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Hoatzin One of the world's strangest birds attempts to walk along a branch, loses his balance, grabs hold of a twig with its bill, then flies a short way. Magic. Tags: Hoatzin bird Peru Archeopteryx |
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Hummingbird bathtime Purple-collared Woodstars come down for an early morning bathe and drink by the lodge at Chaparri, northern Peru. Tags: Hummingbird bath Peru Chaparri Woodstar |
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Wasp superhighway Just outside our bedroom window is this bustling colony of a zillion wasps. Tags: wasp wasps nest colony wildlife uk insect hymenoptera |
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Wilson's Phalarope spinning This summer female Wilson's Phalarope was a delightful rare bird at Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire, UK, this May (2007). One of its feeding tactics is to spin in tight circles to stir up invertebrates. Tags: Wilson's Phalarope spinning Grafham Water Cambridgeshire UK May 2007 rare bird |
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Feral Pigeons pootling Three Feral Pigeons doing not very much outside the Bird Watching Magazine office, Peterborough, 26.4.07. Tags: Feral Pigeons Bird Watching Magazine office Peterborough |
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Yellow Wagtail Male Yellow Wagtail of the race flavissima feeding on insects at the water's edge at Maxey Pits, Cambridgeshire, UK on 15.4.07. Tags: Bird Yellow Wagtail Maxey flavissima Cambridgeshire |
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Yellow-billed Loon This really rare Yellow-billed Loon (White-billed Diver) fishing for flounders in the shallow Copperhouse creek, Hayle Cornwall, UK, 3.3.07. The bird stirs up the sediment with its head, then catches a flatfish and eats it. Tags: loon diver yellow billed flounder flatfish Hayle Cornwall |
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Spotted Sandpiper, Hayle This rare Spotted Sandpiper (the American equivalent of the Common Sandpiper) is a long-staying bird at Hayle, Cornwall, UK. Photographed 3.3.07 Tags: Spotted Sandpiper Cornwall rare bird UK |
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Barrow's Goldeneye in Scotland This drake Barrow's Goldeneye was filmed on the flooding at Callander, Scotland in mid January 2007. It was dislpaying at a female Goldeneye. This is a very rare bird in the UK. Tags: Barrow's Goldeneye drake duck callander Scotland display rare bird flood |
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Pigeon feeding Feral Pigeon displaces sparrow and indulges in some flapping feeding, hanging upside down. Tags: Bird feeding feral pigeon bird food |
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Windy loon Great Northern Diver at Rutland Water, 12.12.06 Tags: loon bird diver rutland |