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    Alfred Forns
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    Yesterday at ENP Shark Valley I observed this Night Crown swimming like a duck. The bird was up on a branch as they usually do to fish but a couple of times just made its way to the water and got in. It was looking more like a duck enjoying a swim than anything else and was not fishing or doing any other behavior.

    The swim took about three or four minutes was able to observed twice.

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    Artie has an image like this in "The Art of Bird Photography" and I have witnessed this behavior in other waders as well.
    Still trying to understand the reason they only occasionally do this.

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    Interesting, I saw a willet once who went for a little swim. I wondered what that was all about, too.


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    I've never seen these species sun themselves to kill the creepy crawlies.
    Maybe they are trying to wash them off or drown them!

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    That would make sense, the willet was not feeding, either.

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    Taken as a documentary photo through stacked TCs and heavily cropped, so please excuse the quality, but they swim here in Colorado too. Got this one last year. He flew from a protruding stump, landed in the water, and just started swimming around. He was surrounded by jumping fish but made no attempt to chase any

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    Not sure for sure, but years ago at JBWR I had an adult BCNH soaking in a pond (also with green reflections). The bird was shedding oil from its feathers- you could see the big slick. No evidence of that in the two images here but I know what I saw
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    I've seen Greater Yellowlegs swimming across narrow channels of deep water here so perhaps it's more common than we realise.

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    Many (and probably most) shorebird species swim; I have seen Willet, Marbled Godwit, Greater Yellowlegs, and both dowitchers swimming, usually while having to cross water that is slightly too deep for them while feeding. Yikes, how could I forget American Avocet!
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