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Birds (Aves) are a class of warm-blooded, feathered tetrapod vertebrates. They are characterized by bipedalism, wings, and a toothless beak..
Having survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, modern birds (Neornithes) are the only living descendants of theropod dinosaurs. In 2020-2021, approximately 10,700 to 11,150 species of birds have been identified. Passerine birds (songbirds) make up more than half of these species. Birds are generally adapted for flight, but some species, such as the ostrich, emu, kiwi, and penguins, are flightless. The young of a bird is called a chick or fledgling. A young bird is referred to as a juvenile and then as an immature bird. Ornithology is the branch of zoology that studies birds.
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Zitting Cisticola...
January 10, 2026
The Zitting Cisticola is a species of passerine bird in the Cisticolidae family, very discreet outside the breeding season. It is the only representative of this family in Europe. The adult has buff or reddish-brown upperparts with dark streaks on the crown, mantle, back, and uppertail coverts. The rump is nearly plain. The upperparts become ...
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Western Swamphen...
November 22, 2025
The Western Swamphen is the largest rail in France. Its upperparts are dark purplish-blue, and its throat and breast are turquoise. The undertail coverts are pure white (an important characteristic for identification from a distance). The bill is massive, topped with a broad, bright red frontal plate...
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European Roller
Juily 17, 2025
European Roller (Coracias garrulus) is also the only species of the Coraciidae family to live in France. It is a brightly colored bird. First of all, the plumage of the European Roller is distinctive, with its turquoise-blue coloration on the underside of the body and head, contrasting with the reddish-brown coat. The primary flight feathers...
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Mediterranean Gull
May 19, 2025
Mediterranean Gull is a medium-sized gull. It resembles the Black-headed Gull, but lacks black primaries. The eye is edged with white. The mantle is light gray, the upperside of the wings is gray at the base, and the primaries are white. Beak and legs are dark red. Mediterranean Gull has a dark head during the breeding season...
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Common Pheasant
April 7, 2025
Common Pheasant, or Ring-necked Pheasant, is a species of galliform bird in the Phasianidae family, native to Asia and introduced to Europe in the Middle Ages. It is the most common pheasant in Europe, and if the term is used alone, it is probably this species that is referred to. It is hunted as game and farmed for its meat. The male displays bright colors and has a tail...
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Long-tailed Tit
March 10, 2025
Often called the Long-tailed Tit, wrongly because it is not a true tit, the Long-tailed Tit is a species of passerine bird in the Aegithalidae family. This small passerine was formerly called Tupinet or Orite. The Long-tailed Tit has a compact body, a large round head with a small beak and a very long black and white tail. It is a very small bird with a very long tail and small round wings. It has a slightly pinkish ...
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Ruff
February 11, 2025
The Ruff in fact closer to sandpipers, is a species of wading birds of the Scolopacidae family and presenting a clear sexual dimorphism, especially during the breeding season. In spring, the male Ruff has an extraordinary appearance because it wears a large ruff, and on the sides of the head, tufts of erectile feathers like the ruff. The coloring of these ornamental feathers varies from white to gray...
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Eurasian Hobby
January 18, 2025
Eurasian Hobby is a small bird of prey the size of the Kestrel belonging to the Falconidae family. This bird of prey is one of the rare birds faster than the Chimney Swift in flight. The adult has slate-grey upperparts, with slightly darker flight feathers. In addition, the head is hooded in black, on which the white cheeks and throat contrast strongly. Between the latter ...
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Ruddy Shelduck
November 25, 2024
Ruddy Shelduck is a large duck that has entirely orange-fawn plumage except for the head, which is much lighter. The head-body transition is made by a small black collar in the case of the male. Wings are black and white with a small green mirror in its central part. Beak, legs, flight feathers and rump are black. The female can be distinguished from the male by the extended ....
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Common Starling
November 3, 2024
Common Starling is a species of passerine bird in the family Sturnidae, and the order Passeriformes. It is native to most of Eurasia, but has been introduced to all continents except Antarctica. The Starling has become one of the most familiar birds in temperate regions. With its plump body, short, triangular and pointed wings, and short, square tail, its silhouette ...
