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Black-crowned Night-Heron Eating a Fish

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It is even more odd to be birding Central Park in June, when migration has essentially wrapped up and all that is left are breeders and stragglers. I did not count on sending him home with a fish story though! When we first spotted the bird this is how it was holding the fish. … a.

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My Global Big (half-)Day, May 2022

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In the end, I opted for the Tamis River floodplain, north of Belgrade, and its fish farms, some non-operational, some selling daily angling licenses. Driving with open windows (to hear the birds) becomes unbearable and I am heading out of this fish farm. Watching carefully, yes, not one, but two.

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Osprey Love in Northern California

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Living near the Sacramento River and its many lakes and tributaries makes it even more likely to see the incredible fish hawk or sea eagle we call the Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ). Most of the Osprey breeding in North America are migratory, only Florida, the Caribbean and Baja California host non-migratory breeders 1.

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Humboldt Bay Jetty Displays the Black Turnstone

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They are a colonial breeder, nesting only in western Alaska, on a narrow band of coastal sedge meadows 2. v=emxWyBAvTPQ The following day we also observed several Black Turnstones on the eastern side of Humboldt Bay around the Eureka public fishing pier. Click on photos for full sized images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=emxWyBAvTPQ

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Least Bittern at Arshamomaque Preserve

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The last one were breeders also, at Massapequa Preserve. ). I amused myself by watching the Osprey nest across the pond, by trying to guess which of the two Least Terns fishing the pond would catch a fish first, and by keeping my eyes and ears wide open for sight or sound of Least Bittern. And waited. And waited.

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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

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Perhaps even more interesting is how Green Herons and its relatives have learned to use bait to attract and capture fish. This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests. Green Herons have learned to use bait for fishing. Then the bread-easy-catch connection was made.

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

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The mapping exercise works particularly well with birds confined to a specific habitat (Baranda fish farm S49396968 and Pecena slatina S49396887 ). Penduline T**s were impressively common, with more than 23 individuals recorded during the week, 14 of them in a single group in Centa fish farm (Vojvodina) S49396841.

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