Marie Read Gallery

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

Black terns (Chlidonias niger), pair on a perch, vocalizing during courtship (termed

Black terns (Chlidonias niger), pair on a perch, vocalizing during courtship (termed 'Erect Posture' display), Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, New York, USA, May

American, Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animalia, Aves, Behaviour, Behavioural, Bird, Birds, Black Tern, Charadriiformes, Chlidonias, Chlidonias Niger, Courting, Courtship, Display, Displaying, Eastern Usa, Gull, Male Female Pair, Marsh Tern, Mating Behaviour, Mid Atlantic Us, New York, North America, Reproduction, Seabird, Sternidae, Sterninae, Tern, Two, United States Of America, Usa, Vertebrate, Wildlife

Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus), pair fighting with European Starling

Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus), pair fighting with European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) that is trying to take over the woodpeckers' nest hole, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, New York, USA May

Aggression, American, Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animalia, Aves, Behaviour, Bird, Birds, Common Starling, Eastern Usa, Eurasian Starling, European Starling, Fighting, Melanerpes, Melanerpes Erythrocephalus, Mid Atlantic Us, Miispecies, Nest, New York, North America, Northern Starling, Passeriformes, Passerine, Picidae, Piciformes, Picinae, Picus Erythrocephalus, Purple Winged Starling, Red Headed Woodpecker, Songbird, Starling, Sturnidae, Sturnus, Sturnus Vulgaris, Usa, Vertebrate, Wildlife, Woodpecker