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This is an album cover I shot and edited for Fry Jones' upcoming album called The Intermediate. This was the largest expansion photo I've ever done and the hardest. But I am happy with how it turned out.
Keoladeo National Park is the most famous birding park in India. It is home to more than 230 species of birds and hosts thousands of birds during the migratory flights each year. It is a man made wetland and a World Heritage Site.
Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India
The intermediate egret, median egret, smaller egret, or yellow-billed egret is a medium-sized heron. It is a resident breeder from east Africa across the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia and Australia.
Eurasian Wigeon EUWI (Anas penelope)
X American Wigeon AMWI (Anas americana)
Near mouth of Reay Creek
Bazan Bay
Sidney BC.
DSCN1205 EUWI X AMWI hybrid
This could be a back cross which favours EUWI
Typically hybrids show a stronger "AMWI" line differentiating 2 tones on face
Is this a bird ...
i had hoped to see again ??? hmmm... See comment box
however
Here are my surmisings
Red tones show that EUWI is involved and the lack of definition would seem to indicate a possible EUWI back cross
All the speckling and other face tones indicate AMWI influence
The flanks /sides are nicely intermediate between grey tones of EUWI and purple tones of AMWI
Further photo doc. of this bird before all the Wigeons migrate North , could be very interesting.
Would love to see what "prime" breeding plumage looks like.
FUN BIRD
Second-largest of the egrets, working the edge of a lagoon in the Minnippi Wetland. I had originally ID'd as Great, but I think I can see breast plumes as well as those on the back.
Our Daily Challenge ... hobbies.
Bird watching is one component of my photography obsession. During the heat of summer most of the water birds I can see from my backyard disappeared ... presumably to cooler climes. However, they are starting to return and have discovered the conveniently located log on the edge of the lake.
Thanks to my friend Tyler for the chance to see some rare power on CP in the year 2013! CP 9134 & SOO 6044.
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
....from a visit to Buckley's Hole. Buckley's Hole Conservation Park is situated in the south-west corner of Bribie Island, the northern-most sand island in Moreton Bay, some 50 kilometres north of Brisbane. The park covers an area of 87.7 hectares and contains a freshwater lagoon, woodland, open forest and beach. It is this diversity of habitat that has led to such a large number of bird species being recorded in this small area, the present total standing at 270.
Intermediate egret
Scientific Name: Ardea intermedia
Description: The Intermediate Egret is intermediate in size between the Little Egret and the Great Egret. It is white with yellow bill and grey legs. In the breeding season the bill turns reddish and it develops plumes on back and chest. Males and females are similar in appearance.
Size: 60cm - 70cm
Habitat: wetlands, swamps, flooded grassland
Food: fish, frog, crustaceans, insects
Breeding: nests in colonies in trees in swamps or mangroves. The nest is made of sticks. Lays three or four pale blue oval eggs in a stick nest. Often forms breeding colonies with other species of herons.
Range: Found in eastern and northern parts of Australia, including Victoria and most of New South Wales and Queensland, tropical north of Western Australia and Northern Territory. The Intermediate Egret is also found in Africa, India, south east Asia.
(Source: www.ozanimals.com)
© Chris Burns 2015
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Reservist infantry candidates from the Intermediate Mortar Course practice their skill on the 81-mm mortar in the training area at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, Oromocto, New-Brunswick, December 4, 2018.
Photo: Aviator Stéphanie Labossière, Canadian Army Trials and Evaluation Unit (CATEU)
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Des membres de la Force de réserve participant au cours sur le mortier de niveau intermédiaire pratiquent leur adresse au tir de mortier de 81 mm dans le secteur d’entraînement de la Base des Forces canadiennes Gagetown, à Oromocto, au Nouveau Brunswick, le 4 décembre 2018.
Photo : Aviator Stéphanie Labossière, Unité de l'Armée canadienne d'essais et d'évaluation (UACEE)
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Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
...from a walk on the Nudgee Beach Mangrove Boardwalk on the incoming tide.
Intermediate Egret
Scientific Name: Ardea intermedia
Description: The Intermediate Egret is intermediate in size between the Little Egret and the Great Egret. It is white with yellow bill and grey legs. In the breeding season the bill turns reddish and it develops plumes on back and chest. Males and females are similar in appearance.
Size: 60cm - 70cm
Habitat: wetlands, swamps, flooded grassland
Food: fish, frog, crustaceans, insects
Breeding: nests in colonies in trees in swamps or mangroves. The nest is made of sticks. Lays three or four pale blue oval eggs in a stick nest. Often forms breeding colonies with other species of herons.
Range: Found in eastern and northern parts of Australia, including Victoria and most of New South Wales and Queensland, tropical north of Western Australia and Northern Territory. The Intermediate Egret is also found in Africa, India, south east Asia.
(Source: www.ozanimals.com)
© Chris Burns 2015
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All rights reserved.
This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying and recording without my written consent.