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The startlingly long and recurved bills of long-billed curlews are usually used for probing deeply into mudflats, but I've also seen them hunting mice in newly-flooded fields. Surprisingly, the long droop-tipped bills do not seem to detract from their strong and graceful flight. Most of the birds here were photographed at Bolsa Chica wetlands in coastal Orange County, California; other were in Palo Alto, California (including the bird with a very muddy face, from probing deeply in soft substrate) and in southern Idaho.
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