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Cormorants

A great cormorant drying its wings on Cape Cod, MA (July)
Great cormorants along the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. (October)

Eiders

Newport, RI (Christmas Day 2024)
Newport, RI (Christmas Day 2024)

Birds of Prey, Below and Above

An nankeen/Australian kestrel below on a rock, Sydney, NSW (August)
A bald eagle below an American Airlines flight, Washington, D.C. (October)
Turkey vulture flying over Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, FL (February)
Red-tailed hawk over the rocky shore, San Francisco, CA (August)

Golden Gate Bridge National Recreation Area, CA (San Francisco Bay)

California brown pelicans, Fort Funston (August)
California brown pelicans, Presidio (August)

Cape Henlopen State Park, DE (Delaware Bay)

Two unknown plovers (?) and three laughing gulls (May)

Cape May National Wildlife Refuge, NJ (Delaware Bay)

Laughing gulls, sanderlings, and horseshoe crabs (May)
Endangered red knots and ruddy turnstones (May)

Sherwood Island State Park, CT (Long Island Sound)

American oystercatcher (May)
Brant goose (May)
Common tern in flight (May)

Montauk Point State Park, NY (Long Island Sound)

Osprey in flight (May)
Osprey watching over the nest (May)
Solitary purple sandpiper (seems unusually late for May? Straggler? Note the orange feet; i.e. not dunlin)

Gateway National Recreation Area, NY/NJ (New York/Raritan Bay)

American oystercatcher (breeding season, June)

Halibut Point State Park, MA (Cape Ann)

Purple sandpipers wintering, December (?)

Birds of Florida

Muscovy duck (February)
Boat-tailed grackle (February)

Birds of New Zealand

Black-billed gull (January)
Little penguin, Dunedin (January)

Mergansers

Merganser (female), Merrimack River, MA (December)
Hooded merganser (male), Merrimack River, MA (December)

Turkeys and Chickens

Turkey, Cambridge, MA (October)
Red junglefowl, Honolulu, HI (January)