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Korimako had become locally extinct in the Wellington region until their reintroduction to the predator-proof Zealandia karori Wildlife Sanctuary where they are now frequently seen and their exquisite bell-like calls heard throughout the forest.
Korimako is a passerine bird endemic to New Zealand. It has greenish coloration and is the only living member of the genus Anthornis. The bellbird forms a significant component of the famed New Zealand dawn chorus of bird song that was much noted by early European settlers. It has a bell-like song which is sometimes confused with that of the Tui. The species is common across much of New Zealand and its offshore islands as well as the Auckland Islands. The Māori language name is Korimako. The bellbird is found throughout both the main islands of New Zealand apart from the north of the North Island. Its population and distribution had been seriously affected by the introduction of European-style farming, which has led to the removal of native forests (the natural habitat of the bellbird). Another important factor is the introduction of predatory species such as cats, weasels, stoats, ferrets, rats and food-robbing species like wasps. Predators either eat the birds or consume eggs, while food robbers compete with the bellbird for its natural food sources of nectar, honeydew and insects. The decline occurred around the same time as many other New Zealand species, but for unknown reasons was reversed and the species is still common across much of New Zealand (Bartle & Sagar 1987).
Ice Age: The Lost Kingdom was at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Westbourne Road in Edgbaston from the 6th to the 28th April 2019. They kept sending me emails for 20% off, but then got one for 40% off early bird for the opening weekend, and that convinced me to go!
Similar to the 2017 event with dinosaurs, but with extinct animals from the ice age.
Features giant life sized animated beasts with sound effects.
Anisodon Grande
Skull of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis at Dinosaurland, Dorset.
Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis Xu et al. 2000
Hypsilophodontidae
Ornithischia
Extinction Rebellion protest and civil disobedience Saturday 9 December, in front of Flinders street station. Myself and my two dogs, Chihuahuas Juliet and Indiana Jones were arrested, details given, with a fine expected. 74 other people were arrested.
I Provide a statement of reasons why I participated with my dogs in this climate civil disobedience in Melbourne.
Bear Lodge Butte, known more commonly as Devil's Tower, is the core of an extinct ancient volcano, and is sacred to the many indigenous tribes of the surrounding region, who have revered it as a sacred site for millennia. The butte stands 867 feet (264 meters) tall, and rises 1,267 feet (386 meters) atop a stone outcrop above the adjacent Belle Fourche River. The butte became a National Monument in 1906, owing to its significance as a natural geologic formation, but unfortunately, this did not include the similar, though less eroded, Missouri Buttes to the northwest.
The butte is a dramatic rock formation that rises out of the surrounding landscape and is visible from miles away. Surrounded by a bluff made of sedimentary rock, the butte towers over the grassy lowlands along the Belle Fourche River, today home to wildlife, including a colony of prairie dogs. The butte stands out among the surrounding lowlands, being visible from roadways miles away, enticing tourists to stop at pull-outs to take photos and marvel at the majesty of the butte.
The butte is known to the local indigenous tribes as the "Bear's House" or "Bear Lodge," but was given the name "Devil's Tower" by a European-American visitor to the area, who misinterpreted the indigenous names of the butte. There have been ongoing efforts since the early 21st Century to change the name back to "Bear Lodge," but these have been opposed by government officials due to fears of decreased tourism.
Flightless
- extinct -
Subfossil. Note: Only three Apteribis types comprise
this genus. | Threskiornithidae: Apteribis brevis; | A. glenos & A. sp.*
1.) Upper Maui
2.) Lower Maui
3.) Molokai
and Hawai`i
* Un-yet classified.
B. P. Bishop
Museum
Fossil of Compsognathus longipes at Oxford Museum of Natural History.
Compsognathus longipes Wagner, 1859
Compsognathidae
Saurischia
Skull of steppe wisent, or bison, at Natural History Museum, London.
Bison priscus Bojanus, 1827
Bovidae
Cetartiodactyla
Gallirallus owstoni.
This small bird is extinct in the wild. Extirpated from its native island of Guam by the introduced predatory Brown Tree Snake, it now exists only in captivity in Guam and in 15 U.S. zoos. There are less than 200 on the planet.
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
The horse family has lived in North America for about 50 million years. Beginning with an ancestor only two feet tall, horses have increased in size and diversity throughout their long history. They migrated to Europe, Asia and Africa before becoming extinct in the New World at the end of the Pleistocene. The wild mustangs found in the west today are descendants of modern horses brought to the New World by the early Spanish conquistadors.
Early morning on Kohala Mountain Road, south towards Mauna Loa and Hualalai, Big Island - 2008 May 20
Skull of extinct koala lemur at Galerie de Paleontologie, Paris.
Megaladapis Forsyth Major, 1894
Lepilemuridae
Primates
Walkign across the parking lot today, my son asked what this sign meant. And suddenly it hit me - I'd been overlooking this particular object for my "endangered species" series. I'm certain this store no longer actually offers this service, so I explained film vs. digital to the kids and took this for today's shot (as well as use in my endangered species project).