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Barking knight

The barking redhorse, scientifically named Tringa nebularia, is a shorebird (which lives in mud) living all over the world except in Central and South America.

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It is part of the Scolopacidae family, and of the order Charadriiformes.

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He is recognizable by his white head and belly spotted with gray and his striped gray, brown, black and white back. Its beak and legs are yellow and black.

In the barking knight, it is impossible to recognize the male from the female.

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It feeds mainly on crustaceans, molluscs, worms and insects.

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The barking knight lives in estuaries, mud flats, marshes and beaches.

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It nests in pairs on the ground. It lays 3 to 4 eggs .

It is a fairly silent species.

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On the IUCN conservation status it is: LC Least concern.

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Adult barking knight transitive plumage, at the bottom of the image. At the beginning of the image, adult black-headed gulls in transitive plumage.

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