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Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
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Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
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It looks really pretty, BUT it is pollution. There is the street overflow. So after rain there is alot of debris. There is an inbetween station thats collects bottle sticks whatever before it travel to next pond. There are several of these collect basins before it ends up in Lake Ontario. This is the 1st collect basin. The blue colour is reflection a blue grafitti. I have no clue what debris was but it was very thick cream like gathering around the stick. I was very hard to focus on. Good manul focus practise. Straight from camera.
Pollution is a killer made by people......!
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A small impression of the work in this phase of the renovation in the house. Man, what a mess of particulate matter and noise pollution. Fortunately, 1 more day and then the build-up begins.
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Someone thinks of entertaining the donkeys with a Sony TV that he kindly dumped near their pen. He does not know that donkeys do not have time to watch television and that if they would had hands they would be able to get rid of the television in a more rational and less polluting way.
The dew pond from South Downs Way between J&J Windmills and Ditchling Beacon. This was taken about 2 hours after sunset. The yellow tinge in the sky is from the AmEx stadium, the artificial lighting helping to condition the pitch there. The orange tinge on the right comes from the light pollution from Brighton and Hove
When night shootings go bad, it's fun to still play with them.. Maybe not the best quality, but i like the mood when city lights hit the clouds.
. . . This is the view looking towards Grand Rapids from 35 miles away! The clouds there helped reflect city light a bit, but even 2.5 hours after sunset, you could still see the glow from the city!
The red light inside the Muskegon Community College Observatory is for the safety of people inside, and is the best color to not ruin the human eye's night vision.
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Les sanatoriums ont été massivement construits au début du XXe siècle dans des régions isolées de la pollution, en montagne, sur des plateaux ensoleillés pour bénéficier du grand air et des vertus désinfectantes et reconstituantes du soleil.
Sanatoriums were massively built at the beginning of the 20th century in regions isolated from pollution, in the mountains, on sunny plateaus to benefit from the great outdoors and the disinfecting and restorative properties of the sun.
I think this is the swan that was starving to death after it got a plastic Six pack rings around when it was younger.
This photograph was taken after a long period of warm and windless weather as the sun was setting and the moon was rising.
I'm not really sure where the haze came from, but even in the day it had a red / brown tinge to it which made me think of the sort of nitrogen dioxide pollution associated with cars and motorways.
Here the setting sun has exaggerated the color so that even the hills in the background appear to have a red / brown hue to them.
I'm posting my comment on this photo a day after because I didn't want to break the magic of the pic , sadly this is the last time Holly will swim in this lake that was built to cover a dump ,( just found that out )
Since I took this pic the level of the water as lower a full 2 feet , it will soon become a mosquito infected swamp , I am shock to see the level of pollution I have discovered in my forest.
That evolution don't affect us all as human bean is sad , I really wish I could go back in time and see Canada just 500 years ago :o(
If you have a chance, read these 3 articles. They will help you realize the seriousness of the environmental harm we are doing!
China for First Time Promises to Reduce Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
New York Times
China Is the Adult in the Room on Climate Now
New York Times
A really simple guide to climate change
BBC
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