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Participants during the session Ask About: Cell Behaviour, at the Annual Meeting of New Champions of the World Economic Forum, 2017, Dalian, China, 27th June 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
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..
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Falconiformes
Family:Falconidae
Genus:Falco
Species:F. vespertinus
Binomial name
Falco vespertinus
The Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus), formerly the western red-footed falcon, is a bird of prey. It belongs to the family Falconidae, the falcons. This bird is found in eastern Europe and Asia although its numbers are dwindling rapidly due to habitat loss and hunting. It is migratory, wintering in Africa. It is a regular wanderer to western Europe
Description
It is a medium-small, long-winged species. The adult male is all blue-grey, except for his red undertail and legs; its underwings are uniformly grey. The female has a grey back and wings, orange head and underparts, and a white face with black eye stripe and moustaches.
Young birds are brown above and buff below with dark streaks, and a face pattern like the female. Red-footed falcons are 28–34 cm (11–13 in) in length with a wingspan of 65–75 cm (26–30 in). The average mass is 155 g (5.5 oz).
Distribution
The main areas of European distribution are in southern Russia and Ukraine . The species occurs in large numbers in Hungary, Romania and Serbia . Smaller populations exist in Italy, Bulgaria and Moldova, in Austria , Slovakia and in Belarus . The red-footed falcon also breeds irregularly in the Czech Republic and in the Baltic States , occasionally also in Germany . In Asia, the breeding occurrences run in a relatively narrow band somewhat south of the taiga eastwards to the upper Lena , where they touch the range of the sister species Falco amurensis east of the Baikal . The northern border lies between the 63 ° and 58 ° north latitude, the south border around 45 ° north latitude. It runs along the north slope of the Altai and then westward follows the transition of open pine forests into the treeless steppe areas of Central Asia. Further to the west, the breeding areas on the lower reaches of the Volga and on the north coast of the Caspian Sea reach Europe. The southernmost occurrences are in the steppe areas north of the Caucasus and in South Georgia . Some isolated breeding areas are located in northern Turkey. The red-footed falcon winters in southern and eastern Africa.
Breeding and behaviour
This falcon is a colonial breeder, reusing the old nests of corvids, such as rooks. It lays two to four eggs. Its maximum lifespan is 13.25 years in the wild and 18 years in captivity.
More crazy Elk rutting behaviour from Jasper. This time I was farther back, shooting with a longer lens, with trees to hide behind if necessary. Jasper National Park, Alberta.
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A key milestone in the UCD Medicine academic programme, our Clinical Commencement 'White Coat' Ceremony 2018 took place on Friday 9th February 2018 at UCD O'Reilly Hall.
The Clinical Commencement Ceremony marks the transition from a predominantly preclinical medical education focus to an intensive period of clinical training. The White Coat symbolise the professional responsibilities that students will assume throughout their clinical life. During the ceremony, the students were reminded to always maintain professional attitudes and behaviours in work and in relationships with classmates, teachers, patients and the community and to commit to follow ethical and professional standards of the profession.
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
Courting Behaviour of Pied Stilts (Image 6 of 10), NZ…
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Participants during the Session " The Neuroscience of Prosocial Behaviour with UC Berkeley " at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2018. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
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)
Brussels , Belgium , 04 June 2014 - Green Week 2014 - Changing behaviour - people's green choices © EU - Patrick Mascart
The new MP for North Warwickshire & Bedworth, Dan Byles, has singled out measures in the Queen’s Speech over alcohol pricing and licencing as being of particular welcome for his constituency.
The new measures, which have the backing of the British Beer & Pub Association and of Tesco chief Sir Terry Leahy, include:
• Banning the sale of alcohol below cost price
• Reviewing alcohol taxation to tackle binge drinking whilst not unfairly penalising responsible drinkers
• Introducing stronger powers for police and local authorities to remove or refuse to give licences to problem premises
• Providing police and local authorities with the power to shut down permanently any shop or bar found persistently to be selling alcohol to children
• Enabling local councils to charge more for licences to pay for more police
• Increasing the maximum fine for selling alcohol to children to £20,000
Dan said: “Many local people are deeply concerned about antisocial behaviour fuelled by cheap supermarket-bought alcohol. I am delighted to see this being addressed, and to see major supermarket chains like Tesco supporting the measures.
