These incoming crowds are, in turn, boosting numbers of fish-eating birds, such as herons, kingfishers, and grebes. |
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Lismore Lake provides a variety of habitat for swamp hen, ibis, egrets, and herons as well as many small waders. |
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The island also attracts a variety of wading birds such as herons and egrets and many songbirds. |
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Most of the postcranial elements belong to continental waterbirds, including pelicans, anhingas, herons, storks, ducks, and rails. |
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The flooded jheels ensure sheltered feeding and refuge for countless thousands of geese, ducks, storks, herons and waders. |
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Found all over the country, the night herons can be sighted normally near jheels, inland waters, tidal creeks and mangrove swamps. |
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And the Airport Marsh harbored a multitude of ducks, coots, egrets, herons, and rails. |
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The surrounding area is a haven for shorebirds, raptors, herons, deer, coyotes, and other wildlife. |
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You're likely to see waders as well as a variety of herons, stilts, and even the endangered West Indian whistling duck. |
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The carcasses of ospreys, white-tailed sea eagles, deer, black and white storks and herons are also being found. |
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The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards. |
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I had netting up to stop herons getting in but the otter is a different kettle of fish and has got through the netting. |
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In fall you'll see Northern flickers, herons, kingfishers, downy woodpeckers, and lots of ducks. |
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The high krantzes where young herons squawked on their nests waiting for the last meal of the day to be brought to them added to atmosphere. |
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To the west, the indigo-blue waters of Pamlico Sound lap grassy marshes thick with egrets and blue herons. |
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Around the lake we could see samples of most of Florida's native birds, such as osprey, anhinga, eagles, hawks, and herons. |
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Tall, leggy herons and the white snowy egrets wait patiently along the tidal creeks for small fish to swim by. |
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Snowy herons skimmed low over the water, and choruses of warbling frogs emanated from clusters of lily pads. |
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Frogs and herons also made an appearance and in spring the otters appeared. |
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The herons and buzzards have left for places more congenial to watching and listening for desperate scrambling through snow. |
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Elsewhere, we came across storks, ruffs and egrets, and herons of all descriptions. |
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In addition, Cranberry Glades is home to white-tailed deer, beaver, and black bear, as well as ruffed grouse and great blue herons. |
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There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more. |
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Ducks, coots, teals, terns, gulls, cormorants, waders, egrets, plovers and herons are some of the birds that assemble here. |
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Brian, a keen ornithologist, also informed me that there's a breeding pair of herons right there in the harbour. |
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Every spring, about 100 pairs nest here along with great blue herons and snowy egrets. |
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Swans competing for territory, herons being mobbed by crows and ducklings jumping for flies. |
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Egrets, terns, mallards, pelicans, eagles, tundra swans, and herons browsed amid thickets of 10-foot-tall bulrushes known as tule. |
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No one should miss the tiny island that is home to a siege of herons whose impressive wingspans are revealed when the majestic birds take flight. |
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A siege of long-legged herons stand patiently in shallow water waiting for fish to pass within striking range. |
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Whoever saw a siege of herons? Except in a heronry, they are solitary birds. |
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Visitors can also take on one of the seven nature walks to see herons, moorhens and ducks in the wetland areas. |
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Going around the lake I observed crested grebes, coots, moorhens, ducks, swans and herons. |
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Stevenson describes herons rising from the water's edge and an abundance of moorhens and coots. |
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We would watch for low-flying herons along the shore, and somewhere hear gentle mourning doves in the breaking dawn. |
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There's a pond visited by ducks, geese, blue herons, otters, deer and the odd bear. |
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Start early and you may surprise little green or great blue herons prowling the shallows. |
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In late summer, numerous egrets and herons appear, along with common, roseate, least, Forster's and black terns and maybe even a black skimmer. |
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For example, blue-footed booby and osprey nestlings fought more when hungry, but great egrets, blue herons and swallow-tailed kites did not. |
