Mourning Dove
Eye open
Eye closed
These doves are so common but are so handsome
Pale-bluish/green eye ring
Laughing Gull in winter plumage
Preening
Adult Little Blue Heron
Scratch that itch! A row of built-in "teeth" along the Little Blue Heron's middle toe serves as a grooming comb. The bird uses this handy tool to scratch its head, neck, and throat.
Immature Little Blue Heron
Little Blues may gain a survival advantage by wearing white during their first year of life. Immature birds are likelier than their blue elders to be tolerated by Snowy Egrets, and in the egrets' company they catch more fish and probably also acquire extra protection against predators.
Monofilament kills. If this discarded fishing line gets wrapped around a bird it is likely doomed to suffer an agonizing death.
The other end of this monofilament fishing line is attached to a Brown Pelican that is about 50 feet in the air above the top of the photograph.
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