Let me see your wings
by Ruth Jolly
Title
Let me see your wings
Artist
Ruth Jolly
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
An adorable baby Black-neck Stilit. Black-necked Stilts inhabit shallow wetlands from the western United States to Central America and parts of South America. Black-necked Stilts are commonly found in salt ponds, flooded lowlands, or shallow lagoons in the United States. Human-maintained wetlands such as sewage ponds or flooded pastures are suitable habitats for these birds. Black-necked Stilts nest on the ground. They tend to build on surfaces above water, such as small islands, clumps of vegetation, or even, occasionally, floating mats of algae. Both female and male Black-necked Stilt choose the site; they look for places with a soft substrate that can be scraped away to form the depression in which they nest. Black-necked Stilts wade for their food, and will only swim or dive when under duress. During breeding and during winter, they are strongly territorial birds and are particularly aggressive to chicks that are not their own. When not breeding, Black-necked Stilts roost and forage in closely packed groups, often staying within a foot of each other. Black-necked Stilts are semi-colonial when nesting and participate en masse in anti-predator displays. The displays include one in which non-incubating birds fly up to mob predators and one in which all birds encircle a predator, hop up and down, and flap their wings. This baby is approx. 5 days old in Gilbert, Arizona. Fine Art America watermark will not appear on purchased artwork.
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June 5th, 2013
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Comments (56)
Don Columbus
Congratulations Ruth, your work is Featured in "Coastal Water Birds-Shore Birds" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Dawn Currie
Congratulations on your feature in our group, Pure Nature Photography - celebrating the best of our natural world! You are invited to archive it in the 2019 Pure Nature Photography Featured Work Archive discussion thread for longer lasting visibility.
Barbara Chichester
CONGRATULATIONS your outstanding artwork is FEATURED on the highly viewed Art Group: MOTIVATION MEDITATION INSPIRATION! Out of of hundreds of pieces of artwork received daily to review and choose from, your work has been chosen because of it's excellence!
James Petersen
Wonderful capture of this stilt. Love the reflection of it in the water, shared on G+
Lenore Senior
Adorable! Please send to Best of Minimalism i Photography group. (This was sent to Painter's group.)