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"West Mexican Chachalaca is endemic to the deciduous forests of southwestern Mexico, from Jalisco south to Chiapas. This is one of four species of chachalaca that occur in Mexico, ... The distributions of these species have little distributional overlap, instead the different species replace each other geographically. The biology of West Mexican Chachalaca is similar to that of other species of chachalacas." Neotropical Birds, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Photographed in the wild, Jalisco, Mexico
A cockatoo is any of the 21 parrot species belonging to the family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea (true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (large New Zealand parrots), they make up the order Psittaciformes. The family has a mainly Australasian distribution, ranging from the Philippines and the eastern Indonesian islands of Wallacea to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia. Cockatoos are recognisable by the prominent crests and curved bills. Their plumage is generally less colourful than that of other parrots, being mainly white, grey or black and often with coloured features in the crest, cheeks or tail. On average they are larger than other parrots; however, the cockatiel, the smallest cockatoo species, is a small bird. Cockatoos prefer to eat seeds, tubers, corms, fruit, flowers and insects. They often feed in large flocks, particularly when ground-feeding. Cockatoos are monogamous and nest in tree hollows. Some cockatoo species have been adversely affected by habitat loss, particularly from a shortage of suitable nesting hollows after large mature trees are cleared; conversely, some species have adapted well to human changes and are considered agricultural pests. R_7015
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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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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.
Definitely one of the few times when having the camera to hand has paid off. Driving back from days out in Mid Wales sometimes hands you unexpected gems, be it the odd Buzzard on a post or in a meadow hunting for worms/insects. Seeing a Red Kite land close-by in the field you're approaching is very unusual indeed & something one has to pull over for! Thankfully the traffic was light & there was enough of an opening in the hedgerow to acquire fairly quick AF lock & fire a couple of clicks through the car window before the bird clocked me & flew off.
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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.
The Designer
Matthew Dent, a professional graphic designer, had seen the competition advertised in one of the national newspapers and he threw himself wholeheartedly into the project. As an artist his inspiration comes from many sources and he explored a number of options before finally developing his ideas for an heraldic set. The result is a set of coins firmly rooted in the heraldic traditions of the British coinage yet beautifully contemporary.
In seeking to spread a single design across six denominations, Matthew Dent conceived an idea that has never been realised before on the British coinage. To have the £1 as the unifying coin only emerged towards the end of the design process. Matthew Dent has commented that 'the addition of the £1 coin design to the set was as a way of defining the whole series. A key coin uniting the designs'. Against all the odds, a young artist has won a public competition and devised a stunningly original series that stands as an imaginative and clever solution.
'I felt that the solution to the Royal Mint's brief lay in a united design - united in terms of theme, execution and coverage over the surface of the coins. I wondered about a theme of birds or plants, but also considered buildings and coastal scenery. The issue with this for me lay in their distribution; how to represent the whole of the United Kingdom over six coins. The idea of a landscape appealed to me; perhaps using well-known landscapes from different areas around the United Kingdom which could stretch off the edge of one coin onto another. This seemed like a good solution but I also wanted to look at other options and themes.
I thought the six coins could make up a shield by arranging the coins both horizontally, as with the landscape idea, as well as vertically, in a sort of jigsaw style. I liked the idea and symbolism of using the Royal Arms, where individually the coins could focus on specific elements and when placed together they reveal the complete Royal Arms.
I found the idea that members of the public could interact with the coins the most exciting aspect of this concept. It's easy to imagine the coins pushed around a school classroom table or fumbled around with on a bar - being pieced together as a jigsaw and just having fun with them.'
The pheasant (Phasianus colchicus; plural pheasants or pheasants) is a species of bird in the order Galliformes. As with other pheasants, the rooster stands out with its colorful plumage and its significantly longer tail feathers. Hens show a brownish camouflage coloring. The call of the rooster is a loud, characteristic and often sequenced gö-göck.
