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Because of its long and slender neck, the Australasian Darter is sometimes called the snakebird. Usually inhabiting freshwater wetlands, darters swim with their bodies submerged beneath the water’s surface, with only the sinuous neck protruding above the water, enhancing its serpentine qualities. Darters forage by diving to depths of about 60 centimetres, and impaling fish with its sharp, spear-like beak. Small fish are swallowed underwater, but larger ones are brought to the surface, where they are flicked off the bill (sometimes into the air) and then swallowed head-first.
M-Line Trolley. This line features some restored Dallas trolleys and a gaggle of others on its own loop through the city. They are retrofitted with A/C for the brutal heat.
Dallas, TX
They usually breed in colonies, occasionally mixed with cormorants or herons. The darters pair bond monogamously at least for a breeding season. There are many different types of displays used for mating. Males display to attract females by raising (but not stretching) their wings to wave them in an alternating fashion, bowing and snapping the bill, or giving twigs to potential mates. To strengthen the pair bond, partners rub their bills or wave, point upwards or bow their necks in unison. When one partner comes to relieve the other at the nest, males and females use the same display the male employs during courtship; during changeovers, the birds may also "yawn" at each other.[11]
Breeding is seasonal (peaking in March/April) at the northern end of their range; elsewhere they can be found breeding all year round. The nests are made of twigs and lined with leaves; they are built in trees or reeds, usually near water. Typically, the male gathers nesting material and brings it to the female, which does most of the actual construction work. Nest construction takes only a few days (about three at most), and the pairs copulate at the nest site. The clutch size is two to six eggs (usually about four) which have a pale green color. The eggs are laid within 24–48 hours and incubated for 25 to 30 days, starting after the first has been laid; they hatch asynchronously. To provide warmth to the eggs, the parents will cover them with their large webbed feet, because like their relatives they lack a brood patch. The last young to hatch will usually starve in years with little food available. Bi-parental care is given and the young are considered altricial. They are fed by regurgitation of partly digested food when young, switching to entire food items as they grow older. After fledging, the young are fed for about two more weeks while they learn to hunt for themselves.[12]
These birds reach sexual maturity by about two years, and generally live to around nine years. The maximum possible lifespan of darters seems to be about sixteen years.[13]
Darter eggs are edible and considered delicious by some; they are locally collected by humans as food. The adults are also eaten occasionally, as they are rather meaty birds (comparable to a domestic duck); like other fish-eating birds such as cormorants or seaducks they do not taste particularly good though. Darter eggs and nestlings are also collected in a few places to raise the young. Sometimes this is done for food, but some nomads in Assam and Bengal train tame darters to be employed as in cormorant fishing. With an increasing number of nomads settling down in recent decades, this cultural heritage is in danger of being lost. On the other hand, as evidenced by the etymology of "anhinga" detailed above, the Tupi seem to have considered the anhinga a kind of bird of ill omen.
Looking up the Dart valley shortly after sunrise.
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(Anhinga rufa)
Gambia River near to Tendaba Camp
The Gambia / Gâmbia
Other Names:
Danish : afrikansk slangehalsfugl
Dutch : afrikaanse slangenhalsvogel
English : African darter
Esperanto : Afrika sargobirdo
Finnish : käärmekaula
French : anhinga d'Afrique
German : Afrikanische Schlangenhalsvogel
Italian : aninga africana
Latin : Anhinga rufa
Norwegian : afrikansk slangehalsfugl
Portuguese : mergulhão-serpente
Spanish : aninga común africana
Swahili : *mbizi??
Swedish : *afrikansk ormhalsfågel??
[Translated by Logos Dictionary www.logosdictionary.org/ ]
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Gâmbia (2007, 2008, 2011) (370)
- All the photos for this order SULIFORMES (105)
- All the photos for this family Anhingidae (Anhingídeos) (22)
- All the photos for this species Anhinga rufa (4)
- All the photos taken this day 2007/07/30 (17)
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I'm working on improving my dart. I was pretty tired today, and forgot most of my moves, but hey, my body position isn't so bad. Filmed by Ian!
Dart 400 small block Chevy
AFR-195 Street Eliminators 75cc straight plugs
276 hydraulic roller cam - 224/224 @ 0.050" lift, 0.536" lift with 1.6 rockers, 108 LSA
Forged crank, rods, pistons 10.11:1 compression
Edelbrock Performer RPM Air Gap
Dynoed with QuickFuel 780SS and MSD HEI with 30 degrees total timing
Running with Retrotek Powerjection III
MSD 8360 with 14 degrees initial, 30 degrees total, and 10 degrees vacuum advance connected to full manifold vacuum
1966 Dodge Dart driven by David Mapes during the Sprint Race for Group 2 on Sunday at the 2014 Jefferson 500
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We see this fellow so often on the harbour that I see him as a friend.
Love his expression.
He's just got out of the water to dry out.
Darter Anhinga melanogaster in the mangroves of Bao Bolon Wetland Reserve near Tendaba in Gambia, January 2013.
A female I guess, and possible Common darter? I'm useless with dragons! lol!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
Royal Dart Yacht Club Classic Regatta, 9th July 2016.
Cuilaun a Bermudan Ketch built by McGruer in 1970.
Daisies growing amidst a fragment of architrave decorated with egg and dart patterning, in the ancient ruined city of Didyma, Turkey.
Oriental Darter - Oriental Darter - Азиатская змеешейка
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Sabah, Malaysia, 08/23/2022
Common Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum striolatum). Photographed in Bedfords Park, Romford, London Borough of Havering.
Jap DART 8607 is seen at Pearse after arriving with the 1520 from Bray. Due to engineering work, DART services were not operating north of here, hence the arrival from the south into platform 1.
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DART had an event this morning to educate folks on how to use their new bike racks. They should do this every weekend. I can't tell you how many times I see a DART bus going down the street with an empty bike rack.
I hope to use this in the future as part of my commute to work.
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