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Gadwall
October 29, 2024
Gadwall is a dull-coloured dabbling duck. The male is grey with a black rump and white belly. It has a white wing speculum edged with black and rufous that can be seen both in flight and at rest. The bill is grey. Female is difficult to distinguish from the female of the mallard. The gadwall is monogamous. It can be observed in pairs or in small groups not exceeding ...
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Great Cormorant
October 2, 2024
The Great Cormorant or Common Cormorant, is a species of piscivorous aquatic bird therefore belonging to the Phalacrocoracidae family. Furthermore, its distribution area is very vast (Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and an eastern fringe of North America); there are usually five to eight subspecies.
Adult great cormorant in breeding plumage is black, with blue and bronze-green highlights. The back is gray-bronze with dark...
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Common Tern
September 10, 2024
It is a web-footed bird, of the order Charadriiformes and the family Laridae. The common tern has a grayish mantle on the back and upper part of the wings, while the cheeks, neck, nape, ventral part and notched tail are white. The top of the head is adorned with an entirely black cap up to the eyes extended by an erectile crest. Long, curved beak is orange-red with a black tip. Unlike other species that have black legs...
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Osprey
August 30, 2024
The Osprey is a species of medium-sized diurnal raptor. Its underparts are white, as is the head. It has a dark band over its eyes, more or less pronounced depending on the subspecies. The chest and the underside of the wings and tail have different dark markings, varying in intensity depending on the subspecies: a large dark band at the fold of the wrist and at the end of the remiges, dark spots ...
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Little Tern
August 4, 2024
It is a small tern recognizable by its yellow beak with black tip, the white forehead which gives it its Latin name (albifrons) and its yellow legs. The outer primaries are blackish. Its tail is short and shakes with jerky movements. Both sexes are similar.
It is the smallest of the European terns. A coastal bird of sandy and pebble beaches...
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Black-necked Grebe
June 15, 2024
Black-necked Grebe has a slightly upturned bill that is thinner than that of its cousin, the Horned Grebe. This beak is, moreover, entirely black. Like all grebes, the Black-necked Grebe has greenish legs. They are positioned far back on the body, which makes swimming easier, and its toes are lobed. The eye is red in adults. The Black-necked Grebe with a rounded and stocky body...
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Northern Lapwing
June 5, 2024
Northern Lapwing is a species of medium-sized wading birds, often living in flocks, common in Europe. It has a characteristic long, tapered black crest, while the back and tail plumage are green, although it appears black from a distance. The underparts are white with chestnut undertails. Its white belly brings out the pink color of its legs, which are very thin and short. The beak is black. Its broad ...
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Eurasian Curlew
May 16, 2024
The Eurasian Curlew is a species of wader belonging to the large family Scolopacidae. On the other hand, it is the largest European shorebird of its kind. Its long legs are grey-blue, and end in 4 fingers. The plumage is speckled and streaked with gray, red, brown, tawny and white. The white rump is clearly visible in flight, its beak is very long and curved. However, it is quite timid and suspicious ...
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Common Moorhen
April 10, 2024
The Common Moorhen is a species of bird belonging to the order Gruiformes and the family Rallidae. It is very common in ponds and marsh, as well as in waterways where the vegetation is sufficiently dense. It is easily recognized by its red beak with a yellow tip which extends towards the forehead with a red and oval frontal plate. The eyes are dark red. Its plumage ranges from dark blue ...
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Water Rail
March 17, 2024
The water rail is easily distinguished from other rails and crakes by its long, thin reddish bill. Adults have slate-grey face and underparts. The mantle and wing coverts are brown with regular black patterns. The sides are clearly barred with black and white, the legs are pink. Juveniles look quite similar to adults, however duller and browner above, less gray below. During the day, the water rail...
