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Everytime I throw some food on the ground, they pick them up, hop on the birdbath, dip it in the water to make it soft, and then eat it. It's so interesting to watch their funny behaviour like this. Because of this, the birdbath gets dirty with food quickly... I have to change water frequently..
Taken after the Harlot talk/pub, but before midnight, April 1st 2008 as part of "inexplicable knitter behaviour" day.
I swear I heard Steph say "anyone who ignored the 'horse' part, and mounts a police officer: automatic first place in the freestyle category".
I fled the bar in search of an obliging man in blue. Couldn't find any cops roaming the street, but remembered this one at the Police Union on College.
We approached with caution... is mounting a police statue a crime? We only had a chance to snap two quick photos before a security vehicle drove by and beeped at us!
But I think he looks very fetching with my GoKnit pouch on his wrist, don't you...? :)
Participants captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Mindless Behaviour leaving the BBC Radio 1 building in Central London earlier today. Mindless Behaviour are an American Boy Band who have toured with the likes of Janet Jackson and Justin Bieber.
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Courting Behaviour of Pied Stilts (Image 6 of 10), NZ…
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I cannot confirm it but to the best of my knowledge this is the Curraheen Walkway and I was at Lee Fields when I found it.
Sadly there were many signs of anti-social behaviour and I suspect that items of street-furniture such a litter bins and signage had been set alight.
A person that I met on the trail mentioned that I might see an a coypu and I had no idea what he was talking about. Later, on my return to the hotel, I checked online and found the following “The public has being asked to report sightings of any coypus, sometimes mistaken for otters, after one was spotted in or near the River Lee near the Lee Fields in Cork City recently”.
I did not see any big rodents but there were many horses and dogs to be seen.
tityrus, an aristocratic hooligan, ref. the
aggressive, bullying behaviour of the Neotropical tityras, likely
referring to their habits of taking over others nests. This is the
female with the rufous face. From La Selva Biological Station, Costa
Rica. Alexander Skutch wrote an interesting treatsie on these birds
which is at elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v063n03/p0327-p0362.pdf
He takes issue with their bullying behavior. Some of his comments:
"Finding the nests , and learning something of the breeding habits, of
these denizens of a world above and largely out of reach of our own,
is the ornithologists despair." "I have never seen a tityra on the
ground or even very near it" " The tityra's nest high in a rotting
trunk of uncertain strength is best left unvisited by a man with even
a moderate regard for the integrity of his bones. Once, when
enthusiasm overruled judgment, I did look into a tityra's nest; but I
should not repeat that climb, nor advise anyone else, not a member of
a suicide club, to attempt it." "Long acquaintance with the male
tityra has convinced me that he is a courteous and peaceloving
gentleman, a good father and a most devoted husband. He tries on all
occasions to be helpful to his wife; but the goodness of his heart is
frequently frustrated by the dullness of his wits"
Maryam Monsef, Minister of Status of Women of Canada speaking during the Session "Shaking Up Beliefs and Behaviours about Gender" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2018.
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Manuel Lopez
A classical E3 moment. Some girls walk onto a big stage and start blabbering into a microphone about a competition, and the next second a huge group of gibbering guys are jumping around, behaving like ... well, you get the picture. I've concluded that it is probably just an American thing, this standing in big groups and making some NOOOOOISE (which the blonde girl was constantly asking for) in order to have some T-shirts or other kinds of swag thrown at them. E3 in a nutshell.
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
A dragon-fly doing a headstand kind of posturing in order to minimize the amount of sunlight falling on its body. Dragon flies that spend the day in full sun in open meadows may obelisk and show this behaviour, with head down and abdomen raised. But this is not a very common behaviour, as it is observed in about 10% of species of dragon-flies (according to the book Dragonflies by Cynthia Berger, Amelia Hansen)
Specially dedicated to Jose, happy birthday to you!!!
Especialmente dedicado a Jose, felicidades!!! :))))
Botanic gardens Brussels. (At last a certain glimpse of moiré! BTW who determined that moiré is ugly and must be avoided and/or eliminated ASAP?)
