 million lesser flamingos brightening skies and shores with their pink plumage.

Flamingo legs actually bend just like human legs. What looks like a flamingo's knee is really its ankle joint. A flamingo’s knees are located higher up the legs, hidden by the body and feathers. Confused? Think of a flamingo as standing on tiptoe. When the leg bends, it’s the ankle you see hinging.

Flamingos are typically found in shallow saltwater or brackish waters (where saltwater and freshwater mix). But some flamingo species breed and raise their young in extremely salty bodies of water, called alkaline or “soda” lakes. The high concentration of carbonate salts in these lakes is so corrosive that it can burn the skin, making the water uninhabitable for most animals.

Researchers are still uncovering the unique aspects of a flamingo’s physiology — like tough leg skin — that help it survive such harsh waters. The high salt can still be deadly for some flamingo chicks if salt rings build up on their legs, making it impossible for them to walk.

A flamingo’s “milk” is produced in its crop (part of its throat) and then brought up through its mouth. It may sound icky, but a flamingo’s crop milk is chock-full of healthy proteins and fats. Both parents can produce crop milk to feed a flamingo chick until it is old enough to eat on its own.

You may be used to seeing flamingos gathered in large groups on the ground, but they also take flight. Some flamingos will travel to breed, migrate to a new body of water as seasons change, or move to warmer, lower-altitude areas for the winter. If flamingos are traveling long distances, they often go by night.

Flamingos can stand on one foot for long periods of time — even long enough to fall asleep. But, why do they perform this balancing act? Research suggests that flamingos use more muscle power when standing on two legs, so standing on one leg may be less tiring.

Scientists also believe that a one-legged stance may help flamingos stay warm. Birds lose body heat through their limbs. By standing on one leg and tucking the other under their belly, flamingos can limit the amount of heat that escapes through their legs and feet.

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Binomial name

Calliope calliope

The Siberian Rubythroat adult male in breeding plumage has olive-brown upperparts from crown to tail. The greater wing- coverts are tipped buff, forming a narrow wingbar. The primaries are edged cinnamon.

On the underparts, chin and throat are red. Upper breast and sides of lower throat are brownish-grey, whereas centre of breast, belly and undertail-coverts are whitish. The flanks are washed olive-buff.

On the head, the crown is olive-brown. Eyebrow and malar stripe are white and lores are black. The malar stripe is bordered with black.

The bill is blackish with paler base of lower mandible. The eyes are dark brown. Legs and feet are greyish-pink.

The Siberian Rubythroat feeds primarily on insects and larvae including ants, wasps, beetles, mosquitoes, bugs and spiders. It also consumes aquatic prey such as molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic insects caught along the seashore on passage during migration.

Cia, Rock Bunting (Emberiza cia)

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Semi-palmated Sandpiper

A Semi-palmated Sandpiper does a wing display on driftwood in Nome from this past summer.

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From Utah last month.

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Canon 760d with 18-135mm

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Una especie muy esquiva y que se resiste ante la cámara. Nada más ve el objetivo se zambulle y desaparece para emerger a decenas de metros de ti. Cuando llega el periodo reproductivo su plumaje se transforma para ser mucho más vistoso.

Una espècie molt esquiva i que es resisteix davant la cambra. Res més veu l'objectiu es capbussa i desapareix per a emergir a desenes de metres de tu. Quan arriba el període reproductiu el seu plomatge es transforma per a ser molt més vistós.

A very elusive species that dodge the camera. As soon as it sees the lens it dives and disappears to emerge tens of meters from you. When the reproductive period arrives, its plumage transforms to be much more colorful.

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Papa-figos, Eurasian Golden Oriole (Oriolus oriolus)

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From Northern Ohio in a field near my house

From the backyard at the peak of fall color

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I love the expression of this Barn owl.

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Morning Autumn colours on the pond

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Painted Stork

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Verdilhão, European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)

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Una de las especies con más ritmo de las marismas, su forma de caminar es muy particular, como si tuviese un muelle en las patas.

Una de les espècies amb més ritme dels marenys, la seua manera de caminar és molt particular, com si tinguera un moll en les potes.

One of the species with the most rhythm of the marshes, its way of walking is very particular, as if it had a spring in its legs.

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On a delicate leafy tree, a dainty Prinia sits gracefully, blending seamlessly with its verdant surroundings. Despite its petite size, the bird's cheerful presence fills the air with sweet melodies.

Although mainly nocturnal, the little owl can be spotted in the day hunting invertebrates (especially worms), small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and small birds. It is often seen perched a telegraph pole, an old parkland tree, along a hedgerow, or on a rock; from these positions, it quietly scans the ground for prey. When it spots something, it swoops down and catches its victim with either its claws or beak. Little owls breed between March and August, forming monogamous pairs and nesting in hollow trees.

Los cauquenes comun son aves ir se encuentran en la Patagonia Argentina , el macho es blanco y la hembra Marrón

Los animales son impredecibles, y en ocasiones nos sorprenden con poses de lo más graciosas, como ocurrió con esta garcilla cangrejera.

Els animals són impredictibles, i a vegades ens sorprenen amb poses d'allò més gracioses, com va ocórrer amb aquest martinet ros.

Animals are unpredictable, and sometimes they surprise us with funny poses, as happened with this Squacco Heron.

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