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Goldcrest
March 01, 2024
Goldcrest is one of the smallest birds in Europe with its congener the Common Firecrest. It has a size of approximately 9 cm and a weight of 4 to 7 grams. This is part of the Regulidae family, which are very small insectivorous passerines from the northern hemisphere. The beak is black, thin and pointed. Light brown legs have strong toes allowing the bird to stand upside ...
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Common Crane
February 24, 2024
Common Crane is one of the largest birds in Europe. It has slaty gray plumage, with black or bluish black feathers on the primaries and secondaries. A red cap located on the top of the head is also more or less visible depending on the season. The upper neck, throat, forehead and nape are black. A white patch starts from the eyes and extends toward the ...
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Common Chiffchaff
February 01, 2024
Common Chiffchaff is a small bird with thin legs and beak. The tail, narrow and short, is cut straight. This is almost uniformly greenish gray above and white or yellowish white below. It has fairly dark legs, which allows it to be differentiated from the Willow Warbler. He has a pale eyebrow which is not very visible. Possible confusion with other chiffchaffs and some ....
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Eurasian Blue Tit
January 23, 2024
Easily identifiable with its small size, its slightly chubby shape, its thin legs, its tiny beak, and its pretty plumage, the Blue Tit is a passerine bird from the Paridae family. However, it is smaller than the Great Tit. It is characterized by its blue cap, back, wings and top of its tail, its white cheeks and forehead, a black bandage over its ....
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Little Ringed Plover
January 11, 2024
Little Ringed Plover is a species of aquatic bird from the shorebird group belonging to the Charadriidae family. It is a very widespread species in continental Europe and Asia. This small ringed plover can above all be confused with the very close Ringed Ringed Plover, but it is smaller than the latter, has a frailer and more compact appearance, a shorter tail, and a smaller and more rounded ....
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Lesser Flamingo
December 2, 2023
The Lesser Flamingo is a species of bird found from Africa (mainly in the Great Rift Valley) to India. It is the smallest of the 4 species of flamingos and also the most numerous. Its main breeding ground is Lake Natron in Tanzania. The high pH of the water makes it difficult for predators to approach. Its plumage is mostly pinkish white. The clearest difference from the Greater Flamingo, the only other species living ...
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Purple Heron
November 2, 2023
Purple heron has purplish-brown plumage with slaty-grey wings, reddish-brown breast, black abdomen and purplish-red flanks and scapulars. Eyes are light yellow and its head is decorated with a black cap, the back of the neck being reddish brown and white on the front with black streaks approaching the top of the chest which is decorated with longer feathers at the mating season. The long pointed bill ...
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Greylag Goose
October 9, 2023
Greylag Goose is a species of bird belonging to the Anatidae family. Furthermore, this elegant web-footed bird is the ancestor of most breeds of domestic geese. Wild varieties have grey-beige plumage, darker and brown on the nape, flanks, upper wings and upper tail. These brown feathers are veined with the same gray-beige as the underside of the bird. The sides are tinged ...
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House Sparrow
August 3, 2023
Sparrows are birds of the Passeridae family, divided into several species, the most common of which is the house sparrow. The adult male house sparrow has a brown back streaked with black. Scapulars are chestnut. Wings are brownish with white wing-bars. Rump is grey. Tail is dark grey-brown. The underparts are paler, with plain gray breast and belly. In breeding plumage, the male has a black bib. The head is dark ...
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Eurasian Coot
July 21, 2023
Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra) is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. Larger than the moorhen (with which some confuse it), the Eurasian coot is a rounded bird. Its plumage seems entirely black, in fact it is anthracite-grey. The toes of the Eurasian Coot are not webbed, but provided with lobes. The plumage of most specimens is almost entirely black. It has a white beak surmounted by an equally white frontal shield ...
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Squacco Heron
July 3, 2023
Squacco Heron is a species of medium-sized wading bird in the family Ardeidae. It is characterized by a generally deep buff or light brown color. Its grayish beak in all seasons becomes blue-turquoise at the time of reproduction. This one has orange legs. The plumage of its head is remarkable since it is adorned with many brown and white crests. In flight, it looks completely different since it is the white color of its wings ...
