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Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
Bush Dogs are so rare that they were thought to be extinct when first discovered through fossils. The Bush Dog is the only living species in the genus Speothos, and genetic evidence suggests that its closest living relative is the Maned Wolf of central South America. In spite of its extensive range across Central and South America, the Bush Dog is very rare in most areas except in Suriname, Guyana and Peru.
The Bush Dog was first identified by Peter Wilhelm Lund from fossils in Brazilian caves and was believed to be extinct. Lund was a Danish paleontologist, zoologist, archeologist who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as well as archeology.
An old volcano on the Peninsula. Maori name Hereweka, also called Harbour Cone. Our whole harbour is a volcano crater, extinct since 10 million years ago. It was active for about 6 million years before that. Thinking of people in the Canary Islands about 100 km west of Morocco just now.
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Extinct in the UK by the end of the 19th century due to habitat loss and persecution, occasional nesting pairs returned to eastern England during the 1970’s. Numbers have increased steadily since then . Many birds now overwinter and quite large roosts can be seen in some areas, especially in eastern England. The recent roost counts locally have found as many as 20 birds roosting in one spot . It is estimated that 350 to 390 pairs bred in the UK last year
Yes...Extinct in the Wild. Simandoa Cave Roach, a harmless insect that lived a symbiotic relationship with bats. Miners tore down the cave - and the only specimens we have left are captive bred.
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Zur Blauen Stunde sahen wir bei starkem Wind und Schneetreiben auch Rentiere. War das eine wunderbare Begegnung mit diesen friedvollen Tieren.
At blue hour we saw reindeer with strong wind and blowing snow. It was a wonderful encounter with these peaceful animals.
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Rentier (Rangifer tarandus) - reindeer
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The whole story and more images can be found here - Die ganze Geschichte und noch mehr Bilder gibt es hier:
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Rentier (Rangifer tarandus)
Das Ren (gesprochen [ʀeːn] auch [rɛn], fachsprachliche Mehrzahl Rener) oder Rentier (Rangifer tarandus), vormals Renntier, ist eine Säugetierart aus der Familie der Hirsche (Cervidae). Es lebt zirkumpolar im Sommer in den Tundren und im Winter in der Taiga Nordeurasiens und Nordamerikas sowie auf Grönland und anderen arktischen Inseln. Es ist die einzige Hirschart, die domestiziert wurde.
Die nordamerikanischen Vertreter der Rentiere werden als caribou (auf Deutsch Karibu geschrieben) bezeichnet, ein Wort aus der Sprache der Mi’kmaq-Indianer.
Reindeer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer
The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou in North America,[3] is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.[2] This includes both sedentary and migratory populations. Rangifer herd size varies greatly in different geographic regions. The Taimyr herd of migrating Siberian tundra reindeer (R. t. sibiricus) in Russia is the largest wild reindeer herd in the world,[4][5] varying between 400,000 and 1,000,000. What was once the second largest herd is the migratory boreal woodland caribou (R. t. caribou) George River herd in Canada, with former variations between 28,000 and 385,000. As of January 2018, there are fewer than 9,000 animals estimated to be left in the George River herd, as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[6] The New York Times reported in April 2018 of the disappearance of the only herd of southern mountain caribou in the lower 48 states, with an expert calling it "functionally extinct" after the herd's size dwindled to a mere three animals.
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Norwegen / Norway - Tromsö / Tromsø
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms%C3%B8
Tromsø ist mit 76.649 Einwohnern (Stand 1. Januar 2019) die achtgrößte Stadt Norwegens und die größte Stadt im Norden des Landes. Die Provinzverwaltung der Fylke Troms og Finnmark hat hier ebenso ihren Sitz wie der Arktische Rat.[2]
Der wichtigste Arbeitgeber ist das Universitätsklinikum in Nord-Norwegen (UNN) mit etwa 4.500 Angestellten. In Tromsø befinden sich eine Universität, die Norwegische Fischereihochschule, das Klima- und Umweltforschungszentrum Framsenteret und die Mack-Brauerei.
Geographie
Tromsø liegt 344 km Luftlinie nördlich des Polarkreises. Dies entspricht der geographischen Breite von Nord-Alaska. Tromsø beheimatet nicht nur die nördlichste Universität, sondern auch die nördlichste Kathedrale der Welt.
Tromsø ist mit einem administrativen Stadtgebiet von 2.558 km² (davon 1.434 km² auf dem Festland und 1.124 km² auf mehreren Inseln vor der Küste) die flächengrößte Stadt Norwegens.
