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At Tangen in Kristiansand, a new district with 43,000 m2 of housing and 33,000 m2 of business / school is under development. The area is close to the center, surrounded by water, with Otra to the east and the sea to the south and west.
The stench from the construction pit on Tangen stings in the nose. The half-rotten, penetrating smell is a testimony to the sins of the past.
- "We pull it on Tangen", was the tone of the review in my childhood. Should one get rid of something, it was just a matter of pulling it on Tangen, says Harald Sødal (born 1938).
Many have slipped out after dark and thrown away old bicycles and refrigerators and things that were no longer usable. This is how the landfill grew imperceptibly on Tangen from year to year.
The seaweed quickly became the industrial area of Kristiansand, and the filling started with the brickworks operation from 1783. The plant was built on a bulwark partly on land, partly on the skerries outside, which was so shallow that the hired workers from Flensburg in Germany could wade over. The area between the skerries and land was eventually filled with brick and sand.
Tangen housed many businesses, such as windmills and pottery, and has always been an area for military activities. In 1657, a block house with ten cannons was built, hence the name Blokkhusgata, and shipbuilding continued at "Kongens Værft" in the extension of Østre Strandgate. In more modern times, Sørlandet's first seaport with seaplanes was established on the marine site, where Aquarama is located today.
In 1855 came the biggest polluter of them all, the gas plant, which has left quantities of heavy metals in the ground where the KEV building was erected after the gas power plant was shut down in 1957.
Tangen was never intended as a residential area, even though it became the residence of the workers at the various workplaces. In the census from 1801, there were seven residential houses on Tangen, which accommodated a total of 60 people; potters, stonemasons, sawmills, sailors and bricklayers with wives, children, lodgers and servants. As a curiosity, we can mention that of the nine married women on Tangen in 1801, five were older than their husbands, two of them were 11 years older.
The name Lortetangen arose partly as a result of Kvadraturen literally swimming in feces. The "night man" was called the dot timber, the one who emptied the city's dowries and drove the trickling, smelly contents to piers along the sea by horse and leaky cart. One of the piers was on Tangen, where today's Tangen upper secondary school is located. From the pier, the urine was drained into the river, while the solid contents were left behind and sold as fertilizer to farmers on Tveit, who collected it in open shacks.
Trogón de la Española (Re-Edited)
English below..
Papagayo o Trogón de la Española, Cotorrita de Sierra, Piragua, Surucuá dominicano, Kalson Wouj / Hispaniolan Trogon (Priotelus roseigaster )(Temnotrogon roseigaster)
Orden:Trogoniformes
Familia:Trogonidae
Género:Priotelus
Nombre común: Trogon, papagayo, cotorrita de Sierra, Piragua macho
Nombre científico: Priotelus roseigaster.
Nombre en Ingles: Hispaniolan Trogon.
Status: ENDEMICA, AMENAZADA
DESCRIPCION: es una especie de ave trogoniforme de la familia Trogonidae endémica de la isla La Española. Es el ave nacional de Haití, donde es llamado Kalson Wouj.
Su hábitat natural es el de las montañas húmedas subtropicales o tropicales y las áreas que son actualmente bosques altamente degradados. Está amenazada por pérdida de hábitat. Ha sido vista en los bosques de altitudes superiores de las montañas de Haití y confinado a varias áreas protegidas del país.
La pareja construye el nido en un promedio de una semana. El mismo se realiza mediante la recolección y mezcla de elementos como barro, pelos, paja, raíces, heces, solamente utilizando el pico para formar una masa que se deposita cuidadosamente en el lugar correcto. Su peso final promedia los 5 kg, y adquiere una dureza considerable una vez seco. Posee forma exterior redondeada con una abertura redondeada a la derecha, dando acceso a un pasillo que separa mediante una pared interna al lecho o "habitación" en donde se incubarán los huevos.[cita requerida]
Cada nido sólo se utiliza una vez, por lo que se construye otro al año siguiente. Los usados quedan libres para quien desee utilizarlos, ya sea otra especie de ave.
La pareja se mantiene estable toda la vida. Llegada la primavera, la cámara del nido alberga un promedio de cuatro huevos, incuban ambos padres de modo alternativo, durante 15 días. Cuando uno regresa, se anuncia con su canto para que el otro salga.
Se alimentan de insectos, frutas, pero completan su dieta con invertebrados y hasta pequeños lagartos.
Se reproduce de marzo a julio.
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DESCRIPTION: It is a species of trogoniform bird from the Trogonidae family, endemic to the island of Hispaniola. It is the national bird of Haiti, where it is called the Kalson Wouj.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and areas that are currently highly degraded forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
It has been seen in the higher altitude forests of Haiti's mountains and is confined to several of the country's protected areas.
