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Laughing Kookaburra
Scientific Name: Dacelo novaeguineae
The laughing kookaburra was first described and illustrated (in black and white) by the French naturalist and explorer Pierre Sonnerat in his Voyage la nouvelle Guinace which was published in 1776. He claimed to have seen the bird in New Guinea. In fact Sonnerat never visited New Guinea and the laughing kookaburra does not occur there. He probably obtained a preserved specimen from one of the naturalists who accompanied Captain James Cook to the east coast of Australia. Edme-Louis Daubenton and Fransois-Nicolas Martinet included a coloured plate of the laughing kookaburra based on Sonnerat's specimen in their Planches enluminaces d'histoire naturelle. The plate has the legend in French "Martin-pecheur, de la Nouvelle Guinace" (Kingfisher from New Guinea). In 1783 the French naturalist Johann Hermann provided a formal description of the species based the coloured plate by Daubenton and Martinet. He gave it the scientific name Alcedo nova¦ Guineæ. The current genus Dacelo was introduced in 1815 by the English zoologist William Elford Leach, and is an anagram of Alcedo, the Latin word for a kingfisher. The specific name novaeguineae combines the Latin novus for new with Guinea, based on the erroneous belief that the specimen had originated from New Guinea. For many years it was believed that the earliest description was by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert and his scientific name Dacelo gigas was used in the scientific literature but in 1926 the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews showed that a description by Hermann had been published earlier in the same year, 1783, and thus had precedence. In the 19th century this species was commonly called the "laughing jackass", a name first recorded (as Laughing Jack-Ass) in An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales by David Collins which was published in 1798. In 1858 the ornithologist John Gould used "great brown kingfisher", a name that had been coined by John Latham in 1782. Another popular name was "laughing kingfisher". The name in several Australian indigenous languages were listed by European authors including Go-gan-ne-gine by Collins in 1878, Cuck'anda by Renac Lesson in 1828 and Gogera or Gogobera by George Bennett in 1834. In the early years of the 20th century "kookaburra" was included as an alternative name in ornithological publications but it was not until 1926 in the second edition of the Official Checklist of Birds of Australia that the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union officially adopted the name "laughing kookaburra". The name comes from Wiradhuri, an Aboriginal language now effectively extinct.
Description: The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.
Similar species: Identification may only be confused where the Laughing Kookaburra's range overlaps that of the Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, in eastern Queensland. The call of the Blue-winged Kookaburra is coarser than that of the Laughing Kookaburra, and ends somewhat abruptly. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lacks the brown eye-stripe, has a blue tail and a large amount of blue in the wing, and has a pale eye.
Distribution: Laughing Kookaburras are found throughout eastern Australia. They have been introduced to Tasmania, the extreme south-west of Western Australia, and New Zealand. Replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra in central northern and north-western Australia, with some overlap in Queensland, although this species is more coastal.
Habitat: The Laughing Kookaburra inhabits most areas where there are suitable trees.
Feeding: Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch.
Breeding: Laughing Kookaburras are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually offspring of the previous one to two years, act as 'helpers' during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties.
Calls: The chuckling voice that gives this species its name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird's range. The loud 'koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa' is often sung in a chorus with other individuals. The Laughing Kookaburra also has a shorter 'koooa The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.
Minimum Size: 40cm
Maximum Size: 45cm
Average size: 42cm
Average weight: 340g
Breeding season: August to January
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and Wikipedia)
© Chris Burns 2017
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The latest Sodality Trials have been held over the first two days of the Bank Holiday weekend, and have included the traditional nude pony-girl races on the terrace of Lyndon Towers (in nice warm and sunny weather!). My lover and producer/director Sadie Peckham filmed the whole event for my reality series, and you should be able to see edited highlights on your TV screens later this week. Our traditional Saturday Night Costume Party (= orgy!) was held in baroque dress – our current Sodality kink – and I wore the outfit depicted above, whilst presiding over the proceedings - alongside Lady Daphne Craig-Talbot and Lady Lucasta Goringe.
I managed to “jockey” Lady Winifred Farquharson into first place in the pony-girl races, but this was only enough to bring her into second overall, in another strong field. All the Ladies were cheered on by their adoring cuck husbands, keen to see their beautiful aristocratic wives inducted into the boundless depravity which is the Sodality of the Sisterhood of Pleasure.
