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A Townsend's Solitaire drinking
A Townsend's Solitaire drinking in Texas. These are long-tailed gray birds of the high western mountains, descending in the winter to lower elevations where they feed almost exclusively on juniper berries. Look out for their white eye ring, white outer tail feathers and buffy wing patch.
Video recorded by Timothy Barksdale/Macaulay Library/http://macaulaylibrary.org/video/402422.
For more bird videos and sounds, explore the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology,...
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Voices: Long-tailed Duck
The Long-tailed Duck has one of the most distinctive vocalizations of any tundra nesting bird. The Lab's Charles Eldermire describes the calls of this loud and garrulous species.
Learn more about Long-taield Ducks on All About Birds: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/long-tailed_duck/id
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Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise Performs Courtship Display
In some birds, males and females are distinguished solely by color. In others, males possess additional ornamentation not seen in females. This is especially true in birds-of-paradise such as the Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise, which has several long tail wires, which it sweeps across a female's face during courtship displays.
This video accompanies Chapter 4, Feathers and Plumages, Handbook of Bird Biology 3rd Edition from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Wiley...
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Greater Roadrunner foraging
Greater Roadrunners are long-legged, long-tailed, brownish birds of dry country—not quite the purple-plumed Looney Tunes character. They are related to cuckoos, but they spend most of their lives on the ground where they hunt insects, reptiles, and small mammals.
ML Video #454565; recorded by Timothy Barksdale.
For more bird videos and sounds, explore the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. http://macaulaylibrary.org
For additional identification and life history...
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Bewick's Wren
Bewick's Wren is brown overall with a paler eyebrow and long tail. Their tail is longer and eyebrow more bold than House Wren, which also inhabit backyards.
ML Video #464569; video recorded by Larry R. Arbanas; audio recorded by Geoffery A. Keller.
For more bird videos and sounds, explore the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. http://macaulaylibrary.org
For additional identification and life history information visit: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/bewicks_wren/id
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Black Sicklebill: The Thin Blue Line
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Black Sicklebills are elegant, slender birds with long bills and tails. But that all changes when a female comes by. The male transforms into a horizontal comet shape on his display perch. He doesn't use his wings to do this; he uses flank feathers. The comet shape is accentuated by a narrow blue band of iridescence created when those flank feathers line up precisely.
Filmed and photographed by Tim Laman and Eric Liner.
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Ribbon-tailed Astrapia: The Three-Foot Tail
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The tremendously long tails of male Ribbon-tailed Astrapias don't help them survive, in fact they get in the way. Males sometimes have to pause to untangle their tails before they can fly away—not a survival advantage. But the tails do help them attract females. And by carefully choosing their mates, the females determine which males' genes—and what kinds of tails—survive to the next generation.
Filmed and photographed by Tim Laman.
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