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Curlew - Numenius Arquata
They are one of the most ancient lineages of scolopacid waders, together with the godwits which look similar but have straight bills.
Curlews feed on mud or very soft ground, searching for worms and other invertebrates with their long bills. They will also take crabs and similar items.
Curlews enjoy a worldwide distribution. Most species show strong migratory habits and consequently one or more species can be encountered at different times of the year in Europe, Ireland, Britain, Iberia, Iceland, Africa, Southeast Asia, Siberia, North America, South America and Australasia.
The distribution of curlews has altered considerably in the past hundred years as a result of changing agricultural practices. Reclamation and drainage of marshy fields and moorland, and afforestation of the latter, have led to local decreases, while conversion of forest to grassland in some parts of Scandinavia has led to increases there.
Population:
UK breeding:
66,000 pairs
UK wintering:
140,000 individuals
Opened in 1925 on the west side of Indiana Avenue south of Court Street, this building housed the Gallagher Business School for the next quarter century. The school’s classrooms and office were on the second floor, while the first floor was rented to tenants such as the A.E. Gray Garage and Used Car business.
Opened in 1925 on the west side of Indiana Avenue south of Court Street, this building housed the Gallagher Business School for the next quarter century. The school’s classrooms and office were on the second floor, while the first floor was rented to tenants such as the A.E. Gray Garage and Used Car business.
Atlantic Royal Flycatcher - male - Vulnerable - Royal Flycatcher is very widespread, with a distribution that extends from southern Mexico south to the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern Brazil. Throughout this broad area, Royal Flycatcher inhabits the lower levels of humid evergreen or deciduous forests, although it also ranges into mature second growth, and edges. Royal Flycatcher exhibits notable geographic variation across this range, and so some authors recognize as many as four species of royal flycatcher: a northern species that occurs from Mexico to northern Colombia and northern Venezuela; a Pacific species (occidentalis) that is restricted to southwestern Ecuador and adjacent Peru; an Amazonian species, which is widespread in northern and central South America east of the Andes; and an Atlantic species (swainsoni), that occurs only in southeastern Brazil. Two of these populations, occidentalis and swainsoni, are potentially at risk of extinction. All of these taxa are flycatchers with a long bill and tail; the plumage is mostly brown, with a rufous or ochraceous tail. The most notable feature of Royal Flycatcher is the long ornate crest, which is red to orange (paler in females), with black and blue spotting. This crest usually is recumbent, giving the flycatcher a distinctive "hammerhead" appearance. When fully erect, however, the crest also is flared laterally; although it is rare to see the crest erected in a free flying Royal Flycatcher, these birds are well known for fanning the crest when held in the hand, while rhythmicaly swaying the head from side to side. The nest of Royal Flycatcher is a very long, sack like structure suspended from a slender branch or vine, and frequently is placed over a stream (or a small clearing) in the forest. Birds of The World.
The Atlantic Royal Flycatcher raises its fan very rarely. It took me more than 3 hours observing this individual to get this photo. I can say it was my Christmas gift.
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Black-fronted Dotterel
Scientific Name: Elseyornis melanops
Description: The Black-fronted Dotterel is a small wader with a distinctive black face-mask and breast-band and prominent chestnut scapulars (shoulder feathers). In juveniles, the breast-band is initially absent but a brown band slowly appears as the bird develops. Legs are pink orange, and the bill is red with a black tip. The dark eye is ringed with red. In flight the wings look broad and the tail short, while the black and white contrast is striking. Flight is slow with almost hesitant wing beats. This species is also called the Black-fronted Plover.
Similar species: The adult and immature Black-fronted Dotterel are unmistakable, though the juvenile could be confused with the juvenile and immature Red-capped Plover.
Distribution: The Black-fronted Dotterel is widespread throughout Australasia.
Habitat: The Black-fronted Dotterel is found in the shallow margins of wetlands, lakes, rivers, sewage farms, storm drains and marshes. It is normally always near freshwater and is not often seen on the coast.