Die Universität, der Flughafen und das Zentrum befinden sich auf der Insel Tromsøya. Zudem machen Schiffe auf der Hurtigruten im Hafen von Tromsø (UN/LOCODE NO TOS) Station.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms%C3%B8
Tromsø is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.
Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The 2,521-square-kilometre (973 sq mi) municipality is the 18th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Tromsø is the 9th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 71,590 (2014). The municipality's population density is 30.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (79/sq mi) and its population has increased by 15.9% over the last decade.[6][7] It is the largest urban area in Northern Norway and the third largest north of the Arctic Circle anywhere in the world (following Murmansk and Norilsk). Most of Tromsø, including the city centre, is located on the island of Tromsøya, 350 kilometres (217 mi) north of the Arctic Circle. In 2017, the city of Tromsø had a population of about 65,000 people spread out over Tromsøya and parts of Kvaløya and the mainland. Tromsøya is connected to the mainland by the Tromsø Bridge and the Tromsøysund Tunnel, and to the island of Kvaløya by the Sandnessund Bridge.
The municipality is warmer than most other places located on the same latitude, due to the warming effect of the Gulf Stream. Tromsø is even milder than places much farther south of it elsewhere in the world, such as on the Hudson Bay and in Far East Russia, with the warm-water current allowing for both relatively mild winters and tree growth in spite of its very high latitude.
The city centre of Tromsø contains the highest number of old wooden houses in Northern Norway, the oldest house dating from 1789. The city is a cultural centre for its region, with several festivals taking place in the summer. Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge of the electronica duo Röyksopp and Lene Marlin grew up and started their careers in Tromsø. Noted electronic musician Geir Jenssen also hails from Tromsø.
Some of the moai found around the island have these large, red pieces on their heads. Despite what they look like, these aren’t hats, but are rather the hair styles (top knots) of those particular people represented by the statues.
Called ‘pukaos’, these large rocks were carved at the Puna Pau quarry out of red scoria, and are different to the rest of the stone you can find around the island.
A trip to Puna Pau allowed me to look into the quarry, as well as saw a number of pukao that never made it to their final destination.
I was trying to get shots of a kingfisher when suddenly a troop of gibbons came overhead including this mother with an infant clinging to her. I managed to get one good shot (very debatable) of them as they quickly went by.
Wikipedia: The lar gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the white-handed gibbon, is an endangered primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. It is one of the better-known gibbons and is often kept in captivity.
Lar gibbons have the greatest north-south range of any of the gibbon species. They are found in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. Their range historically extended from southwest China to Thailand and Burma south to the whole Malay Peninsula in primary and secondary tropical rain forests. It is also present in the northwest portion of the island of Sumatra. In recent decades, especially, the continental range has been reduced and fragmented. Lar gibbons are likely extinct in China, but if they still exist, they would only be found in southwest Yunnan, their former range.
Conservation status: Endangered
Many Galapagos tortoises are already extinct, thanks to man's greed. But some species are still hanging on at some of the larger islands and some few are being raised at the Darwin Research station on Santa Cruz and released on their respective home islands.
This pair was carrying on with reproduction when they got rudely interrupted by a bunch of shutterbug tourists. I think we've been spotted...get off me, ya big lummox.
Interesting information about this bird: dino.wikia.org/wiki/Dodo
He can be seen in SL here: Savor Serenity, River Hill
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Taken from the summit of Puy de Dôme in the volcanic region of Auvergne, France.
Pentax KP, 85mm, f/9.0. 1/320 sec, ISO 200. Have learnt how to do borders in Lightroom but you lose the EXIF info.
A view of the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Head Lighthouse from the top of the extinct Diamond Head Volcano. #Hawaii #PacificOcean. #DiamondHeadLighthouse #DiamondHeadStatePark #MountLeahi #coastline #Oahu #O'ahu #lighthouse #phare #Leuchtturm #fyr
"Mount Franklin is an extinct volcano. It was known as Lalgambook by the local Jajowurrong people. In 1841 Sir John Franklin, Lieut-Governor of Van Dieman's Land, modestly named the mountain after himself."
E.S. Parker established the Jim Crow Aboriginal Station at Mount Franklin. In 1852 diggings were discovered that took the same name; the following year the Dry Diggings were discovered. The district soon developed as a gold-mining centre."
