Sally T. Turtle
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Sally T. Turtle
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Uma linguista, ornitologista, croma/nerd, a viver muito bem com a sua querida esposa em Portugal! A linguist, birder, geek, living her best life with her darling wife in Portugal! If we don't know each other personally, please do not follow me back!
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And the bird itself:
large purple chicken-sized marsh bird with a huge red bill and forehead shield and lanky red legs, against a background of marsh grasses and plant debris and a trash bottle
January 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Caimão, Camão (Western (Purple) Swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio) feet, Tavira, Portugal today (5 Jan. 2025)
#🦉 #birds #aves
long, lanky carmine red legs and feet of a chicken-sized purple swamp bird, the Western Swamphen, standing on a pile of dead grass and marsh plants
January 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Maçarico-bique-bique (Tringa ochropus, Green Sandpiper) - Tavira, Portugal 23 out. 2024
#birds
tallish shorebird, longish bill, greys and greyish browns above, with fine white speckling over the wings, white below, wading in a small muddy drainage channel
November 15, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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Caracoleta-rosca (Rumina decollata) - Tavira, Portugal 5 nov. 2024
caracol cónico com o corpo preto e as hastes oculares estendidas, concha castanha e castanha-clara com a ponta arredondada/desgastada, rastejando num pedaço de pavimento; conical snail with black body and eyestalks extended, brown and tan shell with rounded/worn off tip, crawling across a patch of pavement
November 15, 2024 at 11:21 PM