Our twelve lovely new Ladies will bring our total strength up to 132 high-class strumpets! They are, in the running order they finished in the trials:
Lady Cosma Waddington
Lady Winifred Farquharson
Lady Morgan Porterfield
Lady Constantina Edgeworthy
Lady Ramona Buller-Crane
Lady Eliza Mattacks
Lady Serena Bixby-Montacute
Lady Pamela Blenheim
Lady Bella Macari
Lady Marietta Falconbridge
Lady Georgiana Protheroe
Lady Sybil Brentford
Overall winner Lady Cosma Waddinton is an outstanding Sodality Pledge, who I am sure you will be hearing more of in the future. A former stripper, fetish model and lap dancer, she has progressed via high-end escort work to a very profitable marriage with Lord Bressingham - but has continued to follow enthusiastically her former profession since her nuptials (just like me!!).
Chad Bronkhorst, Peter Gunn and Max Kink were all at the trials, and are busy signing-up our new members to appear in their outrageous internet filth. It’s intriguing to observe how easily these upper-class English ladies develop into brazen strumpets and XXXXX porn stars! Lady Alexis Beaver, Lady Alison Box, Lady Maria Drinkwater and Lady Miriam Tofts have all recently launched their own ultra-hardcore websites – which are part of Chad Bronkhorst’s “Snooty Sluts” XXXXX network. Check them out!
Love and Kisses to All My Friends and Fans!
xxxxx
Lady Rebecca Georgina Arabella Lyndon
Duchess of Basingstoke
Conrail caboose 18122 on the C&NW at about Western Avenue in Chicago, Illinois on May 12, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
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Laughing Kookaburra
Scientific Name: Dacelo novaeguineae
The laughing kookaburra was first described and illustrated (in black and white) by the French naturalist and explorer Pierre Sonnerat in his Voyage à la nouvelle Guinée which was published in 1776. He claimed to have seen the bird in New Guinea. In fact Sonnerat never visited New Guinea and the laughing kookaburra does not occur there. He probably obtained a preserved specimen from one of the naturalists who accompanied Captain James Cook to the east coast of Australia. Edme-Louis Daubenton and François-Nicolas Martinet included a coloured plate of the laughing kookaburra based on Sonnerat's specimen in their Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle. The plate has the legend in French "Martin-pecheur, de la Nouvelle Guinée" (Kingfisher from New Guinea). In 1783 the French naturalist Johann Hermann provided a formal description of the species based the coloured plate by Daubenton and Martinet. He gave it the scientific name Alcedo novæ Guineæ. The current genus Dacelo was introduced in 1815 by the English zoologist William Elford Leach, and is an anagram of Alcedo, the Latin word for a kingfisher. The specific name novaeguineae combines the Latin novus for new with Guinea, based on the erroneous belief that the specimen had originated from New Guinea. For many years it was believed that the earliest description was by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert and his scientific name Dacelo gigas was used in the scientific literature but in 1926 the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews showed that a description by Hermann had been published earlier in the same year, 1783, and thus had precedence. In the 19th century this species was commonly called the "laughing jackass", a name first recorded (as Laughing Jack-Ass) in An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales by David Collins which was published in 1798. In 1858 the ornithologist John Gould used "great brown kingfisher", a name that had been coined by John Latham in 1782. Another popular name was "laughing kingfisher". The name in several Australian indigenous languages were listed by European authors including Go-gan-ne-gine by Collins in 1878, Cuck'anda by René Lesson in 1828 and Gogera or Gogobera by George Bennett in 1834. In the early years of the 20th century "kookaburra" was included as an alternative name in ornithological publications but it was not until 1926 in the second edition of the Official Checklist of Birds of Australia that the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union officially adopted the name "laughing kookaburra". The name comes from Wiradhuri, an Aboriginal language now effectively extinct.
Description: The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.
Similar species: Identification may only be confused where the Laughing Kookaburra's range overlaps that of the Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, in eastern Queensland. The call of the Blue-winged Kookaburra is coarser than that of the Laughing Kookaburra, and ends somewhat abruptly. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lacks the brown eye-stripe, has a blue tail and a large amount of blue in the wing, and has a pale eye.
Distribution: Laughing Kookaburras are found throughout eastern Australia. They have been introduced to Tasmania, the extreme south-west of Western Australia, and New Zealand. Replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra in central northern and north-western Australia, with some overlap in Queensland, although this species is more coastal.
Habitat: The Laughing Kookaburra inhabits most areas where there are suitable trees.
Feeding: Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch.
Breeding: Laughing Kookaburras are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually offspring of the previous one to two years, act as 'helpers' during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties.
Calls: The chuckling voice that gives this species its name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird's range. The loud 'koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa' is often sung in a chorus with other individuals. The Laughing Kookaburra also has a shorter 'koooa The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.
