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Two Black #Skimmers flying over the mirror-still water of the Merritt Island National #Wildlife Refuge.
One #BlackSkimmer has its beak open and skimming the water to catch fish, insects, and crustaceans.

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#RynchopsNiger #Waterfowl #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Reflection #FlyingBird #MINWR #WildlifePhotography #Photograph

Two Black #Skimmers flying over the mirror-still water of the Merritt Island National #Wildlife Refuge.
One #BlackSkimmer has its beak open and skimming the water to catch fish, insects, and crustaceans.

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#RynchopsNiger #Waterfowl #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Reflection #FlyingBird #MINWR #WildlifePhotography #Photograph

Two Black #Skimmers flying over the mirror-still water of the Merritt Island National #Wildlife Refuge.
One #BlackSkimmer has its beak open and skimming the water to catch fish, insects, and crustaceans.

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#RynchopsNiger #Waterfowl #BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Reflection #FlyingBird #MINWR #WildlifePhotography #Photograph

Three #Roseate #Spoonbills perched on the top of a nearly bare live oak tree at the St #Augustine Alligator Farm and #Zoological #Park.

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#RoseateSpoonbill, # PlataleaAjaja, #Waterfowl, #BirdsOfMastodon, #Birds, #WildlifePhotography, #Photograph

Four Snowy #Egrets lined up at the water’s edge, seeming to show off for the #Photographer.

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#SnowyEgrets, #EgrettaThula, #Waterfowl, #MINWR, #Bird, #BirdsOfMastodon, #Photograph, #WildlifePhotography

A Snowy #Egret at the St Augustine Alligator Farm and #Zoological #Park; a busy place for nesting #waterfowl like the #SnowyEgret since the many alligators in the waters below keep the #tree-top nests of the #birds safe from other predators.
This egret is in its high breeding #plumage and seems to be trying to attract a mate.
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#EgrettaThula, #StAugustine, #Florida, #StAugustineAlligatorFarmAndZoologicalPark, #BirdsOfMastodon, #Photography

At the St Augustine Alligator Farm and #Zoological #Park is host to many #waterfowl species during nesting season, because the #birds are attracted to the protection against predators created by the alligators.
The alligators rarely bother the birds, either, as this Snowy #Egret in the same water as the gators, demonstrates the point.
#StAugustineAlligatorFarmAndZoologicalPark, #SnowyEgret, #EgrettaThula, #BirdsofMastodon, #Photography, #Photograph, #Photo
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A Snowy Egret dives down, legs extended, preparing to land in the water of the briney marsh of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
#WaterfowlWednesdays, #MarshMadness, #SnowyEgret, #EgrettaThula, #Egret, #waterfowl, #MerrittIslandNationalWildlifeRefuge, #MINWR, #marsh, #bird, #water, #Photograph, #Photography, #Photo.
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#MarshMadness: A #SnowyEgret (#EgrettaThula), a #waterfowl (#WaterfallWednesday) fluffs its white #feathers in a #marsh of the #Apopka #Wildlife Drive, another #WaterTreatment facility managed as an artificial #wetland area, proving space for plants and #animals that need the wetlands to survive.
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#MarshMadness: Two #waterfowl (#WaterBirdWednesday), a #RoseateSpoonbill / #Roseate #Spoonbill and a #TricoloredHeron / #Tricolored #Heron wading in the #marsh of the #MerrittIsland National #Wildlife Refuge, which is managed as the #briney marsh it started as.
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/water-birds-in-the-marsh-heron-and-fox.html

New genus of ancient #waterfowl discovered. Researchers find eleven million year old #fossils found in southern Germany’s #Hammerschmiede clay pit https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/press-releases/press-releases/article/new-genus-of-ancient-waterfowl-discovered/ #uni_tue #Ornithology #Palaeoenvironment #Geosciences #Palaeobiology @[email protected] @[email protected]