Focused
by Dawn Currie
Title
Focused
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Wildlife photography by Dawn Currie. A solitary Snail Kite focusing in on his next meal - his favorite Apple Snails. Photographed on Cypress Lake near Kenansville, FL.
Snail Kites (Rostrhamus sociabilis) feed almost entirely on freshwater apple snails (genus Pomacea). These include both the native Florida apple snail (P. paludosa) and non-native snails recently introduced to Florida, such as the island apple snail (P. maculata) and spike-topped apple snail (P. diffusa). Snail Kites forage from perches or while flying slowly above shallow, clear, open water, watching for snails. They drop onto snails and seize them in the talons (never the bill), then perch before extracting the snail with the bill. Snail Kites sometimes try to steal apple snails from Limpkins.
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April 30th, 2020
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Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Coastal Water Birds-Shore Birds" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Don Columbus
Congratulations Dawn, your work is Featured in "Birds In Focus" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Kathi Isserman
It is my pleasure to inform you that your AWESOME photo is FEATURED on the HOMEPAGE OF "SHOWCASING THE SOUTH GROUP"! L Please add the photo to the 2020 “FEATURED IMAGE ARCHIVE THREAD.”
Judi Dressler
How cool to get a capture of this kite in flight, Dawn -- well done! l/f (I've never seen a snail kite -- would love to.)
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
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