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北市，信義區&&南港區，九五峰~
Ninety-five peak, Xinyi District && Nangang District,Taipei
Aerial view of Downtown Taipei, capital city of Taiwan, on a foggy spring morning with prominent Taipei 101 Tower above clouds amid skyscrapers in Xinyi District & Datun Mountain in distant background
Intensive cultivation to feed the rampant human overpopulation has replaced the forest with fields that stretch almost to infinity... Groups of birds are looking for shelter and food... are they looking for a lost oasis ?
This is a landscape in France (Burgundy)....
It’s believed that between the 15th and 18th centuries, Easter Island suffered an overpopulation crisis that caused shortages and conflicts between the 12 island tribes. The obsession of building bigger and bigger moai statues was one of the main causes of deforestation and food scarcity. These problems led to a fall in the belief of the moai’s power and their construction was not only abandoned, but some were even torn down from their ahus.
Era tal la superpoblación de inviduos de Enallagma cyathigerum, durante esos días, que escaseaba la comida y los adultos atacaban a los recién emergidos. La gran sorpresa me la llevé cuando pude observar que también atacaban a las larvas .....
Las larvas eran de la misma especie.
Fotograma completo, adaptado a formato panorámico.
En el Puerto. Villena (Alicante) España
Such was the overpopulation of Enallagma cyathigerum individuals, during those days, that food was scarce and the adults attacked the newly emerged. The big surprise was when I saw that they also attacked the larvae .....
The larvae were of the same species.
Full frame, adapted to panoramic format.
In the port. Villena (Alicante) Spain
Me llamó poderosamente la atención que un macho de Orthetrum cancellatum volara algo lento con una hembra en una posición rara. Y tanto, la había cazado y empezaba a devorarla.
Es frecuente la depredación entre especies en los Odonatos y no tanto, pero se da, entre individuos de la misma especie en situaciones de superpoblación.
Muchas preguntas por resolver.
Fotograma completo, sin recortes.
En El Coto. Villena (Alicante) España
It caught my attention that a male of Orthetrum cancellatum flew somewhat slowly with a female in a strange position. And so much, he had hunted her and was beginning to devour her.
Predation between species is frequent in Odonata and not so much, but it does occur between individuals of the same species in situations of overpopulation.
Many questions to solve.
Full frame, no clipping.
In El Coto. Villena (Alicante) Spain
The sun turns blood red due to air quality as it sets in the west over the hills lining the shores of the Pacific Ocean in California. Looks like another planet.
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26-September-2019: in the notes what you could see.
The northern Adriatic section in this photo is called, precisely, Kvarnerić (little Kvarner/Quarnerolo in Italian) and is part of the Mountain-Coastal Region (Primorsko-Goranska Županija) of Rijeka, that is the main Center of the Croatian North/West.
As many as 4 inhabited islands, among which the largest in the Adriatic (Cres) bathe part of their coasts in this sea-lake, while numerous uninhabited islands, of various dimensions, are visited by a (left) couple of specimens of monk Seal, the only ones of North Adriatic, among the 3-400 that still inhabit the Mediterranean, especially between southern Croatia, Montenegro and the Aegean Sea.
About twenty-five years ago 4 specimens of Eurasian brown Bear, swimming across the narrow northern part of the Novi Vinodolski and Velebit channel (Vinodolski-Velebitski Kanal), reached the island of Krk, probably attracted by the smell of many sheep bred on the island, some become wild, and driven by the overpopulation of brown Bears of the neighboring Gorski Kotar, the mountainous part of the Kvarner Region (Quarnero in Italian).
Using scientifically approved sock puppets Tra attempts to address the overpopulation of cats. Good Thing - Bad Thing; You Decide.
Scott warned Tra this would be futile.
The majority of cats leave in disgust.
Tralalas Diner @ Pine Lake
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A Post-Apocalyptic Photo-Op Sim
Stuff:
.Shi Arcane Headpiece
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Demonic Hell Tattoo
[The Forge] Banshee Welding Goggles (Steel)
SUGAR City Cargo Shorts
Abramations Bento Sock Puppets
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Remarkable Oblivion Last Stand Boots
DRD Nerd Goggles
KOSH Necklaces
DRD Brynhilda Shoulders
Blindspot Memory Cable Neckwrap
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Battle Cats of Tralalas Diner
DC Watching Crows
Scott:
SI Aviator Hat with goggles on Top V.2 c.3 (add/wear)
L&B Swear "Aviator Vintage" FatPack Mens Leather Jacket
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[SIGNATURE] Gianni - Mesh Body - v4.5
Catwa Head Daniel
Hair : *ARGRACE* HAYATE - Blacks
In the post-apocalypse world - cats hatched a plan to overpopulate and once again make humans their slaves....