Minimum Size: 40cm
Maximum Size: 45cm
Average size: 42cm
Average weight: 340g
Breeding season: August to January
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and Wikipedia)
© Chris Burns 2018
__________________________________________
All rights reserved.
This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying and recording without my written consent.
This tight red dress seemed a natural (and sexy!) addition to my recent Diesel Punk shoot. I really enjoyed modelling it, and I like the way that 1940s dresses such as this one cling to a girl's curves!
My cuck husband adores me in this dress, and he has been begging me to wear it for dinner tomorrow evening with Lord Cheviot and Lord Stanstead. "I love the way you look in that dress, Rebecca" he whispered to me this afternoon , "and I eagerly anticipate the moment when you will cuckold me whilst wearing it!" I don't think my hubby will have long to wait - as I plan to wear this dress for escort work during the coming week!
Otherwise, I am tremendously busy at present juggling my life at The Salon with my Reality TV show (which you may well be watching!) and my torrid ongoing affair with my producer/director/girlfriend Sadie Peckham. My weekend away with Sadie and Dr Janis Rawdyke turned into an epic love-in. It was hard to tear myself away from my two gorgeous girlfriends for a week of escort work in town...!
Women are such fantastic lovers!
Toodle Pip ! Love and Kisses to All !!!
xxxxx
Lady Rebecca Lyndon
Duchess of Basingstoke
I have to admit, after I'd licked his cum off my wife's panties, I started to get a bit horny waiting for them to come back home.
Burlington Northern Railroad Air Car 90 at Clyde, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The COTS stcker indicates that the flat car was built in 3-29. I have not found the purpose of this car. It may have been used to keep the air brakes charged on unit coal trains at a rail-to-barge unloading facility in Saint Louis. Although it's pictured on the BN in BN paint, it does not actually have BN reporting marks. If anyone knows more, please leave a comment.
Burlington Northern Railroad Air Car 90 at Saint Louis, Missouri on May 19, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The COTS stcker indicates that the flat car was built in 3-29. Stenciled on the large box was the following: THIS CAR FOR USE AT ACBL NORTH ST. LOUIS COAL UNLOADING FACILITY, ONLY . I believe ACBL meant American Container Barge Line. The raidator housing is lettered GM DIESEL .
The Old Market Hall (originally named the Market Hall or Market House) was built in 1596 by the Corporation of Shrewsbury and is one of Shrewsbury's finest buildings. It reflects the town's prosperity towards the end of the 16th Century and especially its emergence as a major regional centre for trading. A previous Market House was built on the same site in the 1260s. This building was demolished to make way for the Market Hall.
Stone was brought from Grinshill, the choice of stone above timber, which was still used for almost all private building in the town, shows that this was a building which was more than functional. The building was intended to impress by its materials, style and scale and to give out the message that here was the region's premier market. It had two storeys: the large upper room was originally used by the Shrewsbury drapers or dealers in cloth to sell Welsh wool and the lower floor was used by farmers to sell their corn. The Old Market Hall was one of the earliest forms of prefabricated buildings; it was erected in less than four months. It bears the Royal Coat of Arms of Queen Elizabeth I, with the date of 1596, and the supporters are the English Lion and the Welsh dragon. On the North side of the Old Market Hall there is a statue of the Duke of York; it is the only one in the whole country.
In front of the Market Hall in the Square there was once a pool or bog. According to tradition this pool was called the Bishop's Pool and it would be the ducking pool for nagging wives and dishonest traders.
Shrewsbury possessed this instrument of punishment (the Bishop's Pool) as early as 1292. The offender was tied to a chair called the cucking stool or ducking stool, exposed to public derision and then immersed in water. A husband had to foot the bill of one farthing each time for each immersion. According to one chronicler, the whole purpose of this form of punishment was to cool the intemperate heat of the scold. It appears this custom was carried into the late 17th Century as in 1669 the Corporation accounts show the purchase of a new stool.
Zaramagullón, Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
El zampullín de pico grueso (Podilymbus podiceps), es un zambullidor pequeño, mide de 31-38 cm de longitud, achaparrado y de cuello corto. usualmente es de color pardo con el cuello color canela. Tiene un pico corto, grueso similar al de un pollo. En su época reproductiva su plumaje se hace gris plateado, garganta negra (plumaje nupcial) y adquiere una banda negra en el pico, que le da su nombre común en varias partes de América Latina. Es la única especie de zambullidor que no muestra un parche blanco en el ala durante el vuelo.
El zampullín de pico grueso tiene una amplia distribución geográfica. Tiene varios nombres comunes; zaramagullón grande (en Cuba), zambullidor común (en Colombia), zambullidor pico-anillado (en México), patico buzo (en Venezuela), zampullín pico grueso, macá pico grueso (en Uruguay), o picurio (en Chile) etc.