Brush-turkey Alectura lathami
A pair of juvenile scrub turkeys on my back deck. At
first I thought they were dying, but when I walked over to them, they ran
away. A few minutes later they were back doing the same thing so, as you do,
I ran in and got my camera. I've seen doves do the same thing in winter, I
have been told it's to try to rid themselves of parasites.
This morning I walked across the fresh snow with a gas cylinder in my arms, containing 6kg of CO2. I took it across the unspoiled snow field of the Jakobshavns fiord until I found what, to my eyes, was a wonderful place. From a little hill I could see massive icebergs impassably floating by, some of them breaking up from time to time with a loud bang. The sea below was deep grey, which made the icebergs stand up in all their beauty and fragility. The sky was a merge of pale grey and cerulean with a yellow glow just behind the skyline. Lichen and small berry plants could be felt under the powdery snow as I walked by.
I though: this is perfect!
I walked to the top of the small hill, I put the cylinder down, got on my knees and opened the valve. The CO2.came out violently, freezing the air around the nozzle and producing an unpleasant whistle. When I lowered the cylinder towards the ground, the snow blow off all around me under the pressure of the air jet, almost to signify the melting of the Arctic ice shelf because of the Carbon emissions generated somewhere else.
Reading this you might think I am an evil horrible woman. I would like to reassure you, I am not! I haven't done anything bad. because I have offset the carbon emissions generated by the CO2 cylinder, through an online Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting scheme! Cool no? This is great stuff. one can go about consciously polluting the world, wasting energy, producing tonnes of waste and abusing natural resources without feeling guilty at all!! One can simply pay somebody to compensate for his/her 'bad' actions somewhere else, and become Carbon Neutral!
Don't you think this is great?
Do you?
Personally I think it is appalling.
A lot has to be done before we can revert to Carbon offsetting as an effective mechanism to reduce global Carbon emissions.
Fundamental changes in societal behaviour are necessary to reduce our environmental impact, looking at the way we live, travel, eat, consume, go on holiday and warm our homes. Only after we have significantly reduced our environmental impact to the minimum possible, only then Carbon offsetting can start to be used efficiently.
With my performance I am seeking to throw a serious comment on the contemporary practice of Carbon Offsetting as a mean of green washing conscience and excusing bad behaviour. I am also seeking to provoke debate on why society is so resistant to change and how a collective behavioural shift could be achieved.
The cost of Carbon is still too low to drive change.
Change must come from within.
Francesca Galeazzi
Wildlife Forensic is comparably a brand new learning field of analysis and education for college kids and scientists, during which the whole course material deals with the study of life creatures and their behaviour and adaptation with the encircling. A life Specialist is the one who studies concerning completely different life species and their life cycles, their habits and natural habitats.
Shikra - feeding on prey
The shikra (Accipiter badius) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found widely distributed in Asia and Africa where it is also called the little banded goshawk. The African forms may represent a separate species but have usually been considered as subspecies of the shikra. The shikra is very similar in appearance to other sparrowhawk species including the Chinese goshawk and Eurasian sparrowhawk. They have a sharp two note call and have the typical flap and glide flight. Their calls are imitated by drongos and the common hawk-cuckoo resembles it in plumage.
The shikra is a small raptor (26–30 cm long) and like most other Accipiter hawks, this species has short rounded wings and a narrow and somewhat long tail. Adults are whitish on the underside with fine rufous bars while the upperparts are grey. The lower belly is less barred and the thighs are whitish. Males have a red iris while the females have a less red (yellowish orange) iris and brownish upperparts apart from heavier barring on the underparts. The females are slightly larger. The mesial stripe on the throat is dark but narrow. In flight the male seen from below shows a light wing lining (underwing coverts) and has blackish wing tips. When seen from above the tail bands are faintly marked on the lateral tail feathers and not as strongly marked as in the Eurasian sparrowhawk. The central tail feathers are unbanded and only have a dark terminal band. Juveniles have dark streaks and spots on the upper breast and the wing is narrowly barred while the tail has dark but narrow bands. A post juvenile transitional plumage is found with very strong barring on the contour feathers of the underside. The call is pee-wee, the first note being higher and the second being longer. In flight the calls are shorter and sharper kik-ki ... kik-ki. The Chinese sparrowhawk is somewhat similar in appearance but has swollen bright orange ceres and yellow legs with the wing tips entirely black.