“But most importantly the issue of underage children buying alcohol is one that has been raised with me time and again, particularly in the villages where there are few leisure and sports facilities for young people. The current licencing laws need to be tightened, and these measures will go a long way towards helping the problem. Any establishment caught repeatedly selling alcohol to children should be shut down, and this is an issue I will be watching very closely.
“Finally, the local British pub has been under threat for a long time. Too many pubs are closing every week because they can’t compete with supermarkets selling alcohol below cost price. These measures will help to protect local pubs, which are a vital part of our heritage and in rural areas are often the centre of community life.”
Cherrie crush ice cream my grand son was a diamond and his behaviour was beyond compare. He has gained the certificate
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seonee" (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. The theme is echoed in the triumph of protagonists including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and The White Seal over their enemies, as well as Mowgli's. Another important theme is of law and freedom; the stories are not about animal behaviour, still less about the Darwinian struggle for survival, but about human archetypes in animal form. They teach respect for authority, obedience, and knowing one's place in society with "the law of the jungle", but the stories also illustrate the freedom to move between different worlds, such as when Mowgli moves between the jungle and the village. Critics have also noted the essential wildness and lawless energies in the stories, reflecting the irresponsible side of human nature.
The Jungle Book has remained popular, partly through its many adaptations for film and other media. Critics such as Swati Singh have noted that even critics wary of Kipling for his supposed imperialism[1] have admired the power of his storytelling.[1] The book has been influential in the scout movement, whose founder, Robert Baden-Powell, was a friend of Kipling's.[2] Percy Grainger composed his Jungle Book Cycle around quotations from the book.
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.
Mute Swan - Courtship and Copulatory Behaviour
The Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan native to much of Europe and Asia.This large swan is wholly white in plumage with an orange bill bordered with black. The name 'mute' derives from it being less vocal than other swan species. The population in the UK has increased recently, perhaps due to better protection of this species. Around 5,800-7,000 pairs breeding annually in UK.
Mayesbrook Park (Barking), Britain’s first climate change park, is an attractive nature reserve with a newly restored river landscape. The Mayes brook has been brought back into the park within a widened meandering river channel creating an attractive river landscape to help the park to cope with more extreme changes in climate including heavy rainfall and drought. This new river system, with a gravel river bed and banks, provides an ideal wetland habitat for wildlife and at times of high rainfall it is able to rise in a controlled and natural way within a newly created floodplain.
The southern section of the park features two large lakes which are rich in wildlife. Aquatic plants such as reeds and rushes have been planted in ponds and backwaters, creating a rich habitat for wetland species. With over 40 hectares of open space, the park recently received a Mayor of London Safer Parks Silver award for high standards of site safety and policing.
Greylag Goose - Courtship and Copulatory Behaviour
After copulation, male greylag stretches neck, points bill up, arches partly closed wings and often calls loudly......
The Greylag goose (Anser anser) is the largest and bulkiest bird in the waterfowl family Anatidae. Its distribution is widespread, with birds from the north of its range in Europe and Asia migrating southwards to spend the winter in warmer places. It breeds in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, northern Russia, Poland, eastern Hungary and Romania. Greylag geese are herbivorous and feed chiefly on grasses. These geese normally pair for life.
Mayesbrook Park (Barking), Britain’s first climate change park, is an attractive nature reserve with a newly restored river landscape. The Mayes brook has been brought back into the park within a widened meandering river channel creating an attractive river landscape to help the park to cope with more extreme changes in climate including heavy rainfall and drought. This new river system, with a gravel river bed and banks, provides an ideal wetland habitat for wildlife and at times of high rainfall it is able to rise in a controlled and natural way within a newly created floodplain.
The southern section of the park features two large lakes which are rich in wildlife. Aquatic plants such as reeds and rushes have been planted in ponds and backwaters, creating a rich habitat for wetland species. With over 40 hectares of open space, the park recently received a Mayor of London Safer Parks Silver award for high standards of site safety and policing.
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