Two American Avocets in breeding plumage. One is foraging as you can see while the other is strutting along slowing looking for insects and small crustaceans. They forage by sweeping their long bills from side to side with the tip of the curved bill barely submerged. Not in the case of the one on the right. He was downright getting down and dirty! Check out more on the American Avocets on my Bird Weekly post this week.
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15 responses to “SQUARES – American Avocet – Two of a Kind”
beautiful birds! 🙂
Yes they really are! Thanks Wilma! 🙂
Avocet and Black-necked Stilts… the two runway models of the bird world. They almost glide when walking. Nice capture 👏👏👏
Great description! Those long legs of both birds make them look like them skinny models. 😊
Nice to see these birds. I’d never really heard of them, and they seem pretty interesting. 🙂
Yay! Glad you got to see some new birds. There are so many species out there that I want to get to know. 😊
fabulous capture. I’ve never seen the american avocets, only the Recurvirostra avosetta which has made a very successful comeback here in the UK. Such beautiful birds
Thank you. We were excited to see them & capture them. I will have to look up those avosetta. 😊
Gorgeous birds, Lisa! I have never seen these either!
Really fabulous photo 🙂 🙂
Thank you so much! It was fun to see them, but we saw a ton of birds that day at the preserve. 🙂
cool looking bird!
Yes, it really its! 🙂
They are pretty!
I think so too! Their walk is pretty darn cool too! 🙂