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  1. Pied Avocets

    Pied Avocets

    In April 2022 I was lucky to film a small group of Pied Avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta) feeding at the Wadden Sea on the North Frisian Island Amrum in the German North Sea.
    • Michael Billerbeck
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    • amrum avocet black-capped avocet eurasian avocet feeding north sea pied avocet recurvirostra recurvirostra avosetta video wadden sea
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  2. Chick of the Pied Avocet

    Chick of the Pied Avocet

    A Chick of the Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) at the Dollart, Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park
    • Michael Billerbeck
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    • audio avocet baby bird bird call black-capped avocet call calls chick eurasian avocet lower saxon wadden sea national park national park pied avocet recurvirostra recurvirostra avosetta video
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  3. American Shovelers; American Avocets

    American Shovelers; American Avocets

    Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline at about 65m. Might be my best American Shoveler photo yet, and I just love those awkward-yet-stately paddle bills. The clear images of the Avocets in their white-n-black was a bonus.
    • CalvinFold
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    • americana anas avocet clypeata recurvirostra shoveler
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: North America
  4. American Avocet

    American Avocet

    Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline at about 30m.
    • CalvinFold
    • Media item
    • americana avocet recurvirostra
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  5. Red-necked Avocets

    Red-necked Avocets

    I had to wait some time for the birds to come closer...many species were gathered at the edge of a small island, just too far for my camera to get a good shot. They were obviously waiting for something, so I settled in among the reeds to wait with them. All of a sudden, at some signal I couldn't...
    • Rose Fletcher
    • Media item
    • avocet recurvirostra
    • Comments: 19
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  6. American Avocet (male)

    American Avocet (male)

    American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) Species slightly sexually dimorphic. Females have a prominent upturned bill while the bills of males are turned up but only slightly so. Photographed along the margin of one of the Wilcox sewage ponds. Edge of Wilcox, Cochise County, Arizona, USA...
    • Stanley Jones
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    • american americana arizona avocet cochise county recurvirostra usa wilcox
    • Comments: 24
    • Category: North America
  7. Red-necked Avocet

    Red-necked Avocet

    Australian endemic
    • Peter-Marie
    • Media item
    • avocet recurvirostra red-necked
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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