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This WHITE-TAILED KITE was rendered almost extinct in the 1930s and 1940s by shooting and egg-collecting, but they are now again common in California....They are also found in Southern Texas,on the Baja California peninsula, and in eastern Mexico.(Wikipedia)
Images captured in Elkhorn Slough National Reserve and Los Banos Wildlife Area, California respectively.Thanks to Flickr member Mr. Bob Lewis who led me directly to this bird. www.flickr.com/photos/boblewis/
Interesting facts: Avg size is 14 inches(35 cm). This medium sized raptor feeds mainly on rodents.
I was driving through rural Nevada and saw this huge watering machine in a field by the side of the road. I never saw anything like this before having lived in and near cities all my life. It looked like a giant insect, and I took the picture and posted a twisted version of it on Flickr some years back. But I was never really satisfied with that one. This is the actual picture except I added the extinct bird's skeletal head that seemed somehow appropriate (to me).
I knew rhino's were big but I was surprised to actually see how big when I saw my first Rhino at Perth Zoo.
I think what surprised me was they not only were big but long as well.
I started reading about their population numbers and I actually can't believe that this beautiful creature is not only threatened but nearly extinct.
Animal extinct .org . Updated list of extinct species 2030 .
"Environment unfriendly" cows should be immediately destroyed ! Spiders and worms are the best !
A giant sea monster reaches out of Hull Maritime Museum towards East Yorkshire Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 750 - YX09 BKF on service 55 to the Interchange.
Environmental campaigners from across Dorset to protest about the continued extraction of oil in Poole Harbour by Perenco. Daniel Glennon from Extinction Rebellion Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (XR BCP), said that “local groups from Wimborne (XRW), Purbeck (XRP), and Dorchester, Weymouth and Portland (XR DWP), supported the event, demonstrating against the continued high-risk pumping of oil in the harbour.”
An oddity of a consist: power from its fiercest competitor leading CP(KC) 421 and the last active SD90 trailing online, knock down the searchlights atop the iron cantilever at Bartlett together during the end of the first wave of summer power shortages in the wake of the KCS acquisition last year.
Within just 2 weeks last month, news broke that both 3747 and Bartlett somewhat unexpectedly and suddenly reached expiry. Scrap yards in the US acquired contracts in February-March 2024 to strip the remaining stock of SD90MACs in CP's roster for parts. Unfortunately, 3747 wasn't spared this fate, confirmed with a sighting on April 4th of it being actively dissassembled by a scrap yard in Missouri.
On April 16th, at 09:00 am, the site supervisor present on the North Toronto would give the order to all trains on the Subdivision to disregard signalling as crews severed the power assembly across the span of about 30 minutes. The only exception to this was an allegedly battery powered circuit on the ground mast here at Bartlett, which burned for at least another 24 hours. Then the assemblies of each were slowly sawed off and towed by truck to whatever scrap yard they were destined for over the course of about 2 days.
Proximity to the subdivision allowed me to react timely to last-minute heads-ups I got about oddballs such as this, and it still blows my mind how much the scene has changed in 7 months: CP had SD9043MACs active and 4 iron cantilever masts were still around to be shot. Now all have been hit by the torch. See you guys in another 40 years once the CN GEVO fleet also faces scrap?
@ Unité d'Instruction et d'Intervention de la Sécurité Civile n°7 de Brignoles - Journée portes ouvertes - Démonstration d'extinction d'un feu de forêt
With the demise of former PA103 the Western SMT examples of the Volvo Ailsa are now extinct.
Western bought 10 mark one examples 2689-2698 and twenty four mark 2 versions 90-113 and seen here are examples from each batch taken when the W registered batch were fairly new and several were allocated to Johnstone depot for service to Glasgow.
By contrast mark 1 PA2695 sports P codes for services in the Paisley area and the main service to Foxbar when both were caught by the camera of Stewart J Brown at Paisley Abbey.
Back then Paisley had a department store Arnotts and you could buy coats in Western SMT moquette as modelled bythe lady on the right. Wonderfully detailed pic bought by me with copyright from Stewart.
What is effectively a 613 feet high extinct volcano sits just outside North Berwick on the southern side of the Firth of Forth, and acts as a landmark that can be seen for many miles around. The conical hill known as North Berwick Law rises conspicuously from the surrounding landscape. The Lowland Scots word "law" means conical hill.
Geologically, the law is a volcanic plug of hard phonolitic trachyte rock of Carboniferous (Dinantian) age and was formed over 320 million years ago when this region was subjected to considerable volcanic activity. It has survived the scraping glaciers of the ice age. It is a crag and tail with a prominent tail extending eastwards.