The pair builds the nest in an average of one week. The nest is made by collecting and mixing elements such as mud, hair, straw, roots, and feces, using only the beak to form a mass that is carefully deposited in the correct place.
Its final weight averages 5 kg, and it acquires considerable hardness once dry. It has a rounded exterior shape with a rounded opening on the right, providing access to a corridor that uses an internal wall to separate the nest or "chamber" where the eggs will be incubated. [citation needed]
Each nest is used only once, so another one is built the following year. The used nests are left free for anyone who wishes to use them, including another species of bird.
The pair remains stable for life. When spring arrives, the nest chamber holds an average of four eggs, which both parents incubate alternately for 15 days. When one returns, it announces its arrival with its song so the other can leave.
They feed on insects, fruits, but complete their diet with invertebrates and even small lizards.
They reproduce from March to July.
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Many are the birds found in the Atlantic Forest, and my series is only a little sample because despite of the destruction, the Atlantic forest has more than 200,200 km² covering the coast of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
There are many colorful and beautiful birds that I never saw, only by photos. Even in the Itatiaia National Park many species are found in the upper areas, far away from the human beings.
Along the coast I know there are hotels specialized in birds viewers.
Hope someday I can visit one of these hotels and photographed another birds.
All that I presented to you were birds who are attracted to the hotel I visited by the good care the owner has with the birds, offering a lot of fresh food (mainly tropical fruits) twice a day.
Here we present now two big birds and its habits.
Dusk-legged Guan (Penelope obscura) Jacuguaçú or simply Jacu (in portuguese).
Southern species of large size, measuring 68 to 75 centimeters and weighing 1,000 to 1,200 grams
Very dark green-bronze color; mantle, neck and chest finely striated with white; blackened legs. The male has a red iris, unlike the female. Big and noisy species, notable for the strange and strong noise it makes with its wings while flying.
Although it inhabits forests, it goes down in the open field to feed itself. It is predominantly frugivorous, and in this highly specialized, although it also feeds on leaves, shoots, grains and insects. Among the fruits of native trees, this species of bird is very attracted to Araçá fruits, and defecates the seeds intact. *
It presents a sign of excitement that is characterized by opening and closing the tail impetuously. He has the habit of shaking his head. In the evening, before perching, he becomes very restless, apparently anxiety to find a good place to sleep. Lives in groups of 6 to 10 birds.
* This species usually causes problems for coffee growers because it ingests the best and most ripe beans.
Following an example of the so-called most expensive coffee in the world made from the stools of the Civet, some producers dedicated themselves to the production of Café do Jacu.
Kopi Luwak, as it is called the most expensive coffee in the world, is produced from coffee beans extracted from the feces of a species of wild Opossum from the Sumatra region, which, like the Jacu, was once considered a pest for producers in the region.
But everything changed when producers realized that the animal's digestion expelled the whole grain and gave coffee exceptional characteristics. That way, it is possible to prepare it normally and obtain a coffee unlike any other.
When realized that the same thing happened with the digestion of Jacu, a farmer in Espírito Santo decided to adapt the production process to his reality. Thus Jacu's coffee was born.
This bird has been at Ashtons flash for a few weeks it seem likely to be Siberian Stonechat, but a member of the rare birds committee has taken a sample of feces for DNA testing.
Got news to say it definitely is Siberian
Otter - Lutra Lutra
Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. Lutrinae is a branch of the weasel family Mustelidae, which also includes badgers, honey badgers, martens, minks, polecats, and wolverines.
The word otter derives from the Old English word otor or oter.
An otter's den is called a holt or couch. Male otters are called dogs or boars, females are called bitches or sows, and their offspring are called pups. The collective nouns for otters are bevy, family, lodge, romp (being descriptive of their often playful nature) or, when in water, raft.
The feces of otters are typically identified by their distinctive aroma, the smell of which has been described as ranging from freshly mown hay to putrefied fish; these are known as spraints.
The gestation period in otters is about 60 to 86 days. The newborn pup is cared for by the bitch, dog and older offspring. Bitch otters reach sexual maturity at approximately two years of age and males at approximately three years. The holt is built under tree roots or a rocky cairn, more common in Scotland. It is lined with moss and grass.
After one month, the pup can leave the holt and after two months, it is able to swim. The pup lives with its family for approximately one year. Otters live up to 16 years; they are by nature playful, and frolic in the water with their pups. Its usual source of food is fish, and further downriver, eels, but it may sample frogs and birds.
The Eurasian otter is the most widely distributed otter species, its range including parts of Asia and Africa, as well as being spread across Europe, south to Israel. Though currently believed to be extinct in Liechtenstein and Switzerland, they are now very common in Latvia, along the coast of Norway, in the western regions of Spain and Portugal and across Great Britain, especially Shetland, where 12% of the UK breeding population exists.
