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Stork flips his meal up in the air to swallow it.

Photo of the Day: Stork flips his meal up in the air to swallow it. 2002.
All other photos from this day:
Bald Eagles, Squaw Creek NWR
2007		 Eagles at nest, Squaw Creek NWR.
2007		 Red-bellied woodpecker at nearby Audubon center.
2006		 Apollo 14 command module Kitty Hawk, Kennedy Space Center.
2002		 Roseate Spoonbill.
2002		 Red-Bellied Woodpecker finds something to eat.
2002
Red-Shouldered Hawk camps out on a power line. I sold this image for the textbook College Physics, Pearson Prentice Hall, 6th edition, 2007, page 590. This demonstrates that a bird can sit on a live wire without being zapped due to electricity following the path of least resistance, which is through the wire.
2002		 Red-shouldered Hawk, Florida.
2002		 I think this is either a Black-Bellied Plover or a Sanderling.
2002		 A Greater Yellowlegs.
2002		 A Greater Yellowlegs.
2002		 Yellowlegs makes a stab at something.
2002
Killdeer, another type of plover.
2002		 A heron knifes through the water to snare a fish.
2002		 A big stork gets a little fish.
2002		 Ibis in flight.
2002

 

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