The shikra is found in a range of habitats including forests, farmland and urban areas. They are usually seen singly or in pairs. The flight is typical with flaps and glides. During the breeding season pairs will soar on thermals and stoop at each other. Their flight usually draws alarms among smaller birds and squirrels. They feed on rodents (including Meriones hurrianae), squirrels, small birds, small reptiles (mainly lizards but sometimes small snakes) and insects. Small birds usually dive through foliage to avoid a shikra and a Small Blue Kingfisher has been observed diving into water to escape. Babblers have been observed to rally together to drive away a shikra. They will descend to the ground to feast on emerging winged termites, hunt at dusk for small bats (such as Cynopterus sphinx) and in rare instances they may even resort to feed on carrion. In one instance a male was found feeding on a dead chick at the nest. Their calls are mimicked by drongos and this behaviour is thought to aid in stealing food by alarming other birds that the drongos associate with.
The breeding season in India is in summer from March to June. The nest is a platform similar to that of crows lined with grass. Both sexes help build the nest, twigs being carried in their feet. Like crows, they may also make use of metal wires. The usual clutch is 3 to 4 eggs (when eggs are removed they lay replacements and one observer noted that they could lay as many as 7 in a season) which are pale bluish grey stippled on the broad end in black. The incubation period is 18 to 21 days.
Compiling studymaterial at work. "Exponering" means exposure in swedish...probably not the kind of exposure most of the people here think of first though. ;)
A Text, in english, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Black Swan, photographed in Brasília's Zoo, Brazil.
The Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia.
Taxonomy:
Black swans were first seen by Europeans in 1697, when Willem de Vlamingh's expedition explored the Swan River, Western Australia.
The black swan was described scientifically by English naturalist John Latham in 1790. It was formerly placed into a monotypic genus, Chenopis.
The common name ‘Swan’ is a gender neutral term, but ‘cob’ for a male and ‘pen’ for a female are also used, as is ‘cygnet’ for the young. Collective nouns include a ‘bank’ (on the ground) and a ‘wedge’ (in flight). Black Swans can be found singly, or in loose companies numbering into the hundreds or even thousands.
Description:
Black Swans are primarily black feathered birds, with white flight feathers. The bill is bright red, with a pale bar and tip; and legs and feet are greyish-black. Cobs (males) are slightly larger than pens (females), with a longer and straighter bill. Cygnets (immature birds) are a greyish-brown with pale-edged feathers.
A mature Black Swan measures between 110 and 142 cm (43-56 in) in length and weighs 3.7–9 kg (8.1-20 lbs). Its wing span is between 1.6 and 2 metres (5.3-6.5 ft). The neck is long (relatively the longest neck among the swans) and curved in an "S".
The Black Swan utters a musical and far reaching bugle-like sound, called either on the water or in flight, as well as a range of softer crooning notes. It can also whistle, especially when disturbed while breeding and nesting.
The Black Swan is unlike any other Australian bird, although in poor light and at long range it may be confused with a Magpie Goose in flight. However, the black swan can be distinguished by its much longer neck and slower wing beat.
Distribution:
The species has a large range, with figures between one to ten million km² given as the extent of occurrence. The current global population is estimated to be up to 500,000 individuals. No threat of extinction, or significant decline in population has been identified with this numerous and widespread bird.
The Black Swan is common in the wetlands of south western and eastern Australia and adjacent coastal islands. In the south west the range ecompasses an area between North West Cape, Cape Leeuwin and Eucla; while in the east it covers are large region bounded by the Atherton Tableland, the Eyre Peninsula and Tasmania, with the Murray Darling Basin supporting very large populations of black swans. It is uncommon in central and northern Australia.