Common flesh fly (Sarcophaga carnaria) foraging on feces.
Ścierwica mięsówka (Sarcophaga carnaria) żerująca na fekaliach.
Another few from my archives, this time its Africa or Kenya to be a little more precise. The Marabou Stork is massive,it is 5 ft long, that is 1.524 m, a big bird indeed, and not the prettiest of birds. This stork is a scavenger and is often seen in rubbish dumps, it will happily eat any offal left from kills, choosing to consort with the vultures at a kill, but is not unknown to catch and kill live vertebrates. Seen at Town or Village outskirts picking over scraps.
So this is not the stork you want to deliver your baby!
I was told we'd see lots of these birds, snowy sheathbills, and that they may hang out on the ship for part of our journey. We only saw them once, and they didn't hang out when we left the bay we had stopped at.
They reminded me a bit of pigeons. Their messy poop dropped anywhere they happened to be, creating messes for the crew to clean. They pecked at their reflections in windows and they like being perched on railings. These birds are not pelagic, hanging out on and around land. In fact, they are the only 'land' bird native to the actual Antarctic continent. The ones on or close to Antarctica migrate a bit north.
What do they eat, you ask? Here is a blub from Wikipedia: 'The snowy sheathbill does not have webbed feet. It finds its food on land. It is an omnivore, a scavenger, and a kleptoparasite and will eat nearly anything. It steals regurgitated krill and fish from penguins when feeding their chicks and will eat their eggs and chicks if given the opportunity. Sheathbills also eat carrion, animal feces, and, where available, human waste. It has been known to eat tapeworms that have been living in a chinstrap penguin's intestine.'
The background in this image is sparkling highlights off the water. The reddish tone on its feathers is from the reflection of the wood deck of the boat.
European Badger - Meles meles
Badgers are short, stout, powerful animals that live in underground 'setts' that can extend well over 50 metres long! Members of the mustelid family (which includes pine martens, otters, polecats, ferrets and the wolverine), the European badgers' range extends from Britain, across Europe and to the middle east.
The badger is one of the UK's most recognised and popular mammals, bringing pleasure to thousands of people and is a living symbol of the British countryside.
In the UK, badgers live in mixed-sex groups of between four and eight animals in underground 'setts'. A social group living together in the same sett is also known as a 'clan'. While badgers tend to live in groups, they do not always act cooperatively with their fellow clan members. Badgers are unique in this way as individuals in a clan will forage for food on their own, unlike other social groups of animals who might hunt together and reap the benefit as a group.
A badger’s sense of smell is a particularly important sense as it plays a vital role in communication. Badgers have several scent glands which produce a variety of odours, used for distributing information like warning signals and mating status.
Scents produced are also used to tighten bonds between social groups, with studies suggesting that clan members have similar scents. Badgers also deposit scents in their feces and will typically defecate in shallow dug pits known as latrines, which are found on territorial boundaries.
Badgers distribute their scent information through techniques known as squat marking (dipping their rear and lifting their tails) and allo-marking (marking each other). Can you identify this behaviour in our video library?
The diet of a badger is extremely varied, with badgers being described by expert Professor Tim Roper as "opportunistic omnivores". Earthworms are the core of the badger's diet, often by as much as 60 per cent. In a single night, an adult badger may eat well over 200 worms!
When conditions are harsh (hard frosts, dry or barren areas of habitat), worms can be scarce. Cleverly, badgers are able to shift to other food items, including snails, slugs and soft fruit like raspberries and fallen blackberries. Badgers will occasionally eat hedgehogs if normal prey items are not abundant - read more about badgers and hedgehogs below.
Badgers mate at almost any time of the year, but due to an unusual reproductive technique, known as delayed implantation, they have only one litter a year. Litter size ranges from one to five cubs, with two or three the more common number. Cubs are born in chambers lined with bedding material that the females (sows) gather and drag into the breeding chamber. Straw, hay, grass, fern are all commonly used, which keep the cubs warm. Most cubs are born in early to mid-February and will emerge above ground at around 12 weeks. At 16 weeks, cubs will be displaying most adult social behaviours, including grooming and scent marking.
This species has the ability to hibernate as an adult even through our very cold winter. They are not migratory. It is possible that this individual might survive for 12 more months here and live to produce its own eggs. It is one of the longest living Butterflies.
I have never seen a Mourning Cloak nectaring on a flower. The adults live on tree sap, ripe and fallen fruit, the sugary exudes of Aphids, animal feces, and minerals found in mud puddles and gravel.
Elk Island National Park, Alberta.
Dung beetles
are beetles that feed on feces (dung). Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times heavier than itself in one night.
