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The Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) is a large diving duck that lives in rivers, lakes and saltwater in the forested areas of Europe, northern and central Asia, and North America. It has a serrated bill that helps it grip its prey which are mostly fish. In addition, it eats mollusks, crustaceans, worms and larvae. The common merganser builds its nest in tree cavities. The species is a permanent resident where the waters remain open in winter and migrates away from areas where the water freezes. This female common merganser in non-breeding plumage was photographed while standing on the bank of Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

African wattled lapwing in Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.

$Three-banded Plover.\nThe three-banded plover, or three-banded sandplover (Charadrius tricollaris), is a small wader. This plover is resident and generally sedentary in much of East Africa, southern Africa and Madagascar. It occurs mainly on inland rivers, pools, lakes and pans, frequenting their exposed shores. This species is often seen as single individuals, but it will form small flocks. It hunts by sight for insects, worms and other invertebrates. Three-banded plovers have a sharp whistled weeet-weet call. Its larger and darker-plumaged sister species, Forbes's plover, replaces it in West Africa and in the moist tropics. The two species have largely allopatric breeding ranges. Both species present a distinctively elongated profile, due to their proportionally long tail and wings.$

Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is an important stop on the way of migration of Canada geese

Avocet, in a protected area of the Snettisham RSPB sight, in Norfolk, England.

Killdeer bird along a shoreline located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Natural scene from Manitowoc river in Wisconsin

Rouge River watershed spans over 336 square kilometres, including some urban areas of Toronto, Markham, Pickering, and Uxbridge. It plays a vital role in the region's ecology.

Ruff (Phylomachus pugnax). Moscow region, Russia.

Snow geese flock flying, some resting on peaceful lake in New Mexico in southwestern USA.

Spoonbills, Godwits, Pied Avocets, Lapwings and Gulls all Together

Tiny black-fronted dotterel by the water’s edge

Snettisham spectacular, waders beside the lagoon at Snettisham at high tide. Oystercatcher and Mediterranean gulls at sunset.

Red-wattled lapwing bird standing on the shore of the lake.

greater painted-snipe on the ground close up shot ( Animal portrait ).

A Northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) standing near a pond, sunny day in summer, northern France

A small killdeer plover walks on dirt next to the calm pond near Liberty Lake, Washington.

Snettisham spectacular, waders beside the lagoon at Snettisham at high tide. Dunlin, Oystercatcher and gulls at sunset.

The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper (A. macularia), make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize. Hybridization has also been reported between the common sandpiper and the green sandpiper, a basal species of the closely related shank genus Tringa.

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