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On the high tide,Mostly Ringed plover and some Dunlin
Hoylake Shore
Dee Estuary North Wirral - Dee Estuary Birds
www.deeestuary.co.uk/nwirral.htm
The north Wirral shore - vast sand banks, promenades, embankments and sand ... The shore at Hoylake at the end of King's Gap road is a high tide roost for ...
High tide Hoylake Shore.
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Little Tern - Sterna Albifrons
This delightful chattering seabird is the UK's smallest tern. It is short-tailed and has a fast flight. Its bill is a distinctive yellow with a black tip. It is noisy at its breeding colony where courtship starts with an aerial display involving the male calling and carrying a fish to attract a mate, which chases him up high before he descends, gliding with wings in a 'V'.
Its vulnerable nesting sites and its decline in Europe make it an Amber List species. It is also listed as a Schedule 1 species in The Wildlife and Countryside Act.
This bird breeds on the coasts and inland waterways of temperate and tropical Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in the subtropical and tropical oceans as far south as South Africa and Australia.
There are three subspecies, the nominate albifrons occurring in Europe to North Africa and western Asia; guineae of western and central Africa; and sinensis of East Asia and the north and east coasts of Australia.[4]
The little tern breeds in colonies on gravel or shingle coasts and islands. It lays two to four eggs on the ground. Like all white terns, it is defensive of its nest and young and will attack intruders.
Like most other white terns, the little tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, usually from saline environments. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.
At the beginning of the 19th century the little tern was a common bird of European shores, rivers and wetlands, but in the 20th century populations of coastal areas decreased because of habitat loss, pollution and human disturbance.
The loss of inland populations has been even more severe, since due to dams, river regulation and sediment extraction it has lost most of its former habitats. The Little Tern population has declined or become extinct in many European countries, and former breeding places on large rivers like the Danube, Elbe and Rhine ceased. Nowadays, only few river systems in Europe possess suitable habitats; the Loire/Allier in France, the Vistula/Odra in Poland, the Po/Ticino in Italy, the Daugava in Latvia, the Nemunas in Lithuania, the Sava in Croatia and the Drava in Hungary and Croatia. The status of the little tern on the rivers Tagus and lower Danube is uncertain.
An unmistakable little bird with its comical clown like appearance. Love it’s red and black eye-markings and bright orange legs.
The weather on the Isle of May,Scotland yesterday went from torrential rain to warm and sunny.
Well worth a visit :)
A stormy sunset over the coastline of Portknockie on the Moray Firth in Scotland. A four image, long exposure, panorama.
Not taken in the best of light.
I understand that the the eyes of gannets that have survived bird flu have changed colour from white to black and this is one such bird.
A seagull perched on the remnants of a turn of the century, dock pylon.
Silhouetted against the warm sky, as the sun slipped below the horizon.
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and only distantly related to auks, skimmers, and more distantly to the waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but this arrangement is now considered polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera. An older name for gulls is mews, cognate with German Möwe, Danish måge, Dutch meeuw, and French mouette; this term can still be found in certain regional dialects.
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this photo is taken in Grebbestad in sweden ! Tjurpannan is beatiful placein all kind of weather but for mee is more then weather get rough , High Waves , Seabirds and moore
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A lone fisherman at his business of fishing! The seabirds wait in the background and the sun is about to break above the horizon
Todays exercise walk took me back to the coast, I spent time watching the seabirds dive into the water.
Deze Drieteenstrandlopers met één Bonte strandloper heb ik gefotografeerd met een langzame sluitertijd.
I was actually going to take a picture of the beach when this seagull landed and decided to "walk the catwalk" and be the model of the day.
Royal Albatross, Harington Point east of Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. Not sure if it's flying over the South Pacific or the Southern Ocean at that point.
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