(Wikipedia)
Von der Decken's hornbill (Tockus deckeni) is a hornbill found in East Africa, especially to the east of the East African Rift. It is found mainly in thorn scrub and similar arid habitats.
It was named after the German explorer Baron Karl Klaus von der Decken (1833–1865).
Males have large, red bills while females have black bills.
Hornbills are known for their unique breeding habits. Males find a tree cavity and entice females by bringing her mudding material and food gifts. Females do the mudding using dirt and feces, which turns rock-hard when dried. Females then enter the cavity before mudding up the entrance until just a slim slit is left open. For over two months, males feed the trapped female and the chicks when they hatch, through the small vertical slit. Females break out about two weeks before the young in order to help feed them. When the young emerge, they are fully flighted, though their parents will continue to offer them food for another week.
The handsome Mr. Von der Decken's Hornbill was sighted on a photography safari during a late evening game drive in Amboseli National Park, Kenya
A nonnative invasive species in Florida. Iguanas are large lizards with a row of spikes down the center of their neck and back with dark black rings on the tail. Green Iguanas cause significant economic impacts with damage to residential and commercial landscape & vegetation. They also cause damage to infrastructure by digging burrows that erode & collapse sidewalks, foundations and sea walls. They can create threats to human health by transmission of Salmonella infection through contact with water or surfaces contaminated by their feces. (Florida Fish And Wildlife Conservation Commission)
A plague of gypsy moth caterpillars is munching its way across Upstate New York, turning verdant shade trees into brown skeletons, coating decks and picnic tables with feces, swarming over houses and cars, causing uncomfortable rashes and just generally freaking people out. ( Central NY News)
The opportunistic caterpillars feed on the leaves of up to 500 different plants, but are particularly fond of abundant and popular Upstate trees such as oak, maple, crabapple, willow, birch, pine and spruce, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Das Weibchen fliegt in die Nähe eines Ameisennestes, vorwiegend der Art Formica. Dort verpackt sie die Eier einzeln in eine Hülle aus kleinen Kotteilen. Diese etwa 1 mm großen, an Kiefernzapfen erinnernden Gebilde, lässt das Weibchen des Ameisen-Sackkäfers zu Boden fallen. Ameisen tragen dann diese verpackten Eier in ihr Nest. Die geschlüpften Larven verwenden Kotteilchen um sich feste Gebilde zu bauen, die sie mit sich herum tragen, um sich bei Gefahr darin zurück ziehen zu können. Als Nahrung dienen ihnen die Larven der Ameisen.
Die erwachsenen Ameisensackkäfer fressen an Birken, Eichen, Weissdorn, Weiden und krautigen Pflanzen.
The female flies near an ant nest, mainly of the species Formica. There she packs the eggs one by one into a case of small feces. These about 1 mm large, reminiscent of pine cones form, lets the female of the ant-bag beetle to the ground fall. Ants then carry these packaged eggs into their nest. The hatched larvae use fecal particles to build solid structures that they carry with them to pull themselves back in danger. The larvae of the ants serve them as food.
The adult squirrel beetles feed on birch, oak, hawthorn, willow and herbaceous plants.
Miner's socks, or more formally Polygonum (formerly Bistorta) bistortoides, thrive at the edge of a pond. The humorous common name comes from its floral fragrance. Some flowers species smell sweet to attract bees and butterflies, while other flower species smell like carrion or feces or maybe miner's socks, to attract flies, which are common pollinators high in the mountains. Polygonum bistortoides is among this second group, exuding an unpleasant scent to attract flies.
The most frequently used common name is "American Bistort".
Photographed in the Elk Mountains with the Ruby Mountains in the distance.
After a mini-drought we've had a lot of rainy days lately, and on the forest floor I spotted something I've never seen before. It turned out to be lantern stinkhorn, a kind of fungus brought to the United States. So this is a new one for my prairie seed and fungus species set.
Lysurus mokusin, commonly known as the lantern stinkhorn, the small lizard's claw, or the ribbed lizard claw, is a saprobic species of fungus in the family Phallaceae. The fruit body consists of a reddish, cylindrical fluted stipe that is capped with several "arms". The arms can approach or even close in on each other to form a spire. The gleba—an olive-green slimy spore mass—is carried on the outer surface of the arms. The fruit body has an odor comparable to "fresh dog feces", "rotting flesh", or "sewage" when mature.
The fungus is native to Asia, and is also found in Australia, Europe and North America, where it is probably an introduced species. It is edible in its immature "egg" stage.
Source and more info: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/208065-Lysurus-mokusin
Thanks for the visits, faves and comments its greatly appreciated.
