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Great blue heron standing motionless in the salt marsh

$Taxon name: Little Tern\nTaxon scientific name: Sternula albifrons\nLocation: Central Coast, NSW, Australia$

A flock of birds soaring gracefully above a serene water landscape, framed by lush reeds.

Heron Bird stands alone in the middle of the swamp looking for fish or other food to hunt.

Redshank on a post in the Norfolk wetlands

Canadian geese taking off, scared by an intruder...

Snettisham spectacular, waders beside the lagoon at Snettisham at high tide. Mediterranean gulls at sunset.

Migration of the greylag geese (Anser anser) at Lake Neusiedl, Burgenland, Austria, Europe

Snow Geese, Anser caerulescens, take off in unison from tidal grass on a bright winter day with blue skies in Oceanville NJ

Great egret (Ardea alba) with elegant breeding plumes standing in a marsh on the Connecticut coast in April. At Hammonasset Beach State Park.

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) standing in water, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey, USA

Sanderling (Calidris alba) in urban context in Gran Canaria

A Red Knot in breeding plumage walks on a light sand beach in the soft dawn light.

Striking image of a grey heron standing in shallow water that has just caught a fish, which is clearly visible in its sharp, orange beak. The water, reeds, aquatic plants and foliage create a serene, natural backdrop, highlighting the bird's elegant posture and focused gaze.

Black headed heron photographed in South Africa. Picture made in 2019.

Avocets flying over the water in the marshland of the Olonne area in Vendee, France

A flock of Dunlins (sandpiper) fly to their next beach feeding area at Boundary Bay, Delta, British Columbia, Canada,

A close-up shot of a heron standing in tall grass near a body of water.

Greylag Goose on a lakeside nest in Gosforth Nature Reserve, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. This viewed at a distance from a permanent hide.

The Hood mockingbird (Mimus macdonaldi) also known as the Española mockingbird

$Gulls are members of a large, widespread family of seabirds. Often known as seagulls (though no species is actually called a seagull, and many are found far from the sea), they sometimes get a bad reputation for stealing chips. But gulls are intelligent, adaptable and often beautiful birds. \n\nHowever, they're notoriously difficult to identify. Entire books have been dedicated to telling one gull from another, but even these barely scratch the surface. Their plumage changes as they age and there's a great deal of variation within species.\n\nGulls are typically medium to large in size, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls; stout, longish bills; and webbed feet. Most gulls are ground-nesting carnivores which take live food or scavenge opportunistically, particularly the Larus species. Live food often includes crustaceans, mollusks, fish and small birds. Gulls have unhinging jaws which allow them to consume large prey. Gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea, except for the kittiwakes. The large species take up to four years to attain full adult plumage, but two years is typical for small gulls. Large white-headed gulls are typically long-lived birds, with a maximum age of 49 years recorded for the herring gull.$

A beautiful great egret in flight over a body of water in south Florida

Little Egret (Egretta garzetta), resting on the wetland

a group of ducks including green-winged teal and shovelers in flight above a marsh

Black-tailed godwit, Limosa limosa, Group in flight at Welney, Norfolk, January 2015

Curlew Sandpiper in winter dress and a three-toed sandpiper in the background

A reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) (Great reed warbler) sings in the reeds in Burgenland, Lake Neusiedl National Park, Austria, Europe

$Black bellied plover standing on seaweed covered rock along the shore of Elkhorn Slough.\n\nTaken at Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Reserve.$

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