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Diet: Aquatic plants
Beak: white short beak
General behavior:
Nesting: create shallow nest that floats on water
Flight pattern: requires runoff to become airborne |
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Diet: seeds and insects
Beak: little beak
General behavior:
Nests: secondary cavity nesters
Feet:
Flight Pattern: short, weak fluttering flights with rapid wing-beats |
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Diet: dead animals
Beak: narrow strong hooked beak
Behavior: soar around scavenging. roost in groups
Nests: lay eggs in rocky crevices, caves, tree cavities
Flight pattern: soar |
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Diet: dead animals
Beak: hooked beak
Behavior: roost in groups, forage alone
Nest: nest in cave
Flight pattern: glide and soar |
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Diet: fish and small vertebrates
Beak: daggerlike beak
Behavior: social birds
Nest: nest in trees or shrubs with in a colony
Flight: big wing flaps |
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Diet: fish and small vertebrates
Beak: daggerlike beak
Behavior: social
Nest: nest in colonies high in trees
Flight: slow steady wingbeats |
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