Pix'd at Tralalas Diner @ Pine Lake - A post-apocalyptic photo-op sim:
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The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age. The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.
The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age. The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.
The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
Ahu and moais destroyed.
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The moai statues and religious beliefs:
As in all of Polynesia, in Easter Island, worshiping ancestors was a big part of the inhabitants’ spiritual lives. The Rapanui believed that important people’s “mana” (spiritual energy) continued existing after their death, and that it had the ability to influence events much after their death, a belief that became tangible in the construction of the moai statues.
This is known as the classic stage, when the Rapa Nui culture reached its maximum splendor raising enormous ceremonial altars or Ahu in which great sculptures where made craved from volcanic rock, which are the most characteristic symbols of Easter Island. The moai period extended between approximately 800 A.D. and 1860, when the conflict between the different bloodlines changed the island’s history.
When a tribe’s leader or one of its important members dies, a sculpture was ordered to be created in the quarry of Rano Raraku, which would later be transported to to the respective village, so that it could project its “mana” or supernatural powers over its descendants. The moai statues were always placed looking towards their village and their descendants, not towards the sea, since their objective was not to protect them from outside threats but to extend over them a protective blanket.
As the Rapanui became skilled in sculpting and transporting the moai statues, these became bigger and more stylized, in contrast with the first which were short and crude; hence, the size and finesse of the sculpture’s details can be used to determine their antiquity. In fact, the biggest moai that were sculpted in this period, are still found in the quarry of Rano Raraku. It’s estimated that the biggest sculptures demanded the work and attention of men between 10-20 years old all year long.
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It’s believed that between the 15th and 18th centuries, Easter Island suffered an overpopulation crisis that caused shortages and conflicts between the 12 island tribes. The obsession of building bigger and bigger moai statues was one of the main causes of deforestation and food scarcity. These problems led to a fall in the belief of the moai’s power and their construction was not only abandoned, but some were even torn down from their ahus.
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At this time, the Tangata Manu or Birdman cult starts gaining strength. This cult resulted in what is now known as the Birdman Competition, as a way to determine who would be the Ariki who would rule the tribes for a period of one year. He who collected the first manutara (Easter Island seagull) egg from Motu Nui would have the right to rule. The Birdman Competition was held every year until the arrival of the Catholic missionaries in 1864.
The Painted Hills National Monument is a surprisingly small pocket of spectacular visions into the past among an otherwise "normal" landscape. These extraordinary bands of color and strange patterns are the compressed signatures left behind from volcanic eruptions and drastic climate changes that happened 35 million years ago, when this was a lush, tropical flood plain and home to animals like prehistoric horses, elephants, camels and saber-tooth tigers.
It was extremely hazy during my visit, but I think this brought out the velvety texture. It almost looks like someone threw a big blanket over the hills!
In our lifetime, the inescapable threats of nuclear annihilation, overpopulation, pollution and the current escalation of terrorism can sometimes seem overwhelming and paralyzing, and so I find it actually reassuring to think that 35 million years from now it could all be reduced to a colored band in a hillside.
"Überbevölkerung"
Detailaufnahme eines Schaukastens im Neandertaler Museum in Mettmann.
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Detail image of a showcase in the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann/Germany.
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.
The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.
The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe (where they were also known as Varangians). They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion.
The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.wikipedia
Compassionate humans are everywhere if we are willing to open our eyes and see the kindness of those around us. Compassion is human nature.
So why dont we as humans show more compassion and kindness towards our planet, to Mother Nature, the environment and nature surrounding us. It makes me wonder. Why are we destroying the beauty of nature?
Why dont we acknowledging the need of animals, and nature in general, and the importance of their survival, as well as showing interest in their well-being, after all we need nature to be able to live here on earth.
I want to yet again praise and thank Una and Bo for putting the environment on the agenda, by making this sim.
I hope many will visit, but I also hope and wish people will take the time to sit down and reflect about what they see on the sim, this could very well be a real life scenario if we dont stop and think. By doing so hopefully we can make some changes in the way we treat our planet and the environment, we can all do something, even if little. It is a fact that global warming and climate change is effecting all of us. Some of the things we all can notice are: pollution, global warming, overpopulation, waste disposal, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, ozone layer depletion, and the list goes on....
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The Carpenter's Arms (circa 1965), the original pub of the same name was 300yds away and demolished in 1964.
