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A Moorhen walks on the ice of a frozen lake

Eurasian coot is swimming in the lake in Russia

Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) is a migratory bird. It feeds on maggots and mollusks in wetlands in Asia, Europe, America and Africa.

Daytime raer view close-up of a single common moorhen walking (Gallinula chloropus) on grass at the waterside

The Great-Tailed Grackle or Mexican Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a highly social North and South American medium-sized songbird. The males are glossy black and iridescent and the females are brown and drab colored. Although the grackle is black, it is not a blackbird. It is sometimes mistaken for a crow but is not a member of that family either. Great-tailed grackles originally came from the tropical lowlands of Central and South America but over the past 140 years have spread into North America. Grackles forage in pastures, wetlands and mangroves for a wide variety of food. They eat larvae, insects, nestlings, worms, tadpoles, fish and eggs. They remove parasites from cattle and eat fruits and grains. Grackles are highly intelligent birds that can solve complex problems to get food. The male grackle has a distinctive noisy call. They communally roost in trees at night and during the breeding season they build a nest in the trees. This female grackle was photographed at Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Connemara, county Galway, Connacht province, Ireland, Europe

$L 10,5-12cm.\nBreeds in coniferous forest, often in older moss- and lichen-rich spruce, locally in S. Europe in deciduous woodland.\nResident. In N Europe joins winter tit bands.\nOften forage on ground or low branches. Not exactly shy, through usually difficult to approach.\nVisit bird tables only rarely.\nNest excavated in rotten trunk or stump.\n\nThis is a quite common Species in the Netherlands in the described Habitats.$