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This Black-necked Stilt was doing a good job making sure no potential predators got too close to its young. I thought I had given them enough space but obviously this beauty didn’t agree. While this one gave me a fuss the other adult quickly wandered farther into the marsh along with its chicks.
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Himantopus mexicanus
Another shot of a fine looking Black-necked Grebe from my trip to to the reservoir. These birds are just stunning in their summer plumage.
The one that everybody wants to see in Iceland is not this one but the Red Phalarope, one of the rarest bird of Iceland with a population of less than 300 birds The Red-necked Phalarope is much more common with around 50,000 pair breeding and can be easily found all over Iceland. The Red Phalarope is known to breed on Flatey Island but we had made the decision not to visit that Island... at least not this time.... Having seen and photographed the Red Phalarope previously in Alaska, this is not a bird that was high on our list .... Furthermore, perhaps the Red-necked Phalarope is not as "desirable" for those maintaining a list but they are so interesting and entertaining ... I find it fascinating to watch them, no matter how many times I have seen them before.
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The Black-necked Stilts have arrived in Yakima County recently. This bird was located at a pond owned by Norbert and Dicie Marquez near the little town of Outlook. IMG_4764
My last post from a recent visit to Elk Island National Park. Also my last post for a few days as I have some repairs to make to my car which will take some time. I am pretty slow at such things being very careful with each step and labeling everything I remove. I am hoping that temperature and conditions (smoke) cooperate to make it as easy as possible as I have no garage.
Anyways, I have been complaining about how little there is at Elk Island these days and how distant everything seems to be, well that is true, but there was a slight exception here as I was able to shoot low from the boardwalk and this Red Necked Grebe came in fairly close. This is still a crop but I was very happy with the conditions. Besides this one and its nearby mate there was only a couple of Canada Geese in sight from the boardwalk which is a disappointment, but I have to make the best use I can of what is presented, and although Red Necked Grebes are quite common here they are always a treat for me.
Adult male Ring-necked Duck showing its signature chestnut collar -
New Jersey, USA
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Black-necked Stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) are among the easiest birds to identify with their striking black and white plumage and very long, thin red legs. Females and juveniles may be distinguished from males by their dark brownish backs. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
2011.03.30 MacBook & Iomega HD, 1842
(Aythya collaris)
The sun came out from behind the clouds just long enough for me to get this shot. Thankfully they were lined up pretty good. There were five of them, but the one was a little shy for a group pic. Peace Valley Park, New Britain Pa.
The pileated woodpecker's long neck is a fascinating part of its anatomy, combining strength, flexibility and durability. Here the woodpecker, after one strike on the log, is bending its neck in a backwards curve to prepare for the next strike, all in very short order.
I’m not usually a fan of birds on stick photographs, but this red-necked tanager is just too stunning to keep to myself.
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Aythya collaris.
The ring-necked duck is a diving duck from North America commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes. A migrant to the UK, this bird has set up home at RSPB Radipole in Weymouth, Dorset.
A striking black-and-white bird with very long, thin red legs, the Black-necked Stilt is found along the edges of shallow water in open country.
Black-necked Stilts inhabit shallow wetlands from the western United States to Central America and parts of South America. In the United States, Black-necked Stilts are commonly found in salt ponds, flooded lowlands, or shallow lagoons. Human-maintained wetlands such as sewage ponds or flooded pastures are particularly suitable habitats for these birds, since such environments have some sparse vegetation without being too overgrown. The endangered Hawaiian subspecies, the Ae'o, lives in wetlands, mudflats, and ponds on all the major islands.
Black-necked Stilts wade for their food, and will only swim or dive when under duress. During breeding and during winter, they are strongly territorial birds, and are particularly aggressive to chicks that are not their own. When not breeding, Black-necked Stilts roost and forage in closely packed groups, often staying within a foot of each other. Black-necked Stilts are semicolonial when nesting, and they participate en masse in anti-predator displays. The displays include one in which nonincubating birds fly up to mob predators, and one in which all birds encircle a predator, hop up and down, and flap their wings.
Source: Cornell Lab of Orinthology
Black-necked Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis
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The beautiful eye on this Black-necked Stilt is quite visible here. Probably the last one of these beauties for this album. I love them so much!
Black-necked Stilts wade into shallow bodies of water, seldom swimming, in pursuit of tiny aquatic invertebrates. Adults defending nests or chicks fly around and call loudly, sometimes performing a distraction display by feigning injury.
Himantopus mexicanus
(Black-necked stilt / Cigüeñuela de cuello negro)
The black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) is a locally abundant shorebird of American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Florida, then south through Central America and the Caribbean to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands.
The black-necked stilt is found in estuarine, lacustrine, salt pond and emergent wetland habitats; it is generally a lowland bird but in Central America has been found up to 8,200 ft (2,500 m) ASL and commonly seen in llanos habitat in northern South America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-necked_stilt
Photo taken at the AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Barú.
Colombia is the number one country in the world to have the largest varieties of birds, having about 1,876 species and almost 70 kinds that belong specially to Colombia. AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA has done an amazing job to show that. You see some of birds free and others in beautiful habitats. Peacocks, Toucans, Pink Flamingos, Crane Corona, Guacamayas, Pelicanos, Ducks, all types of little colorful birds Colombia is most famous for it, every imaginable birds are here.
This place is so well design, and so well taking care of, that you think some times you are in paradise!
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Female.
Species: Aythya collaris.
The Female Ring-necked Duck looks similar to female Greater and Lesser Scaups. She is brown overall with lighter-grey cheeks. Like the scaups, she has a white crescent at the base of her bill, although it is less distinctive than that of either the Greater or Lesser Scaup. The Female Ring-necked Duck can be distinguished from the scaups by the thin, white eye-ring that trails back to her ear, and the peaked shape of her head, as well as by differing habitat. Juveniles look like females. Info: Bird Web.
Alexandra Park, Manchester, UK.
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Two male wood ducks speed-racing on the lake surface.
Ducks do interesting or strange things quite often. That’s just one reason I love watching them.
When I spotted this shorebird at the same location that I found a Dunlin about 2 days before, I initially thought this was the same bird. (See previous frame for Dunlin photo.) However with a closer look I realized this was an even rarer bird, a Phalarope. Finding this species definitely made my day and I had a chance to read-up on Phalaropes:
Red-necked Phalaropes are fascinating shorebirds. Sex roles are reversed so that the females are the more colorful ones and it is they who compete aggressively with each other for the males. Responsibility for tending to the eggs and the young goes to the male. Red-necked Phalaropes breed in the Arctic but spend winters off the coast of Ecuador and Peru in tropical ocean waters.
Saratoga Lake
Stillwater, NY