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Female Greater Scaup with zebra mussel prey
Greater Scaup hen (Aythya marila) pulling a mollusk from Lake Ontario while overwintering
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Title:
Female Greater Scaup with zebra mussel prey
Description:
Greater Scaup hen (Aythya marila) pulling a mollusk from Lake Ontario while overwintering
File name:
greater-scaup-hen-mollusk-prey-food_1863.jpg
Captured:
2012-Jan-09 00:12:44
Owner:
Greg Schneider
Dimensions:
800 x 533 px
Tags:
prey
,
female
,
hen
,
winter
,
mollusk
,
gschneiderphoto.com
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Aythya marila
,
greater scaup
,
zebra mussel
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Indigo Bunting
Lazuli Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Pine Grosbeak
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
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Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Tufted Titmouse
Corvids
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Finches
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Purple Finch
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
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Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Horned Lark
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Loons & Grebes
Common Loon
Eared Grebe
Horned Grebe
Pied-Billed Grebe
Red-Necked Grebe
Nightjars
Common Nighthawk
Pelicans & Cormorants
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American White Pelican
Rails, Coots & Cranes
American Coot
Virginia Rail
Raptors
American Kestrel
Bald Eagle
Barred Owl
Black Vulture
Boreal Owl
Burrowing Owl
Cooper's Hawk
Eastern Screech Owl
Great Gray Owl
Great Horned Owl
Long-Eared Owl
Northern Harrier
Northern Hawk Owl
Northern Saw-Whet Owl
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-Tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Short-Eared Owl
Snowy Owl
Turkey Vulture
Shorebirds
American Avocet
American Woodcock
Black Oystercatcher
Black Turnstone
Black-bellied Plover
Black-necked Stilt
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Marbled Godwit
Pectoral Sandpiper
Piping Plover
Red Knot
Red-necked Phalarope
Rock Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-Billed Dowitcher
Snowy Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
White-Rumped Sandpiper
Willet
Wilson's Phalarope
Wilson's Plover
Wilson's Snipe
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Northern Shrike
Warbling Vireo
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Clay-Colored Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Savannah Sparrow
Snow Bunting
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Thrushes
Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Upland Game Birds
Spruce Grouse
Ruffed Grouse
Northern Bobwhite
Wild Turkey
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Sooty Grouse
Wading Birds
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Cattle Egret
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Least Bittern
Reddish Egret
White Ibis
Wood Stork
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American Black Duck
American Wigeon
Barnacle Goose
Barrow's Goldeneye
Black Scoter
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Brant
Bufflehead Duck
Canada Goose
Canvasback
Cinnamon Teal
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Gadwall
Greater Scaup
Green-Winged Teal
Harlequin Duck
Hooded Merganser
King Eider
Long-Tailed Duck
Mallard Duck
Mottled Duck
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Red-Breasted Merganser
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
Snow Goose
Surf Scoter
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
White-winged Scoter
Wood Duck
Wood-Warblers
American Redstart
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Golden-winged Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Pine Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Woodpeckers
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Lewis's Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Wrens
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Pacific Wren
Marsh Wren
Wildlife
American Alligator
American Beaver
American Mink
American Pika
American Pine Marten
Antelope Jackrabbit
Black Bear
Bobcat
Costa Rican wildlife
Eastern Chipmunk
Elk (Wapiti)
Gray Wolf
Grizzly Bear
Hoary Marmot
Minke Whale
Moose
Mule Deer
Northern Elephant Seal
Orca (Killer Whale)
Painted Turtle
Polar Bear
Raccoon
Red Fox
Red Squirrel
Sea Otter
Short-tailed Weasel
White-Tailed Deer
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