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European Bee-eater
June 14, 2023
European bee-eater of Meropidae Family is a skilful hunter, catching insects in flight. This has also earned him his nickname "Hunter of Africa". These are mainly wasps, bees, hornets, as well as dragonflies in the Camargue. It is the size of a thrush. Its colors with metallic reflections are composed of the turquoise blue-green of the belly, the chest and the bottom of the wings, brown-red on ...
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Barn Swallow
June 01, 2023
Barn Swallow is a small, migratory passerine species living in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This bird is also known as the Chimney Swallow or the Barn Swallow. It is a bird with a blue-black upperparts with metallic sheen which contrasts with the whitish underparts washed with rufous. She has a sleek, slender figure with a forked tail. This one is very indented, the strands called the "nets" are however very apparent and longer...
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European Greenfinch
May 16, 2023
European Greenfinch is a stocky passerine about the size of the house sparrow. Its body is compact, an effect accentuated by the rather short tail and the large conical beak. The male is olive-yellow green with bright yellow spots on the wings and on its forked tail at the outer rectrices. It also has less bright yellow spots on its head, belly, and flanks. The female is darker and less green than the male ...
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Common Pochard
May 9, 2023
It is a medium-sized bird, slightly smaller than the mallard, with a short tail, the back of which is oriented upwards when swimming. Its long neck and its long beak with a concave culmen which continues with a sloping front give it a fairly typical profile, with a slightly conical crown. In all plumages, the wings show a diffuse greyish bar. The male in courtship has a reddish-brown head, a black beak with a pale gray ...
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Mute Swan
May 2, 2023
Mute Swan is a species of bird in the Anatidae family. Its name comes from the bump it has on its beak, called a tubercle. Its plumage is immaculate white. Eyes are hazel in color. Beak is orange with a black tab at the end. The short, webbed legs are blackish. The two sexes are identical, except in spring: the tuber is then larger in the male than in the female. In juveniles...
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Mallard
April 25, 2023
The Mallard is a species of bird of the order Ansériformes, of the family Anatidae. It is the best known and recognizable of all ducks, due to the existence of breeds of domestic ducks descended from this species. The male of the wild populations is easily recognizable, during the nuptial period, by his shiny green head. The rest of the plumage is grey-brown to white, with a blue-purple wing patch; the beak ...
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European Goldfinch
April 18, 2023
European Goldfinch is a species of passerine bird of the finch family, partially migratory, small and very motley. Thus, the adult has a scarlet red face surrounded by white and black, a brown back and sides, a black tail with white spots and a white rump. The plumage of its wings is black striped with a wide band of bright yellow. Sexual dimorphism is not marked in this species. The female is however a little less motley than the male ...
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European Robin
Mach 20, 2023
European Robin is a not very shy bird, its not very shy nature allows it to be approached easily and it readily agrees to show itself. This little sparrow is however of a very irascible nature. It defends its territory with unfailing determination against the intrusion of its congeners. This defense takes place regardless of the season. The male and the female are almost identical, with a crown, wings, the top and the tail of brown color ...
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White Stork
March 9, 2023
White Stork is a large species of wading bird in the Ciconiidae family. The plumage is entirely pure white, except for the primaries and secondaries which are black. The pigment responsible for this coloration is melanin. Breast feathers are long and shaggy, and form a ruff used in courtship. Adults have long red legs and a long, straight red beak. In juveniles, the tip of the beak is ...
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Eurasian Teal
February 25, 2023
Eurasian Teal is the smallest of the common surface ducks. It is an excellent sailboat, nervous, often active and noisy at night. It is found in Europe, North America and also in Asia. In these regions, it lives in temperate to northern zones. It is hunted in large numbers in Europe and North America. This species shows a clear sexual dimorphism during the breeding season. The male gradually takes on its nuptial plumage from October ...
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Northern Shoveler
February 17, 2023
Northern Shoveler is a surface dabbling duck. It is characterized by a massive, elongated beak, flattened and widened at its end in the shape of a small spatula. Like the other Anatidae, the species has a sexual dimorphism which results in a particularly colored plumage for the males in the nuptial period which runs from October to June. The legs are red, the head bottle-green and its irises yellow. The female is duller ....
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Black-crowned Night Heron
February 6, 2023
Black-crowned Night Heron is a stocky bird with a broad head, thick, short neck, and short legs. The adult has black crown and mantle. The black bill is short and thick. Wings, rump and tail are grey, and whitish underparts. Legs and feet are greenish-yellow. The Black-crowned Night Heron does not take on its adult plumage until its third year. It is a bird that leads a rather nocturnal, or at least crepuscular ....
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Bearded Reedling
February 01, 2023
Bearded Reedling is a passerine the size of a chickadee, with a long stored tail. The male, in its nuptial plumage, presents itself as a very red bird with a gray-blue-blue head it sporting two long and very visible black "mustaches" starting from the lores. The throat is white, the beak pointed and thin and the iris yellow-orange. Top of the body, the tail and the flanks are very rufous.The white outer scapulars and the white edges of the primaries ...
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Black-headed Gull
January 26, 2023
Black-headed Gull is a bird of the Laridae family, a family that notably includes seagulls and gulls. It is white in color with pearl gray wings except the black tip. The brown-black hood she wears in spring disappears in summer and the head then turns white. Legs are orange or orange-red. The beak is red-yellow. The eyes are dark brown, surrounded by two white crescents. It is also easily confused with the Mediterranean Gull ...
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Red-crested Pochard
January 18, 2023
This diving duck is remarkable for its very contrasting colors. Male and female are quite dissimilar. The male has a bright red head with a yellow underside. The neck, chest and belly are black, the sides white and the back dark brown. A white band crosses the shoulder. Beak is scarlet red, the legs are red-orange. The female is more discreet: she has a dark brown top of the head, greyish-white cheeks, brown back, paler underside, she has ...
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Glossy Ibis
December 24, 2022
Glossy Ibis is a species of bird in the Threskiornithidae family. At first glance it appears black, but it has rust colored feathers with metallic green tints. Head and neck are paler. He has no feathers around his eyes. It has a pale blue line decorating the contours of the face. In breeding plumage, the species shows thin white streaks on head and neck. There is no sexual dimorphism in this bird ...
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Eurasian Spoonbill
December 11, 2022
This large heron-like bird with an elegant drooping crest, with white plumage is recognizable by its long and wide beak, curiously wrinkled and spatulate at the end. This long spatula-shaped beak allows it to stir up mud and swallow plankton. The breeding adult sports an orange-tinged crest on the nape and a similarly colored collar at the base of the neck. Its beak is black with yellow tip. Legs and feet are black. ...
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Spotted Redshank
December 4, 2022
Spotted Redshank is a species of shorebird belonging to the family Scolopacidae. It is a slender, long-legged wading bird, slightly larger than the common redshank. The size of a pigeon, it nevertheless has a more slender and slender look, characterizing the waders, with a long thin and straight beak, marked by a red lower mandible. The plumage is completely different between the winter and the breeding season, which has consequently earned ...
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Black-tailed Godwit
November 22, 2022
Black-tailed Godwit is a species of shorebird in the Scolopacidae family. It is one of the two species of godwits living in France. It is a fairly large wader without well-marked sexual dimorphism. The females have a slightly paler plumage and are a little larger. In breeding plumage, the top of the skull and the nape are reddish, streaked with brown. The eyebrow, the chin and the underside of the eye are white. A brown streak runs across the face of the eye ...
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Common Shelduck
November 14, 2022
The Common Shelduck is a cave-dwelling species that preferably nests in rabbit burrows. It is the largest surface duck in France. The male has a greenish-black head, a red beak with a wattle of the same color, a reddish pectoral band from which a dark ventral stripe starts, white wings with black scapulars and primaries marked with a green speculum and the rest of the white body. The female is duller and has no wattle on the beak, often more marked ...
