Day 25
welp, the goat made it to christmas. someone better burn it soon
yeah yeah i know the yanks celebrate tomorrow or whatever
The Ruff (Calidris pugnax), male, in full breeding plumage, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, Norway
photograph by donini_photography
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis), HE STRUTT!!!, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, North Slope of Alaska
photograph by Stephen Dunaway
Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea), breeding plumage, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, breeds on the coast of the Bering Sea, winters in SE Asia
photographs by tareq’s photography
Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, TX Coast, USA
photograph by James Corgill
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) mating, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, Germany
photograph by Andreas Trepte
Wilson’s Snipe (Gallinago delicata), feeding in the mud, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, Bolivar Peninsula, TX, USA
photograph by Bettina Arrigoni
Wilson’s Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor), female, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, Chicago, IL, USA
- Female phalaropes are more colorful than males, and the females court the males. The drably colored males tend the eggs and nest, after the female lays them.
photograph by Tony Dvorak Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres), breeding plumage, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, FL, USA
photograph by Hans Hillewaert
queen in chains.
Can’t find a good photo of them on Tumblr to reblog so I guess I gotta do it myself. Here is a Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus) male (image 1) and female (image 2).
I want to put them in my mouth (I am not a jackal). They look like they smell of balsa wood.
🎉 bird party requests ~




