Found on the shore around Long Island Sound
These are common shore birds found in Long Island Sound….Each picture has a number assigned to it that you will see if you roll your mouse over each one…..there are many shore birds listed below….your task is to match the picture with the correct name of the bird….do some research on the internet to come up with the answers….after you have finished that, choose one of the birds that you have correctly identified and submit a paragraph on the blog that contains the following information about the bird…….
Name:
Habitat:
Main Food Source:
Some unique characteristic:
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Don’t forget to submit the correct matches first on the blog before you put in the paragraph and send it to me
Here is the list of birds that you can choose from:
Pelican
Bald Eagle
Cormorant
Oystercatcher
Whimbrel
Semipalmated Plover
Herring Gull
Laughing Gull
Sandpiper
Loon
Cormorant #4
Oystercatcher #1
Herring Gull #3
Sandpiper #5
Semipalmated Plover #2
The Semipalmated Plover is found on shorelines. Its main food source is a variety of insects. It searches for prey visually. Runs several steps, stops, stares, and then pecks or quickly snatches at prey. Their population is actually increasing due to the versatility of food and habitat.
Cormorant- 4
oystercatcher- 1
Herring gull- 3
sandpiper- 5
Semipalmated Plover- 2
Name: Semipalmated Plover
Habitat: Shore-line
Main Food Source: Insects
Some unique Characteristic: The Semipalmated Plover has a single band across it’s chest and is the most common plover on migration in most areas.
Sandpiper #5
Cormorant #4
Oystercatcher #1
Semipalmated Plover #2
Herring Gull #3
The American Herring Gull (larus smithsonianus) is popular in North America, usually occupying lakes, rivers, coasts, and a variety of other habitats. They will eat almost anything: small fish, invertebrates, the eggs of other birds, and human trash. Herring Gulls were actually uncommon in the 19th century, but their numbers rose along with the decline of whales (with allowed for the overproduction of small fish) in later years.
Long Island Shore Bird #1 – Oystercatcher
Long Island Shore Bird #2 – Semipalmated plover
Long Island Shore Bird #3 – Herring gull
Long Island Shore Bird #4 – Cormorant
Long Island Shore Bird #5 – Sandpiper
Name: American Oystercatcher
Habitat: Western Mexico, but on the Gulf Coast it’s equally at home on mudflats (it also ranges down both coasts of South America).
Main Food Source: Feeds opportunistically on prey such as shrimp, crabs, jellyfish, worms, insects, or even small fish. But oysters or clams are its main food source.
Some unique characteristic: It’s the largest shorebird in the Americas. Two races of American Oystercatcher breed in North America: the eastern race along the Atlantic coast, and a second race along the Pacific coast from northwestern Baja California southward. North of Baja California, the Black Oystercatcher takes over.
Oystercatcher #1
Semipalmated Plover #2
Herring Gull #3
Comorant #4
Least Sandpiper #5
Name-Semipalmated Plover
Habitat- The shoreline
Main food source- insects
Unique characteristic- Semipalmated Plover is the most common plover seen on migration in most areas.
1- Oystercatcher
2- Semipalmated Plover
3- Herring Gull
4- Cormorant
5- Sandpiper
Oystercatcher
-Coastal areas in mostly Polar regions, but also Africa and South East Asia
-Estuaries bivalves, gastropods, polychaete worms limpets, mussels, gastropods, and chitons
-Like the Cuckoo, they sometimes drop their eggs in different nests, abandoning the egg to be raised by another bird.
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semiplapated Plover
3. Seagull
4. Cormorant
5. Sandpiper
Name: Sandpiper
Habitat: often seen running near the water’s edge on beaches and tidal mud flats. The common sandpiper is a migrator, but it frequents similar habitats year-round. When in upland areas, sandpipers live along river, ponds, or lakes.
Main Food Source: Sandpipers are ground feeders that dine on crustaceans, insects, worms, and other coastal creatures. They retrieve them by meticulously pecking and probing with their short bills.
