IDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES and FUNGI
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Someone said they were having difficulty with the identification of Azure Damselflies because they are so similar to the Common Blue Damselfly. I was confused for a long time but finally grasped the differences between the Azure and the Common Blue, Damselfly.
I’ve adapted one of my photos to show the marks that are unique to identifying the Azure Damselfly. Hope someone finds it useful.
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Stilpnia heinei -juvenile male- (Black-capped Tanager / Tangara capirotada)
Juvenile males show a kaleidoscope of colours: Yellow-green as the females and blue tones as adult males.
Black-capped Tanagers are vividly-colored tropical birds that occur in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru. They often occur in pairs foraging in bushes and trees for insects and fruit.
It is one of the few species in the genus that shows obvious sexual dichromatism, with males primarily gray-blue in color with a distinctive black cap, and females yellow-green without a black cap.
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Mushroom identification is difficult for many people - me included - but over the years I've learned a few tricks to help figure out the names of a few fungi. During the fall this delightful little walnut mycena is easy to identify since it grows on old decaying black walnut shells!
Dactylorhiza sambucina x Dactylorhiza fuchsii (Orchidaceae) 162 22
A genus of up to 60 superficially similar species that have a predominantly central and northern European distribution although a number of species do reach the Mediterranean and north Africa.
The Dactylorhiza genus is tricky and presents many problems of identification for even the experienced field botanist. At the morphological level the flowers of most species are relatively similar , within any species the flowers can show considerable variation in a single population and finally many species hybridize quite readily.
Following a request, I have adapted one of my photos to help identification of a White Legged Damselfly. This damselfly can easily be mistaken for one of the other blue damselflies but has some unique features that help with identification
My sunflowers have been growing by leaps and bounds. Fortunately one of the flowers are four feet tall....the perfect height for me to observe the center of the flower as it forms. Imagine my surprise as I noted a small white round item which appears to be an egg. I've tried, without success, to identify this single egg. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!...(Perhaps it is the cocoon of a silk worm?) ;)
Emigrant Creek - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Habitat : Forests
Food : Birds
Nesting : Tree
Behavior : Aerial Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
"Among the bird world’s most skillful fliers, Cooper’s Hawks are common woodland hawks that tear through cluttered tree canopies in high speed pursuit of other birds. You’re most likely to see one prowling above a forest edge or field using just a few stiff wingbeats followed by a glide. With their smaller lookalike, the Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper’s Hawks make for famously tricky identifications... Dashing through vegetation to catch birds is a dangerous lifestyle. In a study of more than 300 Cooper’s Hawk skeletons, 23 percent showed old, healed-over fractures in the bones of the chest, especially of the furcula, or wishbone."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
Uferschwalbe / Sand Martin / Avión zapador / Hirondelle de rivage /
Riparia riparia
Vielen Dank an Gary Faulkner's wildlife photography für die Bestimmung.
Many thanks to Gary Faulkner's wildlife photography for the identification.
With a mole (pigmented mark) on the top of his nose, this baby boy can be spotted without much difficulty and correctly identified even in a crowded place.
In this candid photo, taken in Subic, Zambales, Philippines, the boy is being carried by his grandmother, who takes care of him when his mother goes to town or is very busy doing some household chores.
This should go fast for all you car buffs. Make and Year please.
There is a bonus if you get the one behind it, with only the top and back window showing!
Mostly Eider ducks (thanks so much to Joan for the identification) doing their Eider duck thing in sea smoke on a sub-zero morning in Portland, Maine. I believe that two of them are the Red-breasted Merganser duck.
I really like this Orchid! Almost bought it, but there were no buds.
It is a Zygopetalum Orchid. Thanks to nolehace for the identification.
Hope I've got the identification of this Duck correct. Let me know if I made a mistake.
Male Redheads are a dapper mixture of cinnamon head, black breast and tail, and neat gray body. Females and immatures are a plain, mostly uniform brown. Redheads have black-tipped, gray bills, and in flight they show gray flight feathers.
Redheads flock together on lakes and other bodies of water but migrate in pairs, which are formed in December or January through elaborate courtship rituals. Unpaired redheads migrate together in a “courting party” that can be up to 25 individuals strong, enabling them to find a mate within the group.
The pair bonds are established yearly through a long courtship process. Males begin this process through neck-kinking and head throwing displays while emitting a cat-like call. If interested, the female produces inciting calls towards the male while performing alternate lateral and chin lifting movements. The male then swims ahead of her and turns the back of his head towards the female. Once courtship is finished, the two birds are paired for the year. The male initiates copulation by alternating bill dipping and preening dorsally towards the female, upon which the female may return to the male.
Redheads breed mainly in seasonal wetlands such as the prairie pothole region of the Midwest. In migration and winter they group into large flocks on the Gulf Coast, as well as along the Great Lakes and in lakes, reservoirs, bays, and along coastlines across the southern U.S.
