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Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
The jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. It is most common in the Pantanal region of Brazil and the Eastern Chaco region of Paraguay. It is the only member of the genus Jabiru. The name comes from a Tupi–Guaraní language and means "swollen neck".
Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Menabe Region
The Avenue of the Baobabs, or Alley of the Baobabs, is a prominent group of Grandidier's baobabs (Adansonia grandidieri) lining the unpaved Road No.8 between Morondava and Belon'i Tsiribihina in the Menabe region of western Madagascar. Its striking landscape draws travelers from around the world, making it one of the most visited locations in the region. It has been a center of local conservation efforts, and was granted temporary protected status in July 2007 by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Forestry – a step toward making it Madagascar's first natural monument.
Along a 260 m (850 ft) stretch of the road is a grove of 20–25 Adansonia grandidieri baobabs. An additional 25 or so trees of this species are found growing over nearby rice paddies and meadows within 9.9 acres (4 ha) of land. The trees, which are endemic to Madagascar, are about 30 m (98 ft) in height.
The baobab trees, known locally as renala or reniala (from Malagasy reny ala "mother of the forest") are a legacy of the dense tropical forests that once thrived on Madagascar. The trees did not originally tower in isolation over the sere landscape of scrub, but stood in dense forest. Over the years, as the country's population grew, the forests were cleared for agriculture, leaving only the baobab trees, which the locals preserved as much for their own sake as for their value as a food source and building material.
The area is a natural monument under conservation since July 2015, but the trees are still threatened by further deforestation, effluent from encroaching paddy fields, bushfires, and forest fires. Fanamby, a Malagasy non-governmental organization, has launched an ecotourism project aimed at conservation of the area since 2014 and has inaugurated infrastructures to help them promote the area in 2018. - Wikipedia
Island of Madagascar
Off The East Coast of Africa
Peyrieras Madagascar Exotic Reserve
Uroplatus lineatus is a gecko which is found in eastern Madagascar and on the island Nosy Bohara. These geckos live on trees in tropical rain forests and on bamboo plants. They reach a total length of 270 mm or 10.63 in. Threats to this species are posed by deforestation and illegal pet trade.
Leaf-tailed or Uroplatus geckos are one of Madagascar's most unique species. These moderate- to large-sized geckos rely on cryptic coloration as they sleep with their heads downward, flattened against tree trunks and adjusting their body coloration to their surroundings. Inactive during the day, Uroplatus geckos move only when disturbed. They respond to prodding with an impressive display of a brightly colored gaping mouth and an erect tail. At night they hunt insects. – Wikipedia
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
The Brown Lemur (Eulemur fulvus) is a species of lemur in the family Lemuridae. It is found in Madagascar and Mayotte. The common brown lemur lives in western Madagascar and eastern Madagascar as well as in inland Madagascar connecting the eastern and western ranges. They also live on the island of Mayotte, although this population is believed to have been introduced there by man.
The common brown lemur's diet consists primarily of fruits, young leaves, and flowers. In some locations it eats invertebrates, such as cicadas, spiders and millipedes. It also eats bark, sap, soil and red clay. It can tolerate greater levels of toxic compounds from plants than other lemurs can.
Consistent with its large range, the common brown lemur occupies a variety of forest types, including lowland rainforests, montane rainforests, moist evergreen forests and dry deciduous forests.
They normally live in groups of 5 to 12, but group size can be larger. Groups occupy home ranges of 1 to 9 hectares in the west, but more than 20 hectares in the east. Groups include members of both sexes, including juveniles, and there are no discernible dominance hierarchies.
They are primarily active during the day but can exhibit cathemeral activity and continue into the night, especially during full moons and during the dry season. Wikipedia
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
Common drongos, also called fork-tailed drongos, are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, except in deserts and other treeless regions. These drongos prefer open bush and woodlands. Common drongos are solitary nesters. They do not tend to form flocks.
The common drongo’s call is a harsh, metallic strink-strink. The drongo also produces sounds that mimic the alarm calls of other animals, triggering flight that leaves nests or foraged food exposed for looting.
Common drongos are aggressive, protecting their nests with attacks on birds of prey, snakes, and human intruders.
While perched, common drongos, snap up bees, beetles, and wasps. Leaving their perches, they hunt small lizards and fish and steal the eggs and chicks from the nests of other species.
Common drongos are monogamous. During the long breeding season, a pair builds a thin-walled, strongly woven, cup-shaped nest in a high tree fork. The female lays two to five eggs, which are incubated by both sexes for about 15 to 18 days. The chicks, fed by both parents, leave the nest after 16 to 22 days.
Common drongos are found throughout southern Kenya’s acacia and broad-leafed woodlands. They also live in savannas and in urban gardens. - Wikipedia
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
Happy Caturday !
This image was taken from a boat in the middle of the river surrounded by other boats trying to photograph jaguars.
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large felid species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. Its distinctively marked coat features pale yellow to tan colored fur covered by spots that transition to darker rosettes on the sides. With a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in), it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world. Its powerful bite allows it to pierce the shells of turtles, and to employ an unusual killing method with mammals: it bites directly through the skull of prey between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain.
It inhabits a variety of forested and open terrains, but its preferred habitat is tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest, wetlands and wooded regions. The jaguar is adept at swimming and is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and-ambush apex predator that is not preyed upon in the wild. As a keystone species, it plays an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating prey populations.
The jaguar is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, and its population is declining. = Wikipedia
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
Southwest Florida
USA
Happy Easter Everyone!
Photographed at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in 2017. Have not sighted any of these birds this year.
From Wikipedia - The roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) (sometimes placed in its own genus Ajaja) is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, the Gulf Coast of the United States and on central Florida's Atlantic coast Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge adjoined with NASA Kennedy Space Center.
This species feeds in shallow fresh or coastal waters by swinging its bill from side to side as it steadily walks through the water, often in groups. The spoon-shaped bill allows it to sift easily through mud. It feeds on crustaceans, aquatic insects, frogs, newts and very small fish ignored by larger waders. In the United States, a popular place to observe roseate spoonbills is "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. Roseate spoonbills must compete for food with snowy egrets, great egrets, tricolored herons and American white pelicans.
The roseate spoonbill nests in shrubs or trees, often mangroves, laying two to five eggs, which are whitish with brown markings. Immature birds have white, feathered heads, and the pink of the plumage is paler. The bill is yellowish or pinkish.
Sunset on fisherman's huts in France, at Saintes Maries De La Mer in Camargue region. I was waiting for the moment when the sun tuch the horizon, the sky turned to pink and purple atmosphere. I have used a neutral density filter (Hoya Pro ND 1000) to allow a long exposure of 60 seconds.
Panasonic GH4, Lumix G 14-140mm at 26mm, f/11
Hoya Pro ND 1000 filter, 60 sec long exposure,
This dog decided to jump from the ramp rather than the higher position. The K9 Aqua at the All About Dogs show in Norfolk.
In the falcon village at the East Anglian Game and Country Fair in the grounds of Euston Hall in Norfolk.
This is a tiny (6 mm) Herkimer diamond in blue light.
Herkimer dimonds are not actually diamonds, but are double-terminated quartz crystals of exceptional clarity (water-clear).
Panasonic GH4 with Lumix G 42.5mm f/1.7
Musée de Picardie
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48 Rue de la République
80000 Amiens
Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
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A capybara on the shoreline of the Cuiaba River. The largest rodent in the world is very photogenic. Several of them were very close to the boat as we headed to the shore. By the end of the trip, capybaras became one my favorite animals.