avocets in English

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a long-legged wading bird with a slender upturned bill and strikingly patterned plumage.
Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, avocets , plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.

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1. Family - Avocets - Recurvirostridae

2. Check 'Avocets' translations into Scottish Gaelic

3. Avocets, like stilts, are wetland inhabitants

4. What does Avocets mean? Plural form of avocet

5. Avocets are rare and critically endangered bird species

6. There are fewer than 10 species of stilts and Avocets, …

7. American Avocets winter as far south as Mexico and Guatemala

8. The Avocets have very sensitive bills that curve upward

9. Genus Recurvirostra, Recurvirostra - type genus of the Recurvirostridae: Avocets.

10. Avocets The American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a large wader.

11. Avocets have had a torrid time as breeding birds in the UK

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13. American Avocets are a migratory species that are colonial nesters and form social groups

14. Avocets have boldly contrasting plumage, long bluish legs, and a long black bill upturned at the tip.

15. Avocets, like so many shorebirds, love to stand on one leg, giving them an unbalanced look

16. Look through examples of Avocets translation in sentences, listen to pronunciation and learn grammar.

17. The Austin Avocets are a group of four young birders living in Austin, TX

18. Avocets are wader birds of the genus Reurvirostra, characterized by long legs and long, up curved bills

19. Avocets have boldly contrasting plumage, long bluish legs, and a long black bill upturned at the tip

20. Shorebirds such as American Avocets and Black-necked Stilts are nesting and raising their next generation, as they have for generations.

21. Flocks of 10,000-15,000 American Avocets spend every winter in the shallow waters between Bolivar Flats and the North Jetty

22. American Avocets are among the most abundant birds on the flats today, with 5,000 or more here most winters

23. Around lake shores and tidal flats, especially in the wide-open spaces of the west, flocks of elegant American Avocets wade in the shallows

24. Spring American Avocets – Nikon D500, f8, 1/1000, ISO 500, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light

25. This work of art was inspired by a small flock of American Avocets that I photographed at Huntington State Beach Park,

26. At the end of last month I spotted a small flock of American Avocets early in the morning at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.The morning light was nice, I had wonderful reflections of the birds on the water plus a few of the Avocets were preening at the time.

27. Avocets are mainly white, with black patches on the back and wings, and a black cap stretching down the back of the neck

28. Avocets have long and slender bills that are elegantly and unusually upcurved, and which are used to forage in the water of shallow wetlands

29. Stilts and Avocets are long – legged, long – beaked wading birds of the muddy shores of shallow lakes and lagoons, including both fresh and saline waters

30. In the western United States, American Avocets may migrate south for the winter, or they may migrate west from inland breeding sites to coastal wintering sites

31. ‘Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, Avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.’

32. American Avocets often forage by sweeping their long bills from side to side with the tip of the bill, which is extremely sensitive to touch, barely submerged in water

33. On the nearby marsh, where salt and fresh water channels mix, terns, avocets and marsh harriers are Buoyed by mid-flight coastal breezes, to the delight of wildlife watchers.

34. Despite impressions of class and elegance, Avocets display a feistier side during the nesting season, with adults shrieking and dive-bombing passing crows or harriers, or mobbing fellow wading oystercatchers and redshanks.

35. Avocets have long legs and long, thin, upcurved bills (giving their scientific name Recurvirostra) which they sweep from side to side when feeding in the brackish or saline wetlands they prefer

36. Historic drainage of coastal wetlands and reclamation for agriculture and other human uses, together pressure from egg-collecting, meant that by the mid-19th century Avocets were no longer able to breed in this country

37. Avocet - long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries genus Recurvirostra, Recurvirostra - type genus of the Recurvirostridae: Avocets

38. The Avocets in the water fly up and join another already harassing a herring gull, which circles the island in hungry curiosity, but the gull soon flies off in the face of the dive-bombing onslaught.

39. What, we wondered, would a rich birding time be like, as American Avocets and black-necked stilts in the hundreds wheeled and screamed overhead and flocks of white pelicans and white-faced ibises soared discreetly in the distance

40. Avadavats, Red Intentional 1 305 3,622 Avocets, American Intentional 5 4 24,488 Badgers Intentional 16 205 1 2 Unintentional 12 94 21 Bass, Largemouth Unintentional 2 1 6 Bats (All) Intentional 10 10 34 2 Bears, Black Intentional 15 570 519 129 Unintentional 6 10 25 Page 1 of 46 Removed/Destroyed only counts the removal or destruction o* f dens

41. Avadavats, Red Intentional 1 2,455 13,425 Avocets, American Intentional 4 3 2,025 Badgers Intentional 18 406 10 1 Unintentional 13 130 20 Bass, Largemouth Unintentional 2 2 Bats (All) Intentional 13 17 105 Bears, Black Intentional 18 565 571 42 Unintentional 11 9 27 Bears, Grizzly Intentional 1 4 1 Bears, Louisiana Black Intentional 1 1