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  1. Black-crowned night heron

    Black-crowned night heron

    Black crowned heron hunting fish at the Pisquah Brook Preserve.
    • Barbie Heid
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    • Comments: 10
    • Category: North America
  2. Snowy egret

    Snowy egret

    Snowy egrets hunting at the salt-flat marsh.
    • Barbie Heid
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    • Comments: 8
    • Category: North America
  3. Snowy egret

    Snowy egret

    Snowy egrets hunting at the salt-flat marsh.
    • Barbie Heid
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  4. Snowy egret

    Snowy egret

    Snowy egrets hunting at the salt-flat marsh.
    • Barbie Heid
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    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
  5. Yellow-crested night herons

    Yellow-crested night herons

    My yard guests woke up around sunset and are still in the process of nest-building. The male was gifting her with twigs, which she wove into the nest.
    • Barbie Heid
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  6. Yellow-crested night heron

    Yellow-crested night heron

    For the second year in a row, I'll be hearing the pitter-patter (and squawking) of baby night herons! The male arrived last Thursday, displayed for 20 minutes but left. They returned together Sunday and have been quite busy renovating last year's nest. The pair that nested in the next tree over...
    • Barbie Heid
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  7. Snowy Egret

    Snowy Egret

    Snowy Egret watching fish.
    • MicheleFla
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    • Comments: 12
    • Category: North America
  8. Great blue heron (juvenile)

    Great blue heron (juvenile)

    We were driving to an appointment when I noticed this juvenile Great Blue heron on a branch overlooking the swamp on the side of the road. We got out of the appointment an hour later, and it took me another 30 minutes to get home to get the camera. I figured there was no way he'd still be there...
    • Barbie Heid
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    • Comments: 10
    • Category: North America
  9. Eurasian Spoonbill

    Eurasian Spoonbill

    • Andy Hall
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  10. Not Going Down Without A Fight!

    Not Going Down Without A Fight!

    At one of my favorite lakes for photographing Osprey, the Osprey weren't cooperating but this Tri-colored Heron was fishing right in front of me not paying me a bit of mind!
    • OspreyDude
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  11. Dribbling Reddish Egret

    Dribbling Reddish Egret

    A couple shots of a Reddish Egret. The subject of my latest post (https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=393781) of birds we see here in Florida.
    • OspreyDude
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    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  12. Ruffled Reddish Egret

    Ruffled Reddish Egret

    A couple shots of a Reddish Egret. The subject of my latest post (https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=393781) of birds we see here in Florida.
    • OspreyDude
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  13. Cormorants

    Cormorants

    There were quite a few but too spread out so here is a couple
    • Chocky
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    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  14. Get off a my patch

    Get off a my patch

    Little egrets fighting over territory
    • Chocky
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  15. Marsh sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis)

    Marsh sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis)

    I was pleased to find this elegant wader on a rapidly drying out pool, adjacent the main road past the Kalloni Salt Pans.
    • Mick Sway
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  16. Oystercatchers fighting

    Oystercatchers fighting

    They have the huge Exe estuary reserve and have to fight over one little spot
    • Chocky
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    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  17. Ready.......Set

    Ready.......Set

    Black-crowned Night Heron
    • earthimages100
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    • Comments: 14
    • Category: North America
  18. On The Prowl

    On The Prowl

    The Black-crowed Night Heron is a wader that can be found in much of the world. They nest by the hundreds in the marsh where this was taken.
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    • Comments: 15
    • Category: North America
  19. Ready To Strike

    Ready To Strike

    During warmer weather I found this Great Egret all ruffled up and ready to strike. I was just about too close for the picture.
    • earthimages100
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    • Comments: 20
    • Category: North America
  20. Welcome To The Dance

    Welcome To The Dance

    Maybe Anna Pavlova in Swan Lake? I was lucky enough to catch this Great Egret as it made a frilly take off from a marsh.
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    • Comments: 15
    • Category: North America
  21. Morning Flight

    Morning Flight

    Great Egret flying at sunrise.
    • earthimages100
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    • Comments: 20
    • Category: North America
  22. Mixed roosting waders

    Mixed roosting waders

    evening roost of Snowy Egrets, White Ibis and Tricolored Herons at Ormond Beach, Florida, USA
    • bineshii
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    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
  23. Tricolored Heron

    Tricolored Heron

    Tricolored Heron at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, USA.
    • bineshii
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    • Comments: 0
    • Category: North America
  24. Common Sandpiper in submission pose

    Common Sandpiper in submission pose

    This picture were taken during my recent trip to the Isle of Mull on the shore of Loch Scridian. They are of a Common Sandpiper in a submissive pose. This behavior occurs when another common sandpiper comes on the scene, The bird bows and lifts it wings submitting to the incoming bird. This...
    • Ron McCombe
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    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  25. Snowy Egret

    Snowy Egret

    Fast moving little guys make them hard to catch. Always looking for minnows. This particular time the tide was just comming in and there was a feeding frenzy of Egrets, pelicans and Herons diving down for minnows. I've never seen anything like it, there were litterally hundreds of them in one...
    • Agent47
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    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
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