Monday, May 10, 2010

Drying off

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I had never heard of, or seen, this bird before and had to look it up. It's really a large bird.

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My bird book says that the Anhinga is about 35" with close to a four foot wingspan.

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The males and females look a lot alike, but if I'm reading my book correctly this is a female. The buff brown neck and breast are on the females.  The one I shared last week was the male, black head and neck.

15 comments:

  1. He IS a big bird....four feet....WOW! Impressive shots!!

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  2. Pretty amazing!

    Have a great week.
    Regards

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  3. How cool that you were able to catch it with it's wings outspread like that. I've never seen or heard of this bird.

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  4. Very interesting. I don´t think I´ve seen a bird like this.

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  5. I'm getting a crick in my neck just looking at him/her. Yeah, that's a big bird for sure. I've seen red tailed hawks with a 4-foot wingspan, but they're not nearly 3 feet tall. This is an interesting looking critter you've got here Lisa.

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  6. Holy - it IS huge! Great shots Lisa! It looks a bit like a bat with its wings spread out like that!

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  7. Cool, big bird and it´s beautiful too! :)

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  8. Amazing shots! That twisty neck is really weird looking.

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  9. He is one incredible dude. I think he knows he's good looking.

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  10. Great job in capturing this huge bird! Looks he is heating his feathers on the sun... (Sorry my bad English)

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  11. I really enjoy watching the American Anhinga when we go to Florida. Trip coming up at the end of the month. Can't wait to see all my little Florida buddies. Birds and humans.

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  12. I can't believe there's such big birds out and about like that, how fun it is to be able to see them as you did.

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  13. Oh wow! Amazing. Stunning. I want one.

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