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“Pied Avocet Chick”

A pied avocet check wades through shallow water.
A pied avocet check wades through shallow water. Photo: Tamás Koncz-Bisztricz

A young pied avocet pulls its beak out of the water in a Hungarian national park. Abstracted from the scale of larger things—like the water buffalo nearby—the bipedal animal perhaps looks the most dinosaur-like of any of the birds in this contest.