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Wikipedia: The racket-tailed treepie (Crypsirina temia) is an Asian treepie, a member of the crow family, Corvidae.
It has a velvety-black forehead of short, plush black feathers with the rest of the bird being an oily green color, though appearing black in dim light. The tail feathers which in this species are long and broaden at the tail's end are black also with a greenish tinge, as are the wings. The iris of the bird is a turquoise-blue darkening towards the pupil to a very deep or near black. The bill, legs and feet are black.
This bird occurs in southern Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Indo-China, Sumatra, Java and Bali in scrub and secondary growth, open fields and gardens, bamboo thickets and open forest often near villages.
a less known Roller that lives in miombo woodland
This one was photographed in Hwange NP In Zimbabwe in the local winter of 2013.
So it does not have the beautiful and typical tail streamers of the summer plumage
Coracias spatulatus
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rollier à raquettes
Spatelracke
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Finca Alejandria, Km 18 Via Cali-Buenaventura, Cali, Colombia.
Ocreatus underwoodii
(Colibrí de raquetas / Booted Racket-tail)
The Booted Racket-tail is an Andean hummingbird found from Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia. This is a spectacular hummingbird - males have a short blackish bill, metallic green body, black wings, and elaborate tail. The tail is long and green, and the central two rectrices are extended with bare rachises tipped with blunt "rackets". Females are white below with green speckles and a white-tipped tail lacking racketed elaboration.
Both sexes of Booted Racket-tail show puffy white leg feathers. This very small hummingbird favors humid woodland edges in mid-elevations in the Andes.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
The Racket Tailed Roller is a species of bird in the family Coracidae. It is found in Southern Africa from Angola, South Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Southern Tanzania to Northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique. I love the colors on this bird just beautiful. This is one of my favorite Zoo Birds.
Taken in Ecuador during my stay at San Jorge Eco-Loges .
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In another bedroom, this caught my eyes straight away, of the way how they were placed at the end of the bed and on an old trunk.
Tennis? - Must have been very popular at this house, way back then it seems and no wonder with its elegant gardens that surrounded this House!
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This is a Alleyway that runs from Lairgate through to Saturday Market in the Historic old Town of Beverley in East Yorkshire It was first recorded in 1409..
Bandeirinha (Discosura longicaudus). One of the rarest hummingbirds or at least more difficult to photograph since it rarely leaves the canopies.
Measures between 7.8 and 10.5 centimeters in length and weighs between 3 and 3.7 grams. It has a pronounced sexual dimorphism. Unmistakable male with long external tips and racket-shaped tips or purple-brown colored "bandeirinhas". Crown, throat and upper chest bright green, copper lower chest and whitish belly, white flanks. Green-bronze mantle, with a whitish strap on the lower back.
Picture taken at Paulista, PE.
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Talk about attitude. This bird, which I think may be a spotted sandpiper, can really make some noise to draw myself and the Labrador away from her brood. Constantly teeters with the the high pitched whistles, quite a sight. Not the best shot. Tried to get some shots of the youngsters, but they know how to hide.
I began this little series with a sad image and close it out with what I find to be kind of a fun one. Most of my wildlife shots have fairly static subjects, and I am happy to get them, but I always like behavioural shots more. I find they have more value or interest.
Now I found this scenario quite comical, although I suppose that the two geese did not. They were just casually mulling about along with a couple of Mallards. Everything was peaceful, when a ll of a sudden a couple of other geese landed nearby on the same patch of grass. Well you should have heard the racket and it lasted for likely over a minute. I had a number of chances for a shot. I thought it would be easy, but with the head and neck constantly bobbing up and down and swaying from side to side I found it very difficult to get or keep focus. This was the best of the lot that I took. Not that I enjoy seeing animals stressed, but I really did enjoy this knowing that eventually things would calm down, and they did.
Continuing from last week's picture of a Conrail E8 at Lacona, here's a picture of more E-units visiting the Montreal Secondary: Lackawanna 808 and 807, owned by the CNY Chapter NRHS, lead the return leg of the 29 September 2001 excursion to Massena, seen crossing the Raquette River bridge in Potsdam in the glow of late afternoon light.
Finca Alejandria, Km 18 Via Cali-Buenaventura, Cali, Colombia.
The Booted Racket-tail is an Andean hummingbird found from Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia. This is a spectacular hummingbird - males have a short blackish bill, metallic green body, black wings, and elaborate tail. The tail is long and green, and the central two rectrices are extended with bare rachises tipped with blunt "rackets". Females are white below with green speckles and a white-tipped tail lacking racketed elaboration.
Both sexes of Booted Racket-tail show puffy white leg feathers. This very small hummingbird favors humid woodland edges in mid-elevations in the Andes.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
Backyard bird
Wikipedia: The racket-tailed treepie (Crypsirina temia) is an Asian treepie, a member of the crow family, Corvidae. This bird occurs in southern Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Indo-China, Sumatra, Java and Bali in scrub and secondary growth, open fields and gardens, bamboo thickets and open forest often near villages.
Conservation status: Least Concern
Tilden loads roll toward Eagle Mills the morning on November 15, 2022 behind a pair of LS&I greens making all sorts of racket on the Marquette range.
The racket-tailed treepie (Crypsirina temia) is an Asian treepie, a member of the crow family, Corvidae. It has a velvety-black forehead of short, plush black feathers with the rest of the bird being an oily green colour, though appearing black in dim light.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Without any amplification this guy was bellowing at the top of his lungs to proselytize the passers-by, though he was being mostly ignored. I had no interest in photographing him until I walked behind and saw his jacket. I loved the storytelling of the resulting shot. Enjoy!