Ruff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ruff ( Philomachus pugnax ) is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper is migratory and sometimes forms huge...
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a long-legged wading bird with a slender upturned bill and strikingly patterned plumage. a large marshbird ... a secretive bird with drab grey and brown plumage. a large Eurasian sandpiper with long red legs and brown, grey... a female ruff. a small plover found chiefly in Eurasia, with white underparts and a black collar...
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The ruff is a medium-sized wading bird. It has a long neck, a small head, a rather short slightly droopy bill and medium-long orange or reddish leg. In flight it shows a faint wing-stripe and oval whi... ... Female ruff (illustration)
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The ruff is a medium-sized wading bird. It has a long neck, a small head, a rather short slightly droopy bill and medium-long orange or reddish leg. In flight it shows a faint wing-stripe and oval white patches either side of the tail.
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female Ruff near hiere on May 6, 1892. I was wading a fresh water marsh, not more than a mile from town, after marsh birds in general, and ...
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The Ruff is a medium wading bird which breeds in bogs, marshlands and wet meadows with plenty of low vegetation. Breeding ranges span throughout northern Europe and ... Ruff: Large sandpiper with variably-colored frilly tufts on the neck that ranges from black to rufous to white to speckled and bared. Female lacks ruff.
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Grallatores is an order of birds. They are generally wading-birds and frequent the banks of streams and marshes. They have long legs and a long beak. The order includes the snipe, stint, and ruff; the red-shanks, green-shanks, sand-pipers; ... Reeve is the name of the female ruff bird. Research Reeve...
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The female is responsible for both incubation and tending the young. Young bitterns differ in size. They leave the nest after about two weeks but continue to be tended nearby. Their age of independence and first flight is unknown. ... This habit gave the bird its regional names of sky-gazer, look-up and stake-bird.
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Female mimics are known from many species, but permanent, non-conditional, alternative mating ..... The ruff. Individuality in a gregarious wading bird. ...
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1618908/
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