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To me zoo photography or any sort of animal photography is about knowing animal behaviour and if you know and preempt their behaviour you can ready yourself to what may unfold.
Most animals after they wake will yawn, (like Khumbu here )stretch and maybe shake or they will simply change position. Around their feed times they usually are a lot more active and will often move about their enclosure waiting for their meal, which is another opportunity to get different shots.
Knowing these behaviours and waiting for them pays off.
Atlantic Grey Seal / halichoerus grypus. Farne Islands, Northumberland. 17/06/24.
'SPY HOPPING.'
An inquisitive Atlantic Grey Seal checking out our boat.
Holding its body vertically below the surface, it is able to stick its head out of the water and have a good look around.
This particular 'spy hopping' behaviour led biologists to think seals may use stars to help navigate their way about.
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A shaky, hand-held video of a male mountain bluebird that is bringing food to it's brood. I've been told by a bluebird expert that the wing flashes are used to signal something to its mate. Whether that is every time it raises a wing or not, I don't know, but this one seems to have lots to say.
Although this link is for a different bluebird species, there are similarities: HP@#LocalAccount01
A long exposure has transformed the wild and fishy sea near Senjahopen into a silence setting, in which 42 foraging cormorants changed into willful spectators. Photographic study showing their behaviour.
A male Redstart, captured in my garden ad the edge of a forest.
The common redstart shows some affinity to the European robin in many of its habits and actions. It has the same general carriage, and chat-like behaviour, and is the same length at 13–14.5 cm long but slightly slimmer and not quite as heavy, weighing 11–23 g. The orange-red tail, from which it and other redstarts get their names ("start" is an old word for "tail"), is frequently quivered. Among common European birds, only the black redstart (Phoenicurus ochrurus) has a similarly coloured tail.
Description source: Wikipedia
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Photo taken with Canon EOS 70D with EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM
Dont think just about your chance of getting infected.
Imagine that you do have the virus. ...and then change behaviour so that you are less likely to transmit it to others.
This virus needs us to to complacently interact to help it transmit. It needs us to ignore public health messaging. It needs us to not care about others that are more vulnerable than us.
Think social distancing, including children, & protecting older/vulnerable. We are going to be at this for a long time and we need to get good at it.
What happens in London over next few days will be mirrored in rest of UK in the following 14 days. We all have a role to play. ..both what we do and what we say to others.
The Clash: London Calling
The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson
Shorebirds of Ireland with Jim Wilson.
Freshwater Birds of Ireland with Jim Wilson
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A mixed bag of a flock containing predominantly Black-tailed Godwit, with Eurasian Teal and Black-headed Gull thrown in for good measure. This was part of a low-tide feeding frenzy at Poolbeg in Dublin Bay recently.
Forest of Dean
Wild boar have been extinct for about 300 years in England, that is, up until a few years ago when an escapee population established in the Forest of Dean. Other small populations have also sprung up in a few other well-forested areas.
The boars in the Forest of Dean appear to be widely disliked by the people that live there, and there is no denying they have a massive visual impact on the landscape, with vast areas of forest floor turned into mud pits by the pigs routing for food. Many of the locals also seem to be under the impression that the boar are extremely bold, aggressive and dangerous. This couldn't have been further from the truth for this group of adults and humbugs, who wearily emerged from young conifer woodland at nightfall. Once they heard my camera shutter and saw me move they immediately bolted back into the dense undergrowth and didn't re-emerge for the rest of the night. This cautious behaviour may be the result of repeated culls on the population, who have no natural predators since the eradication of lynx and wolves from Britain.
Found this an entertaining behaviour. This is my third images of these two: they are taken from distance and cropped but i find them interesting behaviour shots. A close up of the marmot showed some scares on his face and his approach was very cautious; i think this might be a repeated behaviour :)
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Black Guillemots / cepphus grylle. Oban, Scotland. 15/05/22.
I watched Black Guillemot courtship behaviour whilst pairs were swimming and also, when they flew to the top of the esplanade wall. The short displays were very intense and animated and I think would become more protracted as the month advanced.
