Stilts, for example, andavocets remained perforce in single blessedness--the latter in noisy querulous bands, quite wild and showing no tendency to assume spring notes or habits.
Ruddy sheldrakes, mallards, shoveler ducks, and teal were in even the smallest ponds and avocets with sky-blue legs and slender recurved bills ran along the shores of a lake at which we stopped for tiffin.
Avocets also pick up matter floating in the water, on or near the surface, or take insects and seeds from mud bars.
The arrival of avocets in the fall has been noted in the Valley of Mexico in August and September.
Taylor (1912) says that avocets "share with most other birds a dislike of owls.
While passing down the valley of Crane Creek, in southeastern Oregon, a flock of about 50 avocets arose and indulged in a series of evolutions which even the most casual observer would have paused to watch.
Aiken (1914) witnessed a curious performance of avocets in Utah.
Rockwell (1912) found an interesting colony of avocets on an island in Barr Lake, Colo.
Young avocetsare very precocial and leave the nest soon after hatching.
Avocets are at all times tame and unsuspicious, very solicitous and aggressive on their breeding grounds, quiet and indifferent at other times, showing only mild curiosity.
From their manner of feeding, avocets are often scavengers, taking living or recently dead prey without much choice.
In a submerged grove where patches of mud appeared above the water hundreds of avocets were congregated.
A group of Avocets slept standing, each on one leg, on a dry point; and further away, two Spoonbills were busy sifting the soft mud with curious revolving gait.
A great variety of birds were now nesting, Stilts and Avocets being, perhaps, the most conspicuous.
A pack of avocets swept by in chattering flight: ruffs and redshanks, green sandpipers, and others of that class, with whole troops of plovers, splashed and preened in the shallows.
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