Brian Piccolo Park, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Burrowing owls collect and place a variety of items, including animal feces and garbage, around the entrance of their burrows. This behavior is believed to serve several purposes, including attracting insects (dung beetles) for food, deterring predators, and possibly signaling that the burrow is occupied. They may also use this "trash" as a way to mask their scent from predators.
Chionis albus). The snowy sheathbill does not have webbed feet and is the only landbird native to the Antarctic continent. The Snowy Sheathbill is the dustbin of the bird world in the Antarctic regions. It is an omnivore, a scavenger, and a kleptoparasite and will eat nearly anything. It steals regurgitated krill and fish from penguins when feeding their chicks and will eat their eggs and chicks if given the opportunity. Sheathbills also eat carrion, animal feces, and, where available, human waste. It has been known to eat tapeworms that have been living in a chinstrap penguin's intestine.
Falkland Islands, East Island, Volunteer Point
This beautiful Gull is common around Penguin and Cormorant colonies. During the summer they eat regurgitated food dropped by adults feeding their young as well as feces. Like many other gulls, in winter they feed on Mussels, cracking the shells by dropping them on rocks.
I think this is a Yellow Dung fly Scatophaga stercoraria, a male of the breed. These flies are 8-9 mm long. Males are covered with golden yellow fur. Females are greyish and less furry. They live in places where there is dung from horses and cows across Europe, according to the information I've been able to find. From my own observations I can add, that they also seem to thrive very well on dog shit, which is the diet our local ones mainly have to live on..
Adults fly for much of the year; preying on other flies on cow-dung. Adults develop in cow-pats.
The common green bottle fly, Lucilia sericata (Meigen), formerly Phaenicia sericata, is a common visitor to carrion, feces, and garbage.
De groene vleesvlieg voedt zich met rottend materiaal, bij voorkeur met (verrot) vlees en poep.
Jackson County - Oregon - USA
"The California Quail is a handsome, round soccer ball of a bird with a rich gray breast, intricately scaled underparts, and a curious, forward-drooping head plume. Its stiffly accented Chi-ca-go call is a common sound of the chaparral and other brushy areas of California and the Northwest. Often seen scratching at the ground in large groups or dashing forward on blurred legs, California Quail are common but unobtrusive. They flush to cover if scared, so approach them gently..... The California Quail digests vegetation with the help of protozoans in its intestine. Chicks acquire the protozoans by pecking at the feces of adults."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
Von der Decken's hornbill (Tockus deckeni) is a hornbill found in East Africa, especially to the east of the East African Rift. It is found mainly in thorn scrub and similar arid habitats.
Males have large, red bills while females have black bills.
Hornbills are known for their unique breeding habits. Males find a tree cavity and entice females by bringing her mudding material and food gifts. Females do the mudding using dirt and feces, which turns rock-hard when dried. Females then enter the cavity before mudding up the entrance until just a slim slit is left open. For over two months, males feed the trapped female and the chicks when they hatch, through the small vertical slit. Females break out about two weeks before the young in order to help feed them. When the young emerge, they are fully flighted, though their parents will continue to offer them food for another week.
The handsome male Von der Decken's Hornbill was sighted on a photography safari during a late evening game drive in Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Gewone of Vierstippige mierenzakkever - Four spotted leaf beetle (Clytra quadripunctata)
Under attack by two European red wood ants - Kale bosmier (Formica polyctena).
Clytra quadripunctata is a brood parasite of red wood ants and is quite rare. During egg-laying, the female sits in a plant above the ant nest and rotates the egg with her hind legs while smearing it with a substance from her abdomen.
When the egg is sufficiently wrapped, she drops it onto the ant hill or carries it to the ant hill. The egg hatches in the nest, and the larvae conceal themselves in a sac of feces.
Scathophaga stercoraria, commonly known as the yellow dung fly or the golden dung fly, is one of the most familiar and abundant flies in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. As its common name suggests, it is often found on the feces of large mammals, such as horses, cattle, sheep, deer, and wild boar, where it goes to breed. The distribution of S. stercoraria is likely influenced by human agriculture, especially in Northern Europe and North America. The Scathophaga are integral in the animal kingdom due to their role in the natural decomposition of dung in fields. They are also very important in the scientific world due to their short lifecycles and susceptibility to experimental manipulations, thus have contributed significant knowledge about animal behavior.
I have a big bag of acorns that I've gathered while on my walks, putting them in a dog doo bag. I suppose it looks like I'm picking up feces with my hand. It's worth it to give to the goats, who enjoy the crunchy goodness.