Some unique characteristic: They sound off with a distinctive three-note, piping-like cry—often represented as “twee-wee-wee.”
Shore Birds
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated Plover
3. Herring gull
4. Cormorant
5. Sandpiper
Name: Herring gull
Habitat: Coastal North America in winter, and in the summer along the Atlantic coast, great lake, and coastal Alaska.
Food Source: Prefer drinking fresh water. Prey on fish, insects, smaller seabirds, and eggs of other gulls. On mudflats they prey on worms, small clams and mussels. On open water they look for small fish and zooplankton.
Unique Characteristic: They have special glands located over the eyes that allow them to excrete the salt in the water they drink so they don’t get dehydrated.
#1: Oystercatcher. Tropical regions of Africa and Southeast Asia. Species occurring inland feed upon earthworms and insect larvae. The diet of coastal oystercatchers is more varied, although dependent upon coast type; on estuaries bivalves, gastropods and polychaete worms are the most important part of the diet, whereas rocky shore oystercatchers prey upon limpets, mussels, gastropods, and chitons. Other prey items include echinoderms, fish, and crabs. There are two kinds of oystercatchers. Some are coastal while others can be inland.
#2: Semipalmated Plover. They breed in Canada and Alaska but are migratory and can reach from the United States to Patagonia. These birds forage for food on beaches, tidal flats and fields, usually by sight. They eat insects, crustaceans and worms. The term “semipalmated” refers to its partly webbed feet.
#3: Herring Gull. They can be all over the world but they are all believed to have descended from the European Herring Gull. Its broad diet includes invertebrates, fish and many other items. It usually nests near water, laying around three eggs in a scrape on the ground. It has no song but has a variety of cries and calls. The “long call” is a series of notes during which the head is dipped then raised. The “choking call” is produced during courtship displays or territorial disputes. Juvenile birds emit high-pitched plaintive cries to elicit feeding behavior from a parent, and may also emit a clicking distress call when a parent suddenly flies off.
#4: Cormorant. Cormorants can live in marshes or on the rocks but need to live near a body of water. All are fish-eaters, dining on small eels, fish, and even water snakes. They dive from the surface, though many species make a characteristic half-jump as they dive, presumably to give themselves a more streamlined entry into the water. Under water they propel themselves with their feet. Some cormorant species have been found, using depth gauges, to dive to depths of as much as 45 metres.
#5: Sandpiper. They particularly live on the coast which is more ideal for their eating habits. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Most species nest in open areas, and defend their territories with aerial displays. The nest itself is a simple scrape in the ground, in which the bird typically lays three or four eggs. The young of most species are precocial.
Cormorant #4
Oystercatcher#1
Semipalmated Plover#2
Herring Gull#3
Sandpiper#5
The Bird that I’m doing is the sandpiper. Sandpipers are familiar birds that are often seen running near the water’s edge on beaches and tidal mud flats. The common sandpiper has a brown upper body and a white underside. When at rest its wingtips reach halfway back to its tail. Sandpipers are ground feeders that dine on crustaceans, insects, worms, and other coastal creatures.
Juan navarrete
1. Cormorant- pic 4
2. Oystercatcher- pic 1
3. Semipalmated Plover- pic 2
4. Herring Gull- pic 3
5. Sandpiper
Name: Semipalmated Plover
Habitat: Laughing gulls live mainly on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, ranging from Maine down through Florida and Texas
Main Food Source: insects, vegetation
Some unique characteristic: The Laughing gull is about 16 inches in length. Its white body is covered by a slate-gray mantle and nearly black hood which extends further on the throat than on the back of the head. During the breeding season its breast has a faint rose blush.
