#charadriiform

[vintagewildlife]

Arctic terns mating By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

#mating cw #arctic tern #tern #charadriiform #bird #1990s #Wildlife Fact-File

[vickysaurus]

The great auk.

#great auk #alcid #charadriiform #bird #cw: taxidermy #quaternary #senckenberg museum

[herpsandbirds]

Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor), parent with chicks, fdamily Glareolidae, order Charadriiformes, found in North Africa and the Middle East

photograph by Seyed Babak Musavi

#courser #shorebird #cursorius #glareolidae #charadriiformes #bird #ornithology #middle east #africa #animals #nature

[alonglistofbirds]

[1697/10977] Bronze-winged courser - Rhinoptilus chalcopterus

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Lari Family: Glareolidae (pratincoles and coursers) Subfamily: Cursoriinae (coursers)

Photo credit: Fernando Nunes via Macaulay Library

#birds #Bronze-winged courser #Charadriiformes #Lari #Glareolidae #Cursoriinae #Rhinoptilus #birds a to z #undescribed

[alphynix]

The mancallines were a lineage of flightless semi-aquatic birds closely related to auks. Known from the Pacific coasts of what are now California and Mexico, between about 7.5 and 0.5 million years ago, they convergently evolved a close resemblance and similar lifestyle to both the recently-extinct North Atlantic great auk and the southern penguins.

Miomancalla howardi here lived in offshore waters around southern California during the late Miocene (~7-5 million years ago). The largest of the mancallines, it just slightly beat out the great auk in size – standing around 90cm tall (~3') and weighing an estimated 5kg (11lbs).

Like great auks and penguins it would have been a specialized wing-propelled diver, swimming using "underwater flight" to feed on small bait fish. It probably spent much of its life out at sea, probably only returning to land to molt and breed.

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#science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #miomancalla #mancallinae #pan-alcidae #auk #charadriiformes #bird #dinosaur #art #convergent evolution

[life-on-our-planet]

🪶🛫southern lapwing🛫🪶

bonus baby:

#southern lapwing #birds #birdblr #quero quero #tero #queltehue #aves #charadriiformes #request

[snototter]

A crested auklet (Aethia cristatella) sits cliffside on St Paul Island, Alaska, USA

by Isaac Sanchez

#crested auklet #auks #seabirds #birds #aethia cristatella #aethia #alcidae #Charadriiformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: alaska #wildlife: usa #wildlife: north america

[birdblues]

Common Tern

#common tern #tern #Sterna hirundo #Charadriiformes #Laridae #Sterna #bird #upl

[birds--daily]

day 5

today's bird is the american woodcock! meep!

the american woodcock is one of my favorite birds, if not my all time favorite! here's some fun facts about this silly bird:

- they can fly down to 5pm

- they have nearly 360 degrees of vision

- in some places, they are called the timberdoodle

#artists on tumblr #bird art #birds #ornithology #american woodcock #woodcock #ground birds #shorebirds #yes i know they go peent not meep but idk it sounds more like a meep to me #charadriiformes

[awkwardbirdsdaily]

Day 2 of january extinct birds - great auk

Auks used to be called penguins, and actual penguins are named after them! It's quite amazing that two completely different groups evolved to look and behave basically the same on two sides of the Earth. Penguins don't have that epic beak though.

#ornithology #bird #birds #bird art #birdblr #bird of the day #extinct animals #great auk #charadriiformes

[birds-that-screm]

Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)

© Bryan Calk

#arctic tern #sterna paradisaea #laridae #charadriiformes #bryan calk #birds

[vintagewildlife]

A young herring gull named Ernest By: Unknown photographer From: Natural History Magazine 1936

#fave #herring gull #sea gull #charadriiform #bird #1936 #1930s #Natural History Magazine

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

For snails, traveling long distances can be a bit of a challenge due to their size and extremely slow speed. Fortunatelly, snails in the genus Physa have found a workaround! In early February, about 20-30 snails will attach themselves to the wings of an upland sandpiper and hitch a ride south with the bird's migration.

(Images: The freshwater snail Physa acuta and its temporary host the upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) by David Liebman and Nick Varvel respectively)

#upland sandpiper #Charadriiformes #Scolopacidae #sandpipers #wading birds #shore birds #birds #Basommatophora #Physidae #bladder snails #pond snails #snails #heterobranchs #gastropods #mollusks #invertebrates #uncharismatic facts

[herpsandbirds]

African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus), family Jacanidae, order Charadriiformes, Kigali, Rwanda

photograph by Will Wilson Facebook

#jacana #jacanidae #shorebird #charadriiformes #bird #animals #nature #africa

[alonglistofbirds]

[2724/11080] Cream-coloured courser - Cursorius cursor

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Lari Family: Glareolidae (pratincoles and coursers) Subfamily: Cursoriinae (coursers)

Photo credit: Aitor gil guruceaga via Macaulay Library

#birds #Cream-coloured courser #Charadriiformes #Lari #Glareolidae #Cursoriinae #Cursorius #birds a to z #described

[baby-bird-beaks]

Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)

© Bryan Calk

#arctic tern #sterna paradisaea #laridae #charadriiformes #bryan calk #birds