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Avian adventures

Photographers around the world have been documenting birds during this busy time of year migrating, building, defending and hatching. Our feathered friends are also in the news this month, with International Migratory Bird Day on May 14, and a movie based on a popular bird game, Angry Birds, opening next week.--By Leanne Burden Seidel <br>

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Avian adventures

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  1. Avian adventures

  2. A squacco heron angles close Pusztaszer, somewhere in the range of 140 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, April 26. (Attila Kovacs/EPA)

  3. A group of snow geese, which Middle Creek Land Manager Jim Binder evaluated to be around 50,000 in number, takes off from the Middle Creek Reservoir close Kleinfeltersville, PA,, March 8. The snow geese stop at the supply to feast upon bog grass before proceeding with their relocation north to their rearing grounds in the Canadian Arctic. (Jim Scalzo/EPA)

  4. A pelcian nourishes its young at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, March 16. (Monika Skkolimowska/EPA)

  5. An egret roosts on the branch of a tree on the banks of the Brahmaputra River in the Panbazar zone of Guwahati on May 4. Every year at a comparable time, a large number of egrets construct their homes among trees in the populated zone, a noteworthy business focal point of the city. (Biju Boro/AFP/Getty Images)

  6. A hoopoe jumps out of its home close Budapest, Hungary, April 27. (Attila Kovacs/EPA)

  7. Two eaglets watch a bald eagle fly from their home over the Raccoon River on April 18, at Gray's Lake Park in Des Moines, Iowa. (Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press)

  8. A Sandhill Crane strolls over a green with chicks amid the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational Presented by MasterCard at Bay Hill Club and Lodge on March 17, in Orlando, Florida. (Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)

  9. A Cape Gannet touches base on an island that is open via land utilizing a sea wall as a part of Lamberts Bay, South Africa, May 1. The fowl island nature save in Lamberts Bay houses a huge number of reproducing gannet feathered creatures went by visitor yearly as shaping some portion of their West Coast visits in South Africa. (Schalk van Zuydam/Associated Press)

  10. A swan skims on lake Weissensee close Fuessen, southern Germany on April 5. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa by means of AP)

  11. A dark heron angles close Pusztaszer, about 140 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, April 26. (Attila Kovacs/EPA)

  12. Two storks convey settling material to their home on April 8 in Biebesheim am Rhein, western Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

  13. A Tri-hued Heron hatchling opens his mouth at Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida on April 21. Spring is settling season in South Florida and more than 140 types of flying creatures have been seen in the wetlands. (Rhona Wise/AFP/Getty Images)

  14. Pelicans fly above agrarian fields close to the southern Israeli city of Netivot, April 11. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

  15. A duckling clusters under its mom's plumes in the Boston Public Garden on April 26. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

  16. A dim egret trims close Pusztaszer, Hungary on April 27. (Attila Kovacs/EPA)

  17. Birds fly over a shut steel industrial facility where stacks of another working plant are found in foundation, in Tangshan, China. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

  18. With generally open mouths, youthful robins sit tight in their home for their folks to nourish them on May 9, in Wiesbaden, western Germany. (Candid Rumpenhorst/AFP/Getty Images)

  19. A group of dark winged stilts (himantopus) flying past a wetland at the Guandu Nature Park in Taipei. The feathered creatures in the past home for the most part in southern Taiwan, however they are step by step growing toward the north and in more prominent numbers. As per Guandu Nature Park in northern Taiwan, the dark winged stilt populace has expanded to no less than 5,000 these days. (Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images)

  20. LED lights connected to pigeons leave light trails in the sky while they fly as a component of the "Here now gone again later" craftsmanship establishment by Duke Riley over the Brooklyn precinct of New York ,May 5. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

  21. An grown-up Wood Stork tends to a hatchling at Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida on April 21. Spring is settling season in South Florida and more than 140 types of winged animals have been seen in the wetlands. (Rhona Wise/AFP/Getty Images)

  22. Two Great White Egrets (Egretta alba) in the Hortobagy National Park, Hungary, April 17. So far the presence of 340 winged animal species has been enrolled in Hortobagy, of which 160 species home in the National Park. (Attila Kovacs/EPA)

  23. Male prairie chickens square off for predominance in the lek close Wynot, Neb. A lek is an enclosure where a few types of winged creatures accumulate to pick a mate for rearing. As indicated by nearby scientist, Rebekah Jessen, there are around twelve leks in Dixon and Cedar provinces. (Darin Epperly/The Norfolk Daily News by means of AP)

  24. Canada Geese battle for domain on the Charles River in Cambridge on April 14. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

  25. A herd of feathered creatures fly on the sky of Tbilisi on April 18. (Vano Shlamov/AFP/Getty Images)

  26. A ruby-throated hummingbird takes off from a patio feeder on a back deck in Pembroke, Mass. (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)

  27. A bar-tailed Godwit lands in Spencer Gulf in South Australia. They are the universal explorers who come to Australia every year to rest and devour, yet transient winged animals confront a hazardous voyage, authorities said on April 8 as they propelled an arrangement to ensure them. (Chris Purnell/AFP/Getty Images)

  28. An egret ensures its eggs on a tree on the banks of waterway Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India, May 6. Amid this time, several egrets construct their homes in thickly populated trees along the Brahmaputra. (Anupam Nath/Associated Press)

  29. A trio of week-old Cygnets swim in Bush Pond in Norfolk, Mass., May 13. Cygnets, or child swans normally don't stay in the birth home for over a day and are watched over by both guardians for around one year. (Matt Campbell/EPA)

  30. Pigeons fly before the Eiffel Tower at dawn in Paris on April 3. (Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)

  31. A goose tends to its chicks as they cross a walkway almost a lake in Salina, Kan. April 20. (Tom Dorsey/Salina Journal by means of AP)

  32. A dark heron gets at fish in Pusztaszer, somewhere in the range of 140 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, April 27. (Attila Kovacs/EPA)

  33. People take photographs of a herd of kills hovering over the Yalu River, in Dandong, Liaoning territory, China, April 23. (China Daily by means of Reuters)

  34. A white stork conveys branches to its home arranged on a mobile phone tower close Don Benito, Spain, April 13. (Paul Hanna/Reuters)

  35. A swan chases for nourishment in the tidal pond at the Public Garden in Boston. (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff)

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