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A Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) rests in the aspen woods along the shore of Islet Lake east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
24 February, 2018.
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A Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) in the aspen woods east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
24 February, 2013.
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Our most well-known amphibian, the common frog is a regular visitor to garden ponds across the country, where they feast on slugs and snails. In winter, they hibernate in pond mud or under log piles.
Length: 8-13cm
Weight: 22g
Average lifespan: 5-10
Common. Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981
February to October
Common frogs are amphibians, breeding in ponds during the spring and spending much of the rest of the year feeding in woodland, gardens, hedgerows and tussocky grassland. They are familiar inhabitants of garden ponds, where they lay their eggs in big 'rafts' of spawn. They feed on a variety of invertebrates and even smaller
The common frog varies in colour enormously, from green to brown and even red or yellow. It has smooth skin, a dark 'mask' behind the eye and long back legs, covered in dark bands. It hops and jumps rather than walks, and lays spawn in large jelly-like clumps.
I liked this one of the gallinules and did a photoshop treatment of mainly the water. I tried to maintain the integrity of the original and add something to spice up one of the most common species in my area.
A Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) male going through its spring display in the hopes of attracting a mate on an urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
19 April, 2016.
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A Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) roosting on the old cattail stalk in a marsh west of St. Albert., Alberta, Canada.
9 May, 2023.
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One of 51 species of Mayfly in the UK. The Common Mayfly also known as the 'Green Drake Mayfly' sports 3 long tails. Found around unpolluted rivers and lakes from April to September Nymphs are present all year round, living under water and feeding on algea and plants. The adults are most prolific during May/June when they can emerge simultaneously in vast numbers to mate. Usually when May trees are in full flower hence the name. They have a very short life, only leaving the water and appearing as an adult in some species for just a few hours. During which its sole purpose is to display and mate. The females then returning to the water to lay her eggs before dying. The Males, having served their purpose mostly die away from the water.
Common Tern - Sterna Hirundo
It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. Breeding adults have light grey upperparts, white to very light grey underparts, a black cap, orange-red legs, and a narrow pointed bill. Depending on the subspecies, the bill may be mostly red with a black tip or all black. There are a number of similar species, including the partly sympatric Arctic tern, which can be separated on plumage details, leg and bill colour, or vocalisations.
Breeding in a wider range of habitats than any of its relatives, the common tern nests on any flat, poorly vegetated surface close to water, including beaches and islands, and it readily adapts to artificial substrates such as floating rafts. The nest may be a bare scrape in sand or gravel, but it is often lined or edged with whatever debris is available. Up to three eggs may be laid, their dull colours and blotchy patterns providing camouflage on the open beach.
Population:
UK breeding:
12,000 pairs
Papilio polytes, the common Mormon, is a common species of swallowtail butterfly widely distributed across Asia. This butterfly is known for the mimicry displayed by the numerous forms of its females which mimic inedible red-bodied swallowtails, such as the common rose and the crimson rose
Wikipedia: The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), also known as the Eurasian kingfisher and river kingfisher, is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution across Eurasia and North Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but migrates from areas where rivers freeze in winter.
This sparrow-sized bird has the typical short-tailed, large-headed kingfisher profile; it has blue upperparts, orange underparts and a long bill. It feeds mainly on fish, caught by diving, and has special visual adaptations to enable it to see prey under water. The glossy white eggs are laid in a nest at the end of a burrow in a riverbank.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_kingfisher
Conservation status: Least Concern
One of the pair of bridled common murres show here has just arrived back on a ledge of the nesting cliff, so a little vocalizing, mutual pecking, and wing flapping was in order.
The secretive Gray Catbird, with its distinctive cat-like
mewing note, is a common winter resident in Florida.
Many pass through the state during migration.
Gray Catbirds are one of the most common species that non-birders in their range are likely to have never seen nor identified. The catbird’s rather bland coloration – slate gray with a black cap and chestnut under the tail – doesn’t attract attention, and unlike their cousins, the mockingbirds, that often sing from exposed perches, catbirds prefer to sing their jumbled songs from cover. And it is the sounds that catbirds make that give them their name and makes it at all likely that their presence will be noted.
Gray Catbirds, to put it simply, have a call note that sounds like a cat with a scratchy and short meow. This sound emanating from a tangle of brush can easily fool those not in the know. The song of the Gray Catbird, however, is nothing like a cat meowing: like the mockingbird and thrasher the catbird often mimics other birds and sounds but it tends not to repeat itself. The rule of thumb is that if a phrase is repeated three times in a row it is a mockingbird, it it is repeated twice a thrasher is singing, and if each phrase of the song is sang just once one is dealing with a catbird.
I found this one in my backyard in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida.
Another image from several years ago taken in Haliburton Ontario, finally getting around to organizing them.
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A Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) drake in the company of a female, maybe courting it, on a small urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
26 April, 2022.
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A Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) perched in the old cattails from last year in a marsh on the edge of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.
9 May, 2023.
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Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) male perched in the mixed woods of the boreal region north of Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
21 February, 2013.
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Common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) male perched on a wooden fence.
Samiec pleszki (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) siedzący na drewnianym płotku.
Each winter, we get inundated with Common Redpolls. They will flock to our feeders and eat many many seeds. This example is a male, which is told by its bright red head and chest.
To stay warm on winter's nights, the Redpoll will burrow into the snow for warmth. They have throat pouches to store seeds at the source and fly back to a warmer place to eat. In places where there are no bird feeders, they survive on birch seeds, eating over 40% of their body weight each day.
The Redpoll is found mostly in the the northern climates and an estimated to be tens of millions of them world wide.
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Common Linnet (Kneu) [female]
Location: Texel, the Netherlands
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