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<em>Birds Living </em>by Richard Stade

Birds Living by Richard Stade

Published: January 2009 Format: 11" x 13" Copyright 2008 by Richard Stade .
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    White Ibis – Juvenile ForagingEudocimus albus
February – Texas
L=25” ......    WS=38” ......    WT=2 lb
Order:Ciconiiformes (Herons, Ibises, Storks, New World Vultures, Allies) 
Family: Threskiornithidae (Ibises and Spoonbills)
White Ibises are in the same order as herons, storks, spoonbills, and New World vultures. They inhabit any area with shallow water or soft substrate. Their decurved bill is used to probe water or mud and they will, like spoonbills, sometimes swish their bill sideways and grasp prey that comes in contact with it.
    White Ibis – ForagingEudocimus albus
February – Texas
L=25” ......    WS=38” ......    WT=2 lb
Order:Ciconiiformes (Herons, Ibises, Storks, New World Vultures, Allies) 
Family: Threskiornithidae (Ibises and Spoonbills)
    Yellow-throated Warbler Dendroica dominica
August – Texas
L=5.5”......     WS=8”   ......  WT=0.35 oz
Order: Passeriformes (Passerine Birds)
Family: Parulidae (Wood-Warblers)
Yellow-throated Warblers occupy two habitats - (i) mixed pine-hardwood forests and (ii) heavily wooded river/stream bottomlands and nest and feed mostly in the high canopy of these woodlands. Much of its foraging occurs in pine trees where it inserts its long bill into pine needles and pine cones in search of insects. Where sympatric (inhabiting the same geography) with the Pine Warbler there is little competition between these two birds since they employ differing foraging techniques due to the dissimilar length of their bills.