Emigrant Lake - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
"The California Quail is a handsome, round soccer ball of a bird with a rich gray breast, intricately scaled underparts, and a curious, forward-drooping head plume. Its stiffly accented Chi-ca-go call is a common sound of the chaparral and other brushy areas of California and the Northwest. Often seen scratching at the ground in large groups or dashing forward on blurred legs, California Quail are common but unobtrusive. They flush to cover if scared, so approach them gently..... The California Quail digests vegetation with the help of protozoans in its intestine. Chicks acquire the protozoans by pecking at the feces of adults."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
8000 people showed up......For HYPE HYPE HYPE........
if you didnt know....sam adams the mayor of portland setup an eviction for the occupy portland camp last night at 12:01am
I had to see for myself if the cops were going to gas the protestors or do anything.....and NOPE...the crowd just thinned and people of portland let the police come in and clean up the filth that has become occupy portland......
walking through the occupy camp....all you could smell was human feces and garbage.......
is this what a revolution looks like?
hours later police raided the camp with no resistance what so ever.......and started throwing away all the garbage left behind by the occupy portlanders.......
You can watch whats left of the Hype live right now follow the link below
www.livestream.com/occupyptown
you can also read about the events unfolding as well in this article
www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/police_end_...
Extensive high mountain livestock farming in the Pyrenees is an ancient and sustainable activity that must be protected because it has contributed to shaping and conserving the landscape by protecting forests from large fires, consuming exclusively natural resources and being the main means of subsistence for small communities. that otherwise would have disappeared long ago due to depopulation. It is totally opposite to the enormous intensive farms that consume immense quantities of water (increasingly scarce) and feed where thousands of animals survive in terrible conditions, generating tons of feces that contaminate the groundwater with nitrates and to which large quantities of amounts of antibiotics are supplied. These reach human consumers creating infections by resistant bacteria that are increasingly difficult to treat.
BIRD FLU OUTBREAK DECIMATING BRITISH SEABIRD COLONIES, A DEADLY STRAIN OF AVIAN INFLUENZA IS SPREADING RAPIDLY in seabird populations around the UK, with reports of thousands of birds dying, at a time of the year they should be busy raising chicks..
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT IT
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VIRAL infections spread quickly, death within 12 hours, spreads through direct contact with nasal discharge and feces of an infected bird, also it is believed can remain live in the seawater for hours.
RARELY affects humans.
DO NOT touch dead or sick birds.
REPORT to DEFRA helpline 03459335577
FARNE ISLANDS are stopping landings, others are to follow.
HAVE witnessed this even in our quiet area of Kent, so very sad.
VERY LITTLE is known !!!!!!
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Tomx
Falkland Islands, Sea Lion Island
This beautiful Gull is common around Penguin and Cormorant colonies. During the summer they eat regurgitated food dropped by adults feeding their young as well as feces. Like many other gulls, in winter they feed on Mussels, cracking the shells by dropping them on rocks.
swatting
and
sweating
In this slum
occupied by Bihari Muslims.
They fled the riots in the Indian State of Bihar after the partition of India in 1947.
Favored by the government of Pakistan, they sided with the West- Pakistani Army when the Bengalis in East Pakistan fought for their independence in 1971.
After the war the new country of Bangladesh was born and the Urdu-speaking Biharis were seen as traitors.
To escape from the revenge of the Bengalis they were gathered in refugee camps to await their repatriation to Pakistan.
With the help of international relief organizations, half of them have been repatriated over the years, but 250,000-300,000 still remain in the 66 camps in Bangladesh.
In 2008 the BDESH high court granted Bangladeshi citizenship to the children of these URDU speaking refugees.
I have rarely seen such abysmal poverty
wretched living conditions
open sewers
no electricity
no running water
people truly living like animals in cages.
the smell of human feces everywhere
I had a horrendous point and shoot camera in those days.
Photography’s new conscience
Mohamadpur,
Dhaka
Before I finally spotted the rare Regal Fritillary on some native wildflowers, my only opportunity to capture a photo was when two of them were attracted to feces in the middle of the trail. Hennepin County, MN 07/10/21
Von der Decken's hornbill (Tockus deckeni) is a hornbill found in East Africa. It is found mainly in thorn scrub and similar arid habitats.
Von der Decken's hornbill is omnivorous, taking insects, fruit and seeds. It feeds mainly on the ground and will form flocks outside the breeding season.
Hornbills are known for their unique breeding habits. Males find a tree cavity and entice females by bringing her mudding material and food gifts. Females do the mudding using dirt and feces, which turns rock-hard when dried. Females then enter the cavity before mudding up the entrance until just a slim slit is left open. For over two months, males feed the trapped female and the chicks when they hatch, through the small vertical slit. Females break out about two weeks before the young in order to help feed them. When the young emerge, they are fully flighted, though their parents will continue to offer them food for another week.
Von der Decken's hornbills can live for about 20 years.
Photographed on a late evening game drive in the semi-arid area of Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.
Taken near Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
Instructions:
- Stalk extremely slowly keeping your binoculars or camera as the case may be continually obscuring your face.