Este zambullidor raras veces vuela, prefiriendo escapar del peligro zambulliéndose.
Se alimenta de peces (carpas, siluros, anguilas), insectos (libélulas, hormigas, escarabajos) y anfibios como ranas y renacuajos. Zampullín de pico grueso alimentando a sus crías.
Esta ave usualmente es silenciosa, excepto durante la época de apareamiento en la cual el macho emite un llamado sonoro similar a un cuck, cuck, cuck o cow, cow, cow.
The pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) is a species of the grebe family of water birds. Since the Atitlán grebe (Podilymbus gigas) has become extinct, it is the sole extant member of the genus Podilymbus. The pied-billed grebe is primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas. Other names of this grebe include American dabchick, rail, dabchick, Carolina grebe, devil-diver, dive-dapper, dipper, hell-diver, pied-billed dabchick, pied-bill, thick-billed grebe, and water witch
The binomial name is derived from Latin Podilymbus, a contraction of podicipes ("feet at the buttocks", from podici-, "rump-" + pes, "foot")—the origin of the name of the grebe order—and Ancient Greek kolymbos, "diver", and podiceps, "rump-headed", from podici- + New Latin ceps.
They are most commonly found throughout North America, Central America and South America year round
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Lugar de Captura/ Taken: Junumucu, la Vega, Republica Dominicana
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Podicipediformes
Family:Podicipedidae
Genus:Podilymbus
Species:P. podiceps
Binomial name
Podilymbus podiceps
Burlington Northern Railroad Air Car 90 at Galesburg, Illinois on June 11, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Any further information about this car would be appreciated, thanks. It was classed as FMS and weighed at TP 11-78. Interestingly, it does not actually have BN reporting marks.
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With a wave from the conductor, X105 flies under the searchlights at New Castle. This could have been a cowl leader, but CN pulled a fast one on us. After hearing CN 149 left Montreal with one of the last remaining cowls in service leading, me and a good friend went east of Toronto (an over 4 hour drive for me from Windsor) with the hopes of chasing it west of Belleville. Unfortunately, CN gave every single other train a crew in Belleville while 149 sat crewless. Speculation was BIT (Brampton Intermodal Terminal) was having capacity issues and they were holding 149 at Belleville (not confirmed, just the likely reason). Just another example of expect the unexpected when out shooting trains haha. Don't get me wrong, I'm still satisfied and happy I got this shot. It just wasn't what I was hoping for.
Train: CN X105 with CN 8878 (SD70M-2) and CN 8870 (SD70M-2).
New Castle, ON
CN Kingston Subdivision
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Laughing Kookaburra
Scientific Name: Dacelo novaeguineae
The laughing kookaburra was first described and illustrated (in black and white) by the French naturalist and explorer Pierre Sonnerat in his Voyage à la nouvelle Guinée which was published in 1776. He claimed to have seen the bird in New Guinea. In fact Sonnerat never visited New Guinea and the laughing kookaburra does not occur there. He probably obtained a preserved specimen from one of the naturalists who accompanied Captain James Cook to the east coast of Australia. Edme-Louis Daubenton and François-Nicolas Martinet included a coloured plate of the laughing kookaburra based on Sonnerat's specimen in their Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle. The plate has the legend in French "Martin-pecheur, de la Nouvelle Guinée" (Kingfisher from New Guinea). In 1783 the French naturalist Johann Hermann provided a formal description of the species based the coloured plate by Daubenton and Martinet. He gave it the scientific name Alcedo novæ Guineæ. The current genus Dacelo was introduced in 1815 by the English zoologist William Elford Leach, and is an anagram of Alcedo, the Latin word for a kingfisher. The specific name novaeguineae combines the Latin novus for new with Guinea, based on the erroneous belief that the specimen had originated from New Guinea. For many years it was believed that the earliest description was by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert and his scientific name Dacelo gigas was used in the scientific literature but in 1926 the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews showed that a description by Hermann had been published earlier in the same year, 1783, and thus had precedence. In the 19th century this species was commonly called the "laughing jackass", a name first recorded (as Laughing Jack-Ass) in An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales by David Collins which was published in 1798. In 1858 the ornithologist John Gould used "great brown kingfisher", a name that had been coined by John Latham in 1782. Another popular name was "laughing kingfisher". The name in several Australian indigenous languages were listed by European authors including Go-gan-ne-gine by Collins in 1878, Cuck'anda by René Lesson in 1828 and Gogera or Gogobera by George Bennett in 1834. In the early years of the 20th century "kookaburra" was included as an alternative name in ornithological publications but it was not until 1926 in the second edition of the Official Checklist of Birds of Australia that the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union officially adopted the name "laughing kookaburra". The name comes from Wiradhuri, an Aboriginal language now effectively extinct.
