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A flock of lapwings flying above a swampy area in the countryside

Closeup adult Asian openbill or Asian openbill stork , low angle view, side shot, in the morning foraging on the marsh in tropical moist rainforest, southern Thailand.

The pied avocet is a large black and white sandpiper with an up-curved beak from the avocet family, common on the gently sloping shores of bodies of salt or brackish water in Eurasia and Africa. In Russia, it nests in the Ciscaucasia, in the Caspian lowland and in the south of Siberia in the steppe zone of the Minusinsk Basin.

A Pied Avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta, in typical resting position with its beak tucked into its back feathers while standing in a water-hole in Etosha National Park in north-west Namibia, southern Africa. However, it is keeping alert for danger: its eye is fully open.

Black headed ibis bird with a snake kill in its beak with use of selective focus

$Measures 38 centimeters long. Adults have long pink legs, a long black beak and an extensive white stripe that extends across the lower abdomen, neck and part of the head, which has a black upper part, as well as the nape and back. The legs alone measure around 16 cm and, when the bird flies, they are arranged longitudinally in relation to the body. It has habits and behaviors similar to those of the white-backed stilt (Himantopus melanurus), from which it differs in its black back.\nAccording to Hayman et al. (1986), is a species that presents sexual dimorphism. The adult male has a uniform black mantle and wings. The adult female has a brownish mantle and back, contrasting with the black of her neck.$

Black winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

A pied avocet sitting on eggs in a nest (Recurvirostra avosetta) a large black and white wader in the avocet and stilt family

African Jacana - Actophilornis africanus is a wader bird in family Jacanidae, identifiable by long toes and long claws that enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, blue water.

$One Saddle-billed stork wading in an African marsh foraging for food.\n\nTaken on the Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa.$

American Avocet bird hunts in the shallow waters of wetlands for food.

Sacred Ibis feeding in the shallow water

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Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus himantopus) cleaning its feathers in the pond. Reflection of green and yellow coloured reeds on the pond in the background.

A red-wattled lapwing stands gracefully in shallow water, surrounded by stones and blurred reflections on a sunny day.

Juvenile White Ibis resting on a park bench in the morning sun.

Northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, single bird by water, Hungary, May 2016

young northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

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