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The instant before touchdown for any bird can be a bit dicey. Trying to stay in the air while landing gently can be a challenge from time to time. This Sandhill Crane looks to be doing an excellent job prior to touchdown.
Taken 26 August 2018 at Creamers Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
peanut pinching seems to be their main aim, much wing flapping goes on chasing off rivals.
Conservation status is Amber (much to my surprise)
dark and wet again today, not much about in the time I was out.
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I forgot that it was blue Monday, so I decided I would post this shot for the Monday blues. The butterfly is a little blurred, but his wings were flapping. I hope you like it! Have a super afternoon!
Hugs,
Kim
The short-toed snake eagle (Circaetus gallicus), also known as the short-toed eagle, is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, buzzards and harriers.The genus name Circaetus is from the Ancient Greek kirkos, a type of hawk, and aetos, "eagle".The specific gallicus means "of Gaul".
Short-toed Eagle flight_w_6055
Adult gannets are large and bright white with black wingtips. They are distinctively shaped with a long neck and long pointed beak, long pointed tail, and long pointed wings. At sea they flap and then glide low over the water, often travelling in small groups. They feed by flying high and circling before plunging into the sea. They breed in significant numbers at only a few localities and so is an Amber List species.
What they eat:
Fish.
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Several Wood Ducks were out on the lake this morning. I love it when they rise up out of the water to give a big flap. The light was with me today!
California Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus) on Mission Bay, San Diego, California.
Listed as an Endangered Species in the early 1970's because of DDT. In 2009 following the long-term ban of this pesticide and the recovery of of the brown pelican population, it was removed from the Federal list of Endangered Species.
I hadn't expected to find a Tundra Swan at Anchor Point. In fact, it's the first Tundra Swan I've seen in Alaska. I suspect it's just passing through to it's breeding ground further North. Some of the other photographers present didn't shoot any photos thinking it's just the normal trumpeter swans and it wasn't until I was processing the images when I saw the yellow near the eye. A great find!
Taken 3 May 2023 at Anchor Point, Alaska.
Some ducks on Lake Dulverton in Oatlands, central Tasmania. I managed to capture this duck on the left having a bit of a flap.
DSC_6952-Puffin flying in from the river to the cliffs of Ile aux Perroquets in the Mingan Archipelago in Quebec.
Pic By Pammy
Black And White
Am I dreaming
'Cause I can't wake up
You ready
If you're ready or not
Do you know me
I don't know what you want
Were you waiting on the stairs
Breathing softly while I slept
With my heart up in my mouth
And the wings I flap don't move
When the morning's light and cold
Will this moment feel as true
It's a form
All lit up in the dark
Her feet fall
I can't curl up, curl up
If you're ready or not
Was I dreaming
'Cause I can't wake up
You ready
If you're ready or not
Was I dreaming
'Cause I can't wake up
This common merganser hen gives a flap or two as she raises up out of the water.
Taken 25 April 2023 at Spenard Crossing, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Good light at the end of the day at Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve is not a given, but sometimes things just work out and the light on this evening was great.
A couple things to note in this image. First is the obvious that the northern gannet is flapping its wings as part of the grooming process, and raising a bunch of dust and debris into the air as it does so. The gannets shake their head from side to side as they do their flapping. The second is that there is a young gannet tucked partly under an adult just in behind the subject. These youngsters have a natural mortality rate, but if a disease like avian flu is running rampant in the colony, many will die. Also, if the fish gannets rely on are scarce due to weather patterns or over fishing, many will starve. This colony was heavily impacted by the flu that broke out during the COVID pandemic, but the numbers have bounced back.
These three Barnacle Geese are getting in a bit of a flap about their field neighbours (Wigeon, Teal, Egyptian Geese) with whom they were feeding close to the coast in Norfolk. A winter visitor to Britain, they breed in Greenland, Spitsbergen and Arctic Russia but the ones i saw here may have been part of an introduced resident population rather than the huge migratory flocks seen in Scotland although a few from Siberia that winter in western Europe have been known to cross the North Sea to reach eastern Britain in cold winters.
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I suppose I hadn't noticed before, but on the very first flap of their wings they shed quite a bit of water, as this Mallard drake demonstrates. You can see the water coming off in swirls and streams. Cool!
Taken 18 April 2023 at Spenard Crossing, Anchorage, Alaska.
Egyptian goose or Nile goose
Nilgans
[Alopochen aegyptiaca]
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This Red-necked Grebe is cycling through some preening behavior, the last of the cycle seeming to be flapping the wings and settling back down into the water.
Taken 25 May 2022 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Not the view you want to see if you are a fish ... Really liked this capture with the wings out on display of this hunter.
Hummingbirds split from their sister group, the swifts and tree swifts, around 42 million years ago. The common ancestor of extant hummingbirds is estimated to have lived 22 million years in South America. They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings, which flap at high frequencies audible to humans.
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