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Avocet( Recurvirostra avocetta )

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The Avocet is drawn in a simple but very graceful way. The upper head, the neck and the back neck, the shoulders and most of the wings are black, two large patches on the wings, and all the rest of the plumage are white. The eye is reddish brown, the beak black, the foot dark blue-gray. Total length 43, tail length 7 cm.

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The Life of the Animals
Chapter 7: The Plover Birds
by AE Brehm
Available from gutenberg.org
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