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AmericanOystercatcher1280
American Oystercatcher
Mia McPherson photographed this American Oystercatcher in Pinellas County, Florida, as it probed the wet sand for coquinas, a bivalve that oystercatchers eat.

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Barn Swallow
Alan Murphy, a frequent contributor to our magazine, photographed this handsome Barn Swallow in Pima County, Arizona. The species migrates by day and is found worldwide.

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Black-headed Grosbeak
Buck Lovell photographed this Black-headed Grosbeak as it perched near his deck in Sturgis, South Dakota. The picture was our Photo of the Week Winner for March and April 2009.

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Blue-faced Honeyeater
Adrian Hopkins photographed this Blue-faced Honeyeater near Mount Carbine in north Queensland, Australia. The species is found in open woodlands, parks, and gardens.

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Burrowing Owls
Mac Stone photographed these three young Burrowing Owls outside their nest burrow near Everglades National Park. He used a camera trap, remote triggers, and an intervelometer to get the close-up perspective.

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Bush Stone-curlew
Adrian Hopkins photographed this shy Bush Stone-curlew near Cairns in Queensland, Australia. The species is a ground-dwelling, mostly nocturnal bird endemic to Australia.

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Canyon Wren
Glenn Bartley, a frequent contributor to our magazine, photographed this Canyon Wren as it sang from atop a rock in British Columbia. The species is found in rocky canyons in western North America.

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Cinnamon Hummingbird
Jim Burns, a frequent contributor to our magazine, photographed this Cinnamon Hummingbird as it stretched its wings and tail near Carara National Park in Costa Rica.

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Dickcissel
Bryan Hix, a Photo of the Week contributor, photographed this Dickcissel at an empty subdivision construction site in Elgin, Illinois. Grasshopper Sparrows, Indigo Buntings, and a family of kestrels were also at the lot.

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Ferruginous Hawk
Jim Burns photographed this Ferruginous Hawk as it flew overhead in Buckeye, Arizona. The bird’s scientific name, Buteo regalis, is Latin for royal or regal hawk.

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Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Jim Zipp, a frequent contributor to our magazine, photographed this Fork-tailed Flycatcher in Stamford, Connecticut, in November 2010. It was the third sighting of the species in the state.

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Great Gray Owl
Gordon Court, a biologist with the Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division, photographed this juvenile Great Gray Owl just as it glanced over its wing. We published the photo on pages 28-29 of our December 2010 issue.

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Hooded Oriole
Alan Murphy, a frequent contributor to our magazine, photographed this singing male Hooded Oriole in Tucson, Arizona. The species is fairly common in summer in southern Arizona.

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Laughing Gull
Mia McPherson photographed this adult Laughing Gull in Pinellas County, Florida. It had caught a fish in the shallows and flew to a dune to eat it.

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Long-eared Owl
Brian Small, a frequent contributor to our magazine, photographed this Long-eared Owl in Kern County, California. The species is uncommon but widespread across North America.

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Orchard Oriole
Robert McCaw, a frequent contributor to our magazine, photographed this beautiful male Orchard Oriole during spring migration at Point Pelee National Park in Ontario.

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Osprey
Scott Linstead photographed this Osprey carrying a trout in a remote area of Finland in August 2009. We published the photo on page 14 of our August 2010 issue.

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Peregrine Falcon
Jim Zipp, a frequent contributor to our magazine, photographed this Peregrine Falcon in his home state of Connecticut. We published the photo on page 14 of our February 2011 issue.

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Rufescent Tiger-Heron
Bryan Hix photographed this juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron at the Gamboa Army Dump Ponds in Panama, a great place to see many species of wetland birds.

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Sandhill Crane
Glenn Bartley, a frequent contributor to our magazine, photographed this Sandhill Crane at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.

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Snow Bunting
Mary Curtis photographed this Snow Bunting near the Canadian border in northern New York on a cold January morning. She often sees Snow Buntings in winter in flocks with Horned Larks and Lapland Longspurs.

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Tufted Coquette
Glenn Bartley photographed this Tufted Coquette, a hummingbird from South America, in Trinidad and Tobago. We published the photo on page 32 of our August 2010 issue.

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Western Tanager
Brian Small, whose photos illustrate Kenn Kaufman’s “ID Tips” column, photographed this male Western Tanager in spring in Riverside County, California.

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Wood Storks
Mac Stone photographed these endangered Wood Storks as they were engulfed in early-morning light at Kanapaha Prairie in north-central Florida.

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