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The White-cheeked turaco (Tauraco leucotis) is a Turaco that is found in humid forests; the highlands in Ethiopia, extreme South East Eritrea and Sudan.
A Turaco (often called Touraco in UK) is a fruit-eating African bird of the family Musophagidae, order Cuculiformes.
Measures approximately 42-43cm beak to tail, and weighs between 200-315g.
Turacos are the only birds to possess true red and green pigmentation. When you look at most birds, the color you are seeing is a reflection produced by the feather structure. The turaco's red pigment (turacin) and green pigment (turacoverdin) both contain copper. In fact, if you stirred a glass of water with a red turaco feather, the water would turn pink!
O turaco tem uma característica muito particular no mundo das aves: o brilho metálico de sua plumagem é devido à presença de pigmentos a base de cobre. Um desses pigmentos, a turacina, é vermelho; o outro, a turacoverdina, é verde. A turacina é solúvel em água, e é por isso que às vezes as penas vermelhas das asas do turaco se apresentam descoloridas
The ruby-cheeked sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family.
Scientific name: Chalcoparia singalensis
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 England.
Arriving in Exeter for lunch before making our way to Relubbus where we are staying two nights.
Exeter is an ancient city on the River Exe in southwest England. Dating back to the Roman era, the Exeter City Walls surround its centre and Gothic Exeter Cathedral. Exeter Castle, a Norman landmark, overlooks leafy Northernhay and Rougemont Gardens. To their west, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) displays fine art and costumes. The vaulted, medieval Underground Passages snake beneath the city.
The modern name of Exeter is a development of the Old English Escanceaster, from the anglicised form of the river now known as the Exe and the Old English suffix -ceaster, used to mark important fortresses or fortified towns. The name "Exe" is a separate development of the Brittonic name—meaning "water" or, more exactly, "full of fish"
Exeter began as settlements on a dry ridge ending in a spur overlooking a navigable river teeming with fish, with fertile land nearby. Although there have been no major prehistoric finds, these advantages suggest the site was occupied early. Coins have been discovered from the Hellenistic kingdoms, suggesting the existence of a settlement trading with the Mediterranean as early as 250 BC. Such early towns had been a feature of pre-Roman Gaul as described by Julius Caesar in his Commentaries and it is possible that they existed in Britannia as well.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter
The black-cheeked woodpecker is a resident breeding bird from southeastern Mexico south to western Ecuador. This woodpecker occurs in the higher levels of wet forests, semi-open woodland and old second growth.
Mosqueta Cara Sucia, Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet, Phylloscartes ventralis.
Especie # 1.778
Reserva Natural La Orquídea
Provincia de Catamarca
Argentina
We recently had a baby manatee born in the Wekiva River (Florida) behind our home. They hung around for a few days and were quickly named "Potato & Chip" by the neighborhood's kids.
I've written a blog about this experience with lots more photos, check it out at: www.firefallphotography.com/witnessing-a-baby-manatees-am...
I've photographed Manatees for 25 years, never seen a birth before...truly a once in a lifetime experience.
Cheers!
Jeff
April 10, 2019 Highlands in the province of San Jose, San Gerardo de Dota on the Pacific slope, Costa Rica
Tenerife
Monkey Park - a charming way to spend a few hours
The charming Monkey Park zoo is situated slightly north of Los Cristianos, just off junction 26 of the TF-1 motorway.
With less financial resource than other major zoos, like Loro Park, this is a touch more modest in its dimensions, but is, nonetheless, a great way to pass a few hours. Children tend to find it particularly appealing.
www.tenerife-information-centre.com/monkey-park.html
The white-cheeked turaco (Menelikornis leucotis) is a species of bird in the family Musophagidae. It is found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. A mid-sized species, it measures about 43 cm (17 in) in length, including a tail of 19 cm (7.5 in), and weighs about 200–315 g (7.1–11.1 oz). This species is the most commonly raised turaco in captive conditions.
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I was very happy with this one yesterday, and after doing a bird count all day, and not finding this species, it was a nice bonus to have it in my yard when I got home :-)
Another visit to the Hunter Wetlands Centre (Shortland, NSW; Australia) today!
Conditions were great - 24C and partly cloudy, moderate breeze.
I spotted this White-cheeked Honeyeater (Phylidonyris niger) feeding on the last remaining flowers of this shrub and waited till he sat in a relatively clear perch!
Hope you like this - *** much better if viewed Large on Black!!!! *** You'll see his tongue sticking out!!
Have an awesome day and weekend everyone - thanks again for any comments, views or favorites for this or any of my other images - greatly appreciated!!!
I let Millie pouch some of her favourite dried root vegetable treats straight out the box. She packed SOO much in her pouches, this is what she looked like when I held her up!
Copper-cheeked frog (Hydrophylax chalconotus)
Hydrophylax chalconotus is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, plantations, rural gardens, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. Formerly known as Rana chalconota, that taxon was applied to what is today named Hydrophylax raniceps. In the 1990s, it became generally agreed that Hydrophylax raniceps applied to specimens in northern and western Sumatra, Peninsula Malaysia and Borneo. Hydrophylax chalconota's range is limited to Southern Sumatra, Java and Bali (From Wikipedia article Hydrophylax_chalconotus)
Other names: Chalcorana chalconota,Hydrophylax chalconotus,Hylarana chalconota,Rana chalconota (Schlegel, 1837),Schlegel's Java frog,Schlegel's frog,copper-cheeked frog
I was able to sneak out for an afternoon birding session today with long time friend and fellow flickr photographer Joe Micallef to Hunter Wetlands, Shortland, NSW; Australia.
Time of day and windy conditions seemed to make the birds shy today!!!!
We didn't see as many as usual - but I managed to get this!!!
Hope you like it!
Thanks for any comments, views or favorites - much appreciated!!!
Have a marvelous day and week everyone!!
I feel like a woman, but look far from convincing....
Must try better next time...
My confidence is starting to get low at the moment....
Forgive me my darlings...
❤
Copper-cheeked frog (Hydrophylax chalconotus)
Hydrophylax chalconotus is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, plantations, rural gardens, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. Formerly known as Rana chalconota, that taxon was applied to what is today named Hydrophylax raniceps. In the 1990s, it became generally agreed that Hydrophylax raniceps applied to specimens in northern and western Sumatra, Peninsula Malaysia and Borneo. Hydrophylax chalconota's range is limited to Southern Sumatra, Java and Bali (From Wikipedia article Hydrophylax_chalconotus)
Other names: Chalcorana chalconota,Hydrophylax chalconotus,Hylarana chalconota,Rana chalconota (Schlegel, 1837),Schlegel's Java frog,Schlegel's frog,copper-cheeked frog
…This species, like most babblers, is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight…😎😎
The chubby cheeks and chin on this House Finch showed up in all the shots I had of it. Its companions were slimmer. I imagine the extra padding will help with winter temperatures. It gave him a cute, rounded look. I will probably post more pics of this little guy!
This duck was having a nice time trying to avoid Alex and I getting shots of him...
although Alex got some real good ones..but this is my best with the reflection
The yellow-cheeked tit is a species of bird in the Paridae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Wikipedia