Phillip's Fetching Birds -- Bird of the Month

2012 Calendars for birdlovers.

Phillip's Fetching Birds 2012
A seasonal collection of my own bird photographs

Birds of Earth 2012
A collection of avian diversity from 12 world-class photographers

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The Fall Shorebirds of Seapoint

A primer with photographs for some of our migrating shorebirds.

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Local Bird of the Month for April 2012

Killdeer Chick (Charadrius vociferus)
About a month before taking this shot I'd found a Killdeer setting on a nest with 4 eggs, and knew just where to come back to later for the chicks. Killdeer are shorebirds in the Plover family, well-known for their broken-wing technique of distracting predators from a nest or chicks. They are able to forage on their own just after hatching—this one's probably less than a week old. They already have that run-and-stop, run-and-stop habit of other Plovers.

Global Bird of the Month for April 2012 (from Birds of Earth calendar)

Inca Terns (Larosterna Inca)

The outrageously dapper Inca Tern is found only along the cool waters of the Humboldt Current in Chile, and Peru, where Alfredo Fernandez photographed this pair.