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The New Zealand dotterel/tūturiwhatu is an endangered species found only in NZ. There are only about 1700 birds left. Loss of habitat and introduced predatory mammals are to blame for their decline in numbers. This male is displaying his breeding colours with his flushed chest feathers of rusty orange.
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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I photographed a Gray Seedeater (Sporophila intermedia) during an urban photo walk through Restrepo, in the Department of Meta in Colombia. The bird perches on a rusty horizontal wire that runs across the frame, grounding the composition while soft green distance dissolves into clean bokeh. Slate plumage shifts from charcoal crown to silvery flanks, a peach bill and dark eye bringing a calm, watchful mood.
I worked low and parallel to the perch to keep the plane of focus tidy across the face and shoulder. A shallow depth of field isolated the subject, a fast shutter preserved fine texture, and slight negative compensation protected the light bill. I timed exposures between small gusts, letting the wire’s straight line anchor the image and guide the gaze.
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After gathering, but before the acorns can be safely stored away, the mice of the forest stand guard by their important food source.
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My entry for the tails from the meadow category of Brickscalibur.
What can be more compelling than a view on deep everlasting sky? The sky seen through the tree branches. This is one of those ancient big trees that has been here for hundreds of years, now protected by law. How many generations of travelers will see the sky through its branches?
Yesterday marked 12 months to the day since the first UK lockdown started in response to the Covid 19 pandemic.
The death toll currently stands at 126K
For me, one of the highlights of our walk last Sunday was finding these 13th century church ruins. I Loved the peaceful energy of the place.
The wooden sign reads:
'The place where thou standest
is holy ground.
It is also sacred to the dead
whose bodies rest here.
Try to speak and act
reverently in it.'
~ John Tavener - The Protecting Veil for cello and orchestra ~
The wharf in Coupeville Washington was built in 1905 to export grain produced on Whidbey Island. The town sits on Penn Cove, a sheltered bay that provided a safe, sheltered harbor during the early settlement of the area. In 1792 Capt. George Vancouver named the harbor in honor of, as he wrote, “a particular friend.” It is thought that the person honored was either John or Richard Penn, both of whom were grandsons of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
Before European settlement, 3 permanent villages inhabited by the Lower Skagit People were located around Penn Cove. The largest village called at bəc̓adᶻali, or “snake place" occupied the site of present day town of Coupeville.
Cmdr. Charles Wilkes of the US Navy charted the small bay in 1841. Wilkes was the American born great nephew of the former Lord Mayor of London John Wilkes. He led US Expeditions to the South Pacific (including Antarctica) and Puget Sound. He was an important and controversial naval leader during the Civil War and ended his career with the rank of Rear Admiral (retired).
In 1850 Issac Neff Ebey became one of the first non-native American settlers and farmers in the area. Others soon followed and made land claims as provided by the Donation Land Act of 1850. Also, in 1850 Captain Thomas Coupe laid out a town on the shores of Penn Cove which today bears his name, Coupeville. It became the center of commerce for the Island, an important port, and during the late 1800s, home to many active and retired sea captains and mariners.
The wharf is a contributing property to the Central Whidbey Island Historic District which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. To better protect the unique history and landscape, Coupeville and its wharf was included in Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve in 1978. This one-of-a-kind unit of the National Park System preserves and protects the historical record of the exploration and settlement of central Whidbey Island from 19th century to the present.
References:
www.nps.gov/ebla/learn/historyculture/index.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebey%27s_Landing_National_Historica...
www.ebeysreserve.com/learn-about-the-reserve
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_N._Ebey
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupeville,_Washington
npshistory.com/publications/ebla/nr-cent-whidbey-is-hd.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupeville_grain_wharf
The gristlier side of NYC!
I'm headed through Queens into Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Brooklyn to be exact. Williamsburg is where I was born, where we lived in a tenement of railroad rooms, where I played on the concrete pavement of the local school yard, and where we left for a better life when I was five years old.
I haven't been back to Williamsburg in 58 years.......
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Young female koala joey (Phascolarctos cinereus) is out of her mom "Sooky's" pouch more and more. But she still stays very close to her mom. Australia Outback section of the San Diego Zoo. Conservation status: vulnerable
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One of my favourite things about photographing giraffes is they are the giants we read in fairytales, but the nice ones of course. They look into my eyes like they are trying to reach for my soul. It feels like they know how much I adore them and any animal, which gives me the gift I have with them allowing me to capture their moments. I photograph animals because the world needs to see them. It’s like some humans don’t even care if they live or die. We need to protect the earth’s animals, this is their land.
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Walkin with Mom, this is the same calf that was running in the previous photo. The cow and calf walked into the deeper brush and stayed around for a while before leaving about 2 hours later. We love having wildlife visit our property. A couple years ago, my wife stepped in bear poo with her bare feet, didn't see the bear but she got to feel its presence!
Ein Teil der Stadtmauer von Tallinn, Estland.
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A part of Tallinn's city wall, Estonia.
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The world-famous Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul - originally founded as a cathedral - has been turned back into a mosque.
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At a first glance all looks normal in this shot. Look closer at the right hand side and you will see that the glacier is covered by a series of huge tarpaulins. The retreat of the Rhone Glacier over the last one hundred years has been startling and although it extends virtually as far as you can see in this view there is a real fear that it will disappear for good.
Female. Pollinating an apple tree.
In Germany, three quarters of flying insects have vanished in 25 years ( www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-of-ec... ).
One third of all invertebrate species are endangered or have already gone extinct in Germany.
The loss of biodiversity on land worldwide amounts to 20 % ( IPBES (2019): Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Version 1). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5657041, page 31 ).