Photos taken in USA and tagged as scenery and birds

Day 197 - Jenner, Pelagic Cormorants

The rock here is slighly under water and barely visible, but the Cormorants don't seem to mind

Date: 16 March 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Eureka, USA: gallery
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Day 123 - Everglades, Wood Stork

These birds are endangered, but can commonly be seen in the Everglades NP however.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 123 - Everglades, Turkey Vultures

These are slightly larger (by inches) than the black vultures. They also have red heads (vs black) and slightly different shaped wings.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
Tags: birds scenery everglades vultures
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Day 123 - Everglades, Tricolored Heron

I never realized how many different types of Heron's there are. We saw three just in the Royal Palms area today.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
Tags: birds scenery everglades heron
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Day 123 - Everglades, Small Blue Heron

This was also at the Royal Palms nature walk area. We saw this bird, which wasn't very large, several Great Blue Herons, and a Tricolored Heron during the same walk.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
Tags: birds scenery everglades heron
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Day 123 - Everglades, Mom & Cormorant

The wildlife in the Royal Palms nature walk area are quite used to people. Mom actually went up and touched this Cormorant later, he just ignored her.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
Tags: people birds scenery everglades phylisej
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Day 123 - Everglades, Great Blue Heron 2

Stunning bird.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 123 - Everglades, Black Vulture

These have black, featherless heads as opposed to Turkey Vultures, which have read heads.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 123 - Everglades, Anhingas

These birds are so common at the Royal Palms area, the walk is called the Anhinga Trail. I'd never heard of them before - they are somewhat similar in size & & behavior to Cormorants.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
Tags: birds scenery everglades anhinga
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Day 123 - Everglades, Anhinga drying wings

Like the Cormorant, the Anhinga dives to catch fish. It can't fly with wet wings, so stands like this to dry them after diving.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 122 - Grackle

There seemed to be thousands of these in the Wal-mart parking lot. They have a fairly pleasing song actually.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 122 - Everglades, Wood Stork 2

This is a strange looking bird, but beautiful in an odd sort of way. This is the only stork native to North America.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
Tags: birds scenery everglades stork
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Day 122 - Everglades, Small Blue Heron 2

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 122 - Everglades, Red Shouldered Hawk

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
Tags: birds scenery hawk everglades
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Day 122 - Everglades, Great Egret

If you look closely, you can see the tail of an alligator on the right. The birds don't seem to mind and feed in the same ponds and areas as the gators.

Date: 2 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 122 - Everglades, Great Blue Heron

There were quite a few of these on the Anhinga walk at the Royal Palms area.

Date: 1 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 122 - Everglades, Cormorants

Date: 1 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 122 - Everglades, Anhinga Female

The female has the lighter colored neck, the male's is dark or black

Date: 1 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day 122 - Everglades Small Blue Heron

While these were much smaller than the Great Blue Heron, they moved in a similar fashon and the family resemblance was obvious.

Date: 1 January 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Miami, USA: gallery
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Day_100_-_Birds on Island

This was from the Cedar Island Ferry, near the beginning of the trip

Date: 10 December 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Buxton, USA: gallery
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Day 99 - Pea Island NWR, Swans & Egrets

This is just a sample of the many swans, egrets and ducks we saw here. There were also brown pelicans and blue herons, but I'm not sure you can see any in this picture.