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black-capped chickadee

animals, aves, Paridae, passeriformes /

Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact Tha Black-capped Chickadee is a member of the family Paridae. It is among the most popular and trusting of feeder birds, and may take seeds from an offered hand. BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE (Poecile atricapillus) click on picture to open gallery of photos BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE (Poecile atricapillus) https://youtu.be/u9x0WXPuWkohttps://youtu.be/64M1PjyX3nQhttps://youtu.be/hCyD6suYsYIhttps://youtu.be/nvFko3DRjoAhttps://youtu.be/Q1Xji_sqjmwhttps://youtu.be/QKBIhurDkX0 Facebook-f Chicago, IL […]

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alcidae

aves, charadriiformes /

Home Subjects Covers About Contact Order Charadriiformes Family Alcidae (Auks, Puffins, Guillemots) Click on the thumbnail to see more of each species. Razorbill Pigeon Guillemot Black Guillemot Atlantic Puffin Tufted Puffin Great Auk Common Murre Ancient Murrelet Facebook-f Chicago, IL EMAIL

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tufted puffin

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) is in the family Alcidae, within the Order Charadriiformes. They breed on islands and cliffs of the north Pacific Ocean, where they make burrows for nesting that are inaccessible to predators. TUFTED PUFFIN (Fratercula cirrhata) Facebook-f Chicago, IL EMAIL

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common murre

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Common Murre (Uria aalge) is in the family Alcidae, within the great Order Charadriiformes.  has a circumpolar distribution in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, nesting in large colonies.  It spends most of its time far out at sea, coming to breed on rocky cliffs and islands. COMMON MURRE

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black guillemot

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle) is in the family Alcidae which is within the huge order Charadriiformes.  It’s range is the North Atlantic coastlines,  breeding on rocky cliffs and islands and foraging out to feed on fish and other small sea creatures. BLACK GUILLEMOT (Cepphus grylle) *Revised gallery with new

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culiciformes

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact Culiciformes is an Order of Birds that includes the family Culicidae, with Cuckoos, Anis & Roadrunners, here and Musaphagidae, which includes Turacos. In the Old World, the subfamily of Culicinae are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other birds. List of Species CULICIFORMES (cuckoos, roadrunners, anis, turacos)

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caprimulgiformes

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Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Nightjar family, Caprimulgidae is in the Order Caprimulgiformes.  They are crepuscular or nocturnal, catching flying insects.  The small beak hides a huge mouth as one may see as one yawns  in video below. Frogmouths are in a different family, Podargidae. NIGHTJARS, FROGMOUTHS (Caprimulgiformes) COMMON NIGHTHAWK (Chordeiles minor) moved,

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elegant trogon

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Elegant Trogon, (Trogon elegans) is a member of the family Trogonidae, in the Order Trogoniformes.  It barely makes it into the US, in AZ and NM, from its main Central American range to Guatemala.  It lives in semi-arid woodlands and forest, usually in mountain canyons.  The male is iridescent

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owl links

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact Order Strigiformes (OWLS) Click on the thumbnail to see more of each species. Barn Owl Boreal Owl Saw-whet Owl Short-eared Owl Long-eared Owl Burrowing Owl Great Horned Owl Ferruginous Pigmy Owl Snowy Owl Elf-Owl Eastern Screech Owl Whiskered Screech Owl Great Gray Owl Barred Owl Spotted Owl Western Screech Owl

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