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Tried to get a photo of my foot, but the way my set-up is didn't permit much flexibility so only my toes were in the field. Worse, my foot moved a slight bit as it was very uncomfortable to hold it in that position for the required 30 seconds, so this is what came out.
The Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) occurs across Eurasia with a near-identical species in North America (P. dorsalis). This is the subspecies albidior that only occurs in Kamchatka, eastern Siberia. It has plainer white underparts compared with other subspecies. I photographed this female near Petropavlosk. It is close enough to see there are only three toes. The toes also look quite delicate for a woodpecker.
Tridactyly (having three toes) is quite unusual in birds but there are whole families like Bustards, Emus and Quails. Occasionally other birds lack a hind toe, such as Sanderling and Kittiwake (but only in the Atlantic population).
The feet of a very great dancer.
May 7th, Sara learnt that she has incurable cancer. May, 18th she began treatment.
May 7th, 11th, 12 and 14th Sara went tango dancing. The treatment initially produced great pain . . . and the only tangos were slow ones on the carpet. But once the initial adjustment is over, she wants only to get tango-ing again.