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Catedral de Santa Maria la Real de la Almudena
De bouw van de kathedraal heeft wel meer dan 100 jaar geduurd en is pas ongeveer 21 jaar oud. Hoewel koning Felipe II in 1561 al een kathedraal in Madrid wilde, begon de bouw van de Almudena kathedraal pas in 1883. De reden dat Madrid hiervoor nog geen kathedraal had, is omdat het nog tot 1868 tot het aartsbisdom van Toledo behoorde
This is a shot I discovered recently while going through my digital photography vault.
These are the cogs of the watergate at the "Schwellenmätteli" in Bern.
Auf Fototour mit Jörgenshaus und Hildegard Spickenbaum.
Trotz des schlechten Wetters hat es riesigen Spaß gemacht, mit beiden zusammen, Köln fotografisch zu erkunden. Dabei ist dieses Bild entstanden.
▽ 28LA top
▽ Rhude earring
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The same day, the same rainy weather, just a different place: Luxembourg City and a modern castle from the 21st century. Which one is more beautiful, which one is more sustainable? The future will show.
[Hyped] CASH HEADBAND- @Grand Event
[DUK] - Denner Interactive Shorts -
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.::IDK::.Office set#1 @Man Cave
JIAN Cat Collection
JIAN Pets Wardrobe / Cat Bread & Collars
Lagom - Modern kitty tree @Blanc
Dreamland Designs Bohemian Fringed Rug Set
Little Branch _DracaenaMilkiway{Potted}
Junk Food - Microwave Popcorn
Cuckoo - Cuculus Canorus
Norfolk
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, e that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.
The English word "cuckoo" comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modern English.
The scientific name is from Latin. Cuculus is "cuckoo" and canorus, "melodious ".
A study using stuffed bird models found that small birds are less likely to approach common cuckoos that have barred underparts similar to the Eurasian sparrowhawk, a predatory bird. Eurasian reed warblers were found more aggressive to cuckoos that looked less hawk-like, meaning that the resemblance to the hawk helps the cuckoo to access the nests of potential hosts. Other small birds, great tits and blue tits, showed alarm and avoided attending feeders on seeing either (mounted) sparrowhawks or cuckoos; this implies that the cuckoo's hawklike appearance functions as protective mimicry, whether to reduce attacks by hawks or to make brood parasitism easier.
The common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out of the nest, lays an egg and flies off. The whole process takes about 10 seconds. A female may visit up to 50 nests during a breeding season. Common cuckoos first breed at the age of two years.
More than 100 host species have been recorded: meadow pipit, dunnock and Eurasian reed warbler are the most common hosts in northern Europe; garden warbler, meadow pipit, pied wagtail and European robin in central Europe; brambling and common redstart in Finland; and great reed warbler in Hungary.
Studies were made of 90 great reed warbler nests in central Hungary. There was an "unusually high" frequency of common cuckoo parasitism, with 64% of the nests parasitised. Of the nests targeted by cuckoos, 64% contained one cuckoo egg, 23% had two, 10% had three and 3% had four common cuckoo eggs. In total, 58% of the common cuckoo eggs were laid in nests that were multiply parasitised. When laying eggs in nests already parasitised, the female cuckoos removed one egg at random, showing no discrimination between the great reed warbler eggs and those of other cuckoos.
It was found that nests close to cuckoo perches were most vulnerable: multiple parasitised nests were closest to the vantage points, and unparasitised nests were farthest away. Nearly all the nests "in close vicinity" to the vantage points were parasitised. More visible nests were more likely to be selected by the common cuckoos. Female cuckoos use their vantage points to watch for potential hosts and find it easier to locate the more visible nests while they are egg-laying.
Power house mechanic working on steam pump..
© Lewis Hine, photographer, 1920
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2024
At the international exhibition "ceramic art London 2022" (Central Saint Martins, Granary Square). Sculpture by James Evans. There was obviously some kind of iron mixed into the clay. To me, his sculptures trigger associations of the decay and, hence, the transitoriness, of our grand technological structures. So, what we are looking at is the debris of the Anthropocene.