The picturesque town of Stanley (population 553), sits below the amazing prominence known as "The Nut". This is in fact the plug of an extinct volcano that rises 143 metres above sea level. Stanley is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Tasmania (when tourism is operating!). In the distance at the far right you can make out the huge jetty of Port Latta and the smelter, with the hills of Rocky Cape. In 2016 Stanley was converted to a film set for the historic movie, "Light Between Oceans".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley,_Tasmania
We'll return to Stanley in a week or so.
Like a prehistoric beast, it waits in a field for another chance. Rusty and forlorn; the last of its kind.
An extinct speces Urania sloanus, or Sloane's urania, was a species of moth of the family Uraniidae endemic to Jamaica. It was last reported in 1894 or 1895, but possibly survived until at least 1908. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779.
The specific epithet sloanus honours Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), an English collector whose collection became the foundation of the British Museum.
Not exactly a household brand name, but this is the logo from my old film SLR, a mid seventies classic!
HMM!
Mkinvartsveri is an extinct volcano whose last eruption is supposed to have happened in the Middle Pleistocene, sometime between 2,580,000 and 11,700 years ago.
A number of glaciers come down from it, including Suatisi, Mna, Ortsveri, and Devdaraki. The fastest river in Georgia, the Tergi, has its source there as well.
Kazbegi is especially attractive for mountaineers and rock climbers, but you don’t have to be a professional athlete to get to it's top. What you do need is good physical preparedness, a well-chosen time, the right equipment and most of all - a professional guide.
There are two classic routes climbing up to the top of Kazbegi and the best time for ascending is from the second half of summer to the middle of September, when the snow cover is less and the weather is mostly sunny.
Once you have reached the peak, standing above the clouds in an infinite expanse, you will gaze out over a breathtaking view that will make all of the sweat and aches worth it.
Been through National Park lots of times but don't often get to see these extinct volcanos very often as the weather is usually bad but this day you could just see them just!
This is the crater of Mt Eden, the volcano overlooking the beautiful city of Auckland. Obviously there hasn't been much volcanic activity in recent years.
La nuit est belle,
Jeudi 26 Septembre 2019
Extinction de l'éclairage public des communes du Grand Genève. #lanuitestbelle
Already extinct in the second half of the 14th century in New Zealand. Within 5 years the Polynesians hunted them down.
Bereits in der 2. Hälfte des 14. Jhrh. in Neuseeland von den Polynesiern in Neu Zealand ausgerottet.
First identified from dinosaur-age fossils. it was thought to be extinct. The dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides.
Then in 1941 a living specimen was discovered during a survey of Sichuan and Hubei provinces, China. Seeds were later collected and raised in arboreta worldwide. Specimens are now widely available for planting. In the wild it exists in only a few scattered stands in China where it is has protected status.
The dawn redwood is one of the few deciduous conifers.
Phone image, went out without a camera! Sandringham House garden, Norfolk.
First identified from dinosaur-age fossils and was thought to be extinct. The dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides.
Then, in 1941, a living specimen was discovered during a survey of Sichuan and Hubei provinces, China. Seeds were later collected and raised in arboreta worldwide. Young trees are now readily available. It exists in the wild as only a few scattered stands in China where it is has protected status.
This old and tall tree at Sandringham may well have grown from one of the original seeds brought from China.
The dawn redwood is one of the few deciduous conifers.
A dream come true... after several year looking for a wild individual, I finally was able to see and photograph two of them at Serra da Canastra - Minas Gerais. This is a male. More to pictures in due course!
Facts: The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is a large canine of South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay, and is almost extinct in Uruguay. Its markings resemble those of foxes, but it is neither a fox nor a wolf. It is the only species in the genus Chrysocyon (meaning "golden dog").
It is the largest canine in South America, weighing 20–30 kg (44–66 lb) and up to 110 cm (43 in) at the withers. Its long, thin legs and dense reddish coat give it a distinct appearance. The maned wolf is a crepuscular and omnivorous animal adapted to the open environments of the South American savanna, with an important role in the seed dispersal of fruits, especially the wolf apple (Solanum lycocarpum). The maned wolf is a solitary animal. It communicates primarily by scent marking, but also gives a loud call known as "roar-barking". This mammal lives in open and semi-open habitats, especially grasslands with scattered bushes and trees, in the Cerrado of south, central-west, and southeastern Brazil; Paraguay; northern Argentina; and Bolivia east and north of the Andes, and far southeastern Peru (Pampas del Heath only). It is very rare in Uruguay, possibly being displaced completely through loss of habitat. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists it as near threatened, while it is considered a vulnerable species by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maned_wolf
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