The natural range of the pheasant extends from the Black Sea through the dry areas of Central Asia to East Asia. While the numerous Central Asian distribution islands are largely isolated from one another, the East Asian populations in China, Korea and Siberia inhabit a large contiguous area where numerous other subspecies live, some of which mix with one another at the borders of their distribution areas. The Japanese colorful pheasant is also assigned to this species by some authors.
The pheasant was naturalized in Europe, the USA and other parts of the world primarily for hunting purposes, but a stable population can usually only be maintained in the long term through conservation measures and releases. In southern Europe, the species was probably introduced during antiquity as an ornamental bird and for its tasty meat and was kept both wild and in captivity. The Romans probably spread it to Central and Western Europe. Since the early Middle Ages, pheasants have been kept in isolated cases at princely courts and monasteries, and wild stocks or one in large pheasantries have been known since the late Middle Ages or the early modern period.[1] However, many parts of Europe – such as Northern Europe – were not settled until the 19th century. Today the majority of the European stock can be found in Germany, France, Great Britain, Denmark, Hungary and Romania. The birds living here are mostly hybrids of different subspecies, mainly of the torquatus type, whose males show a white neck ring and a gray rump, and the colchicus type, which lacks the neck ring and has red-brown rump plumage.
The pheasant inhabits semi-open landscapes, light forests with undergrowth or wetlands with reeds, which offer good cover and open areas for foraging. In Europe it is often found in the cultural landscape. It feeds mostly on plant food such as seeds and berries, but also likes insects and other small animals. The neozoon pheasant devours large numbers of the neozoon potato beetle, which otherwise eat the leaves of the potato plants as larvae. During the breeding season, a rooster usually lives with one or two hens. The pheasant usually overwinters in the breeding areas. Sometimes in winter it evades over short distances to habitats that offer more cover or food.
Der Fasan (Phasianus colchicus; Plural Fasane oder Fasanen) ist eine Vogelart aus der Ordnung der Hühnervögel. Wie bei anderen Fasanenartigen fällt der Hahn durch sein farbenprächtiges Gefieder und seine deutlich längeren Schwanzfedern auf. Hennen zeigen eine bräunliche Tarnfärbung. Der Ruf des Hahns ist ein lautes, charakteristisches und oft gereihtes gö-göck.
Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet des Fasans reicht vom Schwarzen Meer über die Trockengebiete Mittelasiens bis in den Osten Asiens. Während die zahlreichen zentralasiatischen Verbreitungsinseln größtenteils voneinander isoliert sind, besiedeln die ostasiatischen Populationen in China, Korea und Sibirien ein großes zusammenhängendes Areal, wo zahlreiche weitere Unterarten leben, die sich teils an den Grenzen ihrer Verbreitungsgebiete untereinander mischen. Von einigen Autoren wird auch der japanische Buntfasan dieser Art zugeordnet.
Vor allem zu Jagdzwecken wurde der Fasan in Europa, den USA und anderen Teilen der Welt eingebürgert, ein stabiler Bestand kann sich aber auf Dauer meist nur durch Hegemaßnahmen und Aussetzungen halten. In Südeuropa wurde die Art vermutlich schon während der Antike als Ziervogel und wegen ihres wohlschmeckenden Fleisches eingeführt und sowohl wild als auch in Gefangenschaft gehalten. Die Römer sorgten wahrscheinlich für eine Verbreitung in Mittel- und Westeuropa. Seit dem frühen Mittelalter ist die Fasanenhaltung vereinzelt an Fürstenhöfen und Klöstern belegt, und seit dem ausgehenden Mittelalter oder der frühen Neuzeit ist ein freilebender Bestand oder ein solcher in großen Fasanerien bekannt.[1] Viele Teile Europas – wie beispielsweise Nordeuropa – wurden aber auch erst im 19. Jahrhundert besiedelt. Heute ist der Großteil des europäischen Bestands in den Ländern Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Dänemark, Ungarn und Rumänien zu finden. Die hier lebenden Vögel sind meist Mischformen verschiedener Unterarten, hauptsächlich des torquatus-Typs, dessen Hähne einen weißen Halsring und einen grauen Bürzel zeigen, und des colchicus-Typs, dem der Halsring fehlt und der rotbraunes Bürzelgefieder hat.
