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Black Sand Basin (Yellowstone National Park), an isolated group of the Upper Geyser Basin, was originally named the Emerald Group by A.C. Peale in 1878. But turn of the century tourists began calling it Black Sand Basin because of the small fragments of black obsidian sand which cover portions of the basin.
Black Sand Basin contains a small collection of jewel-like geysers, and colorful hot springs. Emerald Pool is the most colorful and famous of these springs. It is a deep emerald green fringed by an outer ring of yellow and orange. Another colorful pool is Opalescent Pool. This recently formed pool inundated a stand of lodgepole pine, creating a stand of white skeletons amidst a rainbow-colored pool. An unusual geyser formed on the bank of Iron Creek. Cliff Geyser formed a rim or wall-like ridge of sinter around its crater from which it erupts 30 to 40 feet high.
Black Terns breed on freshwater lakes in Central and Eastern Europe (and east of here across Russia, and in North America too). They used to breed commonly in Britain until the middle of the 19th century but disappeared with the drainage of the fens and now breed here very infrequently. They are common enough on spring and autumn passage in Britain, but usually on freshwater lakes. However, this adult male was frequenting an Arctic Tern colony on the Northumberland coast and has been displaying to Arctic Terns with sandeels caught at sea. The usually eat aquatic insects which they pick from the surface but sometimes take small fish from the surface. Sometimes the take flying insects in the manner of a swallow, and its scientific name Chlidonias niger means "black swallow-like". They don't remain black for long and by midsummer have usually started to moult into a much whiter non-breeding plumage like this: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/28130560672/in/photolist The intense black colouration on head and body identifies this as a male, as females have a lighter grey head and body, contrasting with a black cap. Here's a female for comparison: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/34874625114/in/photolist
On 20 July it was decided that this bird can be identified as an American Black Tern by the uniform black head and underparts, the paler underwing and the grey outer tail feathers. European Black Tern has a black head contrasting with a grey body, darker underwings and white outer tail feathers.
Meyer Optik Trioplan 100mm 2.8
Aperture was wide open.
This photograph was taken on a summer evening in the local public garden, Maplelawn. I've entitled the photo Black-Eyed Susan without being entirely confident that's what it is.
Name: Black-naped oriole
Scientific: Oriolus chinensis
Malay: Burung Kunyit Besar / Dendang Selayang
Family: Oriolidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
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Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) ~ Pinellas County, Florida
This skimmer gave me a close pass on one of its feeding runs, just lifting off at the last second.
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Black-chinned Hummingbirds are dull metallic green on the back and grayish-white underneath. The males have a black throat with a thin iridescent purple base, and the females have a pale throat and white tips on the tail feathers
A few of my Favourite pictures from standing out in the rain catching a glimpse of this little beauty..
The black-bellied bustard (Lissotis melanogaster) also known as the black-bellied korhaan, is an African ground-dwelling bird in the bustard family.
The black-bellied bustard is 58 - 65 cm long. The bill and legs are dull yellow. The male's upperparts have black and brown marks on a tawny buff background; the underparts are black. The head is boldly patterned with black, white and buff. The neck, long and thin for a bustard, is buffy brown with a thin black line down the front that joins the black breast. The tail is brown and buff with four or five narrow dark brown bands. The upper surface of the wings is white with a brown triangle at the base; the flight feathers have black tips except for the outer secondary feathers. The white of the wings is visible when the bird stands, contrasting with the black underparts.
The female is plain buff, cryptically marked with darker brown mottling on the back and vermiculation (narrow wavy bands) on the neck and breast. The juvenile is duller and darker, with a dark grey crown and buff spots on the wing. The neck and rump patterns of both sexes, the male's white chin and lores, and the female's vermiculations are points that distinguish this species from its close relative, Hartlaub's bustard.
This very handsome male Black-bellied Bustard was photographed late in the evening on a game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya.
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is a member of the oriole family of passerine birds and is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia.
It is a bird of open woodland and cultivation. The male is striking, with the typical oriole black and yellow colouration. The plumage is predominantly yellow, with a solid black hood, and black also in the wings and tail centre.
The female black-hooded oriole is a drabber bird with greenish underparts, but still has the black hood. Young birds are like the female, but have dark streaking on the underparts, and their hood is not solidly black, especially on the throat.
Black-throated sunbird, Kelicap leher hitam, Aethopyga saturata.
This is a species of sunbird in the Nectariniidae family found in highland forest in Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Kelicap kecil yang ini berbunyi bising apabila mencari makanan. Ia bergerak dengan pantas dari bunga ke bunga, menyebabkan satu satunya peluang untuk merakam gambarnya adalah apabila ia sedang makan nektar di bunga. Walaubagaimanapun, kelicap yang ini berhenti sebentar di ranting memberi peluang saya melakukannya, di Bukit Fraser.
Exif: f7.1, 1/40, ISO 500, focal length 800mm, Cik Canon EOS 50D, lens Canon 400mm, TC 2.0, tripod
In this photo, taken near Valdez Alaska, a black bear was digging underneath a large rock for rotted salmon to eat. The odor from this little empty tide pool was enough to make a person gag, but to the bear, the rotted salmon was still a source of food.