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I thought to wait until New Year to start this personal project. But why wait if we can start right away? Besides, I'm excited because this is the kind of thing that I've been wanting to do for quite sometimes.
I've been wanting to document the little things in life...and under a fortunate coincidence, I stumbled across www.justlittlethings.net. I asked her permission if I can visualize some of the little things posted on the blog and she said yes! Yippie!
So, here's my first post for the little things project: A New Pair of Shoes.
Edit : 3 years later I notice this is one of my most viewed photos. I guess the title of one CD (even though deliberately misspelt and omitted from the tags , is driving people here?!)
Day 10. I love music and buy a lot of CDs/records. It's always nice to look back over the albums you've bought in a particular year, and I often make compilations of my favourite tracks from the previous year in January. This year I thought I'd tie it in with my 365 project and take a shot of the top 10 together with my favourite compilation from last year (comps dont really count as albums, right?)
The list is, l-r (and in no particular order):
Guardians Of The Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1
Temples - Sun Structures
Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuck.old
Katy B - Little Red
Röyksopp – The Inevitable End
Shit Robot - We Got A Love
Saint Etienne Presents How We Used To Live (Original Film Soundtrack By Pete Wiggs)
The Juan MacLean - In A Dream
gusgus - Mexico
Jimi Goodwin - Odludek, and at the bottom
Pixies - Indie Cindy
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)
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Conrail SD45 6090 at BN's Cicero, Illinois yard on an unknown day in August 1979, Kodachropme by Chuck Zeiler.
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-1278-2
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-1327
See what? Me. (In comments I added the same photo, edited a different way) I was having trouble with these photos... I think my computer has a virus!
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