Der Fasan besiedelt halboffene Landschaften, lichte Wälder mit Unterwuchs oder schilfbestandene Feuchtgebiete, die ihm gute Deckung und offene Flächen zur Nahrungssuche bieten. In Europa findet man ihn häufig in der Kulturlandschaft. Er ernährt sich zumeist von pflanzlicher Nahrung wie Sämereien und Beeren, gerne auch von Insekten und anderen Kleintieren. So vertilgt das Neozoon Fasan große Mengen des Neozoons Kartoffelkäfer, die sonst als Larven die Blätter der Kartoffelpflanzen kahlfressen. Ein Hahn lebt zur Brutzeit meist mit ein bis zwei Hennen zusammen. Der Fasan überwintert zumeist in den Brutgebieten. Bisweilen weicht er im Winter über kurze Strecken in mehr Deckung oder Nahrung bietende Lebensräume aus.
(Wikipedia)
Seldom seen in daylight this time of year, Ohio Street's second shift workhorse Y233 delivers a single box car (ex-Amtrak) to the Sonwil Distribution Center, off of Ship Canal Pkwy near Tifft.
Sonwil is one of two customers located on "The Lehigh" (the other being CertainTeed), which connects Ohio Street Yard and CP Draw at the north end to Seneca Yard and the South Buffalo Railway to the south. This connection is used daily by CN L531, the daily Canadian transfer train from Port Robinson, ON to South Buffalo, and a few times a week by CSX to either serve their customers or as part of a wye move to turn covered hoppers for General Mills. (Certain hoppers can only be unloaded from one side inside their plant.) The lone box car here is a far cry from the 10 spots available, which have been known to be completely full at times. Neighboring Sonwil to the left is their newly finished Four Square warehouse, which seems to finally have been completed in the last year. However, despite having been laid two and a half years ago, the brand new track alongside the building remains untouched, having yet to see any rail traffic. In fact, directly behind me was a mound of snow covering the start of that track. The lack of any cars here continues to be a puzzling move, following the discontinuation of rail service in September 2023 at their Depew location on the A Industrial, siding in favor of starting up the new warehouse. With locations connected by rail also in Niagara Falls and West Seneca via NS, there's certainly no lack of options for them. Of note, neither of those locations are rail active either, but the infrastructure exists. In the case of Niagara Falls, the track which leads to that location is presently out of service, near the end of the Junction Industrial line downtown. The building Sonwil occupies was formerly part of the Niagara Falls Nabisco plant, whose silos still stand empty today 20+ years since their last usage. Ironically this time last year in January 2024, the West Seneca location was actually looking to reactivate with NS, citing displeasure with delays in switching by CSX at Tifft. NS cleaned the track up and made sure it was in ready condition, but Sonwil never once received a car there either all year long. The West Seneca location was known to previously receive refrigerated box cars. For one reason or another, it's as if Sonwil can't seem to make up their minds on what they want, despite the railroads' willingness to work with them. In the meantime 'ol reliable at Tifft seems to get the job done just fine. To see some more rail traffic generated on their behalf would be a bright spot in a region which continues to lose a couple customers every year.
Vintage power distribution system in the mostly abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base, Wendover, Tooele County, Utah.
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On the Great West Road. Opened in in 1936.its on what is known apparently as the Golden Mile of Art Deco -Syon Lane to Chiswick.
According to my analysis,
the math is over.
No more sad statistics
from the year of fear and loss.
But it meant nothing to you,
you small sum of a bird,
the axiom of my logic.
You were too busy with your own estimates,
with equating your chances
from the coordinates
of a proven sweet solution.
You’ve become a garden constant,
flying square routes and triangles,
adding to the measure of my work.
“Simplify the variables,” you sing,
then, in a fraction of a blur,
you dance the impossible graph of your ardour.