(Nikon Z8, 500/5.6, 1/500 @ f5.6, ISO 560, edited to taste)
I would love an identification of this small tree. It seems to me to be a hawthorn of some type, Any help?
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Ce charmant petit passereau a donné et donnera toujours du fil à retordre à pas mal de photographes, d'abord par sa couleur et ses taches qui le rendent presque invisible une fois posé sur un tronc d'arbre, un vrai défit pour l'autofocus en sachant qu'il est le plus souvent du côté sombre de l'arbre et est toujours en mouvement... www.ornithomedia.com/pratique/identification/distinguer-g...
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This charming little passerine has given and will always give a lot of trouble to a lot of photographers, firstly by its color and its spots which make it almost invisible when placed on a tree trunk, a real challenge for the autofocus. knowing that it is most often on the dark side of the tree and is always in motion ...
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"Take It To The Limit" (The Eagles) cover by yours truly www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm84Oow4p00
Identification help, please. I recall the delicate pine siskin look in flight from living in Alaska, but I'm not so certain about the bird above--these don't seem to have breeding hues.
Crop only.
Thanks for your help!
Merci à Globetrotteur17 pour cette identification
-Parides eurimedes est une espèce de papillon de la famille des Papilionidae. Il est communément appelé cœur de bétail mylotes, cœur de bétail Arcas, cœur de bétail à carreaux roses et véritable cœur de bétail. Il est originaire des Amériques
L' envergure mesure 7 à 8,5 cm P. e. mylotes est noir avec les deux sexes ayant une tache rouge sur l'aile postérieure dorsale. L'aile antérieure dorsale du mâle a une tache verte triangulaire. La femelle a une tache blanche sur l'aile antérieure dorsale
🇬🇧 Thanks to Globetrotter17 for this identification
-Parides eurimedes is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is commonly known as mylotes cattle heart, Arcas cattle heart, pink-checked cattle heart and true cattle heart. It is native to the Americas.
The wingspan is 7-8.5 cm P. e. mylotes is black with both sexes having a red spot on the dorsal hindwing. The dorsal forewing of the male has a triangular green patch. The female has a white spot on the dorsal forewing
🇪🇸 Gracias a Trotamundos17 por esta identificación
-Parides eurimedes es una especie de mariposa de la familia Papilionidae. Se conoce comúnmente como corazón de ganado mylotes, corazón de ganado Arcas, corazón de ganado rosa y verdadero corazón de ganado. Es originaria del continente americano.
La envergadura alar es de 7-8,5 cm P. e. mylotes es negra y ambos sexos tienen una mancha roja en el ala posterior dorsal. El ala anterior dorsal del macho tiene una mancha triangular verde. La hembra tiene una mancha blanca en el ala anterior dorsal.
🇩🇪 Vielen Dank an Globetrotteur17 für diese Identifizierung.
-Parides eurimedes ist eine Schmetterlingsart aus der Familie der Schmetterlinge (Papilionidae). Er wird gemeinhin als Mylotes-Rinderherz, Arcas-Rinderherz, Rosa-kariertes Rinderherz und Echtes Rinderherz bezeichnet. Er ist in Nord- und Südamerika beheimatet.
Die Flügelspannweite misst 7 bis 8,5 cm P. e. mylotes ist schwarz, wobei beide Geschlechter einen roten Fleck auf dem hinteren Rückenflügel haben. Der dorsale Vorderflügel des Männchens hat einen dreieckigen grünen Fleck. Das Weibchen hat einen weißen Fleck auf dem vorderen Rückenflügel.
🇮🇹 Grazie a Globetrotter17 per l'identificazione.
-Parides eurimedes è una specie di farfalla della famiglia Papilionidae. È comunemente nota come cuore di bovino mylotes, cuore di bovino Arcas, cuore di bovino a scacchi rosa e cuore di bovino vero. È originaria delle Americhe.
L'apertura alare è di 7-8,5 cm. P. e. mylotes è nero, con entrambi i sessi che presentano una macchia rossa sull'ala posteriore dorsale. L'ala anteriore dorsale del maschio presenta una macchia verde triangolare. La femmina presenta una macchia bianca sull'ala anteriore dorsale.
The marsh tit (Poecile palustris is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae and genus Poecile, closely related to the willow, Père David's and Songar tits. It is small bird, around 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighing 12 g (0.42 oz), with a black crown and nape, pale cheeks, brown back and greyish-brown wings and tail. Between 8 and 11 subspecies are recognised. Its close resemblance to the willow tit can cause identification problems, especially in the United Kingdom where the local subspecies of the two are very similar: they were not recognised as separate species until 1897.