The Black Swan’s preferred habitat extends across fresh, brackish and salt water lakes, swamps and rivers with underwater and emergent vegetation for food and nesting materials. Permanent wetlands are preferred, including ornamental lakes, but black swans can also be found in flooded pastures and tidal mudflats, and occasionally on the open sea near islands or the shore.
Black Swans were once thought to be sedentary, but the species is now known to be highly nomadic. There is no set migratory pattern, but rather opportunistic responses to either rainfall or drought. In high rainfall years, emigration occurs from the south west and south east into the interior, with a reverse immigration to these heartlands in drier years. When rain does fall in the arid central regions, black swans will migrate to these areas to nest and raise their young. However, should dry conditions return before the young have been raised, the adult birds will abandon the nests and their eggs or cygnets and return to wetter areas.
Black Swans, like many other water fowl, lose all their flight feathers at once when they moult after breeding, and they are unable to fly for about a month. During this time they will usually settle on large, open waters for safety.
Introduced populations
Before the arrival of the Māori in New Zealand, a sub-species of the Black Swan known as the New Zealand Swan had developed in the islands, but was apparently hunted to extinction. In 1864, the Australian Black Swan was introduced to New Zealand as an ornamental waterfowl, and populations are now common on larger coastal or inland lakes, especially Rotorua Lakes, Lake Wairarapa and Lake Ellesmere, and the Chatham Islands.[6] Black Swans have also naturally flown to New Zealand, leading some people to consider them a native rather than exotic species, although the present population appears to be largely descended from deliberate introductions.
The Black Swan is also very popular as an ornamental waterbird in Western Europe, especially Britain, and escapes are commonly reported. As yet the population in Britain is not considered to be self-sustaining and so the species is not afforded admission to the official British List, but the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust have recorded a maximum of nine breeding pairs in the UK in 2001, with an estimate of 43 feral birds in 2003/04 (though that is undoubtedly an under-estimate given the level of monitoring undertaken).
A colony of Black Swans in Dawlish, Devon has become so well associated with the town that the bird has been the town's emblem for forty years.
Behaviour:
When swimming, black swans hold their necks arched or erect, and often carry their feathers or wings raised in an aggressive display. In flight, a wedge of black swans will form as a line or a V, with the individual birds flying strongly with undulating long necks, making whistling sounds with their wings and baying, bugling or trumpeting calls.
Nesting:
Generally, black swans nest in the wetter winter months (February to September), occasionally in large colonies. A typical clutch contains 4 to 8 greenish-white eggs that are incubated for about 35–40 days. After hatching, the cygnets are tended by the parents for about 6 months until fledging, and may ride on their parent's back for longer trips into deeper water.
A Black Swan nest is essentially a large heap or mound of reeds, grasses and weeds between 1 and 1.5 metres (3-4½ feet) in diameter and up to 1 metre high, in shallow water or on islands. A nest is reused every year, restored or rebuilt as needed. Both parents share the care of the nest. Like other swans, the black swan is largely monogamous, pairing for life (about 6% divorce rate). Recent studies have shown that around a third of all broods exhibit extra-pair paternity.
Sexuality:
An estimated one-quarter of all black swans pairings are homosexual and they steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs. Several swan species exhibit lifelong homosocial behaviours, and the same phenomenon can also be found in a number of other water-birds, notably geese and flamingos, where it serves as a flexible life strategy.
In swans, the pair is the central social unit. The birds reinforce the unit with frequent preening and sex. When one dies the other will usually live out the remainder of its life alone, which is also the norm for male-female couples. The pair builds nests, raise cygnets and defends the territory. Two cobs, being bigger and stronger than a cob (male) and a pen, (female) can hold down a larger territory, and provide their cygnets with more to eat.