- Move only a half step at a time, or a full step if needing to straddle any obstacles along your path for the next fifty yards or so.
- Pay no heed to the high grass in your face or to the tangle of thorns at your feet that perchance may trip you up... and then down.
- Never look the subject bird in the face, but keep your head down using only your peripheral vision to determine how close you are getting to the bird.
- Keeping your head down will also benefit you by helping you avoid stepping on any fresh or over ripened dog feces that may sprinkle your path which could result in ticking you off and offending the bird.
- When you finally get to within full frame distance of your subject, duck and weave and contort your (past the due date) frame into whatever form works for the moment to capture a less obscured picture of of a back-lit pipit that you can manage.
- Finally, don't let that oft occurring annoying little twig in the foreground that ruins the very rare clear view of a well stalked bird that almost never perches get the better of you. You have relatives that will do that for you. ;-)
American Pipit
Last spring about this time, I had a little wreath on the door and noticed one day that a couple of little House Finches had made a nest in the wreath. I guarded that nest with my life from March 25 until April 22, when the fledglings left the nest. One night there was a terrible storm with strong winds and I could hear the wreath banging on the door. I stood for about an hour with my arm out the door, fighting the wind and holding that wreath tightly against the door.
House Finches are native to southwestern United States and Mexico. In 1940 a small number of finches were turned loose on Long Island, New York, and they quickly started breeding. They spread across the entire eastern United States and southern Canada within the next 50 years.
The red or yellow color of a male House Finch comes from pigments that it gets in its food during molt. The more pigment in the food, the redder the male. Females prefer to mate with the reddest male they can find (of course!). Adults House Finches are about 5-6 inches (13-14 cm) long.
When nestling House Finches defecate, the feces are contained in a membranous sac. The parents eat the fecal sacs of the nestlings for about the first five days. Most songbird species carry the sacs away when they stop eating them, but House Finches do not remove them, and the sacs accumulate around the rim of the nest, as seen in photos 3 and 4.
One of the oldest streets in the historical part of Vienna, whose names often changed. 1368-1392 it was called Kothgässel ("Faeces Alley"), which wasn't exactly a charming name, but whose origin is relatively clear. You can't say so for the name it had 1547-1600 and has had again since 1862: Blutgasse. Historians dismissed both the massacre of Templars version and the more harmless version of a nearby slaughterhouse as an explanation. They simply don't know why this street is called so.
Iguanas of Florida
While most areas in the United States are more temperate and don’t make great homes for most iguana species, Florida is something of an anomaly. Since its subtropical climate makes it warm and humid year-round, Florida has become an ideal home to many species of reptiles, amphibians, and other animals we normally see in distant, isolated rainforests and on tropical islands. But what iguanas in Florida are actually native to the area? Additionally, are there any invasive species?
There are no iguana species that are actually native to Florida. Instead, the three main species currently living throughout the state are invasive species. Humans brought these lizards to Florida from nearby islands via cargo ships and independent releases throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Eventually, their populations exploded. Florida just happens to be an ideal environment for iguanas, with its warm, humid weather and diverse plant and animal life for the massive lizards to feed on.
Florida’s three main invasive iguana species are the black spiny-tailed iguana, the Mexican spiny-tailed iguana, and, of course, the green iguana. None of them are originally native to Florida. However, over time, they’ve all become misunderstood yet highly invasive nuisances, wreaking havoc on the state’s plant and animal life and causing serious damage to both man-made and natural structures with their feces and elaborate burrows.
As we look at each of these species in a bit more detail, we’ll be able to understand why they are so damaging to Florida’s ecosystems, exactly how each one was introduced to the area, and what sort of measures state officials are taking to reverse the lizards’ environmental impact as humanely as possible.
For more info: a-z-animals.com/blog/iguanas-in-florida-what-species-are-...
Von der Decken's hornbill (Tockus deckeni) is a hornbill found in East Africa, especially to the east of the East African Rift. It is found mainly in thorn scrub and similar arid habitats.
It was named after the German explorer Baron Karl Klaus von der Decken (1833–1865).
Males have large, red bills while females have black bills.
Hornbills are known for their unique breeding habits. Males find a tree cavity and entice females by bringing her mudding material and food gifts. Females do the mudding using dirt and feces, which turns rock-hard when dried. Females then enter the cavity before mudding up the entrance until just a slim slit is left open. For over two months, males feed the trapped female and the chicks when they hatch, through the small vertical slit. Females break out about two weeks before the young in order to help feed them. When the young emerge, they are fully flighted, though their parents will continue to offer them food for another week.
The lovely Mr & Mrs Von der Decken's Hornbill were photographed late in the evening on a game drive in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya
Hvitserkur
Hvitserkur is a lot of basalt 15 m off the eastern coast of Vatnsnes peninsula in northwest Iceland.
