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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
A one legged sandpiper.
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Playing with the light circumstance
Common Linnet (Kneu) [female]
Location: Texel, the Netherlands
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Reyezuelo listado (Regulus ignicapilla)
Es una de las aves más pequeñas de la península Ibérica, con 9 cm de longitud y 6 gramos de peso.
Su alimentación se basa principalmente de polillas, orugas de lepidópteros, pulgones y arañas.En los inviernos muy fríos casi se han extinguido; sin embargo, logran restablecer los efectivos.
Common firecrest also known as firecrest
Reyín / Xilín en la lengua madre.
My first Common Redpoll shot of the season. Nice to see them back. I hope I get more opportunities.
Strathcona County, Alberta.
Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)
9 August 2018, Cuttle Pool Nature Reserve, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, Temple Balsall
Common Loons have a wing span of 117cm ( 46 inches for my American friends)
Taken NW of Cochrane, Alberta, Canada
-Gavia immer
Common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) male perched on some wooden structure with a beakful of insects.
Samiec pleszki (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) siedzący na jakiejś drewnianej konstrukcji z dziobem pełnym owadów.
When the ice recedes just a few meters from the shoreline of the lake here at my favorite local park lake, the male Common Goldeneyes come in from the nearby Saskatchewan River to claim their bit of open water to attract the females and fight off rivals.
This male was swimming close to a female, and went to this typical courtship pose when another male flew in nearby. The brown mass under his foot are the rump and tail feathers he twisted around while doing this.
I hope to get shots of the often spectacular battles between the males before things get sorted out.
William Hawrelak Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
I am glan I have been feeding about 100 common redpolls this winter, I learned they eat the bugs off deers in the summer.
Two pictures uploaded today...
1) A (rare) Rosy Starling perched on some iron work (i,e. you can't miss)
2) A Common Tern in a fast action freeze
The Tern was x1000 more tricky to take
The Rosy 1,000,000/1 chance to find in your back garden
So 'the rare' or 'the spectacular'?
Photographically of course it's the spectacular., but in a year's time it'll be the rare you'll remember
Although this bird has 'Common' as part of it's name, it's not common for me, in fact, it's another new bird for me!
I captured this Common Gallinule while visiting Guajome Lake Regional Park. While surveying the numerous coots and other birds responding to being fed by park visitors, I spied this single individual close to some reeds in the lake. I managed to capture some images of it just before an American Coot decided it was too close and swam over and chased it away.
Taken 15 February 2018
Common blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly male sipping nectar from red clover (Trifolium pratense) flower.
Samiec modraszka ikara (Polyommatus icarus) pijący nektar z kwiatu koniczyny łąkowej (Trifolium pratense).
Wikipedia: The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), also known as the Eurasian kingfisher and river kingfisher, is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution across Eurasia and North Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but migrates from areas where rivers freeze in winter.
Sax Zim Bog. MN. Four years ago they were coming to feeders this same week in early February. This year they were not. This small group was foraging on the road for grit. They made for much more challenging photography subjects this trip.
Wikipedia: The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), also known as the Eurasian kingfisher and river kingfisher, is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution across Eurasia and North Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but migrates from areas where rivers freeze in winter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_kingfisher
Conservation status: Least Concern