Sunday 14 February 2010

Cheering-up bird 23-Ruff


This week's cheering-up bird is the ridiculous male Ruff, Philomachus pugnax. It is a medium sized bird and only the males have the ruff and then only in the breeding season. It is a wading bird and migrates over large distances.

This picture is by Arjan Haverkamp, who originally posted it here- http://www.flickr.com/photos/46956042@N00/3554767058
This image is reproduced here under a creative commons 2.0 licence- you can find the licence and further details here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Philomachus_pugnax_-Diergaarde_Blijdorp-8c.jpg - this url was the source of the image.

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