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Most belong to snowy egrets and little blue herons, who make a fine nautical color combination of crisp white and slate. |
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It also houses specimens of night herons, squacco herons, little egrets and is usually visited by the marsh harrier. |
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Hundreds of species of birds, such as seagulls, herons, starlings, sparrows and many others, live or often visit mangrove forest areas. |
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Eagles, tundra swans, Canada geese, and great blue herons visit its shallow edges and muddy islands to feed. |
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Unlike most herons, the Green Heron does not typically nest in large colonies. |
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It is expansive, easy to look out over and often adorned with one or two stately great blue herons. |
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For example, herons are widely known to place a floating object, such as a bread crumb or feather, on top of water as a lure for minnows. |
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Most important, these islands are home to the herons for which the tour was named. |
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This stately bird is the largest and most widely distributed of the North American herons. |
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Great Egrets can be found feeding in flocks of their own kind or with other herons. |
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This adaptability also enables them to winter farther north than most herons. |
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Birders flock to this region to gaze at bald eagles, great blue herons, and more than 300 other species of birds. |
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Bald eagles, snowy egrets, great blue herons, otters, muskrat, and deer inhabit the banks of the Pocomoke River. |
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This is a great opportunity to see herons, cormorants, kingfishers and sunbitterns. |
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From sungrebes, herons and kingfishers on the river to oropendolas, woodpeckers and orioles in the orchard. |
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Between March and September the rare osprey visits and there are duck, geese, swans, grouse, herons and buzzards. |
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It is home to 300 species of birds, including 26,000 nesting pairs of herons, egrets, and ibises. |
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Inland species may associate with herons, egrets, storks, ibises, and spoonbills. |
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On foot it is possible to get closish to the herons only after crossing difficult and dangerous fens and is, therefore, wholly inadvisable. |
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The zander has the rough feel and spiked dorsal fins of the perch, protecting small fish from predation, particularly from pike and herons. |
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Wetlands are a lure for geese, swans, ducks, egrets, storks, herons and the icon of the Camargue, the pink flamingo. |
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They are preyed on by herons, cormorants, kingfishers, goosanders, large trout and eels. |
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They had domesticated geese and pigeons and a wide variety of wild birds like herons, pelicans, cranes and ducks. |
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Great Horned Owls do not build their own nests, but use nests built by hawks, crows, magpies, herons, or other large birds. |
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The photo below was taken in attempts to show the powder down feathers which outline the furcular hollow and are unique to herons and bitterns. |
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I saw about eight soaring hawks, four gliding herons, and roughly 2,000 dazzling picture-postcard views. |
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The park has a really cool hawk tower where you can look down on the Olive Sparrows and ducks, grebes and herons on the water. |
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It draws kestrels, gray herons, falcons, and, for your life-list, occasional rare purple herons, Egyptian vultures, and oystercatchers. |
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Carrion crows, large gulls, hawks and herons all receive severe punishment. |
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I could go on and on about the many herons, egrets, gulls, terns, and various and sundry other species we spotted yesterday. |
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We're beginning to see roseate spoonbills, reddish egrets, tricolored herons, more edge-dwellers who reach their northernmost ranges along the Gulf coast. |
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Winter habitat is varied, but these herons frequent forested swamps. |
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Some anhingids breed in colonies alongside cormorants or herons. |
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My passing further disgruntled gloomy herons slouching along the bank, and startled grebes and coots fussing around in ever contracting pools of water. |
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The Bourgas Lake is a nestling site of pelicans, ibis, and herons. |
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The most common goldfish predators are herons, raccoons, and cats. |
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We paddled right under the canopy of trees overhanging the banks and got close encounters with egrets, herons, storks and some brilliant kingfishers. |
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Mallows Bay now harbors herons, snowy egrets, and American bald eagles. |