I hope it stays in business after the Covid crisis as many pubs in East London have already gone belly up !
LR4071 © Joe O'Malley 2021
A victim of urban sprawl in Coastal Sussex, this red fox hails from a den excavated from beneath a utility shed. 20 years ago, this fox would have never been found in such a den, but it's adapt to human incursion or perish.
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.[7] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.[3] The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
Except this was for animals. Today as part of a month long initiative to promote spay/neuter to curtail the City's domestic animal overpopulation, and endorsed by City officials, K-9 Angels Rescue and the Empty Shelter Project, held a massive, free spay/neuter event at Denver Harbor Multi-Service Center. When I left at just after 3:00 p.m., over 400 pets had been checked in for surgery and still more were arriving. My role today was cleaning and sterilizing surgical instruments 😊
The City of the Dead, or Cairo Necropolis, also referred to as the Qarafa is a series of vast Islamic-era necropolises and cemeteries in Cairo, Egypt. They extend to the north and to the south of the Cairo Citadel, below the Mokattam Hills and outside the historic city walls, covering an area roughly 4 miles long. They are included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of "Historic Cairo".
The necropolis is separated roughly into two regions: the Northern Cemetery to the north of the Citadel (also called the Eastern Cemetery or Qarafat ash-sharq in Arabic because it is east of the old city walls), and the older Southern Cemetery to the south of the Citadel. There is also another smaller cemetery north of Bab al-Nasr.
The necropolis that makes up "the City of the Dead" has been developed over many centuries and contains both the graves of Cairo's common population as well as the elaborate mausoleums of many of its historical rulers and elites. It started with the early city of Fustat (founded in 642 CE) and arguably reached its apogee, in terms of prestige and monumentality, during the Mamluk era (13th-15th centuries). Throughout their history, the necropolises were home to various types of living inhabitants as well. These included the workers whose professions were tied to the cemeteries (e.g. gravediggers, tomb custodians), the Sufis and religious scholars studying in the religious complexes built by sultans and other wealthy patrons, and the regular inhabitants of small urban settlements and villages in the area. This population grew and shrank according to circumstances in different eras. However, starting in the late 19th century and increasing in the 20th century, the pressure of Cairo's intensive urbanization and its ensuing housing shortage led to a large increase in the number of people living in the necropolis zones. Some people resorted to squatting within the mausoleums and tomb enclosures and turning them into improvised housing; however, these "tomb-dwellers" remained a small fraction of the overall population in the area. This phenomenon led to much media commentary and popular imagination about the condition of those living in the necropolises, linking them symbolically to Cairo's much-discussed overpopulation problems and sometimes leading to exaggerated estimates of the number of people squatting in the mausoleums. Source Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_the_Dead_(Cairo)
TD : Agfapan 100 Professional 35mm film, developed in D-76 1+1 for 7 minutes. Exposure ISO 100 @35mm lens, natural daylight. Scanned with Alpha 6000 edited in ACR, inverted in CS6.
Riverboat homes on the Lea Navigation.
With the massive cost of housing and rent people are forced to select other options. Twenty years ago there was occasional boat traffic but now you can hardly find a gap on some of the stretches of the lower river.
Flickr Explore 4-9-17.
LR2362
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age. The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.
The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain. In 1021, the Vikings achieved the feat of reaching North America- the date of which was not specified until exactly a millennium later.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
The water that sustains us is under attack from pollution, privatization, war and overpopulation. We will all wake up to that reality one day soon.
Using Jean Antoine Watteau - Nymphe de fontaine in the Public Domain from Wikimedia Commons
All other photos and textures are my own.
The Battle Cats presented a weaponized response to the Bird's bitter complaints of cat overpopulation. Scott & Tra are recruited for the demo. Scott will reload and Tra will aim...(recruited = threatened). The Birds are rethinking the whole idea after Tra's first few inept but disturbing efforts.
Location: Tralalas Diner @ Pine Lake
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Stuff:
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MAD' BADBOYZ Yakuza Tatt
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[The Forge] Welding Goggles
Geisha Girl Dragon Tatt
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Candy Necklace
Little Tree Necklace
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EPIA Pandemic Gas Mask
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Urban Pigeons
RO - Gas Masks
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Cardboard Box [DBy Mesh]
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Catwa Head
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I thought I'd also try and identify this insect that this recently fledged Red-Backed Shrike was hunting. I think it's a Green Huntsman Spider (Micromata roseum). Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
Learning to hunt is especially important particularly that very soon, perhaps in less that one week these first year shrikes will have to look for food all the way to their wintering grounds in South Africa!