Qutb Shahi Tombs, Golkunda, Telangana - India
Newly renovated (in 2020) tomb of Hayat Bakshi Begum, daughter of Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah, the fifth sultan, wife of Sultan Muhammed Qutb Shah, the sixth sultan, and mother of Abdullah Qutb Shah, the seventh sultan. She was affectionately known as "Ma Saheba" (Revered Mother).
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb_Shahi_tombs and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayat_Bakshi_Begum
for more details.
Many thanks to Manfred Sommer (www.flickr.com/photos/asienman) and his spectacular Flickr account, which enabled me to ascertain the identification of the mausoleum.
Identification subject to my confusion as I trolled through my dragonfly book. Similar to Blue Skimmer, but I thought this was a much smaller dragonfly. Another long lens macro.
Dragonfly identification can be tricky at times. However, this one appears to be a Great Blue Skimmer. True, it’s not blue looking but that’s typical for females of the species. The give-away is the white face. It’s the only dragonfly species that has one.
Dragonflies eat insects. Hundreds each day. They use their long legs to catch prey in mid-air. As the Great Blue Skimmer is the largest dragonfly in my coastal Carolina area, perhaps it’s also the one with the biggest appetite.
Middleton Place, near Charleston, South Carolina
The Diver Jan visits a newly discovered wreck, which is, although know for more than two years, not positively identified yet. Using Rebreathers, we were able to extend our Bottom Time massively, so our findings might contribute to the ID of that Wreck. The measurements we took fit to our suspected ship...
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We saw quite a few of these on Ogmore Beach, South Wales. From 2 to 4 inches in size.
Standhisround has suggested Moon Jelly remains
There are several species that are all very similar.
Identification is often made by the call or the area where it occurs...
O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat - Lamington National Park
Australia
Sometimes I am at a loss when it comes to bird identification. The streaky plumage of many pipits look very similar so help can be required to fine tune an identification. The mere fact that there are apparently 40 different species of pipit just makes the matter more complex.
Having reached out to a most knowledgable friend it seems as though this one carrying a grub back to the nest is a Long-Billed Pipit.
Photographed within the Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya.
Having consulted an identification chart, I couldn't make my mind about this one. It could be either a southern or brown hawker, and possibly a female. This summer I have had a succession of them from my pond, where for the past couple of years they had been growing in the muddy bottom. This one had only just emerged and so was very obliging. The flower is helenium, one of my favourites
Many thanks for your comments and taking the time to view my photos, which I hope you enjoy. Best wishes for a pleasant and safe weekend.
I hate to think about how many times I've miss-identified hummingbirds. The females and juveniles all tend to look very much alike with respect to color patterns. However, every once in a while I get lucky and photograph some distinquishing characteristics such as in this shot. The tiny Calliope Hummingbird has wings that reach beyond its very short tail.
Calliope Hummingbird
Colorado Springs, CO
I am not sure of the identity of this beautiful raptor (Steve help!!!). I think it is a species of Buzzard. Thanks to Steve the Birdman for his identification
A lone sea bird perches on a timber pile of the old pier. The iconic white chalk stacks in the distance are faded through the soft diffused light conditions.
Maybe a parasol, maybe not. Lack of knowledge prevents identification of this beauty. Located among the hardwoods of southwest Ohio at Caesar Creek.
I'm far from certain about the identification of this Blue Butterfly. An expert over at Inaturalist says it's a Dotted Blue (ssp. uncertain), but this individual doesn't match anything in my field guide very closely, so I'd appreciate any help. I don't have a good idea of the size as it was photographed from a good distance, and I don't have a photo of the inner wing, but I got a glimpse of some brown with a bit of orange on the hindwing. I also don't have any idea what kind of flower it likes, because this one was perched on a corn lily leaf, and the corn lilies were mostly past bloom. Any help appreciated!
Camp Richardson, South Lake Tahoe, Ca. July, 2023.
This is the last campground of my trip. I've been off the road a bit over three weeks. I don't really miss it just yet, not the road at least.
But I do miss camping. When I travel, camping (especially free campgrounds like this one) allow me to continue longer and see more, photograph more.
I got more motels this trip than usual. I usually only get them when I'm feeling low, and that was most of the back half of the trip. When I stay in a motel, however, I feel so separated from myself.
Everything I am doing revolves around the car. When I'm camping, the car is right there. But at a motel (and especially hotel), the car is somewhere else, in some distant parking lot somewhere.
Camping is just so much easier for me - especially mentally. I've kicked around the idea of setting up a bed of some kind in the car, and though many people do it (and though I've slept in the car during some rough lightning storms), I would much rather be in a tent.
I'm in the car most of the day, getting out at night to be in a bit of nature is fun. But this was my last site. The next morning, I struck the tent, still wet from the rain that came through before dawn, and I packed it away until hopefully soon.
And yes, I took it out to dry when I got home, don't worry.
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'Identification'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: Fomapan 100
Process: FA-1017; 1+14; 9min
Idaho
July 2024