The pair shown here had suddenly flown up from the sea and were vocalising to each other, beaks pointing slightly downwards. Moments later the male started a high-stepping walk around the female, his beak angled more acutely downwards. She immediately crouched submissively, but copulation didn't take place. It was early days for them and the behaviour more about strengthening their pair bond than procreation.
What a striking pair they made!
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The bronze sculptures "Chimps Are Family"are placed between London Bridge and Tower Bridge on the south side of the river. The sculptures show 18 different behaviours and emotions shown by chimps — with whom we humans share 98% 0f our DNA — including love, grief, friendship and conflict.
Sculptors: Gillie & Marc.
Another from yesterdays visit to Priddy Mineries with quite a bit of cloud and a gentle breeze, managed to find a fairly sheltered spot and after a quick look around found a few Cinnabar moth caterpillars on a couple of Ragworts.
I noticed these two were in the right position to get both in focus though the head of the one on the left is slightly out of focus as it just wouldn't stop eating!!
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I found these two trees while walking in a local forest park. The pair looked out of place in amongst the conifers, especially with the larger tree apparently reaching out a spindly almost threatening “hand” while looming over the smaller timid looking tree........ strange what tricks your mind plays on you while alone in the forest 😆.
Photo taken in downtown Reykjavík.
P.S. Many of those people are foreign visitors.
Tourism to Iceland has formally exploded in the years after the famous volcanic eruption in the glacier Eyjafjallajökull, which caused delays in flight all over North and Western Europe. Foreign tourism has remained at an extreme level; today more than a million tourists visit Iceland yearly, while the population is only about 330.000 - was around 200 thousand a decade and a half ago.
Interesting behaviour. These Hoopoes were chattering and displaying while the same time feeding their nestlings in hole of a tree. The green wood hoopoe is a cooperative breeder and common resident in most of sub-Saharan Africa. It is found in groups of up to a dozen or so birds with only one breeding pair. The breeding female lays two to four blue eggs in a natural tree hole or old barbet nest and incubates them for about 18 days. On hatching, she and the nestlings are fed by the rest of the group, even after they have fledged and left the nest hole. The group is fearless in defence of the nestlings against intruders.
A small group of Oystercatchers flew overhead and were showing signs of coming in for a landing in this spot, yelling continuously. These two were having none of it, and responded by doing some yelling of their own, repeatedly alternating between holding their heads high and then bowing down. The small flock went away after much screeching and never did land here.
It isn't always easy to puck a fish from the water, it often takes skill and patients. George being very skilled at fishing may spend an hour checking different locations within the estuary. If the fish stays still it has a better chance if it runs...game on. By the way that is also true of people, never run from a bear. : )
Juvenile
Brown Thrasher BRTH (Toxostoma rufum)
tentatively or
experimentally feeding
Carmichael, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Mike McGrenere found one in Greater Victoria July 11th...Great Find Mike!
The Alpine ibex (Capra ibex), also known as the steinbock, bouquetin, or simply ibex, is a species of wild goat that lives in the mountains of the European Alps. It is a sexually dimorphic species: males are larger and carry longer, curved horns than females. Its coat colour is typically brownish grey. Alpine ibex tend to live in steep, rough terrain near the snow line. They are also social, although adult males and females segregate for most of the year, coming together only to mate. Four distinct groups exist; adult male groups, female-offspring groups, groups of young individuals, and mixed-sex groups.
During the breeding season, males fight for access to females, and use their long horns in agonistic behaviour. After being extirpated from most areas by the 19th century, the Alpine ibex was successfully reintroduced to parts of its historical range. All individuals living today descend from the stock in Gran Paradiso National Park in Aosta Valley and Piedmont (Italy), a national park created to help the ibex thrive. The ibex is the emblem of both the Gran Paradiso National Park, and the contiguous Vanoise National Park across the French border. The species is currently listed as of least concern by the IUCN, but went through a population bottleneck of fewer than 100 individuals during its near-extinction event. This has led to very low genetic diversity across populations.