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herpsandbirds · 19 hours ago
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Hi! Humble request for a Killdeer? Love your blog! :D
Why Yes of course...
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Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, OH, USA
photograph by Brad Imhoff
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Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), mother performing a "broken wing display" to lead a predator away from the nest, family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, MD, USA
photograph by Bonnie Ott
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Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), chick, family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, CA, USA
photograph by NNehring
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birdblues · 7 months ago
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Piping Plover
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snototter · 5 months ago
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A comb crested jacana chick (Irediparra gallinacea) in Kakadu National Park, Australia
by Charles Sharp
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uncharismatic-fauna · 6 months ago
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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day
If any bird was going to be recognized for its pride, it would be the fabulous ruff. This bird was one of the first species in which homosexual behaviour was documented by a naturalist, Edmund Selous, in 1906!
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(Image: A pair of male ruffs (Calidris pugnax) by Sulin Gopalan)
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Happy Pied Month! Oystercatcher? More like acetercatcher!
Reference photo by JJ Harrison
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alonglistofbirds · 1 year ago
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[1697/10977] Bronze-winged courser - Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Lari Family: Glareolidae (pratincoles and coursers) Subfamily: Cursoriinae (coursers)
Photo credit: Fernando Nunes via Macaulay Library
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alphynix · 10 months ago
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The mancallines were a lineage of flightless semi-aquatic birds closely related to auks. Known from the Pacific coasts of what are now California and Mexico, between about 7.5 and 0.5 million years ago, they convergently evolved a close resemblance and similar lifestyle to both the recently-extinct North Atlantic great auk and the southern penguins.
Miomancalla howardi here lived in offshore waters around southern California during the late Miocene (~7-5 million years ago). The largest of the mancallines, it just slightly beat out the great auk in size – standing around 90cm tall (~3') and weighing an estimated 5kg (11lbs).
Like great auks and penguins it would have been a specialized wing-propelled diver, swimming using "underwater flight" to feed on small bait fish. It probably spent much of its life out at sea, probably only returning to land to molt and breed.
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awkwardbirdsdreaming · 2 months ago
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Bird #47 - the southern New Zealand dotterel
A sadder post today, sorry! While the northern subspecies is faring well, the southern NZ dotterel numbered only 101 birds in April, and the number continues to drop due to introduced predators. In fact, the population has declined by a fifth from 126 just in the last year. These birds can naturally live to be 30; their current life expectancy is only about 5 years.
They breed on Stewart Island to the south of New Zealand, where a few rangers are stationed to trap introduced predators. Large areas of the island aren't protected, though, since there isn't enough funding for more traps and rangers.
You can find out more here on the NZ Department of Conservation site (they even have a little 10 minute documentary but its really sad), and if you'd like to help them out you can donate here!
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life-on-our-planet · 9 months ago
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🪶🛫southern lapwing🛫🪶
bonus baby:
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fullfrontalbirds · 2 months ago
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Have you done timberdoodles yet? (Scolopax minora)
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American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)
© Fyn Kynd
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herpsandbirds · 4 months ago
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Dovekie aka Little Auk (Alle alle), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Iceland
Photograph by Christophe Moning
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birdblues · 7 months ago
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Bronze-winged Jacana
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snototter · 4 months ago
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A black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) in Mousa, Shetland, UK
by Gary Faulkner
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medusaswanderings · 27 days ago
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Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Humboldt County, California
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have-you-seen-this-animal · 19 days ago
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can you do the killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)?
Of course! They're very cute.
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Photos thanks to Frank Thierfelder & Enrique Giron, respectively.
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alonglistofbirds · 9 months ago
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[2724/11080] Cream-coloured courser - Cursorius cursor
Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Lari Family: Glareolidae (pratincoles and coursers) Subfamily: Cursoriinae (coursers)
Photo credit: Aitor gil guruceaga via Macaulay Library
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