Description: The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.
Similar species: Identification may only be confused where the Laughing Kookaburra's range overlaps that of the Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, in eastern Queensland. The call of the Blue-winged Kookaburra is coarser than that of the Laughing Kookaburra, and ends somewhat abruptly. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lacks the brown eye-stripe, has a blue tail and a large amount of blue in the wing, and has a pale eye.
Distribution: Laughing Kookaburras are found throughout eastern Australia. They have been introduced to Tasmania, the extreme south-west of Western Australia, and New Zealand. Replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra in central northern and north-western Australia, with some overlap in Queensland, although this species is more coastal.
Habitat: The Laughing Kookaburra inhabits most areas where there are suitable trees.
Feeding: Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch.
Breeding: Laughing Kookaburras are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually offspring of the previous one to two years, act as 'helpers' during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties.
Calls: The chuckling voice that gives this species its name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird's range. The loud 'koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa' is often sung in a chorus with other individuals. The Laughing Kookaburra also has a shorter 'koooa The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.
Minimum Size: 40cm
Maximum Size: 45cm
Average size: 42cm
Average weight: 340g
Breeding season: August to January
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and Wikipedia)
© Chris Burns 2017
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All rights reserved.
This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying and recording without my written consent.
This Juvenile cuckoo is being fed by a pair of reed warblers ( the small bird part obscured by a branch )
Cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other birds (one per nest) Once hatched, the chick ejects the original occupants and the new and unsuspecting foster parents feed and care for their unusual youngster .
Cuckoos are solitary birds often heard and not seen .The familiar call 'cuck-oo cuck-oo' heralds the start of spring
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Burlington Northern Railroad BNA24, GLACIER VIEW, at Canal Street in Chicago, Illinois on August 12, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The following is from the Friends Of The Burlington Northern web site www.fobnr.org/bncarlist/passenger/bna24.htm :
This 85' full-dome car started out as a product of the Budd company for the GN's re-equipped 1955 Empire Builder. Arriving in the orange/green "EB" scheme ( numbered GN 1390 ), it was repainted in 1968 into the pre-merger green/white "hockey stick" scheme as a test for eventual repainting of the entire fleet once the BN merger happened (this car was never painted BSB). After the merger, this car continued in Empire Builder service, right through Amtrak service on the "Builder", still in the "hockey stick" scheme, albeit with an Amtrak number. It was eventually repainted silver with the red&blue stripes to match the rest of the Amtrak fleet. In 1979 Amtrak brought out a new series of cars, the "Superliners", and retired most if not all of the old cars in their fleet. BN saw this as a great opportunity to acquire this car and make it their 'signature' car of the business car fleet. During it's 1982 rebuilding, it acquired theater seating and a full glass window for the rear of the car, oh yeah, it was painted back to green & white again too. In 1993, this was one of the first cars to be painted into the black and cream "Executive" scheme, being done at that same time as the first of the new SD-70MAC's started arriving in this same paint scheme. In 1997, this car was again one of the first ones to be painted into the now standard all silver cars.
Most photographs of Cuckoos are of males which have a solid grey throat but this is a female which has a rufous wash on the throat with cross barring. In fact lots of field guides don't illustrate the typical female, instead choosing to show the incredibly rare "hepatic" phase (in nearly 50 years of birdwatching I have seen just 3 in Britain), which looks like a female kestrel; rufous all over with black barring. But this is the common colour phase of female Cuckoo. Females don't make the "Cuck-oo" call either, but sometimes make a drawn out bubbling call.
Cuckoos are well-known for laying their eggs in other birds' nests. In Britain the vast majority use just three hosts; Reed Warbler, Dunnock and Meadow Pipit. They mimic the egg patterns too to reduce the chances of the host noticing. The reason why the egg mimicry does not get diluted if say a Reed Warbler parasitizing male mates with a Meadow Pipit female, is because the genes for mimicry are on the Y sex chromosome which passes unchanged down the female line. In humans (and most other creatures) males have the Y sex chromosome but in birds it is females. Cuckoos also lay the smallest egg compared to their body size, and have an unusually fast developing egg (it hatches after about 12 days compared with Meadow Pipit's 13-14 days). All of these are adaptations to help Cuckoos succeed in getting other birds to rear their young.
In Shakespeare's time people knew that Cuckoos appeared in other birds' nests but they didn't know how they got there. They thought that the male Cuckoo mated with a Reed Warbler or Meadow Pipit who then laid a Cuckoo egg. Shakepeare mentions this in Love's Labours Lost.