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated Plover bird
3. Herring gull bird
4. Cormorant bird
5. whimbrel bird
1. Name =double- crested cormorant
2. Found in diverse aquatic habitats, such as ponds, lakes, rivers, lagoons, estuaries, and open coastline.
3. Predominantly fish And some other aquatic animals including insects, and amphibians.
4. Dives from the surface of the water and chases prey underwater. Grabs fish in bill, without spearing it.
Cormorants apparently use spread-wing postures only for drying their wings and not for thermoregulation
#1. Oystercatcher- The oystercatchers are a group of waders. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the polar regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia. The diet of oystercatchers varies with location. Species occurring inland, feed upon earthworms and insect larvae. The diet of coastal oystercatchers is more varied, although dependent upon coast type; on estuaries bivalves, gastropods and polychaete worms are the most important part of the diet, whereas rocky shore oystercatchers prey upon limpets, mussels, gastropods, and chitons. Other prey items include echinoderms, fish, and crabs.
#2 Semipalmated Plover- Their breeding habitat is open ground on beaches or flats across northern Canada and Alaska. They nest on the ground in an open area with little or no plant growth. These birds forage for food on beaches, tidal flats and fields, usually by sight. They eat insects, crustaceans and worms.
#3 Herring Gull- Herring Gull’s br
eeding range extends across the northern part of North America from central and southern Alaska to the Great Lakes and north-east coast of the USA south to North Carolina. It breeds over most of Canada apart from the southwest and Arctic regions. It has a varied diet including marine invertebrates such as mussels, crabs, sea urchins and squid, fish such as capelin, alewife and smelt, insects and other birds including their chicks and eggs.
#4 Cormorant- They are coastal rather than oceanic birds, and some have colonized inland waters. The original ancestor of cormorants seems to have been a fresh-water bird. They range around the world, except for the central Pacific islands. All are fish-eaters, dining on small eels, fish, and even water snakes. They dive from the surface, though many species make a characteristic half-jump as they dive, presumably to give themselves a more streamlined entry into the water.
#5 Sandpiper- The sandpipers have a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring across most of the world’s land surfaces except for Antarctica and the driest deserts. A majority of the family breed at moderate to high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Different lengths of bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food.
#4 Cormorant:
A Cormorant are medium to large seabirds and the range from size. They are fish eaters. The feed off of eels and even water snakes. They are all from the northern hemisphere.
# 1 Oystercatcher:
#2 Semipalmated Plover:
#3 Herring Gull:
# 5 Sandpiper:
Shore Bird #1
Name: Oystercatcher
Habitat: Long Island Sound Coast
Main Food Source: oysters
Some unique characteristic: Their color is either all black or pied
Shore Bird #2
Name: Semipalmated Plover
Habitat: Open ground on beaches or flats across northern Canada and Alaska.
Main Food Source: They eat insects, crustaceans and worms.
Some unique characteristic: Adults have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband.
Shore Bird #3
Name: Herring Gull
Habitat: coasts, lakes, rivers and garbage dumps.
Main Food Source: Shellfish and garbage
Some unique characteristic: Adults are white with gray back and wings, black wingtips with white spots, and pink legs. Immature birds are gray-brown and are darker and more uniform than European Herring Gulls with a dark tail.
Shore Bird #4
Name: Cormorant
Shore Bird #5 Name: Sandpiper
Erica Morrin
Shore Birds
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated Plover
3. Herring Gull
4. Loon
5. Sandpiper
The loon lives in large ponds and lakes and along shore lines. Their primary diet consists of fish and invertebrates. One characteristic that makes loons unique are their strange noises. The noises they make especially during their mating season can be heard from long distances. These noises have been compared to yodeling.
Cormorant #4
Oystercatcher #1
Semipalmated Plover #2
Sandpiper #5
Herring Gull #3
Name: Oystercatcher
Habitat: Coasts worldwide apart from the Polar Regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia
Main Food Source: Varies with location. Species occurring inland feed upon earthworms and insect larvae. The diet of coastal oystercatchers is more varied
Some unique characteristic: They have a red ring around their eyes.
Shore bird 1:Oystercatcher
Shore bird 2: Semipalmated plover
Shore bird 3:Herring gull
Shore bird 4: Cormorant
Shore bird 5:Sandpiper
Name: Oystercatcher
Habitat:They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the polar regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia.
