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Scientific Name : indopadilla sp
Family : Salticidae
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Immediately after copulation, the male drifted away while the female compulsively used her bill and neck to spoon water over herself, a process that lasted a coupl of minutes at least.
too much accomplishes little
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
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Witnessed both feeding behaviours of this beautiful finch today. First the "gatherer" mode finding seeds on the ground; and at sundown, the "hunter" mode... taking insects in flight over water. What a spectacular aviator!
Last evening I loaded two beds onto the Hilux. My beds are overdue for their routine maintenance. It's a cliche about how far we drive to get to the mailbox, and how distance is measured in the number of cans of beer consumed between departure and destination. Preposterous! One must never drink and drive! One might spill some. It will be a reasonable day out — from quirky little pony studs, past places with names like prickle farm to proper jobs where the adjective describes a station. I'm headed for big sky country.
If I call up for a service technician or asked for a delivery, there is usually a momentary silence, then a polite question: "You live where?" The inevitable click is followed by the dial tone. It's not happening. So I fix it myself, or take it to someone who cares.
When I say my beds are due some maintenance, I don't mean vacuuming up the bed bugs, and so on. What I've loaded up are iron and brass frames from the estate. Neither is in what you'd call "as new" condition. One I know was found, or at least, parts of it were found, in a rustic slab-built, dirt-floored farm shed. It has history. I, to this day do not know how a poddy lamb got into the house and was found standing on said bed. The second, like Anne Hathaway's inheritance of Shakespeare's second best bed, is quite likely not the second best in normally understood terms. Most recently it was acquired from a lady vendor on the simple basis that the porcelain spindles were not broken. When I say recently, I mean after the poddy lamb episode but before many other years.
Let's be clear about this: the number of iron and brass bed craftsmen can be counted on one thumb. I can't pick and choose, and fairly, I wouldn't want to. Instead I'm off on a road trip equivalent in length from, say, London to Dundee, or New York to Ohio. Why? So the cheeky devil at the other end can tell me that the second best bed is, in fact, the foot end of two different beds — explaining why the gorgeous little rosettes on the "head" faced to the wall and not inwards. No worry, he'll just cut that off, turn it around, weld it up and job's a good 'un. Or we we can go around to Grumble Bums place, aka his father, to whom he was apprenticed. He might have one in his shed, or that shed over there, or in this shipping container… He didn't.
On a road trip this long, and after all that beer, comfort stops are necessary. Here in a most pleasant Morris Park, in Canowindra, there is a customary notice of the Spring pastime of swooping magpies. Stop! Look again. A long drive it has been, but not an intercontinental drive. Here on a placard notifying the behaviour of a native Australian bird is a cartoon representation of a Eurasian Magpie. I blame the interweb; that and intellectual laziness akin to that which would normally see Victorian era beds, like mine, flung on the scrapheap.
Common Tailorbird feeding chick @ fledging day -1. What is amazing about this bird is their ability to sew fresh leaf together to make their nest.
Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)
The common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) is a songbird found across tropical Asia. Popular for its nest made of leaves "sewn" together and immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his Jungle Book, it is a common resident in urban gardens. Although shy birds that are usually hidden within vegetation, their loud calls are familiar and give away their presence. They are distinctive in having a long upright tail, greenish upper body plumage and rust coloured forehead and crown. This passerine bird is typically found in open farmland, scrub, forest edges and gardens. Tailorbirds get their name from the way their nest is constructed. The edges of a large leaf are pierced and sewn together with plant fibre or spider silk to make a cradle in which the actual nest is built.
Like most warblers, the common tailorbird is insectivorous. The song is a loud cheeup-cheeup-cheeup with variations across the populations. The disyllabic calls are repeated often.
Taxonomy and systematics
The scientific name sutorius means "cobbler" rather than "tailor" while Orthotomus means "straight-cutting".
The species was earlier placed in the family Sylviidae but more recent molecular studies place the species within the family Cisticolidae, along with Prinia and Cisticola.
A number of subspecies are recognized within its widespread range in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The nominate race is from the lowlands of Sri Lanka. Race O. s. fernandonis is found in the highlands of Sri Lanka. Neighbouring India has O.s. guzuratus in the peninsula and west to Pakistan while towards the north O. s. patia is found in the Terai of Nepal along the Himalayan foothills until Myanmar. A small population of O. s. patia is also found in the northern Eastern Ghats (Wangasara). The hills of northeastern India have O. s. luteus. In Southeast Asia O. s. inexpectatus and O. s. maculicollis are found in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam. South east China, including the island of Hainan, and Tonkin in Vietnam have O. s. longicauda while O. s. edela is found on Java.
