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Galahs are monogamous birds and pairs mate for life. Males display to females by strutting towards them, bobbing and waving their heads and raising their crest, giving soft calls, and also clicking their bill. The breeding season in the north is from February to July, and in the south from July to December.
Mating Display
Yellow-crowned Night Heron in display mode at Ocean City, New Jersey
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You might remember this loving California Condor pair as they were truly my favorites of my Spring 2024 visit. For me, this heartwarming image completely matches their heartwarming story. L4 is the female of this mated pair. She was hatched in the wild, and she's now about 13 years old. Her partner K6 came from the Peregrine Fund's World Center for Birds of Prey. He's about a year older. A lady from the Peregrine Fund just happened to be in town and told me both had been treated independently for lead poisoning a few weeks apart. They were both released and happily reunited. Aren't they the sweetest with those head/neck feathers fluffed, and her loving gaze?
Great Blue Herons captured during a mating dance in a southern marsh. Painted using ProCreate’s watercolor brushes
Mating Ritual.
Buckeye Butterflies involved in a complicated flying and wing fluttering courting display
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La terra è la nostra eterna madre e donna, e come ogni donna fa, anch’essa dona qualcosa alla nostra ricchezza.
Ernst Jünger
The Malachite Butterfly attains its name due to its bright green coloured wings that resemble the colour of the malachite mineral. These butterflies usually live in citrus, mango and avocado orchards and in semi-deciduous or subtropical evergreen woodlands. The Malachite butterflies have a large wingspan from 8.3cm to 9.9cm. The caterpillars are a spiky black colour with red coloured markings, it becomes an emerald green chrysalis marked with pink colour and finally evolves into an eye catching adult butterfly.
This hard working chap was performing what I thought was a mating dance - however it could have been a terrirtorial dispute ?
At Cromwell Bottom local nature reserve, Brighouse
I uploaded a different shot of this pair this summer. For most of the time I watched them, their antennae were laid against their backs, but here a bee buzzed by (cropped out, but just visible at upper left) and they raised them momentarily. If anything the raised antennae make them more "spiky" than usual. (To finish out 2019 I spent a day making collage photos, and I needed this shot since I cropped the other one extra horizontal. I could have gone to the original of the other shot, but chose instead to upload this new one.)
This was a first for me, mating leopard slugs hanging from the back of our summer house. There was a lot of slime involved and long blue genitalia (entwined at the bottom of my photo).
Explored September 1st, 2020