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The pond was filled with wildlife, as there were red and yellow goldfish swimming about, ducks paddling about on the surface, meddling with the herons. |
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Swans, herons, coots and oystercatchers are just some of the bird species recently observed, and fish have also seen in at least one of the ponds. |
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Water hens nested, herons fished, and ducks and puddocks swam in the dam. |
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The result is the area has become a wildlife sanctuary with otters returning, and residents including white egrets, herons, kestrels and dozens of wild flowers. |
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I also spotted a male kingfisher, herons and several dippers. |
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The grey heron was anyway considered to be the best of a group of birds with similar lifestyles, to wit other herons and night herons, egrets, bitterns, and cormorants. |
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From the Atlantic coastline to the Pocomoke River and Forest, Worcester is home to pelicans and peewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, and herons, harriers, and eagles. |
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Over 350 species of birds have been recorded in Worcester Country, including pelicans and pewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, herons, harriers, and eagles. |
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Among the reed beds red herons and marsh falcons can be seen. |
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Like most herons, they capture prey with sudden thrusts of their bills. |
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The little oasis on Buckshaw Hall Road, off Chancery Road, has been home to kingfishers, herons, mallard and a moorhen that has recently settled there. |
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So, on the whole, I am reconciled to the squirrels taking my walnuts, the rabbits eating my grass, the deer eating my saplings, and the herons eating my fish. |
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I've heard someone furiously dismiss all animal charities as supported by woolly minded morons because humans have enough problems without worrying about herons. |
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I don't want to see more goldfinches, chickadees, herons or cardinals. |
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It was cosy, had a fireplace, and commanded a nice view of the Bishop of Galway's back yard, where herons used to nest and foxes would come around foraging. |
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The area is home to a variety of other birds, including nesting bald eagles, hawks, owls, bluebirds and several other songbirds, wild turkeys, herons, and waterfowl. |
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Wood peckers, herons, tawny owls and wood warblers are common in the area. |
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Life at the marina brings her close to nature, especially the abundant birds such as blue herons and ospreys, as well as some great dock neighbors. |
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As we paddled across clear water, we caught sight of purple jellyfish below us, herons and oystercatchers on adjacent rocks and flocks of seagulls. |
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Under the shade of a banyan, we train our binoculars on the far side of the lake and Little grebes, Grey herons, godwits, coots and sandpipers resolve themselves into view. |
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On the nearby Smittle Creek Trail, you might also spot ospreys, black phoebes, and green herons. |
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Ibises, spoonbills, herons and the desolate bitterns have been classified in the same order. |
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In their place, herons, ibises, spoonbills, the hamerkop and the shoebill have now been transferred into Pelecaniformes. |
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Herons are members of the family Ardeidae, and the majority of extant species are in the subfamily Ardeinae and known as true or typical herons. |
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This subfamily includes the herons and egrets, the green herons, the pond herons, the night herons and a few other species. |
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This is characteristic of herons and bitterns, and distinguishes them from storks, cranes, and spoonbills, which extend their necks. |
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Grey herons have the ability to live in cities where habitats and nesting space are available. |
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Being large birds with powerful beaks, grey herons have few predators as adults, but the eggs and young are more vulnerable. |
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For the appointment of George Neville as Archbishop of York in 1465, four hundred herons were served to the guests. |
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Two grey herons feature in a stained glass window of the church in Selborne, Hampshire. |
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The reserve is home to a wide variety of wildlife species such as herons, storks, ibis, crocodiles, fresh water turtles, manatees and more. |
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At Besthorpe near Newark, breeding pairs of little egrets and grey herons have been observed. |
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There are moor hens nesting here, and we've had sightings of mallards, a Canada goose, herons and willow warblers. |
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Mallards, gadwalls, teals, pintails, shovelers, snow geese, wood ducks, bluebirds and herons flock to these ponds and uplands to breed. |
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Seasonally, hundreds of thousands of herons, storks, egrets, grebes, ibis, ducks, and jacanas flock to the area to feed and mate. |