Main food source: Oysters
Unique characteristic: Blade-like bill tips to pry open shells
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated Plover
3. Herring Gull
4. Cormorant
5. Sandpiper
Name: Semipalmated Plover
Habitat: Open ground on beaches or flats across Canada and Alaska
Food Source: They eat insects, worms, and crustaceans.
Unique Characteristics: They have partly webbed feet. They are very adorable with a brown back, there Under parts are white with one thick black or brown band on chest and Legs are yellowish.
1.oyster catcher
2.Semipalmated Plover
3. herring gull
4. Cormorant
5. sandpiper
Name: Herring gull
Habitat: found in North America, they can be found on the coasts, lakes rivers and sometimes garbage dumps, they nest near water, laying their eggs in tree.
Main Food Source: they have a broad diet witch include invertebrate, fish and many other item.
Some unique characteristic: they are white with gray back wings, black wingtips with white sport, and pink leg. Baby birds are gray brown. They have a powerful pill.
1. Oyster Catcher
2. Semipalmated Plover
3. Herring Gull
4. Cormorant
5. Sandpiper
Oyster Catcher
The Oyster Catcher bird can be found in coastal regions worldwide, in varied temperatures. The only places that they do not inhabit are the Polar Regions and some tropical islands. Their diet mainly consists of worms, but they also tend to consume limpets, mussels and chitons. A unique fact about them is that one species of oystercatcher became extinct during the 20th century, the Canarian Oystercatcher.
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated Plover
3. Herring Gull
4. Cormorant
5. Whimbrel
Name: Cormorant
Habitat: Coastal Shore
Main Food Source: Fresh-water fish
Characteristics: Dark plumage, bright lores and gular skin, webbed feet
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated plover
3. Herring gull
4. Cormorant
5. Sandpiper
Name: Herring Gull
Habitat: Coastal areas on cliffs and slopes
Main Food Source: Leftover food and fish
Unique Characteristic: Herring gulls are the most abundant species of all the gulls, worldwide.
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated plover
3. Herring gull
4. Cormorant
5. Sandpiper
Name: Semipalmated plover
Habitat: Shoreline
Main Food Source: Insects
Unique characters: The Semipalmated Plover has been seen to swim short distances across small water channels during foraging while on migration. Chicks also swim short distances to follow parents to small islets on shallow lakes
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated Plover
3. Herring Gull
4. Cormorant
5. Whimbrel
Name: Cormorant is an bird aproximately 45-100cm and weighing around 11lbs. It lives on coastal shore regions worldwide and it main food source is fresh-water fish. What makes this type of sea-bird special is its dark plumage, bright lores and gular skin, and webbed feet. Also they can be found around the world; specially around the pacific ring region.
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated Plover
3. Herring Gull
4. Cormorant
5. Sandpiper
The Herring Gull is grey and white; pink legged, as we call the “seagulls”. They are very familiar in North Atlantic, and can be found across the North American shores during the winter. Herring gull in habit in open water, intertidal pools and shallows, mud flats, landfills, newly plowed fields, picnic grounds, and fish-processing plants. Their Main Food Source is marine invertebrates, fish, insects, and eggs of other gulls. Along rocky shores, they take mussels, crabs, sea urchins, and crayfish. On mudflats, they seek worms, small clams, and mussels. Some of their unique characteristics are that Herring Gulls prefer drinking freshwater, but they’ll drink seawater when they must. They have Special glands located over the eyes allow them to excrete the salt that would otherwise dehydrate most animals, including us. The salty excretion can be seen dripping out of their nostrils and off the ends of their bills.
1.Oystercatcher
2.Semipalmated Plover
3.Herring Gull
4.Cormorant
5.Sandpiper
The Oystercatcher; known as Haematopodidae. Can be found in coastal habitats including sand or shell beaches, dunes, saltmarsh, marsh islands, mudflats, and dredge spoil islands made of sand or gravel. They feed almost exclusively on shellfish and other marine invertebrates including mussels and clams of many varieties, limpets, oysters, sea urchins, starfish, crabs, and worms. Two races of American Oystercatcher breed in North America: the eastern race along the Atlantic coast, and a second race along the Pacific coast from northwestern Baja California southward.
