Annie, thanks, that's great! 
Looks terrific on your arm, too; no one would have seen it on your Elkhart.

wonderful. thank you.

It practices kleptoparisitism.  It chases other birds, principally blue-footed boobies and tropic birds in the Galapagos, and forces them to regurgitate their food which the frigatebird them steals.

Here are a female great frigate bird and two chicks from Genovese.  I refer to the chick in the third photograph as a teenager!
Gayle

WHOA, HORSIE!!!! This thing blows up red balloons in its neck, chases blue boobies and WHAT?????
It makes them urp up their food and steals it?
no WONDER those teenagers in the bottom two (splendid) photos look so bummed out.
They don't want to go into the family business, that's what.

A little reminder about copying and pasting text from other people's websites without attribution ... what people write in their bird sites is copyrighted, and even wikipedia should be cited, as far as I understand. Hard to remember, but important!

I like those francolins.

I even got my first tattoo last year and it is a peregrine falcon!

Wow!!! Where is it???  Just don't say it's in Elkhart.

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Two F Nightjars:

FRECKLED NIGHTJAR - Great name, huh http://www.flickr.com/photos/jboyles/4820259555/in/photostream/

FELINE OWLET-NIGHTJAR - That's 3 beasts for the price of one.
2 photos: http://www.birdtourasia.com/westpapuareport2009.html
...that's if you can scroll down past the Wilson's Bird of Paradise. Scroll down.
The nightjars look like owlets and cats and a few other things.

that courtship display scares the heck out of me. Good thing I'm not a frigatebird.
crazy pictures, Patti.

Patti - you're looking at that mockingbird as if you trust it not at all!

Anne - that's the prettiest starling photo I've ever seen...Mine are too busy perfecting their cell phone imitations to dress up like that!

Bluebirds leave me speechless.

EAGLE OWL, African - I took this in Siena, Italy, at a falconry display.

Is this the same kind of Owl as the Pot Plant Owl in Africam.com ?

This one just was behaving as though he'd been hanging out with pot plants.
Those are indeed Eagle Owls, but, I believe, "Spotted" Eagle Owls.
Is that the same as African?
I just loved the way this guy was stalking around.

OK, one more.

EIDER
Spectacled eiders are large sea ducks. Steller's eiders are medium-sized sea ducks.
"Eider" in Russian is Gaga. Just sayin'.

They sound as good as they look; I highly recommend listening to this entire recording. You will possibly feel quite a bit better than you do right now:
http://www.xeno-canto.org/sounds/uploaded/AEFZWKWLMO/29122009_020_Wad_Eider.mp3

I first ran into "eider" as a little kid, reading Andersen's fairy tales. The Princess felt the pea, I think, straight through eiderdown "beds" on top of mattresses.

R. Fellner has a wonderful shot of spectacled eiders here:
http://www.harteman.nl/omnibus/anseriformes/ducks/spectacled-eider.html

Common eiders are inordinately cool too, as in this picture:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Somateria_mollissima_male..jpg).

EAGLE, immature martial

why just immature? The most compelling pictures of martial eagles I found on a quick Google Image Search were of immature animals.
 
Try it: google image search Immature Martial Eagle. Splendid pictures.
If someone else wants to post middle-aged martial eagles, they can go ahead. I won't be greedy.

photo by M. Muramura on this page:
http://gallery.rutoto.com/photos/v/Birds/eagle_martial_immature.jpg.html

EAGLE OWL, African - I took this in Siena, Italy, at a falconry display.

OK...having had another burst of motivation, I decided to post the picture of the American Dipper in fishing mode:

I like these objects. Especially with swans, as it renders them harmless.
But it renders all birds ovoid, which is rather lyrical, in an acephalous sort of way.

more burrowing owl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TL8pSFd-hQ

Beautiful slideshow, thanks. I just love these birds, partially because they have the right amount of toe feathers (i.e., a lot of toe feathers).