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| TURKEY VULTURE: - Usually Monogamous. Chicks often roost near parents, which maintains family ties - Food mainly carrion, but also plant material - More closely related to stork & flamingo family than to birds of prey - Nature's "garbage men"; cleans up carrion & roadkill - Like owls, coughs up pellets of undigested food - Fastidious; spends much time cleaning & preening - Egyptian symbol of protection, purification & motherhood - Curious & intelligent in nature - Roosts in flocks at night (FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE) |
| BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER: - Tame, but fearless, personality - Winters from Mexico to Panama - Monogamous during breeding season - Seen commonly on LI during migration - Searches for insects among branches & will also hover and catch insects in flight - Often seen during migration with Chickadees - Likes tall trees & often stays high (CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION) |
| BARN SWALLOW: - Besides Bank Swallow, only other swallow to also be found in eastern hemisphere - Only N.American swallow with deeply forked "swallow" tail - Due to highly developed flight skills, has weak feet & walks with difficulty - Nests almost exclusively in, on or under man-made structures - Food mostly captured and eaten in the air - Gathers in large flocks for migration - Nest cup-shaped and made of mud (CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION) |
| AMERICAN WOODCOCK: - Also known as "timberdoodle" and "mudsnipe" - Bill has sensitive nerve endings & is used to probe soil for earthworms - Courtship display done at dawn & dusk and is an upward spiral, creating a musical twittering with it's wings - When hunting earthworms creates slight ground tremble by rocking back & forth on its feet in order to disturb worms, causing them to move and found easier - Member of sandpiper & snipe family, but tends to be found at edges of moist forest (CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION) |
| KILLDEER: - Plover family, but more often found in uplands than wetlands, often in plowed or open fields. Usually singley or in pairs - Noted for broken-wing display, used to distract predators from nest - Willl nest on old fields, gravel road & parking lots, golf courses & flat rooftops - While nesting in hot temperatures will soak bellies in water before sitting on nest in order to cool off eggs - Loud alarm calls makes this bird a "sentinel" bird, alerting other birds to danger (CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION) |
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