#1 Oystercatcher
#2 Semipalmated Plover
#3 Herring Gull
#4 Cormorant
#5 Sandpiper
Herring Gull
Are a large gull that can easily be confused with almost any of the other large gull species. They use a wide variety of habitats near water. They are common on beaches, mudflats, plowed fields, marshes, docks, commercial fishing areas, and garbage dumps. In the breeding season, they nest on islands. Herring Gulls feed mostly on natural prey such as marine fish and invertebrates, although the diet varies considerably with season and location. In addition to marine life, Herring Gulls also eat other birds, eggs, garbage, and carrion. Herring Gulls reach maturity when they are four years old.
1. Cormorant- picture 4
2. Oystercatcher- picture 1
3. Semipalmated Plover- picture 2
4. Herring Gull- picture 3
5. Sandpiper- picture 5
Name: Semipalmated Plover
Habitat: Laughing gulls live mainly on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, ranging from Maine down through Florida and Texas
Main Food Source: insects, vegetation
Some unique characteristic: The Laughing gull is about 16 inches in length. Its white body is covered by a slate-gray mantle and nearly black hood which extends further on the throat than on the back of the head. During the breeding season its breast has a faint rose blush.
1.Oystercatcher
2.Semipalmated Plover
3.Herring Gull
4.Cormorant
5.Sandpiper
Shore bird 1:
Name: Oystercatcher
Habitat: Oystercatchers can be found in coastal habitats including sand or shell beaches, dunes, saltmarsh, marsh islands, mudflats, and dredge spoil islands made of sand or gravel. During migration and winter, look for them feeding in mud or sand flats exposed by the tide, or on shellfish beds. These conspicuous birds tend to roost on beaches, dunes, or marsh islands near their foraging sites, and rarely venture far inland.
Main Food Source: Feeds almost exclusively on shellfish and other marine invertebrates including mussels and clams of many varieties, limpets, oysters, sea urchins, starfish, crabs, and worms.
Some unique characteristic: They have long orange or red bills used from smashing and prying open mollusks.
Oystercatcher #1 The oystercatchers are a group of waders; they form the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the polar regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia. The different species of oystercatcher show little variation in shape or appearance. They range from 39–50 cm (15–20 in) in length and 72–91 cm (28–36 in) in wingspan. Species occurring inland feed upon earthworms and insect larvae.
Semipalmated Plover #2 The Semipalmated Plover are migratory and winter in coastal areas ranging from the United States to Patagonia. They are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe, although their true status may be obscured by the difficulty in identifying them from the very similar Ringed Plover of Eurasia, of which it was formerly considered a subspecies. Their breeding habitat is open ground on beaches or flats across northern Canada and Alaska. They nest on the ground in an open area with little or no plant growth.
Herring Gull #3 Adults are white with gray back and wings, black wingtips with white spots, and pink legs. Immature birds are gray-brown and are darker and more uniform than European Herring Gulls with a dark tail. It occurs in a variety of habitats including coasts, lakes, rivers and garbage dumps. Its broad diet includes invertebrates, fish and many other items. It usually nests near water, laying around three eggs in a scrape on the ground.
Cormorant #4 Cormorants are colonial nesters, using trees, rocky islets, or cliffs. The eggs are a chalky-blue color. There is usually one brood a year. The young are fed through regurgitation. They typically have deep, ungainly bills, showing a greater resemblance to those of the pelicans’, to which they are related, than is obvious in the adults. All are fish-eaters, dining on small eels, fish, and even water snakes. They dive from the surface, though many species make a characteristic half-jump as they dive, presumably to give themselves a more streamlined entry into the water.
Sandpiper #5 They occur all across North America, they are distinctive in both looks and actions. They also have intriguing social lives in which females take the lead and males raise the young.
