Marie Read Gallery

Clarks grebes (Aechmophorus clarkii) courting pair performing the Weed Ceremony'

Clark's grebes (Aechmophorus clarkii) courting pair performing the Weed Ceremony in which they slowly circle breast to breast holding pond weed as nesting material, Lake Hodges, Escondido, California, USA, April

Aechmophorus, Aechmophorus Clarkii, American, Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animalia, Aves, Behaviour, Behavioural, Bird, Birds, California, Courting, Courtship, Grebe, Male Female Pair, Mating Behaviour, North America, Podicipedidae, Podicipediformes, Reproduction, Southwest Usa, Two, United States Of America, Usa, Vertebrate, Water Fowl, Waterfowl, Western Usa, Wildfowl, Wildlife

Black-necked stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) pair performing post-copulatory display

Black-necked stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) pair performing post-copulatory display (as copulation ends, the male slides off the female leaving his wings draped over her and crossing his bill with hers, the pair remain like this as they walk a few steps together), Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Utah, USA

Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) male perched in marsh vegetation

Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) male perched in marsh vegetation (Phragmites) in foreground. Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, view toward east, with Wasatch Mountains in distance, Utah, USA

American, Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Animal, Animalia, Aves, Bird, Birds, Flowering Plant, Gramineae, Grass, Habitat, Icterid, Icteridae, Icterus Xanthocephalus, Landscape, Lilianae, Magnoliopsida, Male Animal, Marsh, Marshland, Monocot, Monocotyledon, New World Blackbird, North America, Passeriformes, Passerine, Phragmites, Plant, Plantae, Poaceae, Poales, Protected Area, Reed, Reserve, Seed Plant, Songbird, Southwest Usa, Spermatophyte, Spermatophytina, Tracheophyta, True Grass, United States Of America, Usa, Utah, Vascular Plant, Vertebrate, Western Usa, Wetland, Wildlife, Xanthocephalus, Yellow Headed Blackbird