The genus name, Lanius , is derived from the Latin word for " butcher ", and some shrikes are also known as "butcher birds" because of their feeding habits.
The Red-backed Shrike bird (Lanius collurio) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The general colour of the males upper parts is reddish. It has a grey head and a typical shrike black stripe through the eye. Underparts are tinged pink and the tail has a black and white pattern similar to that of a wheatear. In the female and young Red-backed Shrikes, the upperparts are brown and vermiculated (wavy lines or markings). Underparts are buff and also vermiculated.
This 16 – 18 centimetres long migratory passerine eats large insects, small birds, voles and lizards. Like other shrikes the Red-backed Shrike hunts from prominent perches and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a ‘larder’.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa.
The Red-backed Shrikes range is decreasing and it is now probably extinct in Great Britain as a breeding bird, although it is frequent on migration.
The Red-backed Shrike is named as a protected bird in Britain under a Biodiversity Action Plan. The Red-backed Shrikes’ decline is due to overuse of pesticides and scrub clearance due to human overpopulation.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in open cultivated country with hawthorn and dog rose.
The only case of overpopulation that we have in Europe.
Some funny ideas come to my mind, but I better keep them to myself.
Is there anyone who would be willing to finance a funny movie about funerals?
Superpoblación
Debemos aprender de la naturaleza, y me gusta esta imagen porque la superpoblacón es un problema futuro en nuestro planeta, donde los recursos son limitados...y lo estamos destruyendo poco a poco...todo depende de un hilo como en esta macro...
These trees on the edge of a cliff reminded me of the plight of Lemmings. Due to periodic overpopulation, during their march many end up jumping off a cliff in order to complete the groups migration. It is however a fallacy to believe they commit mass suicide in their need to relocate.
The parents of this little one don't hang around when it's time to head south for the winter. This one will follow it's instinct and try to avoid summer storms through the European mainland perhaps crossing the Mediterranean Sea from France or Italy. It's a dangerous time for young birds, especially where fast birds of prey like this Northern Sparrowhawk in the next photo!
The genus name, Lanius , is derived from the Latin word for " butcher ", and some shrikes are also known as "butcher birds" because of their feeding habits.
The Red-backed Shrike bird (Lanius collurio) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The general colour of the males upper parts is reddish. It has a grey head and a typical shrike black stripe through the eye. Underparts are tinged pink and the tail has a black and white pattern similar to that of a wheatear. In the female and young Red-backed Shrikes, the upperparts are brown and vermiculated (wavy lines or markings). Underparts are buff and also vermiculated.
This 16 – 18 centimetres long migratory passerine eats large insects, small birds, voles and lizards. Like other shrikes the Red-backed Shrike hunts from prominent perches and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a ‘larder’.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa.
The Red-backed Shrikes range is decreasing and it is now probably extinct in Great Britain as a breeding bird, although it is frequent on migration.
The Red-backed Shrike is named as a protected bird in Britain under a Biodiversity Action Plan. The Red-backed Shrikes’ decline is due to overuse of pesticides and scrub clearance due to human overpopulation.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in open cultivated country with hawthorn and dog rose.
While planning my next trip, I decided to revisit some pix taken in China in 2014. Here is one of Roof Tops in Shanglai from our hotel window as I "see" them.
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An unlucky muskrat's life came to an end when he was munching on greens near a melt hole in the ice. He didn't die for nothing, his body provided a substantial meal to a hungry Red-tailed Hawk, a skilled and agile hunter. Nature is beautiful and nature is cruel. The harshness ensures natural selection, preventing overpopulation and maintaining ecosystem health.
Despite the harshness of nature, there is a certain magic to it.
Few days ago, I posted photos of a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk just like this one, being rehabilitated in a local wildlife center after a clavicle and wing injury. He was in an enclosure recuperating and doing exactly what this free Red-tail is doing. Eating a hefty meal to survive another day.
Bronseplassen, Norway.The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.[7] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.[3] The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.[7] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.[3] The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
Class-D personnel is required to live near to their working space to minimize resource, time and power loss. Class-D personnel is entitled to living space of max. 15 square meters. Class-D personell may not leave their working space until permitted to do so by Class C ( or higher ) personnel.
Violaters will be put to retirement.
