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Yellow-billed Loon
You certainly are a beautiful bird.
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More information on this bird
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i0080id.html
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The Loon was so close to the dock at times, I could not get the complete bird in my viewfinder on the camera.
So, I guess the first images I will show are close ups of the Loons head.
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As it says in the books "the *culmen is straight thus making the bill look as though it is slightly tilted upwards."
*culmen is the top have of the birds bill. The Yellow-billed Loon is the rarest of all of our Loons. To find this Loon in Arizona is almost unbelievable.
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If you know me, or know how I photograph birds, you will know I always try to photograph them from every angle I can. Unfortunately I haven't learn how to communicate this the any of the birds I have photographed.
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Well, what do think? Is this not a very beautiful bird?
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The next set of images you are about to view happened in just a few seconds, and this is why the bird was so hard to photograph. Many times I would push the shutter release and not get an image of the bird because it just wasn't there when the shutter functioned.
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This set of images probably all took place in 2 to 3 seconds once the bird decided to dive.
Inasmuch as it took 7 images to show this, we had better put then a new page.
Please wait for all of the images to load.
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