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AvocetRelated Category: Vertebrate Zoology (v´st), common name for a long-legged wading bird about 15 to 18 in. (37.5-45 cm) long, related to the snipe and belonging to the same family as the stilt.
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Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) (aka Pied Avocet) England The Avocet has re-colonised parts of north-west Europe in the last 50 years or so but is also present in suitable habitat in southern Europe, north Africa, the Middle East and in parts of Asia.
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Avocet Wading bird about 15 to 18 in. long , related to the snipe and of the stilt. North and South America, Europe, and Australia have 1 species in each.
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Avocets
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Avocet feeding
Avocets feed by sweeping their head, and slightly opened bill, from side to side in a regular movement. Prey is located by touch as water/mud is drawn into the opened bill.
Avocet standing in shallow water ...
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Avocets mate from April to June in the western half of the United States. This range includes the Oklahoma panhandle. Avocets engage in elaborate courtship displays, with great amounts of posturing.
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Avocets are common birds in parts of the interior, but are rare on the Atlantic coast. They frequent shores and shallow pools, and in searching for shells, crustaceans, etc., their peculiar recurved bill is used in a most interesting manner.
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Avocet nests often are placed near water and near clumps of vegetation or debris (e.g., driftwood, fence posts) (Grover 1979, Winton and Leslie 1997).
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Avocet egg
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^ BirdLife International (2008). Recurvirostra avosetta. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 Dec 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern ...
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Avocets have elaborate courtship displays that include various actions and posturing. They nest in colonies of 10 to 12 from April to June constructing nests that are merely depressions on the sand or platforms of grass on mudflats.
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Avocets feed by thrusting their bill underwater and swinging it side to side along the bottom to stir up aquatic insects.
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Female avocets lay three to four eggs in a shallow depression lined with grass on the beach or a mudflat. Avocets will occasionally nest in colonies. Both the male and the female will incubate the eggs and care for the chicks.
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Andean Avocet Recurvirostra andina
Described by: Philippi; Landbeck (1861)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
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American Avocets A pair of American Avocets look across the water. People are often surprised to learn that shorebirds like these can be found in the desert - most people expect to see them only on the ocean shore.
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American AvocetRecurvirostra americana Gmelin Status Six records. Constance and Roswell Gallagher discovered and photographed the first individual on Cape Sable Island on 28 August 1969; ...
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American Avocets specialize in using the temporally unpredictable wetlands of the arid western United States and breed in large numbers at the marshes of Great Salt Lake, the Tulare Basin of California, ...
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The American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) nests it wet areas across much of the western United States and parts of western Canada. The species on the coastal areas of the western and southern U.S. and much of Mexico.
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The American Avocet is often seen feeding in shallow waters, sweeping its strongly upcurved bill from side-to-side as it feeds on aquatic insects and crustaceans.
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AVOCET.
Bill twice the length of the head, very slender, much depressed, tapering to a point, and slightly recurved; upper mandible with the dorsal line straight for half its length, then a little curved upwards, and at the tip slightly decurved, ...
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01/19/98 NAME - American Avocet FAMILY - Recurvirostridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Recurvirostra americana REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, ...
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Male and female develop brood patches; male incubates more frequently for first 8 days, then primarily female for next 16. Young hatch synchronously. Activity peaks in early morning and in afternoon. Food stirred up by American Avocets taken by ...
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Avocet:
The avocet bird belongs to three different species. This bird is found in North and South America, Europe and even Australia. This long legged bird has webbed feet and an upturned bill.
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American Avocet Recurvirostra americana. Possible breeder. Fairly common in winter, spring, and fall, and rare in summer in Gulf Coast region. In other regions, occasional in spring and late summer, and rare in fall.
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Recurvirostra avosetta - Black-capped Avocet Burhinidae - Curlews Burhinus Burhinus oedicnemus - Eurasian Thick-knee (photo) Glareolidae - Coursers Cursorius Cursorius cursor - Cream-coloured Courser Glareola ...
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This family is comprised of avocets and stilts. These wading birds have long, spindly legs and long slender bills either straight or curved upward. Species in this family: American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) ...
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In the first pond I found a flock of Red-necked Avocets. This was my first and only time to see this beautiful bird. There were good numbers of Pink-eared Ducks. Fairy Martins almost flew into me as I walked the dikes.
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Recurvirostridae - Stilts & AvocetAmerican Avocet (Recurvirostra americana). South Pond, Pea Island NWR, Dare Co., NC 10/19/03.
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Some scientists proposed flamingos as waders most closely related to the stilts and avocets, Recurvirostridae.
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Kakï are New Zealand’s only endemic member of the avocet and stilt family, their closest relatives being Poaka, the pied stilt (Himantopus himantopus), which are widespread throughout the world’s warm and temperate regions.
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Other bird species include Bald eagles, American avocets, osprey, bobwhite quail, snowy egrets, yellowlegs, piping plovers, American white pelicans, sanderlings, peregrine falcons, merlins, and others that may be seen on the refuge.
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Artemia can be an important part of the diet of several species of waterfowl, gulls, avocets, and flamingos.
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Browning, M.R. (1993) Species limits of the cave swiftlets (Collocalia) in Micronesia. Avocetta 17: 101-106.
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 See also: Stilt, American Avocet, Oyster, Eagle, Plover
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