by Rich Leighton | May 8, 2020 | Birds, Florida, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
The purple gallinule’s long toes make it possible to walk on lily pads – one of the few birds able to do so! Also, when young, these amazingly-colored birds crawl on bushes and out of the nest using tiny claws on their wing tips. MORE PHOTOS OF BIRDS MORE...
by Rich Leighton | May 3, 2020 | Birds, Florida Nature Photography, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
Whooping cranes eat aquatic invertebrates (insects, crustaceans and mollusks), small vertebrates (fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals), roots, acorns and berries. MORE PHOTOS OF BIRDS MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS Interesting Nature Facts is a series about...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 22, 2020 | Birds, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
Ruddy Turnstone! Welcome to the next installment of a new series of nature photos that will be short & sweet, and all about the native and naturalized wildlife that is all around us with just one or two interesting nature facts that you might not know about. If...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 13, 2020 | Birds, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
To cool their nests in hot weather, stilts use their belly feathers to carry water to the nests, sometimes making more than a hundred trips a day. VISIT THE BIRDS GALLERIES MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS Interesting Nature Facts is a series about the flora, fauna and...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 23, 2019 | Birds, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
You can find 50 species of warblers in North America. Most warblers are specialized to eat insects. They migrate to the tropics for winter. A few, like the yellow-rumped warbler, can shift their diets to berries during winter in the United States. MORE PHOTOS OF BIRDS...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 16, 2019 | Birds, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Pacific Northwest, Washington
Mergansers feed mostly on fish and have serrated edges to their long and thin bills that help them grip their prey, hence the common name “sawbills”. MORE PHOTOS OF BIRDS MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS Interesting Nature Facts is a series about the flora,...
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