The Cuckoo then on every tree.
Mocks married men for thus sings he.
Cuckoo, cuckoo. Oh word of fear.
Unpleasing to the married ear.
At this time, if someone's wife was having an affair, people would mock him by calling Cuckoo, hence the quote from Shakespeare. A Cuckold is the wronged husband, which is still used today from the mistaken belief that Cuckoos mated with their hosts, so the male host was "cuckolded".
Finally got to see this handsome chap all thanks to a great friend @paulhdigiman THANKYOU.
Scientific Name: Cuculus Canorus
Bird Family: Cuckoos
UK Conservation Status: Red
COLIN has gained a massive audience with people travelling far & wide to see him in the last 6 years. Every spring he returns to his favourite patch in Thursley Common, for his fill of 'all he can eat meal worms'.
I honestly can't describe this experience, it will definitely be one i never forgot. From the moment he flew in with a extremely loud Cuck-OOO to hopping about just a few feet infront of us, till the last time we saw him fly off after another cuckoo - could it have been a female
Fun Fact: The maximum recorded lifespan of a common cuckoo in the UK is 6 years, 11 months & 2 days 😯
Camera: Nikon d7500
Lens: Sigma 60-600mm
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
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Laughing Kookaburra
Scientific Name: Dacelo novaeguineae
The laughing kookaburra was first described and illustrated (in black and white) by the French naturalist and explorer Pierre Sonnerat in his Voyage à la nouvelle Guinée which was published in 1776. He claimed to have seen the bird in New Guinea. In fact Sonnerat never visited New Guinea and the laughing kookaburra does not occur there. He probably obtained a preserved specimen from one of the naturalists who accompanied Captain James Cook to the east coast of Australia. Edme-Louis Daubenton and François-Nicolas Martinet included a coloured plate of the laughing kookaburra based on Sonnerat's specimen in their Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle. The plate has the legend in French "Martin-pecheur, de la Nouvelle Guinée" (Kingfisher from New Guinea). In 1783 the French naturalist Johann Hermann provided a formal description of the species based the coloured plate by Daubenton and Martinet. He gave it the scientific name Alcedo novæ Guineæ. The current genus Dacelo was introduced in 1815 by the English zoologist William Elford Leach, and is an anagram of Alcedo, the Latin word for a kingfisher. The specific name novaeguineae combines the Latin novus for new with Guinea, based on the erroneous belief that the specimen had originated from New Guinea. For many years it was believed that the earliest description was by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert and his scientific name Dacelo gigas was used in the scientific literature but in 1926 the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews showed that a description by Hermann had been published earlier in the same year, 1783, and thus had precedence. In the 19th century this species was commonly called the "laughing jackass", a name first recorded (as Laughing Jack-Ass) in An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales by David Collins which was published in 1798. In 1858 the ornithologist John Gould used "great brown kingfisher", a name that had been coined by John Latham in 1782. Another popular name was "laughing kingfisher". The name in several Australian indigenous languages were listed by European authors including Go-gan-ne-gine by Collins in 1878, Cuck'anda by René Lesson in 1828 and Gogera or Gogobera by George Bennett in 1834. In the early years of the 20th century "kookaburra" was included as an alternative name in ornithological publications but it was not until 1926 in the second edition of the Official Checklist of Birds of Australia that the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union officially adopted the name "laughing kookaburra". The name comes from Wiradhuri, an Aboriginal language now effectively extinct.
Description: The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.
Similar species: Identification may only be confused where the Laughing Kookaburra's range overlaps that of the Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, in eastern Queensland. The call of the Blue-winged Kookaburra is coarser than that of the Laughing Kookaburra, and ends somewhat abruptly. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lacks the brown eye-stripe, has a blue tail and a large amount of blue in the wing, and has a pale eye.
Distribution: Laughing Kookaburras are found throughout eastern Australia. They have been introduced to Tasmania, the extreme south-west of Western Australia, and New Zealand. Replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra in central northern and north-western Australia, with some overlap in Queensland, although this species is more coastal.
Habitat: The Laughing Kookaburra inhabits most areas where there are suitable trees.
Feeding: Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch.
Breeding: Laughing Kookaburras are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually offspring of the previous one to two years, act as 'helpers' during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties.
Calls: The chuckling voice that gives this species its name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird's range. The loud 'koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa' is often sung in a chorus with other individuals. The Laughing Kookaburra also has a shorter 'koooa The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.