The rock has two holes in the base, which gives it the appearance of a dragon is drinking. The base of this hill was reinforced with concrete to protect it from the sea.
Several species of birds such as gulls and fulmars live on Hvitserkur and its name ( "white shirt" in Icelandic) comes from guano color (feces) deposited on its rocks.
technique used - Focus stacking
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
The hornbill family has eyelashes, which is rare among birds; ostriches, cuckoos, and some owls also have visible lashes. These simplified feathers serve a similar purpose to mammalian lashes, keeping debris out of the eye.
A pair of nesting hornbills will establish a breeding territory, walking with a slow gait and lowered head around its perimeter. They build a nest in a hollow branch or cavity within a cliff face. After mating, the female will enter the nest and the pair will work together to seal the entrance, using nesting materials and their own feces to cement the gap closed, leaving only a small space through which the male will pass the female food. The female hornbill will also molt her flight and tail feathers to line the nest. The female incubates the 2-3 eggs for 25 days and feeds the young for the first three weeks of life by regurgitating the food brought to her by the male. At this time, she leaves the nest and assists the male in bringing food back to the brood. The young fledge after around 45 days.
The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The 2,525-kilometre-long (1,569 mi) river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south and east through the Gangetic plain of North India, receiving the right-bank tributary, the Yamuna, which also rises in the western Indian Himalayas, and several left-bank tributaries from Nepal that account for the bulk of its flow. In West Bengal state, India, a feeder canal taking off from its right bank diverts 50% of its flow southwards, artificially connecting it to the Hooghly River. The Ganges continues into Bangladesh, its name changing to the Padma. It is then joined by the Jamuna, the lower stream of the Brahmaputra, and eventually the Meghna, forming the major estuary of the Ganges Delta, and emptying into the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna system is the second-largest river on earth by discharge.
The main stem of the Ganges begins at the town of Devprayag, at the confluence of the Alaknanda, which is the source stream in hydrology on account of its greater length, and the Bhagirathi, which is considered the source stream in Hindu mythology.
The Ganges is a lifeline to hundreds of millions of people who live in its basin and depend on it for their daily needs. It has been important historically, with many former provincial or imperial capitals such as Pataliputra, Kannauj, Sonargaon, Dhaka, Bikrampur, Kara, Munger, Kashi, Patna, Hajipur, Kanpur, Delhi, Bhagalpur, Murshidabad, Baharampur, Kampilya, and Kolkata located on its banks or those of its tributaries and connected waterways. The river is home to approximately 140 species of fish, 90 species of amphibians, and also reptiles and mammals, including critically endangered species such as the gharial and South Asian river dolphin. The Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus. It is worshipped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism.
The Ganges is threatened by severe pollution. This not only poses a danger to humans but also to many species of animals. The levels of fecal coliform bacteria from human waste (feces and urine) in the river near Varanasi are more than 100 times the Indian government's official limit. The Ganga Action Plan, an environmental initiative to clean up the river, has been considered a failure which is variously attributed to corruption, a lack of will in the government, poor technical expertise, poor environmental planning, and a lack of support from religious authorities.
The serval (Leptailurus serval) is a wild cat native to Africa.
The serval is a solitary carnivore and active both by day and at night. It preys on rodents, particularly vlei rats, small birds, frogs, insects, and reptiles, using its sense of hearing to locate prey. It leaps over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) above the ground to land on the prey on its forefeet, and finally kills it with a bite on the neck or the head. Both sexes establish highly overlapping home ranges of 10 to 32 km2 (4 to 12 sq mi), and mark them with feces and saliva.
Having hidden her three very cute kittens, Mamma Serval went hunting and within 30 minutes she managed to catch a vlei rat which it quickly took back to it's very eager and hungry kittens. Captured during a photography safari on a late evening game drive in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
The serval (Leptailurus serval) is a wild cat native to Africa.
The serval is a solitary carnivore and active both by day and at night. It preys on rodents, particularly vlei rats, small birds, frogs, insects, and reptiles, using its sense of hearing to locate prey. It leaps over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) above the ground to land on the prey on its forefeet, and finally kills it with a bite on the neck or the head. Both sexes establish highly overlapping home ranges of 10 to 32 km2 (4 to 12 sq mi), and mark them with feces and saliva.
Having hidden her three very cute kittens, Mamma Serval went hunting for her hungry kittens. Captured during a photography safari on a late evening game drive in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
"Because they eat decaying flesh, Blue Bottle flies in the house sometimes indicate a decomposing animal in an attic or wall void...Outdoors, dead and decomposing animal carcasses, pet feces, and trash attract them, as well....""
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