Feeding strategy? Plunge diving - Mt. SAC · (pelicans) Plunge diving Surface Feeding Pattering...
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Feeding strategy?
Plunge diving
Feeding Strategies in Sea Birds
Brown Pelican
Western gull
Forster's tern breeding plumage
This is a Forster’s tern with winter plumage
Double Crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Reddish Egret
What kind of scoter is this? Which one is the male? This duck is considered a diving duck.
Surf scoter
Is this dabbling duck a long-tailed duck or a bufflehead? Is it a male or female?
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck – Breeding Plumage
Is this a pied-billed, horned, or eared grebe?
Pied-billed grebe
Red Breasted Merganser
What kind of grebe is this? Eared grebe
Western Grebe
What is this bird? Is it an herbivore or a carnivore?
American Coot
Long-billed Curlew
Willet
Belding’s Savanna Sparrow What endangered species is this?
What is a distinguishing feature of this osprey? What does it eat?
Turkey Vulture
Chord Grass
Pickleweed – a succulent
Salt Grass – note the salt on the leaves
Review for Bolsa Chica Trip What is an estuary
What are 5 functions of estuaries
Cord grass, pickleweed, salt grass
Pursuit diving
Aerial piracy
Dabbling versus diving ducks