Minimum Size: 40cm
Maximum Size: 45cm
Average size: 42cm
Average weight: 340g
Breeding season: August to January
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and Wikipedia)
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Unorthodox Medusa Hair- Homme
UC - Hipster Hat
Mossu - Louis.Shirt
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Finally got to see this handsome chap all thanks to a great friend @paulhdigiman THANKYOU.
Scientific Name: Cuculus Canorus
Bird Family: Cuckoos
UK Conservation Status: Red
COLIN has gained a massive audience with people travelling far & wide to see him in the last 6 years. Every spring he returns to his favourite patch in Thursley Common, for his fill of 'all he can eat meal worms'.
I honestly can't describe this experience, it will definitely be one i never forgot. From the moment he flew in with a extremely loud Cuck-OOO to hopping about just a few feet infront of us, till the last time we saw him fly off after another cuckoo - could it have been a female
Fun Fact: The maximum recorded lifespan of a common cuckoo in the UK is 6 years, 11 months & 2 days 😯
Camera: Nikon d7500
Lens: Sigma 60-600mm
Sometimes you can't explain what you see in a person. It's just the way they take you to a place that no one else can.
Zaramagullón, Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
El zampullín de pico grueso (Podilymbus podiceps), es un zambullidor pequeño, mide de 31-38 cm de longitud, achaparrado y de cuello corto. usualmente es de color pardo con el cuello color canela. Tiene un pico corto, grueso similar al de un pollo. En su época reproductiva su plumaje se hace gris plateado, garganta negra (plumaje nupcial) y adquiere una banda negra en el pico, que le da su nombre común en varias partes de América Latina. Es la única especie de zambullidor que no muestra un parche blanco en el ala durante el vuelo.
El zampullín de pico grueso tiene una amplia distribución geográfica. Tiene varios nombres comunes; zaramagullón grande (en Cuba), zambullidor común (en Colombia), zambullidor pico-anillado (en México), patico buzo (en Venezuela), zampullín pico grueso, macá pico grueso (en Uruguay), o picurio (en Chile) etc.
Este zambullidor raras veces vuela, prefiriendo escapar del peligro zambulliéndose.
Se alimenta de peces (carpas, siluros, anguilas), insectos (libélulas, hormigas, escarabajos) y anfibios como ranas y renacuajos. Zampullín de pico grueso alimentando a sus crías.
Esta ave usualmente es silenciosa, excepto durante la época de apareamiento en la cual el macho emite un llamado sonoro similar a un cuck, cuck, cuck o cow, cow, cow.
The pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) is a species of the grebe family of water birds. Since the Atitlán grebe (Podilymbus gigas) has become extinct, it is the sole extant member of the genus Podilymbus. The pied-billed grebe is primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas. Other names of this grebe include American dabchick, rail, dabchick, Carolina grebe, devil-diver, dive-dapper, dipper, hell-diver, pied-billed dabchick, pied-bill, thick-billed grebe, and water witch
The binomial name is derived from Latin Podilymbus, a contraction of podicipes ("feet at the buttocks", from podici-, "rump-" + pes, "foot")—the origin of the name of the grebe order—and Ancient Greek kolymbos, "diver", and podiceps, "rump-headed", from podici- + New Latin ceps.
They are most commonly found throughout North America, Central America and South America year round
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Lugar de Captura/ Taken: Junumucu, la Vega, Republica Dominicana
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Podicipediformes
Family:Podicipedidae
Genus:Podilymbus
Species:P. podiceps
Binomial name
Podilymbus podiceps
Grebe-IMG-1330
Collared Doves hadn't been recorded in Britain until 1952 in Lincolnshire, but that individual was thought to be an escapee from captivity at the time. Then a pair bred in Norfolk in 1955 and the sweeping colonisation had begun. By 1960 it was breeding in all countries of the British Isles. It had already swept across Europe from the Balkans during the previous 25 years but nobody knows why they spread like this. When the Wildlife and Countryside Act came into force in 1981 Collared Doves were so common that they were immediately classed as a pest species that could be killed. Quite a change in status from a bird that bred for the first time just 25 earlier. Then when the Birds Directive came into force it was decided that you could not kill birds simply because you thought they were a pest, they could only be killed for specific reasons, so a series of General Licences were introduced in the 1990s. So collared Doves could be killed by authorised persons to prevent serious damage to agriculture, and to preserve public health. But these licences have been misused and abused for years and millions of birds are killed for no good reason. You may have seen things in the media that "Wild Justice" have challenged the legality in the courts, and have won. The licences have been (temporarily) suspended to try and make them comply with UK law. Mark Avery is one of three founding members of Wild Justice (along with Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay) and he wrote this blog (and many subsequent ones) explaining the issue here: markavery.info/2019/03/17/44158/
The scientific name of Collared Dove is Streptopelia decaocto. Streptopelia means dove with a neck chain whereas decaocto means eighteen. This comes from a Greek myth about a maidservant who was bemoaning her unfair pay of just eighteen (decaocto) pieces. She prayed to the Gods for release and was changed into a dove that echoed her sad cry of decaocto. Although in one version Zeus created a dove who's cry "decaocto" proclaimed the lowly sum she was paid by her mistress.
