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Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)

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Avocet nest with eggs

© Rico and Ruiz / naturepl.com
Avocet chick

© Jose B. Ruiz / naturepl.com
Avocet with chicks

© Flip de Nooyer / naturepl.com
Avocet with swimming chicks

© Flip de Nooyer / naturepl.com
Avocet chick

© Wild Wonders of Europe / Peltomäki / naturepl.com
Avocet chick feeding in water

© Mike Wilkes / naturepl.com
Avocet chick feeding at shoreline

© Jose B. Ruiz / naturepl.com
Avocet wading

© David Cottridge / naturepl.com
Avocet walking

© Bernard Castelein / naturepl.com
Avocet wading

© William Osborn / naturepl.com
Avocet searching for food

© Paul Johnson / naturepl.com
Avocet standing on one leg

© Rico and Ruiz / naturepl.com
Avocet in flight

© M. Watson / www.ardea.com
Avocet calling in flight

© Duncan Usher / www.ardea.com
Avocet landing at its nest

© Pierre Huguet / Biosphoto
Avocets in saltmarsh habitat

© Jose B. Ruiz / naturepl.com
Avocet flock in flight over water

© Chris Knights / www.ardea.com
Avocet flock in flight

© Colin Varndell / naturepl.com
Avocet flock in flight

© Chris Knights / www.ardea.com
Avocet pair swimming

© Rico and Ruiz / naturepl.com
Avocet flock roosting

© Ingo Arndt / naturepl.com
Avocet preening

© Glenn Upton-Fletcher / www.gufphotography.com
Avocet bathing

© M. Watson / www.ardea.com
Avocet defending breeding territory

© Glenn Upton-Fletcher / www.gufphotography.com
Avocet territorial dispute

© Luis Casiano / Biosphoto
Avocet defending territory from oystercatcher

© Paul Sawer / naturalvisions.co.uk
Avocet defending territory from egret

© Fabrice Cahez / Biosphoto
Avocet scraping at ground

© Paul Hobson / naturepl.com
Avocet courtship

© T. Andrewartha / naturepl.com
Avocet mating

© Thomas Roger / Biosphoto
Avocet turning eggs on nest

© Jose B. Ruiz / naturepl.com
Avocet in nest

© Ian Beames / www.ardea.com
Avocet incubating eggs on nest

© Jean Roche / naturepl.com
Avocet on beach

© Jose Luis Gomez de Francisco / naturepl.com
Avocet in nesting habitat

© M. Watson / www.ardea.com
Avocet in nesting habitat

© David Hosking / www.flpa-images.co.uk

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