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Meerkat / ZOOM Zoo / Gelsenkirchen / North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
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Alpine Chough / Alpendohle (Pyrrhocorax graculus)
My first sighting of the awesome Alpine Chough! This was one of a pair that I was pleasantly surprised to see hanging out for a few minutes on the rooftop of the solitary "Grubighütte", situated ~1800m up the at the top of the Grubigstein mountain - just next to the famous 3000m Zugspitze.
Other than their chosen environment, they can be told from other crows by their red legs and slim, downturned bills.
Alpine Choughs are high mountain experts, and are thought to nest at a higher altitude than any other bird. Their eggs are adapted to the thin atmospheres, enabling improved oxygen uptake and reduced water loss. (Wiki)
An F/A-18F from VFA-122 Flying Eagles (radio callsign EXPERT) returns to NAF El Centro after a training mission over the nearby ranges.
A white stork efficiently dispatching an eel - apparently their favourite food - on the Ria Formosa at Ludo. The eel was found, killed and swallowed in well under a minute.
I was fooled when I first saw this, thinking it was a real dragonfly.
(Dedicated to my old E-410 ... a great introduction to Olympus cameras).
As a catcher of flies no bird does it better than the spotted flycatcher! This one from a few years ago performed beautifully for the camera as it worked hard to feed it’s nearby young.
I'll readily admit I thought this might be a fragment of fossil wood. However, it has been re-identified by a well-known local expert as the fragment of an Ichthyosaurus rib bone. The specimen is approx 1 3/4" / 4cms long.
Here is Wiki's short version simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosaurus