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An interpretive ranger joins visitors on a morning bird hike near the North Cascades Visitor Center.
We just let the bugs bite us while we waited for all the little birds to hop back into their places.
"Record shot" of an Alpine Swift at Oldbury Power Station - Gloucestershire. Remarkably this rather lost individual was finding insect prey in the prevailing pouring rain and strong wind!
Ayer fue un gran ‪#‎fotobirdingday‬ desde hide en el Parque Natural dels Ports con los zorzales reales (griva cerdana en catalán) como estrellas del dÃa. Este tordo centroeuropeo no se deja ver todos los inviernos y solo lo hace cuando el centro de Europa está invadido por los frÃos aires polares del norte. Un par de duendes del bosque (corzos) también se dejaron ver fugazmente. El montón de horas al aguardo fueron muy bien recompensados con maravillosos momentos de vida salvaje de estas montañas.
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Birdwatching Trip with ¡Échale Ganas! at the Arcata Marsh. In the distance you can see top the Behavioral & Social Sciences (BSS) building. The Arcata Marsh is 2 miles from Humboldt State.
Greylag Goose
The Greylag Goose species is found throughout the Old World, apparently breeding where suitable localities are to be found in many European countries, although it no longer breeds in southwestern Europe. Eastwards, it extends across Asia to China. In North America, there are both feral domestic geese, which are similar to greylags, and occasional vagrants. This species is the ancestor of domesticated geese in Europe and North America. Flocks of feral birds derived from domesticated birds are widespread. In Norway, the number of greylag geese is estimated to have increased three- to fivefold during the last 15-20 years.
Red Jungle Fowl
The red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) is a tropical member of the family Phasianidae. It is the primary progenitor of the domestic chicken (though genetic evidence strongly suggests some past hybridisation with the grey junglefowl as well). The red junglefowl was first domesticated at least five thousand years ago in Asia. Since then it has spread around the world, and the domestic form is kept globally as a very productive food source of both meat and eggs.
The range of the wild form stretches from India, eastwards across Indochina and southern China and into Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia. Junglefowl are established on several of the Hawaiian Islands, including Kauai, but these are feral descendants of domestic chickens. They can also be found on Christmas Island, Vanuatu, and the Mariana Islands.
Each of these various regions had its own subspecies of Gallus gallus, including:
G. g. gallus – from Indochina
G. g. bankiva – from Java
G. g. jabouillei – from Vietnam
G. g. murghi – from India and Bangladesh
G. g. spadiceus – from Burma
G. g. domesticus – (domestic chicken)
The male's tail is composed of long, arching feathers that initially look black but shimmer with blue, purple and green in good light. The female's plumage is typical of this family of birds in being cryptic and adapted for camouflage. She alone looks after the eggs and chicks. She also has no fleshy wattles, and a very small comb on the head.
During their mating season, the male birds announce their presence with the well known "cock-a-doodle-doo" call or crowing. Male red junglefowl have a shorter crowing sound than domestic roosters; the call cuts off abruptly at the end. This serves both to attract potential mates and to make other male birds in the area aware of the risk of fighting a breeding competitor. A spur on the lower leg just behind and above the foot serves in such fighting. Their call structure is complex and they have distinctive alarm calls for aerial and ground predators to which others react appropriately.
Males make a food-related display called "tidbitting", performed upon finding food in the presence of a female. The display is composed of coaxing, cluck-like calls and eye-catching bobbing and twitching motions of the head and neck. During the performance, the male repeatedly picks up and drops the food item with his beak. The display usually ends when the hen takes the food item either from the ground or directly from the male's beak. Breeding then occurs. Males that produce anti-predator alarm calls appear to be preferred by females.
They are omnivorous and feed on insects, seeds and fruits, including those that are cultivated such as those of the oil palm.
Red junglefowl regularly bathe in dust to keep just the right balance in their plumage. The dust absorbs extra oil and subsequently falls off.
Flight in these birds is almost purely confined to reaching their roosting areas at sunset in trees or any other high and relatively safe places free from ground predators, and for escape from immediate danger through the day.
In 2012, a study was published that examined mitochondrial DNA recovered from ancient bones from Europe, Thailand, the Pacific and Chile, and from Spanish colonial sites in Florida and the Dominican Republic, in directly dated samples originating in Europe at 1,000 B.P. and in the Pacific at 3,000 B.P. The study showed that chickens were most likely domesticated from wild red junglefowl, though some have suggested possible genetic contributions from other junglefowl species. Domestication occurred at least 7,400 years ago from a common ancestor flock in the bird's natural range, then proceeded in waves both east and west. The paper also states that the earliest undisputed domestic chicken remains are bones associated with a date of approximately 5,400 BC from the Chishan site, in the Hebei province of China. In the Ganges region of India, red junglefowl were being used by humans as early as 7,000 years ago. No domestic chicken remains older than 4,000 years have been identified in the Indus Valley, and the antiquity of chickens recovered from excavations at Mohenjodaro is still debated.
The other three members of the genus — Sri Lanka junglefowl (Gallus lafayetii), grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii), and the green junglefowl (Gallus varius) — do not usually produce fertile hybrids with the red junglefowl, suggesting that it is the sole ancestor of the domestic chicken. However, recent research has revealed the absence of the yellow skin gene in the wild red junglefowl found in domestic birds, which suggests hybridisation with the grey junglefowl during the domestication of the species. A culturally significant hybrid between the red junglefowl and the green junglefowl in Indonesia is known as the bekisar.
Purebred red junglefowl are thought to be facing a serious threat of extinction because of hybridisation at the edge of forests where domesticated free ranging chickens are common.
Heard a strange noise while in the garage at the Zebra station. Went outside to look, and there was a bird that I had never seen before at Lake Siracus'. Lake Siracus' is the pond created in the vacant parking lot next door a few years ago when Peter clogged the drain with some crap.
While I was taking pictures, a pair of ducks flew in and landed on the pond.
A great day for amateur birdwatching on Lake Siracus'.
February 14, 2009 - Kortright Conservation Centre - This was a field trip for my photography class. I didn't really get any shots that I liked on the actual walk through the park, but I did get some ones that I liked after.
My first time shooting birds. It's not a easy task. And I haven't even tried shooting birds flying in the air.
These turned out ok!
Bird of Paradise - Paradijsvogel - male
Adult males are territorial. The male guards its territory from perches placed in the tops of tall trees, and from these perches sings to compete with males in neighbouring territories.
The King of Saxony Bird of Paradise (Pteridophora alberti) is a bird in the Paradisaeidae or Birds of Paradise family. It is the only member in monotypic genus Pteridophora. It is endemic to montane forest in New Guinea.
Both the common name "King of Saxony" and the scientific specific name "alberti" were given to honour Albert of Saxony. The bird is sometimes known as "Kisaba" by the natives of Papua New Guinea and Western New Guinea, as a human interpretation of the male's loud call.
The diet consists mainly of fruits, berries and arthropods.
The adult King of Saxony Bird of Paradise is approximately 22 cm long. The male is black and yellow with a dark brown iris, black bill, brownish-grey legs, aqua-green mouth, with two remarkably long (up to 50 cm) scalloped, enamel-blue brow-plumes that can be erected at the bird's will. The unadorned female is greyish brown with barred underparts.
The male's ornamental head plumes are so bizarre that, when the first specimen was brought to Europe, it was thought to be a fake.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Saxony_Bird_of_Paradise
Tari
Tari Is the centre of Huli country in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. It is the second largest settlement in the province, and accessible by road from Mendi.