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Waders/ Wading Birds
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(last updated 3-07-2007) |
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American Flamingo--a spectacular bird, large, beautiful, brilliant, and slurping mud for a living.
These are filter feeders, working the warm shallows consuming a salty soup, straining it for a meal of tiny animals.
A similar strategy though on a different scale is employed by the great whales which use the hairs on a flexible structure fringed with fine hairs. Baleen...