Description
The common tailorbird is a brightly coloured bird, with bright green upperparts and whitish underparts. They range in size from 10 to 14 centimetres (3.9 to 5.5 in) and weigh 6 to 10 grams (0.21 to 0.35 oz). They have short rounded wings, a long tail, strong legs and a sharp bill with curved tip to the upper mandible. They are wren-like with a long upright tail that is often moved around. The crown is rufous and the upperparts are predominantly olive green. The underside is creamy white. The sexes are identical, except that the male has long central tail feathers in the breeding season, although the reliability of sexing data accompanying museum specimens used in determining this sexual dimorphism has been questioned. Young birds are duller. When calling, the dark patches on the sides of the neck become visible. These are due to the dark pigmented and bare skin that are present in both sexes and sometimes give the appearance of a dark gorget.
Behaviour and ecology
Tailorbirds are found singly or in pairs, usually low in the undergrowth or trees sometimes hopping on the ground. They forage for insects and have been known to feed on a range of beetles and bugs. They are attracted to insects at flowers and are known to favour the inflorescenses of mango. They also visit flowers such as those of Bombax, Salmalia for nectar and are sometimes covered in pollen, giving them a golden-headed appearance.
The birds roost alone during the non-breeding season but may roost side-by-side during the breeding season, sometimes with the newly fledged juvenile sandwiched between the adults. The roost sites chosen are thin twigs on trees with cover above them and were often close to human habitation and lights.
Breeding
The breeding season is March to December peaking from June to August in India, coinciding with the wet season. In Sri Lanka the main breeding periods are March to May and August to September, although they can breed throughout the year.
Although the name is derived from their nest construction habit, the nest is not unique and is also found in many Prinia warblers. The nest is a deep cup, lined with soft materials and placed in thick foliage and the leaves holding the nest have the upper surfaces outwards making it difficult to spot. The punctures made on the edge of the leaves are minute and do not cause browning of the leaves, further aiding camouflage. The nest lining of a nest in Sri Lanka that was studied by Casey Wood was found to be lined with lint from Euphorbia, Ceiba pentandra and Bombax malabaricum species. Jerdon wrote that the bird made knots, however no knots are used. Wood classified the processes used by the tailorbird in nest as sewing, rivetting, lacing and matting. In some cases the nest is made from a single large leaf, the margins of which are rivetted together. Sometimes the fibres from one rivet are extended into an adjoining puncture and appearing more like sewing. The stitch is made by piercing two leaves and drawing fibre through them. The fibres fluff out on the outside and in effect they are more like rivets. There are many variations in the nest and some may altogether lack the cradle of leaves. One observer noted that the birds did not utilize cotton that was made available while another observer, Edward Hamilton Aitken, was able to induce them to use artificially supplied cotton. The usual clutch is three eggs.
The incubation period is about 12 days. Both male and female feed the young. Mortality of eggs and chicks is high due to predation by rodents, cats, crow-pheasants, lizards and other predators. The young birds fledge in about 14 days. The female alone incubates according to some sources, while others suggest that both sexes incubate; however, both parents take part in feeding and sanitation. The males are said to feed the incubating female. An unusual case of a pair of tailorbirds adopting chicks in an artificially translocated nest belonging to a different pair has been recorded. Nests are sometimes parasitized by the Plaintive Cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus).
In culture
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", one of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories, includes a tailorbird couple, Darzee (which means "tailor" in Urdu) and his wife, as two of the key characters. Darzee's wife is said to have feigned injury, but this behaviour is unknown in this species. A classic book of children's folk tales in Bengali by Upendrakishore Ray is titled "Tuntunir Boi", after the local name for the species, tuntuni.
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used my Mind the Scrap May kit to create this grid style page for todays LOAD prompt.
Used photos of my daughter on stage with Nutty Noah and told the story of how she was better than expected and did exactly as she was told even when he didnt want her too lol
The breezy conditions made catching any fish difficult, but at least there was no shortage of insects for these Common Terns to feed on.
A fab mountain hare I photographed with a client in November 2023. We were privileged to enjoy a 32 minute grooming session - the hare was so relaxed and even had a snooze.
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