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Page 1: Feeding strategy? Plunge diving - Mt. SAC · (pelicans) Plunge diving Surface Feeding Pattering (storm petrels) (diving petrels) pursuit diving with wings (penguins) Surface plunging

Feeding strategy?

Plunge diving

Page 2: Feeding strategy? Plunge diving - Mt. SAC · (pelicans) Plunge diving Surface Feeding Pattering (storm petrels) (diving petrels) pursuit diving with wings (penguins) Surface plunging

Feeding Strategies in Sea Birds

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Brown Pelican

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Western gull

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Forster's tern breeding plumage

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This is a Forster’s tern with winter plumage

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Double Crested Cormorant

Page 8: Feeding strategy? Plunge diving - Mt. SAC · (pelicans) Plunge diving Surface Feeding Pattering (storm petrels) (diving petrels) pursuit diving with wings (penguins) Surface plunging
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Great Blue Heron

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Great Egret

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Snowy Egret

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Reddish Egret

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

Surf scoter

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

Bufflehead

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Ruddy Duck – Breeding Plumage

Page 20: Feeding strategy? Plunge diving - Mt. SAC · (pelicans) Plunge diving Surface Feeding Pattering (storm petrels) (diving petrels) pursuit diving with wings (penguins) Surface plunging

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

Pied-billed grebe

Page 21: Feeding strategy? Plunge diving - Mt. SAC · (pelicans) Plunge diving Surface Feeding Pattering (storm petrels) (diving petrels) pursuit diving with wings (penguins) Surface plunging

Red Breasted Merganser

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What kind of grebe is this? Eared grebe

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Western Grebe

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

American Coot

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Long-billed Curlew

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Willet

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Belding’s Savanna Sparrow What endangered species is this?

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

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Turkey Vulture

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Chord Grass

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Pickleweed – a succulent

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Salt Grass – note the salt on the leaves

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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


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