Water hyacinth/ Aguapé – Eichhornia crassipes
.Scientific Name: Eichhornia crassipes
.Popular Names: Water hyacinth, Baroneza, Camalote, Water hyacinth, Murumuru, Mururé, Pareci, Peacock, Queen of the lakes
.Family: Pontederiaceae
.Category: Aquatic Plants, Floating Plants
.Climate: Equatorial, Subtropical, Tropical
.Origin: Central America, North America, South America
.Height: 0.1 to 0.3 meters
.Luminosity: Full Sun
.Life Cycle: Perennial
An aquatic and floating plant, the Water Hyacinth ( Aguapé) is very ornamental. However in some situations of overpopulation it can become a problem in lakes. With round, large and shiny leaves, the Water hyacinth multiplies quickly. Its inflorescence composed of beautiful purplish blue flowers resembles that of the hyacinth.
In landscaping, the Water hyacinth is used to populate lakes and water mirrors, favoring aquatic life, especially fish. It should be grown in full sun in naturally fertile, pH-corrected water.
The species originates from freshwater bodies in the warm tropical regions of South America, with a natural distribution in the Amazon and Rio de la Plata basins. It is used in phytoremediation and as a medicinal plant, soil fertilizer and ornamental plant, although it is considered a dangerous invasive species in tropical and subtropical regions.
It is considered one of the fastest growing plants known, in most cases reproducing vegetatively through stolons that are released from the mother plant. In Southeast Asia, cases were reported in which the population spread 2 to 5 m per day. There are data known to indicate that, in optimal situations, the number of plants doubles every two weeks. The invasive capacity of the species derives in large part from its ability to self-clone, producing large floating masses of plants all with the same genetic makeup.
The species tolerates air and water temperatures ranging from 10 °C to 35 °C, but does not grow below 12 °C or above 33-35 °C.
It is naturalized in vast areas of tropical and subtropical regions on all continents and is included in the list of the 100 most dangerous invasive alien species in the world published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Despite this, it can be used in phytoremediation operations, being one of the most studied species for this purpose due to its purifying characteristics and ease of proliferation. As the species obtains from the water all the nutrients it requires for its metabolism, as nitrogen and phosphorus, together with potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, ammonium, nitrite, sulfate, chlorine, phosphate and carbonate ions,which are the more important.
It has a root system, which may have associated microorganisms, which favors the purifying action of the plant.
In general, these plants are capable of retaining in their tissues a wide variety of heavy metals, including cadmium, mercury and arsenic. The mechanism of retention of these ions is based on the formation of complexes between the heavy metal and the amino acids present in the cells.
Taken in a small fountain at Botanic Garden/ Rio de Janeiro
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On Explore: May 4, 2022
The genus name, Lanius , is derived from the Latin word for " butcher ", and some shrikes are also known as "butcher birds" because of their feeding habits.
The Red-backed Shrike bird (Lanius collurio) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The general colour of the males upper parts is reddish. It has a grey head and a typical shrike black stripe through the eye. Underparts are tinged pink and the tail has a black and white pattern similar to that of a wheatear. In the female and young Red-backed Shrikes, the upperparts are brown and vermiculated (wavy lines or markings). Underparts are buff and also vermiculated.
This 16 – 18 centimetres long migratory passerine eats large insects, small birds, voles and lizards. Like other shrikes the Red-backed Shrike hunts from prominent perches and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a ‘larder’.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa.
The Red-backed Shrikes range is decreasing and it is now probably extinct in Great Britain as a breeding bird, although it is frequent on migration.
The Red-backed Shrike is named as a protected bird in Britain under a Biodiversity Action Plan. The Red-backed Shrikes’ decline is due to overuse of pesticides and scrub clearance due to human overpopulation.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in open cultivated country with hawthorn and dog rose.
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In the old city of Oxenfurt, the central square once gleamed with perfect stonework, but years of heavy trade had left it scarred. Deep holes now marked the plaza where once polished stones lay, worn down by carts, feet, and time.
This year's harvest had been generous. Fields outside the city offered up golden grain in abundance, and workers hauled the crops back into town, storing them in large wooden boxes. A new supervisor, eager to impress, rushed the process. Without care or planning, he pushed the workers to move faster, stacking the boxes hastily and unevenly.
The result was a dangerous mess — tall, unstable piles, ready to fall with the slightest shift.
Life continued around them. Locals still filled the square daily, selling fruit, bread, and goods from makeshift markets set up at their doorsteps. Children played, elders shuffled carefully.
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This is made for the "pick your poison" Category for the Summer Joust 2025.
The 3 Crits I used, are Overpopulation (15 or more minifigs), Unstable load, the boxes on the right that are about to collaps, and the weathered townsquare.
after more than a year inactive(due my father passing away) I can finally say I have finished a build.