Photo Details
August
12, 2003- Bear
River MBR, Box Elder County, Utah ©NJDavis
Description
L
8.5 WS 22, Greenish legs, Very Dark shoulders, White Spectacles, Dark
breast.Brown
to black back with white spots, Very dark unmarked underwing
Behavior
Feeds
on aquatic insects, grasshoppers, small crustaceans and frogs in
shallow
water or mud and may shake forward foot to stir up bottom insects.
Winter
on small ponds, boreal bogs in summer. Lays 4 dark marked greenish buff
eggs in deserted nests of Robins, Rusty Blackbird or Common
Grackle
in a conifer tree about 35 feet high. Precocial
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