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#12527017

4 July 2025

A juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron is seen at Green Cay Nature Center & Wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida. Unlike the striking adults, the young birds have brown, streaked plumage that helps them blend into their surroundings.

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#11827649

2 December 2024

The Boat-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found as a permanent resident on the coasts of the Southeastern United States. Males are deep blue, almost black in color, while females are brown with a lighter brown underbelly.

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#10480944

9 September 2023

The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) belongs to the family Threskiornithidae. It is found from Virginia via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal tropics.This particular ibis is a medium-sized bird with an overall white plumage, bright red-orange down-curved bill and long legs, and black wing tips that are usually only visible in flight. Males are larger and have longer bills than females. Immature Ibis are brown in color. Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey, such as insects and small fishes. Crayfish are its preferred food in most regions, but it can adjust its diet according to the habitat and prey abundance. Its main foraging behavior is probing with its beak at the bottom of shallow water to feel for and capture its prey. It does not see the prey.

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#10480946

9 September 2023

The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) belongs to the family Threskiornithidae. It is found from Virginia via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal tropics.This particular ibis is a medium-sized bird with an overall white plumage, bright red-orange down-curved bill and long legs, and black wing tips that are usually only visible in flight. Males are larger and have longer bills than females. Immature Ibis are brown in color. Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey, such as insects and small fishes. Crayfish are its preferred food in most regions, but it can adjust its diet according to the habitat and prey abundance. Its main foraging behavior is probing with its beak at the bottom of shallow water to feel for and capture its prey. It does not see the prey.

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#10480948

9 September 2023

The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) belongs to the family Threskiornithidae. It is found from Virginia via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal tropics.This particular ibis is a medium-sized bird with an overall white plumage, bright red-orange down-curved bill and long legs, and black wing tips that are usually only visible in flight. Males are larger and have longer bills than females. Immature Ibis are brown in color. Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey, such as insects and small fishes. Crayfish are its preferred food in most regions, but it can adjust its diet according to the habitat and prey abundance. Its main foraging behavior is probing with its beak at the bottom of shallow water to feel for and capture its prey. It does not see the prey.

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#10480950

9 September 2023

The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) belongs to the family Threskiornithidae. It is found from Virginia via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal tropics.This particular ibis is a medium-sized bird with an overall white plumage, bright red-orange down-curved bill and long legs, and black wing tips that are usually only visible in flight. Males are larger and have longer bills than females. Immature Ibis are brown in color. Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey, such as insects and small fishes. Crayfish are its preferred food in most regions, but it can adjust its diet according to the habitat and prey abundance. Its main foraging behavior is probing with its beak at the bottom of shallow water to feel for and capture its prey. It does not see the prey.

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#10480954

9 September 2023

The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) belongs to the family Threskiornithidae. It is found from Virginia via the Gulf Coast of the United States south through most of the coastal tropics.This particular ibis is a medium-sized bird with an overall white plumage, bright red-orange down-curved bill and long legs, and black wing tips that are usually only visible in flight. Males are larger and have longer bills than females. Immature Ibis are brown in color. Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey, such as insects and small fishes. Crayfish are its preferred food in most regions, but it can adjust its diet according to the habitat and prey abundance. Its main foraging behavior is probing with its beak at the bottom of shallow water to feel for and capture its prey. It does not see the prey.

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#9935320

19 April 2023

The black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile colorful passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers found in tropical forest habitats of southern and south-eastern Asia. They are sexually dimorphic, with the male having a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar (''necklace''), while the female is duller with olive-brown wings and lacking the black markings on the head. Populations differ slightly in plumage colour and sizes. These little birds are hard to find because it's roaming the forest ground level in dim light to catch insects and hide behind leaves. A female black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is flying frequent sorties to catch airborne insects at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 18/04/2023.

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#9935324

19 April 2023

The black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile colorful passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers found in tropical forest habitats of southern and south-eastern Asia. They are sexually dimorphic, with the male having a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar (''necklace''), while the female is duller with olive-brown wings and lacking the black markings on the head. Populations differ slightly in plumage colour and sizes. These little birds are hard to find because it's roaming the forest ground level in dim light to catch insects and hide behind leaves. A female black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is flying frequent sorties to catch airborne insects at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 18/04/2023.

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#9935344

19 April 2023

The black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile colorful passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers found in tropical forest habitats of southern and south-eastern Asia. They are sexually dimorphic, with the male having a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar (''necklace''), while the female is duller with olive-brown wings and lacking the black markings on the head. Populations differ slightly in plumage colour and sizes. These little birds are hard to find because it's roaming the forest ground level in dim light to catch insects and hide behind leaves. A female black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is flying frequent sorties to catch airborne insects at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 18/04/2023.

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#9455816

18 January 2023

A wildlife nature scene in the Dutch countryside when a cormorant bird is seen diving for fishing, flying while carrying the fish in its beak and eating it in the lakes of Park Meerland during a sunny winter day. The great cormorant scientifically is named Phalacrocorax carbo. The great black cormorant is a skilled seabird in dive and fishing known also for the wing drying behavior. Eindhoven, the Netherlands on January 17, 2023

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#9455818

18 January 2023

A wildlife nature scene in the Dutch countryside when a cormorant bird is seen diving for fishing, flying while carrying the fish in its beak and eating it in the lakes of Park Meerland during a sunny winter day. The great cormorant scientifically is named Phalacrocorax carbo. The great black cormorant is a skilled seabird in dive and fishing known also for the wing drying behavior. Eindhoven, the Netherlands on January 17, 2023

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#9455824

18 January 2023

A wildlife nature scene in the Dutch countryside when a cormorant bird is seen diving for fishing, flying while carrying the fish in its beak and eating it in the lakes of Park Meerland during a sunny winter day. The great cormorant scientifically is named Phalacrocorax carbo. The great black cormorant is a skilled seabird in dive and fishing known also for the wing drying behavior. Eindhoven, the Netherlands on January 17, 2023

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#9455828

18 January 2023

A wildlife nature scene in the Dutch countryside when a cormorant bird is seen diving for fishing, flying while carrying the fish in its beak and eating it in the lakes of Park Meerland during a sunny winter day. The great cormorant scientifically is named Phalacrocorax carbo. The great black cormorant is a skilled seabird in dive and fishing known also for the wing drying behavior. Eindhoven, the Netherlands on January 17, 2023

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#9455836

18 January 2023

A wildlife nature scene in the Dutch countryside when a cormorant bird is seen diving for fishing, flying while carrying the fish in its beak and eating it in the lakes of Park Meerland during a sunny winter day. The great cormorant scientifically is named Phalacrocorax carbo. The great black cormorant is a skilled seabird in dive and fishing known also for the wing drying behavior. Eindhoven, the Netherlands on January 17, 2023

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#9455838

18 January 2023

A wildlife nature scene in the Dutch countryside when a cormorant bird is seen diving for fishing, flying while carrying the fish in its beak and eating it in the lakes of Park Meerland during a sunny winter day. The great cormorant scientifically is named Phalacrocorax carbo. The great black cormorant is a skilled seabird in dive and fishing known also for the wing drying behavior. Eindhoven, the Netherlands on January 17, 2023

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