Photography of Birds – Set # 40

Set # 40


Wood Stork


Wood Stork

Wood Stork


This is a subtropical and tropical species which breeds in much of South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The wood stork is the only stork that breeds in North America. In the United States there are small breeding populations in Florida , Georgia, and the Carolinas.


Great Blue Heron


Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron


The primary food for great blue heron is small fish, though it is also known to opportunistically feed on a wide range of shrimp, crabs, aquatic insects, rodents, and other small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds, especially ducklings. Primary prey is variable based on availability and abundance.


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Photography of Birds – Set # 39

Set # 39


Stilt Sandpipers


Stilt Sandpipers

Stilt Sandpipers


These birds forage on muddy, picking up food by sight, often jabbing like the dowitchers with which they often associate. They mainly eat insects and other invertebrates.


Common Moorhen


Common Moorhen

Common Moorhen


This species will consume a wide variety of vegetable material and small aquatic creatures. They forage beside or in the water, sometimes walking on lilypads or upending in the water to feed.


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Red Gallery – Northern Cardinal

Photography of Birds – Set # 38

Set # 38


Gray-headed Gulls


Gray-headed Gulls

Gray-headed Gulls


The Grey-headed Gull, also known as the grey-hooded gull, is a small gull which breeds patchily in South America and Africa.


American Crow


American Crow

American Crow


The range of the American crow now extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in Canada, on the French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, south through the United States, and into northern Mexico. The increase in trees throughout the Great Plains during the past century due to fire suppression and tree planting facilitated range expansions of the American crow.


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