These pictures were taken at the beach. Perching-, wading- and occasionally, waterbirds,
were happy to get food as their habitat is in decline. It was rather instructive to see how well the various
birds could get along, and how doves learned wading from the turnstones. Although whimbrels are very
territorial, they tolerate non-whimbrels unless they try to snatch a snack a whimrel considers 'rightful
property'. Sometimes an angry whimbrel caught a naughty turnstone by a wing and played 'merry-go-round'.
Wild birds aren't dumbed down, they recognize their mirror-image and understand the sounds uttered by
other birds. Because a whimbrel has only one sound for alarm but ECDs many, it was amusing to see how
the ECDs learned to verify a whimbrel's alarm call.

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Female turnstone	Male turnstone	Sanderling	Whimbrel with young
Beach ECD with friends	Snowy egret	Bodhisattva Roo Ku	Friends with friends
Doves in action	Albatross and sanderling	Whimbrel and snowy egret	Doves, sanderlings, turnstones
Mirror	Daredevil	"Wading dove"	Donut doves
Once a daily welcome	Racing birds	Ruffled too	Interspecific courting
Whimbrel wins the cookie race	Good appetite!	Count the whimbrels	Whimbrels and turnstones
Smart hunter	Caught	On the rocks	Friends
Albatross and turnstone	Taking a nap	Visitor with turnstone	Aging curves the bill
Beach-ECD	Posing	Turnstone imitator	Young and old
Symmetry	Symmetry too	Donut specialists	Once a merry bunch
Once a daily welcome too	Once a merry bunch too	Friends with friends 2	Doves in action 2

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