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Wood Sandpiper
The Wood Sandpiper's natural habitat during the breeding season is raised bogs and montane forests.
The Wood Sandpiper feeds mostly on insects, which it catches by pecking with their beaks into shallow water or muddy soil.
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Tooth-billed pigeon
The tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), also known as the manumea, is a large pigeon found only in Samoa.
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Skylark
The Skylark (Alauda arvensis) nests in large parts of the Palaearctic mostly south of the Arctic Circle except in desert areas. Most are migratory birds. Birds of Britain has been introduced to an area near Vancouver in Canada where the species is now established.
The bird builds its nest of grass on the ground.
Skylark is mainly associated with the warbling song that is performed while the bird is in the air. It feeds on insects and seeds.
The bird builds its nest of grass on the ground.
Skylark is mainly associated with the warbling song that is performed while the bird is in the air. It feeds on insects and seeds.
Rough-legged Buzzard
The nest is built on a cliff or tall tree.
The Rough-legged Buzzard is largely dependent on the availability of lemmings. In good lemming years, the bird can lay up to seven eggs and when lemmings are missing the nesting might not occur.
Rough-legged Buzzard |
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Lapland Longspur
It prefers to breed on high, and very wet heaths and bogs.
In the summer bird's diet consists mainly of insects. In winter they eat seeds.
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Merlin
The Merlin often nests in abandoned nests by corvids or pigeons.
The Merlin hunts mainly birds, but sometimes rodents and insects. The Merlin can take its prey in the air and on the ground. The Merlin likes to sit on a slightly elevated location looking for prey.
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Hoopoe
Hoopoe nests in tree holes, among blocks of stone, often stone walls.
Hoopoe feeds on large insects and small lizards, and likes to pick in droppings for food.
The Hoopoe is Israel's national bird.
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