Weekly Bird Word: April 28, 2025

Photo: Mallard, Alan D. Wilson, Wikimedia

This week’s Bird Word is: 
Dabbling

According to the Cornell Lab Bird Academy, dabbling is a foraging technique in which a bird moves the beak rapidly on the surface of shallow water to pick up small aquatic animals and plant materials; it is used by “dabbling ducks” (like the Mallard pictured below) and a few other species.

Mallard, Erik Hansen/Audubon Photography Awards

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