Seasonal movements: Breeding resident.
Feeding: The Black-fronted Dotterel eats small molluscs as well as aquatic and terrestrial insects. When it forages, it keeps its body horizontal while bobbing its head to look for food, often running then stopping suddenly to peck at food items.
Breeding: The Black-fronted Dotterel lays its eggs in a shallow scrape, often on pebbly ground and quite close to water. It may have more then one brood per year. Both parents incubate the eggs and look after the young.
Calls: Sharp 'tip' call, singular or repeated three or four times.
Minimum Size: 16cm
Maximum Size: 18cm
Average size: 17cm
Average weight: 32g
Breeding season: September to February
Clutch Size: 2 to 3 eggs
Incubation: 27 days
Nestling Period: 25 days
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Barrens regelia is a shrub in the myrtle family with velvety leaves and clusters of brilliant red to orange flowers on the ends of its branches. It has a very localised distribution mainly around East Mount Barren in Fitzgerald River National Park on the south coast of Western Australia. florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/6016
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Distribution: Southern South America, in parts of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia.
Also known as tricolor hognose snake, banded hognose snake, culebra falsa, and false coral snake.
Adult tricolor hognoses usually average about 2 ft in length, with females usually slightly larger than males. They are more stout than a corn snake of similar length, but more slender than North American hognose snakes of the genus Heterodon. Due to their resemblance to North American hognose snakes, sometimes this species is mistaken for a unique morph of Heterodon nasicus.
Habitat: This region is a dry, sandy environment on the eastern foothills of the Andes, characterized by dry scrubland, grasslands, and savannahs.
Diet: They are typically found near streams, as their diet consists mainly of amphibians (similar to other hognose snakes).
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I remembered 80-20 rule. For example:
80% of a company's sales come from 20% of its products.
80% of a company's sales are made by 20% of its sales staff.
The same can be said of flickr photostream.
80% of photo view count come from 20% of its photos.
Therefore, economists claim many businesses have an easy access to improvements by focusing on the most effective areas and eliminating the rest.
But when it comes to photography, this way of thinking seems to lack artistic depth and interestingness.
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This is my 500th flickr upload.
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Masdevallia geminiflora, espêce á l'odeur de banane très mûre attirant ici un moucheron. Floraison in situ, département du Valle del Cauca, Colombie. Distribution: Colombie et Equateur de 650 á 1800 m anm.
Masdevallia geminiflora, especie con fragancia a banano muy maduro atrayendo acá una mosquita. Foración in situ, departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Distribución: Colombia y Ecuador desde 650 hasta 1800 m snm.
The common tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America.
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 several similar species, including the partly sympatric Arctic tern, which can be separated on plumage details, leg and bill colour, or vocalisations.
The nominate subspecies of the common tern is 31–35 cm (12–14 in) long, including a 6–9 cm (2.4–3.5 in) fork in the tail, with a 77–98 cm (30–39 in) wingspan. It weighs 110–141 g (3.9–5.0 oz). Breeding adults have pale grey upperparts, very pale grey underparts, a black cap, orange-red legs, and a narrow pointed bill that can be mostly red with a black tip, or all black, depending on the subspecies.
The common tern's upper wings are pale grey, but as the summer wears on, the dark feather shafts of the outer flight feathers become exposed, and a grey wedge appears on the wings. The rump and tail are white, and on a standing bird the long tail extends no further than the folded wingtips, unlike the Arctic and roseate terns in which the tail protrudes beyond the wings. There are no significant differences between the sexes.
In non-breeding adults, the forehead and underparts become white, the bill is all black or black with a red base, and the legs are dark red or black. The upper wings have an obvious dark area at the front edge of the wing, the carpal bar. Terns that have not bred successfully may moult into non-breeding adult plumage beginning in June, though late July is more typical, with the moult suspended during migration. There is also some geographical variation; Californian birds are often in non-breeding plumage during migration.