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The Bee-eater, terns, sand martins herons, gulls and duck species all rely on the area s mixed habitat features. |
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In the cadaverous white mist the herons stood stock-still, like clay Kermis figurines. |
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My son says the blue heron looks more like a great auk, and that's probably why it has not attracted any blue herons. |
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Approximately 30 great blue herons were found dead near a run-off pond at the Mildred Lake mine site, operated by Syncrude. |
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This is one of Scotland's last wetland sites and it attracts all sorts of birds, from herons to great crested grebes. |
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There are also sightings of grey herons, water rail, kingfisher, greenshank and common sandpiper. |
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As you walk, it's good to look out for lapwings, grey herons, kingfishers, skylarks and goldfinches. |
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Steve has also seen a dipper, grey herons and cormorants that frequent the sewage works site along the river at Cooper Bridge. |
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The team plans to broadcast live pictures from the reserve's heronry of nesting grey herons and little egrets. |
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Also alongside the car park is one of the largest heronries in the area and last year yielded over 60 young grey herons. |
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We spotted herons, secretary birds and even some exotic butterflies, which flew in and out of our open-top truck. |
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Join the rangers in the bird hide to take a close-up look at the herons on one of Warwickshire's largest heronries. |
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Although they hunt alone, herons raise their young in colonies called heronries, in rough nests of sticks. |
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Running downriver in Kuczynski's jet boat to where he's located fish, I see fellow fishing creatures like mergansers and herons. |
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Not far away grey herons, in their heronry a mere four miles from Birmingham city centre, were busy renovating their untidy nests. |
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The exotic birds were on holiday elsewhere, and from my family's lakeside balcony we only ever saw swans, moorhens and a few grey herons. |
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Other birdlife which can be spotted on the island include pintails, shovelers, blackwinged stilts, teals, crab plovers, avocets and grey herons. |
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Little bittern, night herons, moorhen, bulbuls, rufous bushchats, several species of dove, olivaceous and graceful warblers. |
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Birds that feed on toads include herons, crows and birds of prey. |
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A study performed by Sitko and Heneberg in the Czech Republic between 1962 and 2013 suggested that central European grey herons host 29 species of parasitic worms. |
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Both problems are very easily overcome by stretching a fairly fine mesh plastic garden net over the pool to keep out the herons and catch the leaves. |
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Birdlife includes flamingos, sea gulls, cormorants, wild fowl, pintails, shovelers, blackwinged stilts, teals, crab plovers, avocets and grey herons. |
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Mangroves represent important nesting site for numerous birds groups such as herons, storks, spoonbills, ibises, kingfishers, shorebirds and seabirds. |
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The wetlands are of international significance for many waterbirds including whistling ducks, sarus cranes, pied herons, brolgas and waders, Cr Pascoe said. |
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Birds illegally killed in this spring hunt according to BirdLife Malta include honey buzzards, marsh harriers, pallid harriers, purple herons and green shanks. |
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During periods of drought other creatures such as water voles, toads, frogs, newts, grey herons, lapwings, curlews, snipes and the precious invertebrates suffer too. |
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These are openbill storks, night herons, egrets and cormorants. |
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This is the wintering ground of sandhill cranes, hawks, falcons, Canada geese, great blue herons, and abundant waterfowl, including mallards and canvasbacks. |
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They're everywhere, but your best watch-spot might be the outcrop at Pelican Point, where April through July you'll peep great blue herons, snowy egrets, and pelicans. |
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These included herons, egrets, and bitterns, ibises, storks, and Limpkin. |
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Garden ponds stocked with ornamental fish are attractive to herons, and may provide young birds with a learning opportunity on how to catch easy prey. |
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A short way into the walk, off to the side, is what was once a fishing lake and now a haven for water lilies, and nesting swans, herons, ducks and water hen. |
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When there is enough water, egrets, herons, ibises and swans all breed in the wetlands, as do rarer waterbirds like brolgas, jacanas and magpie geese. |
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Data on the food of the Purple, Night and Squacco herons on Lake Ludas. |
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