Commorant – 4
Oystercatcher – 1
Herring gull – 3
Sandpiper – 5
Semipalmated Plover – 2
The commorants habitat consist of shores lakes and oceans all over the world except for the central islands of the pacific. There diet consists of marine life like fish and eel but they’re sometimes known to eat snakes. One unique characteristic Is that many species of commorants have been known to change colors during breeding seasons and after the eggs have been laid they return to their dull coloring.
1. Oystercatcher
2.Semipalated Plover
3.Herring gull
4.Cormorant
5.Sandpiper
1. Oystercatcher
2. Coastal areas like saltwater marshes, shore lines etc.
3. Feeds exclusively on shellfish but will sometimes feed on crabs, oysters, limpets
4. The mating ritual between two birds is quite unique and rather unusual. Two potential mates walk together while making a single piping sound. This leads to leaning over, extending and lowering the neck and running side by side while calling. Then the pair must fly around in tight formation to secure their territory.
Cormorant -4
Oystercatcher -1
Herring Gull -3
Sandpiper -5
Semipalmated Plover -2
Name: Semipalmated Plover
Habitat: Shore-line
Main Food Source: Insects Some
unique Characteristic: The Semipalmated Plover has a one band across it’s chest and is the most common plover on migration in most areas.
1. Oystercatcher
2. Semipalmated plover
3. Herring gull
4. Cormorant
5. Sandpiper
Name: Cormorant
Habitat: Cape Cormorants can be found between Namibia and Algoa Bay, South Africa. The species is colonial and breeding can occur whenever sufficient food is available. At Lambert’s Bay, nests are built on fishing boats in the harbor and on any elevated site, including the stacked dolosse and rocky outcrops. The nest is a bowl built of sticks, seaweed and guano, in which between three and five eggs are laid. The eggs are incubated for approximately 23 days. Both adults incubate the egg. Chicks can fly at nine weeks.
Main Food Source: crayfish, shrimp, aquatic insects, amphibians (such as tadpoles and newts), snails, mussels, and some reptiles.
Some unique characteristic: The Double-crested Cormorant – so-called because of a tuft of curly feathers on each side of the head — is the only common species in this central part of the continent. It is a large black water bird about the size of a small wild goose. Flocks of them are sometimes seen sitting upright, with wings outspread, in dead trees, on pilings, or on rock ledges along shore. In flight they form lines or V’s like geese except that they occasionally sail. The wings are also used to add speed under water where the rather long stiff tail feathers serve as a rudder. The short powerful legs and feet, with all four toes webbed, are well suited for rapid swimming in pursuit of fish. The slender beak is hooked at the tip for grabbing and holding large fish.
Anna Johnson
Cormorant: Picture 4
Oystercatcher: Picture 1
Semipalmated Plover: Picture 2
Herring Gull: Picture 3
Sandpiper: Picture 5
Habitat: Pelicans are found on many of the world’s coastlines and also along lakes and rivers. They are social birds and typically travel in flocks, often strung out in a line. They also breed in groups called colonies, which typically gather on islands
Main Food Source: Fish and some marine invertebrates.
Some unique Characteristic: Unlike most birds, which warm their eggs with the skin of their breasts, pelicans incubate their eggs with their feet. They hold the eggs under the webs that stretch from the front toes to the hind toe, essentially standing on the eggs to warm them.
Cormorant #4
Oystercatcher #1
Herring Gull #3
Sandpiper #5
Semipalmated Plover #2
Name: Herring Gull
-Habitat: Colonies often form on isolated islands, barrier beaches, and marshy hummocks, which are safe from terrestrial predators. Herring Gulls’ scavenging habits take them to open water, intertidal pools and shallows, mud flats, landfills, newly plowed fields, picnic grounds, and fish-processing plants.
-Main Food Source: Herring Gulls are opportunistic scavengers on fish, carrion, and trash. Most choose marine invertebrates like crabs, sea urchins, or clams, even though fresh-caught fish make their most calorie-, protein-, and fat-rich meals by far.
-Some unique characteristic: In fact, some two dozen different species of gulls live in North America, and they present almost endless opportunities for identification.