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A Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) roosting on the old cattail stalk in a marsh west of St. Albert., Alberta, Canada.
9 May, 2023.
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Common Tern - Sterna Hirundo
It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. Breeding adults have light grey upperparts, white to very light grey underparts, a black cap, orange-red legs, and a narrow pointed bill. Depending on the subspecies, the bill may be mostly red with a black tip or all black. There are a number of similar species, including the partly sympatric Arctic tern, which can be separated on plumage details, leg and bill colour, or vocalisations.
Breeding in a wider range of habitats than any of its relatives, the common tern nests on any flat, poorly vegetated surface close to water, including beaches and islands, and it readily adapts to artificial substrates such as floating rafts. The nest may be a bare scrape in sand or gravel, but it is often lined or edged with whatever debris is available. Up to three eggs may be laid, their dull colours and blotchy patterns providing camouflage on the open beach.
Population:
UK breeding:
12,000 pairs
One of the pair of bridled common murres show here has just arrived back on a ledge of the nesting cliff, so a little vocalizing, mutual pecking, and wing flapping was in order.
Picture taken at Pousada da Fazenda, Monte Alegre do Sul, São Paulo.
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Common Myna were introduced to Hawaii from India, they can easily be seen in most locations. Most of the time I saw these birds foraging on the ground. I searched a bit to find a location for shots off the ground.
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Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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Wikipedia: The common green magpie (Cissa chinensis) is a member of the crow family, roughly about the size of the Eurasian jay or slightly smaller. In the wild specimens are usually a bright green color (often fades to turquoise in captivity or with poor diet as the pigment is carotenoid based), slightly lighter on the underside and has a thick black stripe from the bill (through the eyes) to the nape. Compared to the other members of its genus, the white-tipped tail is quite long. This all contrasts vividly with the red fleshy eye rims, bill and legs. The wings are reddish maroon.
It is found from the lower Himalayas in north eastern India in a broad south easterly band down into central Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and northwestern Borneo in evergreen forest (including bamboo forest), clearings and scrub.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_green_magpie
Conservation status: Least Concern
The secretive Gray Catbird, with its distinctive cat-like
mewing note, is a common winter resident in Florida.
Many pass through the state during migration.
Gray Catbirds are one of the most common species that non-birders in their range are likely to have never seen nor identified. The catbird’s rather bland coloration – slate gray with a black cap and chestnut under the tail – doesn’t attract attention, and unlike their cousins, the mockingbirds, that often sing from exposed perches, catbirds prefer to sing their jumbled songs from cover. And it is the sounds that catbirds make that give them their name and makes it at all likely that their presence will be noted.
Gray Catbirds, to put it simply, have a call note that sounds like a cat with a scratchy and short meow. This sound emanating from a tangle of brush can easily fool those not in the know. The song of the Gray Catbird, however, is nothing like a cat meowing: like the mockingbird and thrasher the catbird often mimics other birds and sounds but it tends not to repeat itself. The rule of thumb is that if a phrase is repeated three times in a row it is a mockingbird, it it is repeated twice a thrasher is singing, and if each phrase of the song is sang just once one is dealing with a catbird.
I found this one in my backyard in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida.
Another image from several years ago taken in Haliburton Ontario, finally getting around to organizing them.
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A Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) perched in the old cattails from last year in a marsh on the edge of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.
9 May, 2023.
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This is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution. This 16 centimetres long bird has the typical short-tailed, large-headed kingfisher profile. Interestingly this bird has no song.
Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) male perched in the mixed woods of the boreal region north of Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
21 February, 2013.
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Common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) male perched on a wooden fence.
Samiec pleszki (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) siedzący na drewnianym płotku.
Each winter, we get inundated with Common Redpolls. They will flock to our feeders and eat many many seeds. This example is a male, which is told by its bright red head and chest.
To stay warm on winter's nights, the Redpoll will burrow into the snow for warmth. They have throat pouches to store seeds at the source and fly back to a warmer place to eat. In places where there are no bird feeders, they survive on birch seeds, eating over 40% of their body weight each day.
The Redpoll is found mostly in the the northern climates and an estimated to be tens of millions of them world wide.
A Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) drake in the company of a female, maybe courting it, on a small urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
26 April, 2022.
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Scientific name: Plathemis lydia
Length: 42 – 48 mm
Description: eyes and face dark brown, male with white or powder blue abdomen, each wing with wide black patch near wingtip and narrower black stripe at base, female and immature male have brown abdomen with white or yellow triangular spots along sides, female with three black spots on each wing.
**I went to this conservation green land to photography damselflies, didn't catch any good one. Just when I was leaving, there was this dragonfly came to my sight, resting in front of me, that I was able to catch a few shots. There you have it. My 1st time to see one. My lucky day. :-))
A common loon floats through dark shade but still is highlighted by a sliver of sunlight on a pond in New Hampshire.
maybe I just don't open my eyes enough as I've neer seen one before so wasn't expecting it to be called a common blue lol
Though 'Common' is part of its name, that doesn't mean that this dragonfly isn't beautiful and full of amazing details and color.
This one is clinging to the seeds of our Yellow Loosestrife plant and is posing perfectly for me :)
Best seen when enlarged...
Scientific name: Buteo buteo.
Feeding: Buzzards are big birds, more than capable of taking sizeable birds and animals but, more often than not, they will target smaller prey. Rabbits are an important food source, and the birds suffered during the height of myxomatosis, but they will also take smaller mammals. Compared to all other raptors, Buzzard’s digestive systems are able to deal with a poor-quality diet and, in winter when other prey is hard to find, they are able to feed mostly on earthworms, beetles and other small invertebrates. These will be hunted on foot, and you can find Buzzards regularly sitting on the ground. In favoured fields, large numbers can gather and, although somewhat tolerant of each other, disagreements will break out if individuals get too close to others. In certain areas, usually in the uplands, Buzzards may hover when searching for food. Info: Hawk and Owl Trust.
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