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Too fast for a swimming pool...
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Model Boat |
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July 22, 2008: IBRRC has a very large pelican aviary and spa, which also serves as a flight cage. Because we have so many birds right now, we have moved some other birds into the pelican aviary. All of them get along just fine.
At the far end are the two adult Double-crested Cormorants, who serve...
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Tranquil Pelican Aviary and Spa |
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The Common Loon swims underwater to catch fish, propelling itself with its feet. It swallows most of its prey underwater. The loon has sharp, rearward-pointing projections on the roof of its mouth and tongue that help it keep a firm hold on slippery fish.
Migrating Common Loons occasionally...
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Loons, another addiction? |
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http://www.LTWC.org
Knowing that this orphaned merganser chick's best chance for survival is to be united with a surrogate mother who will take it under her wing, LTWC volunteers head to a nearby wetland area where mergansers have been spotted. When they see a swimming female merganser, the...
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Release of a Merganser Chick |
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