I photographed this individual at one of the bird baths in my back garden yesterday. Their song is a repeated three note Cuck-cooo-coo, and I am occasionally sent recordings of them as claims of Cuckoo. "The Times" published the date of the first Cuckoo (does it still?) for over a hundred years but some of the very early dates I suspect are actually Collared Doves.
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
Laughing Kookaburra
Scientific Name: Dacelo novaeguineae
The laughing kookaburra was first described and illustrated (in black and white) by the French naturalist and explorer Pierre Sonnerat in his Voyage à la nouvelle Guinée which was published in 1776. He claimed to have seen the bird in New Guinea. In fact Sonnerat never visited New Guinea and the laughing kookaburra does not occur there. He probably obtained a preserved specimen from one of the naturalists who accompanied Captain James Cook to the east coast of Australia. Edme-Louis Daubenton and François-Nicolas Martinet included a coloured plate of the laughing kookaburra based on Sonnerat's specimen in their Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle. The plate has the legend in French "Martin-pecheur, de la Nouvelle Guinée" (Kingfisher from New Guinea). In 1783 the French naturalist Johann Hermann provided a formal description of the species based the coloured plate by Daubenton and Martinet. He gave it the scientific name Alcedo novæ Guineæ. The current genus Dacelo was introduced in 1815 by the English zoologist William Elford Leach, and is an anagram of Alcedo, the Latin word for a kingfisher. The specific name novaeguineae combines the Latin novus for new with Guinea, based on the erroneous belief that the specimen had originated from New Guinea. For many years it was believed that the earliest description was by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert and his scientific name Dacelo gigas was used in the scientific literature but in 1926 the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews showed that a description by Hermann had been published earlier in the same year, 1783, and thus had precedence. In the 19th century this species was commonly called the "laughing jackass", a name first recorded (as Laughing Jack-Ass) in An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales by David Collins which was published in 1798. In 1858 the ornithologist John Gould used "great brown kingfisher", a name that had been coined by John Latham in 1782. Another popular name was "laughing kingfisher". The name in several Australian indigenous languages were listed by European authors including Go-gan-ne-gine by Collins in 1878, Cuck'anda by René Lesson in 1828 and Gogera or Gogobera by George Bennett in 1834. In the early years of the 20th century "kookaburra" was included as an alternative name in ornithological publications but it was not until 1926 in the second edition of the Official Checklist of Birds of Australia that the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union officially adopted the name "laughing kookaburra". The name comes from Wiradhuri, an Aboriginal language now effectively extinct.
Description: The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.
Similar species: Identification may only be confused where the Laughing Kookaburra's range overlaps that of the Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, in eastern Queensland. The call of the Blue-winged Kookaburra is coarser than that of the Laughing Kookaburra, and ends somewhat abruptly. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lacks the brown eye-stripe, has a blue tail and a large amount of blue in the wing, and has a pale eye.
Distribution: Laughing Kookaburras are found throughout eastern Australia. They have been introduced to Tasmania, the extreme south-west of Western Australia, and New Zealand. Replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra in central northern and north-western Australia, with some overlap in Queensland, although this species is more coastal.
Habitat: The Laughing Kookaburra inhabits most areas where there are suitable trees.
Feeding: Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch.
Breeding: Laughing Kookaburras are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually offspring of the previous one to two years, act as 'helpers' during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties.
Calls: The chuckling voice that gives this species its name is a common and familiar sound throughout the bird's range. The loud 'koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa' is often sung in a chorus with other individuals. The Laughing Kookaburra also has a shorter 'koooa The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.
Minimum Size: 40cm
Maximum Size: 45cm
Average size: 42cm
Average weight: 340g
Breeding season: August to January
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and Wikipedia)
© Chris Burns 2017
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All rights reserved.
This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying and recording without my written consent.
YOU PAID FOR HER VACATION WITH THE GIRLS, BUT YOUR SEXY WIFE HAS SPENT A ROMANTIC WEEK WITH HER YOUNG LOVER.
ladyinseams.home.blog/2022/02/25/being-a-cuckoldress/
Getting my cuck husband to drive me over to my Black Stud's house to be 'serviced' is always humiliating for him but a thrill for me.