Feeding strategy?

Plunge diving

Feeding Strategies in Sea Birds

Brown Pelican

Western gull

Forster's tern breeding plumage

This is a Forster’s tern with winter plumage

Double Crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Reddish Egret

What kind of scoter is this? Which one is the male? This duck is considered a diving duck.

Surf scoter

Is this dabbling duck a long-tailed duck or a bufflehead? Is it a male or female?

Bufflehead

Ruddy Duck – Breeding Plumage

Is this a pied-billed, horned, or eared grebe?

Pied-billed grebe

Red Breasted Merganser

What kind of grebe is this? Eared grebe

Western Grebe

What is this bird? Is it an herbivore or a carnivore?

American Coot

Long-billed Curlew

Willet

Belding’s Savanna Sparrow What endangered species is this?

What is a distinguishing feature of this osprey? What does it eat?

Turkey Vulture

Chord Grass

Pickleweed – a succulent

Salt Grass – note the salt on the leaves

Review for Bolsa Chica Trip What is an estuary

What are 5 functions of estuaries

Cord grass, pickleweed, salt grass

Pursuit diving

Aerial piracy

Dabbling versus diving ducks