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Red Lips
This has been sitting in the folder waiting to be uploaded for a long time, I just forgot to post it.
I am inspired to do some more body-parts, any volunteers...?
There's many a slide twixt Cup and Lip
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One more red squirrel as briefly featured in my latest video www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwgyaeX0dEU
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Red Kite
Irish Name:Cúr Rua / Préachán na gCearcScientific name:Milvus milvusBird Family:Raptors
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CONSERVATION STATUS
Status
A resident, reintroduced population is slowly expanding from its core range in Cos. Wicklow, Dublin and Down.
Identification
An elegant, graceful bird of prey, larger than a Buzzard, with long wings and a long distinctly forked tail. The body is reddish-brown with dark streaking, the head is greyish and the tail, which is often twisted continually in flight, is orange-red. Viewed from below, the black, fingered wingtips and contrasting white patch on the outer flight feathers stand out. As with most birds of prey, the female is larger than the male. Juveniles look somewhat duller than adults, with less distinct streaking and a thin white line on the upperwing. Many of the Red Kites seen in Ireland bear coloured plastic identification tags on their wings.
Voice
A shrill, mewing 'peee-ooow'.
Diet
Mainly eats carrion, including roadkill, preferring to scavenge rather than hunt. They will happily take live prey if necessary, however, including rats, mice, rabbits pigeons, young crows and even earthworms and other invertebrates.
Breeding
Breeding is currently still confined to the east coast, close to the original reintroduction sites in Cos. Wicklow, Dublin and Down. The nest consists of a large platform of twigs, usually constructed high above the ground in the fork of a deciduous tree branch. Red Kites have the curious habit of decorating their nests with scavenged human items, especially plastic bags, items of clothing (especially underwear!) and even children's toys. 1 to 3 eggs are incubated, mainly by the female, for around 31 days, and the chicks are cared for by both parents.
Wintering
Resident throughout its range. Likes to gather in winter roosting flocks, the largest and best-known of which is close to the village of Avoca in Co. Wicklow, a very reliable site for this species.
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Countryside Bird Survey
Reintroduced in 2011. Resident, roaming but not wide-ranging.
Roaming further afield in Winter, turning up in Western counties.
A couple of red kangaroos standing appearing to play, dance or fight at the Hefei Wildlife Zoo in China.
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Streaming white smoke, one of the Red Arrows singleton
Hawk T.1's zooms past our Beachy Head vantage point while the Team displayed at the 2015 AIRbourne seafront Airshow.
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Red-breasted Merganser is quite a scarce visitor to my part of the Pennines so I decided it was worth a short drive to try and point a camera at this female currently residing on a park lake in Pontefract. This was the first time I have photographed one digitally in Britain so I may well upload a few more images of it. This open-billed shot shows off the serrated margins beautifully, especially if you view large. This Red-breasted Merganser, plus Goosander and Smew are the three regularly-occurring "sawbill ducks" in Britain. But these serrations aren't really teeth. The cutting edge of the bill is known as the tomium (plural tomia) and in birds like sawbills and geese the tomia are serrated and help them catch fish or snip through grass stems. No extant birds have proper teeth. Proper teeth emerge from the gums and are covered with hard enamel. Animals like lizards, crocodiles and mammals have proper teeth but somewhere during the evolution of birds they lost the ability to produce enamelled teeth. Archaeopteryx from the Jurassic had teeth (around 150 million years ago), and fossils of "proper" birds from the Cretaceous (c145 - 66 million years ago) had teeth. But somewhere around 80 million years ago bird teeth disappeared, as they evolved ways round the need for teeth. For example, instead of chewing they grind their food in the muscular gizzard, sometimes swallowing grit to help with this. They also have amazingly diverse bill types to facilitate their type of feeding such as tearing flesh or probing for worms.
He was munching away for a few minutes and i was lucky to capture him,i must get back to see how they are getting on !