Juvenile common terns have pale grey upper wings with a dark carpal bar. The crown and nape are brown, and the forehead is ginger, wearing to white by autumn. The upper parts are ginger with brown and white scaling, and the tail lacks the adult's long outer feathers.
Birds in their first post-juvenile plumage, which normally remain in their wintering areas, resemble the non-breeding adult, but have a duskier crown, dark carpal bar, and often very worn plumage. By their second year, most young terns are either indistinguishable from adults, or show only minor differences such as a darker bill or white forehead.
The common tern is an agile flyer, capable of rapid turns and swoops, hovering, and vertical take-off. When commuting with fish, it flies close to the surface in a strong head wind, but 10–30 m (33–98 ft) above the water in a following wind.
Unless migrating, normally it stays below 100 m (330 ft), and averages 30 km/h (19 mph) in the absence of a tail wind.[5] Its average flight speed during the nocturnal migration flight is 43–54 km/h (27–34 mph)[22] at a height of 1,000–3,000 m (3,300–9,800 ft)
This image was taken at RSPB Belfast Lough in Northern Ireland.
King Eiders are true Arctic birds, breeding on northernmost tundra around the globe. But there is a gap in their distribution around Iceland and Norway where the Gulf Stream makes the waters too warm for them. They also winter around the edge of the pack ice, though occasionally lost birds wander to Britain where they often remain for years. Because they breed so far north they have to fit their breeding cycle into a couple of months between the spring thaw and the onset of winter. The males are present in good numbers on Svalbard in May but by the end of June most have disappeared as they play no part in incubation and chick-rearing. They gather in huge, all-male flocks to moult in remote areas, though very few have been discovered. The few males that do remain are incredibly skittish and it has taken me many years to manage a close photo of a full breeding plumaged male. The vagrants in Britain usually associate with Common Eider which are more confiding, which seems to make these King Eiders more approachable than usual. Most of the really close photos in Europe come from submerged photographic hides in northern Norway. This was taken near the Lilliehöökbreen glacier in northern Svalbard where we found about eight King Eiders.
Chrysolina graminis
In the United Kingdom it is designated as 'Nationally Rare'. UK distribution was thought to be restricted to the River Ouse in York but the species was rediscovered in the East Anglian Fens in 2014. The tansy beetle doesn’t travel far through its lifecycle and despite the presence of wings it rarely flies.
7.7–10.5 mm in length
Not the best of macros due to its position beneath a tansy flower head restricting distribution of light, also hand held. Nevertheless posted it due to its rarity nationally. Hope to get one in the open on the tansy flower head next time.
My personal favourite from the 'Voodoo' sequence.
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Riverbend Business Park,
Big bend, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada,
“the primary Amazon distribution facility in Western Canada.”
Sand lizard in breeding colours emerging from its burrow to bask in the watery sun. Anything better than nothing I'm guessing. Wide distribution over Europe and over to furthest Russia but not so common in the UK. Lacerta agilis
The red-crowned woodpecker has a rather restricted distribution, from Costa Rica in the north to Surinam in the southeast. Curiously, Tobago is the only Caribbean island on which it is found. It is absent from Trinidad but unlikely to have been an introduction on Tobago. The female lacks the red crown.
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Vintage power distribution system in the mostly abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base, Wendover, Tooele County, Utah.
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Saw this beautiful starling flying around a local park in Kuala Lumpur. Possibly an escapee from a nearby bird park. Got a lucky break when it finally perched.
The superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus) is a member of the starling family of birds. It was formerly known as Spreo superbus. This species is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long.
Description: These small short-tailed starlings have a long narrow bill, robust bodies, strong feet and a distinctive plumage pattern. Adults have black heads and iridescent blue-to-green back, upper breast, wings, and tail. The belly is red-orange, separated from the blue breast by a white bar. The undertail coverts and the wing linings are white
Distribution: East Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, and Tanzania)
Location found: Kuala Lumpur (escapee)
Diet: Insects (grasshoppers, beetles, termites, ants and flies) and worms, but also on grains, fruits and small berries.
Calls: A variety of scolds and squeals.