Such same-sex pairs represent a major fitness bonus to a pen, and pens without partners will seek out these couples, have sex with one or other of the cobs and lay eggs in their nest. She is then chased off, not being a part of the pair, and the cobs raise the cygnets themselves. Having access to more food the brood have up to ten times the survival rate of a brood with a heterosexual swan couple. From an evolutionary point of view, this is a very rewarding strategy for the cobs as well.
This situation only holds true as long as a nest and/or a territory is in short supply. The two males will have a fitness loss in that they (1) have no guarantee they are the actual fathers of the cygnets (not being bonded with the female) and (2) will have to split reproduction between them.
A same-sex lifestyle will be advantageous in some situations, but not in others. However, having a partner is a requisite for building a nest and keeping a territory, and an opposite-sex partner may not always be available when forming pairs. Thus, the ability to form a male pair is a normal part of the black swan’s social behaviour and an example of a flexible life strategy in the species.
Conservation:
The Black Swan is protected under the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974. It is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Australian culture:
Main article: Black Swan emblems and popular culture
The Black Swan was a literary or artistic image, even before the discovery of Cygnus atratus. Cultural reference has been based on symbolic contrast and as a distinctive motif.
The Black Swan's role in Australian heraldry and culture extends to the first founding of the colonies in the eighteenth century. It has often been equated with antipodean identity, the contrast to the white swan of the northern hemisphere indicating 'Australianess'. The Black Swan is featured on the flag, and is both the state and bird emblem, of Western Australia; it also appears in the Coat of Arms and other iconography of the state's institutions.
Fotografado no Zoológico de Brasília, Brasil.
Um texto, em português, da Wikipédia:
O Cisne-negro (Cygnus atratus) é uma ave aquática australiana . É a ave oficial do estado da Austrália Ocidental.
Pertence à família Anatidae, a que pertencem os patos, gansos, e cisnes.
Podem-se encontrar em todos os estados da Austrália. O animal adulto pode pesar até 9 kg. Ao contrário de muitas outras aves aquáticas, os cisnes negros não têm hábitos migratórios. Passam a sua vida no local onde nasceram.
Nidificam em grandes aterros que constroem, no meio de lagos poucos profundos. Os ninhos são utilizados de ano para ano, reparando-se e reconstruindo-se quando necessário. O ninho está tanto ao cuidado do macho quanto ao cuidado da fêmea. Quando as crias já estão aptas para nadar, com a sua plumagem definitiva, é comum ver famílias inteiras em busca de alimento nos lagos.
Os cisnes são aves aquáticas da sub-família Anserinae, que inclui também os gansos. No seu conjunto formam o género Cygnus, sendo caracterizados pelo longo pescoço e por patas curtas. A sua distribuição geográfica é diversificada, sendo os cisnes do hemisfério norte brancos, enquanto que os do hemisfério sul apresentam plumagem por vezes colorida. Os cisnes formam casais monogâmicos e constroem ninhos onde chocam entre 3 a 8 ovos. Se a nidificação falha, é comum os membros do casal procurarem outro parceiro.
Espécies
Cygnus atratus (Latham, 1790) - Cisne-negro
Cygnus melanocorypha (Molina, 1782) - Cisne-de-pescoço-preto
Cygnus olor (Gmelin, 1789) - Cisne-branco
Cygnus buccinator Richardson, 1831 - Cisne-trombeteiro
Cygnus columbianus (Ord, 1815) - Cisne-pequeno
Cygnus bewickii Yarrel, 1830 - Cisne-de-bewick
Cygnus cygnus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Cisne-bravo
Cisnes na Cultura:
O Patinho Feio, um conto de Hans Christian Andersen
O Lago dos Cisnes, um bailado
Cisne Negro Companhia de Dança (Brasil)
Os cisnes aparecem na face nacional das Moedas de euro finlandesas
Cygnus é o nome de uma constelação.
If dogs can be trained to drive cars, it also means human behaviour can be changed. #transportchoice
Check out the You Tube clip for some background. www.youtube.com/user/TheDrivingDogs
The whole campaign is bloody brilliant. Trust the motor car industry to have all the best ideas.