The summit bears remnants of an Iron Age hill fort, and the ruins of later military buildings that were once used by lookouts in both the Napoleonic Wars and in World War II. A whale's jawbone has stood on the top of the law since 1709, the last one having been there since 1933. However, it eventually rotted away and was replaced by a fibreglass replica airlifted into place in 2008. This gave North Berwick Law back its famous landmark.
The Bundaberg Hummock, also referred to as The Hummock, is an extinct volcano remnant situated in the locality of Qunaba east of Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. Its official (but rarely used) name is Sloping Hummock. The summit of the hill holds a memorial to Bert Hinkler
From the deck of HMS Norfolk, Lieutenant Matthew Flinders took a bearing on a small volcanic outcrop. Flinders was surveying the waters between Great Sandy Island (Fraser Island) and the mainland. He named the outcrop the Sloping Hummock during his 1799 visit.
In 1930, the Bundaberg branch of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) acquired the land at the top of the Hummock in order to create a park for motoring tourists to enjoy the views. The park was officially opened on 17 October 1931.
On 14 August 1937, the President of the RACQ unveiled a memorial to the Bundaberg-born aviator Bert Hinkler on the top of the Hummock.
Geography
Qunaba is predominantly farming land, much of it used to grow sugarcane. It is mostly flat land with the exception of the Hummock which provides excellent views over the surrounding flat farmlands. The fertility of the area is due to the volcanic soil from previous eruptions of the Hummock, which also left the local area scattered with volcanic rocks.
Today I bring you something a little different! Here we have the now extinct in Ontario the Coalasaurus Rex. This monster had the ability to consume huge amounts of coal & it's excrement was used to literally power the province! A few years ago it was mandated that the burning of Coalasaurus Rex's excrement was having a negative impact on air quality so it was mandated that we look for alternative sources of energy to power the province. Soon after the Coalasaurus died off as it food supply dwindled. Now only the skeletal remains of this monster remain.
Ink and ecoline ink on paper. A Currach is a near Extinct type of boat from Ireland, made from wicker covered with hide. St. Brendan supposedly traveled to Iceland 'and beyond' in one of these.
© David K. Edwards. I am certain that this screams "Jurassic!" at you. And during those millions of years, it was attacked by Fractalius.
their scientists were more advanced than ours :-) Unknown
Cathedral Rock, sedona, arizona
i was scheduled to visit the grand canyon at sunset on the evening i took this shot, but the trip was cancelled due to tornado warnings. i guess it worked out ok, because otherwise i would not have had the opportunity to witness this :-)
This gazelle is almost extinct in the wild due to excessive hunting. The osiris subspecies, also known as neglecta, survived thanks to the fact that in 1972 the Experimental Station of Arid Zones of Almeria, under CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), started its captive breeding program and other projects aimed to reintroduce it to its habitat.
It is adapted to deserts, where the only available water is obtained through vegetables, mainly acacia leaves.
Extinct volcano Karadag - one of the oldest on the planet (closed territory of the Karadag nature reserve).
Crimea / Ukraine / Black Sea.
(3727) DWL96 YR06HNT seen at Edgware working on route 288 towards Queensbury.
No longer appears in London, thus was taken on it's final day of service.
View the complete "card book" at www.networkosaka.com/content/projects/extinct/
56k warning... LOTS of images :-P
Hope you guys like it! :-)
PS: Credit where credit is due, the A-Z concept was inspired by Jeremy Pettis' 26 Animals project
Back to my visit to the ROM last Monday. (4 of 7)
"The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year, making the ROM the most-visited museum in Canada"
" The Royal Ontario Museum acknowledges that this museum sits on what has been the ancestral lands of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Anishinabek Nation, including the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, since time immemorial to today."
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CSX L810 is southbound at Ladds, Georgia, crossing Burnt Hickory Road with a nearly extinct YN2 Geep. October 16, 2023
Unfortunately the 358 and its somewhat unique Mercedes Citaros suffered considerably as a result of the fire. However, their replacement certainly isn't boring and is in the form of Scania OmniCity single deckers from the 293, which have just about escaped withdrawal and avoided becoming extinct within London. The 358 used to have its own batch of these vehicles, so they fit in nicely at Orpington (MB) garage.
This animal was considered extinct for 50 years, until it was rediscovered in the cloudforest of Ecuador in 2005. Afterwards, it has been observed not very frequently, but enoughh to conduct some research. Even though, a whole pletora of sensationalistic titles (rediscovery, reborn from extinction) spread on the news when in 2010 a team of the ecuadorian herpetological company "Tropical Herping" finally succeeded in finding the species in the wild. You can learn a few things about this in this link.
www.anoleannals.org/2013/10/11/the-rediscovery-of-anolis-...