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Great Egret
November 11, 2022
The Great Egret is a wading bird living near freshwater. It is the largest of the herons and egrets present in Europe. This one almost disappeared, decimated by hunters who sold the long bridal feathers to decorate ladies' hats from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It was then the destruction of wetlands and pesticides that made its survival difficult....
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Western Cattle Egret
November 2, 2022
This little white heron owes its name to the fact that it likes to stay near livestock. It takes advantage of the latter's presence by feeding on frightened insects. It can be recognized by its rather stocky silhouette, its rather short beak and the distinct bulge of feathers under it. The cattle egret differs from other herons by its massive silhouette and short beak ...
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Common Snipe
October 28, 2022
The common snipe is a wader the size of a blackbird. Its upperparts are striped and spotted with light and dark brown. Then the underparts are white with black stripes on the sides. The chest is buff, spotted with brown. Tail is fawn-coloured, finely barred with black. Wings are long and pointed. The head has clear stripes. Finally, its 7-centimetre-long beak ....
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Grey heron
October 13, 2022
Grey Heron is the best known of our herons, it often nests in colonies, in trees near water. (heronry). In the Camargue, it is found near ponds and marshes, it likes shallow stretches of water. This bird is recognizable by its yellow beak (orange-yellow in the breeding season), and its ash gray plumage (hence its name) and its white and black head, neck striped with grayish white and black. ...
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Black-winged Stilt
Octobre 01, 2022
Black-winged Stilt belonging to the group of waders is recognizable by its thin, straight beak, its white body plumage, its black wings, its very long red legs which clearly protrude from the tail in flight. Both sexes are almost alike. The female is brownish while the male is blacker. Juvenile is paler than adult. The Black-winged Stilt has direct and rapid flight ...
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Birds' quarrels
September 20, 2022
Bird Quarrels can have several origins :
- the courtship for a female; male birds in their breeding plumage try to attract the female, competing with each other in style and elegance,
- the conquest of a nesting territory, this choice is vital depending on the security it offers to build a nest there,
- protection against intrusions by other birds into the nesting territory...
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Little Egret
September 13, 2022
Little egret is the most widespread of the egrets. It is recognized by its white plumage, its very elongated black beak, its black legs with yellow fingers. This Egret, smaller than the Great Egret, has two very long fine white ornamental feathers behind the crown, extending from the nape to the middle of the neck, and which play an important role during the courtship display. This wading bird frequents a wide range...
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Pied Avocet
September 6, 2022
The Pied Avocet well deserves its name and has not usurped its qualifier of elegant. This large wader is easily recognizable with its fine black beak curved upwards, its white plumage dotted with black spots, its gray blue legs, the feet are webbed. Both sexes are similar. Avocets are gregarious birds. It is very common to see them in groups, on the ground or in flight during ...
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Little Grebe
August 17, 2022
The little grebe is the smallest and stockiest of the grebes. It is immediately identifiable by its small round head, its small thin beak with often visible pale corners and its inimitable way of floating like a cork. This small Grebe has the back of its body truncated. During the breeding season, the chestnut can be recognized by its reddish-brown cheeks, throat and foreneck contrasting with the rest of the dark brown plumage ...
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Greater Flamingo
August 8, 2022
The Greater Flamingo is the emblematic bird of the Camargue. It is the only region of France where these birds nest and one of the only places in the world where the pink flamingo has returned to lay eggs every year since 1969. On the "Etang du Fangassier" more than 10,000 flamingos come to breed. These gregarious birds live in groups in wetlands ...
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Kingfisher
July 27, 2022
Kingfisher of the Alcedinidae family, is a very colorful little bird with a very particular look, who attracts many wildlife photographers. The colors of its plumage, its attitude and its speed make it a favorite subject for many of us. Kingfisher has a compact body, its short neck supports its large head extended by a pointed beak, its tail and its reduced legs. It has the head a little ...
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Birds of Camargue
July 18, 2022
Camargue is one of the last remaining natural areas on the Mediterranean coast.
It is home to more than 350 species of resident and migratory birds. For both ornithologists and bird photographers, Camargue is a prime location for birdwatching throughout the year...