World of Mostly Moving Birds

Here's more from the Minnesota Zoo's World of Birds.

A trumpeter hornbill displayed its food-catching ability. I wondered why it has this ability, given that it's a fruit-eater. It's not as though it catches flying insects for a living. Then I remembered that the other hornbills I've seen give bits of fruit a toss to move them from the tips of their beaks to their mouths.

On your mark!

Ready!

Set!

Gone!

 The red-legged seriema can jump...

but it's noted for its way of subduing frogs and snakes:

A pied crow knows how to take folding money from zoo guests

 ... and return it.

Potter's Grass Spider

The road that runs through Overbrook Ravine has along parts of it a barrier made of wooden posts with metal cables running through holes in the posts. In some places where the hole through the post is much larger than the cable, Potter's grass spiders have made lairs.

The web extends from the post on either side of the hole to the cable.

 

This shot, the previous, and the next are of the same individual.

Focus stack of 25 images

Focus stack of eight images

The cable is 3/8 inch in diameter. Focus stack of 13 images.