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class="content__text" Gliding into a relaxing Sunday 😎 . Brown Pelicans are the smallest species of pelicans. . 📸: Sam Warren USFW

August 13, 2023

class="content__text" Flying into a happy #spoonbillsaturday . 📸: Hal Wagle

August 12, 2023

class="content__text" When you just want a small bite...😁 • Great Blue Herons eat nearly anything within striking distance, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, insects, and other birds. • 📸: Douglas Hommert

August 11, 2023

class="content__text" When you can't find the lint roller...🙂 • Juvenile green herons take their first flight anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks after they hatch. • 📸: David Jeffrey

August 10, 2023

class="content__text" When you take a sip of cool water on a hot day...🫗 • Sanderlings live across nearly every coastline in the world but they only breed in the Arctic. • 📸: Hanspeter Imholz

August 10, 2023

class="content__text" When you are minding your own business but apparently everyone was watching...👀 • Otters do not generally attack prey larger in size to themselves, but there have been sightings of otters ambushing and killing hibernating adult common snapping turtles. • • • #spanishtranslation Cuando estás ocupándote de tus propios asuntos, pero aparentemente todos estaban mirando ... 👀 • Las nutrias generalmente no atacan presas más grandes que ellas, pero ha habido avistamientos de nutrias emboscando y matando tortugas mordedoras comunes adultas que hibernan.

August 08, 2023

class="content__text" When you feel the sea breeze blow around you...🪶 • Male Snowy Egrets fight for breeding territories, choose nest sites, and perform noisy courtship displays to attract mates. • 📸: Wayne Kliewer

August 07, 2023

class="content__text" When you need to scratch the itch on your back... • Yellow-crowned night herons perch quietly on stumps and tree branches, often over water. The majority of their prey is crustaceans, especially crabs and crayfish. • 📸: Patty MacInnis

August 06, 2023

class="content__text" What you look like seeing the #barbiemovie on #SpoonbillSaturday! 💌 • 📸: Daniel Suarez

August 06, 2023

class="content__text" When your sibling starts to copy everything you do...☀️ • In saltwater environments, Short-billed Dowitchers feed most heavily during falling and rising tides, rapidly probing mudflats with their bills in a sewing-machinelike motion. • 📸: Sylvia Guarino

August 06, 2023

class="content__text" When the hat comes off and your hair is unleashed...😁 • Great Crested Flycatchers are sit-and-wait predators, watching from high perches (usually near the tops of trees) after large insects, returning to the same or a nearby perch. • 📸: Peg d'Entremont

August 06, 2023

class="content__text" When the coffee finally hits and your self-awareness returns...☕ • Adults red shouldered hawks are colorful with dark-and-white checkered wings and warm reddish barring on the breast. The tail is black with narrow white bands. Immatures are brown above and white below streaked with brown. • 📸: Daniel Suarez

August 06, 2023