Bonus #bird: Immature male wood duck, posing pretty

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Bonus #birds: Female wood duck and ducklings

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Treason.

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mistletoe life cycle anew. Since they don’t need to crush the swallowed seeds, YTEU lack the gizzard that in many #birds serves to grind seeds, bones, scales, & exoskeletons into smaller bits for digestion or regurgitation. Spread across the neotropics, most of the 27 species of euphonias follow a

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common pattern; males are bright yellow & deep blue-black, varying in only the arrangement of these colors. The females are soft yellows, olives, & greys. 🪶 All have short, pinchy bills well-suited for eating fruit, although insects are occasional meals, especially when feeding their young.

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