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Red-necked Grebe taken at a local pond in Calgary, Alberta.
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Young, little egrets are simultaneously cute and nightmarish.
Smith Oaks Sanctuary (High Island, TX)
I found the fading early evening light to be just perfect for this photo. The heron had perched on a fallen longleaf pine tree. Notice the length of the pine needles. This species of pine is well named.
Cypress Wetlands, Port Royal, South Carolina
This is a Western Pondhawk, usually a common species here, but the first one I've seen this season. I'm not sure what's going on with her hind end- it must be injured in some way. She was cleaning her face with her front legs, as you can hopefully see. Siskiyou County, California
Sunday was a slow day for deer but I did manage to capture this sparrow preening on a branch on the edge of the woods.
Bartel Grassland.
One of several Flamingo's on exhibit at Zoo Miami preening and napping. Each Flamingo in banded with a number. This one is #77.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
The Reserve is open to day-visitors only, after a lockdown of two months.
Yellow-billed Storks in the early-morning sun. It was 5ᵒc this morning, very cold for this part of the world.
A ruddy turnstone preens its breeding plumage as it prepares for an annual migration from Hawaii to nesting grounds on the tundra of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia. The trip spans over approximately 3,000 miles of open ocean requiring an exhaustive, marathon effort of 3 to 4 days and nights of nonstop flight. Turnstones use the stars and the earth’s magnetic field to find their way over the featureless ocean to the same small patch of territory every year. They may use the earth’s magnetic field visually with the magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in their retina. This one winters in Hawaii. The Hawaiian name, ‘akekeke, mimics the bird’s call.
An Eastern great egret (ardea alba modesta) preening itself on the edge of a lake. Photographed on the island of Langkawi, in Malaysia.
This Mallard is having a good time preening his colourful plumage
In the late afternoon sunshine.
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HD Pentax-DA f4.5-6.3 55-300mm ED PLM WR RE
Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
A day taken up with re-jigging all the family's mobile phones so a couple of images from the archives.
Will catch up as I can.
This pose shows the diagnostic Hammer-shaped head profile of this pre-historic looking bird. It is confined to Africa and Madagascar.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Bateleur is French for “street performer” and refers to this eagle's acrobatic flight abilities. As these birds glide, they rock their wings from side to side, and, as part of their courting display, turn summersaults in the air, clapping their wings together loudly and sometimes even screaming while diving.
The bateleur eagle is listed as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List. It is estimated that there are 10,000-100,000 individuals left in the wild. Most of their numbers are concentrated in protected areas. Very few are found outside of these areas.
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