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The southern lapwing is a wader in the order Charadriiformes. It is a common and widespread resident throughout South America, except in densely forested regions, the higher parts of the Andes and the arid coast of a large part of western South America.
This lapwing is the only crested wader in South America. The upperparts are mainly brownish grey, with a bronze glossing on the shoulders. The head is particularly striking; mainly grey with a black forehead and throat patch extending onto the black breast. A white border separates the black of the face from the grey of the head and crest. The rest of the underparts are white, and the eye ring, legs and most of the bill are pink.
Brazil, Pantanal
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Southern skies, they're callin' me
Tellin' me "Son just come back home."
And when I see those southern skies,
You know I'll never be alone.
candy, cakes and ice-cream!! :))
Pasted this by on the way to the beach but we did not stop to waste any time on this beautiful light before our family dinner!
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
The number of Southern Ground-Hornbills outside formally protected areas in South Africa is declining due to loss and transformation of habitat, poisoning, persecution and electrocution. The species is listed as globally Vulnerable and have been uplisted to Endangered in 2014 in South Africa.
It is the largest hornbill species in the world.
My first encounter with a wild cassowary. This is a female close to 6 feet tall. Barron River, Queensland.
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Aulacorhynchus albivitta
(Southern Emerald toucanet / Tucancito Esmeralda)
Like other toucans, the Emerald Toucanet is brightly marked and has a large bill. The adult is 30–35 cm (12–14 in) long. The sexes are alike in appearance, although the female generally is smaller and slightly shorter-billed.
The Emerald Toucanet is a generally common in humid forest and woodland, mainly at higher elevations.
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Southern Boobook Owl
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This Blue/ Southern Hawker kept hovering near me.. so I had to try to take a picture of it. After a while I got a few nice shots.
The Meridian Southern Railway’s road train slowly rolls through the woods just south of Stonewall, MS, as they make the trek south to Waynesboro, MS. The train is powered by a matching pair of former Santa Fe GE B23-7s, with nine grain hoppers and six empty center beams in tow. MDS 4228 was built for Santa Fe Railway in 1979 as ATSF 6371, and MDS 4270 in 1985 as ATSF 6413. Both units would be renumbered by BNSF to their current numbers after the merger. The pair found themselves in shortline service around 2007ish, first on the Nashville & Eastern, then the Meridian Southern since around 2015ish to present. There are very few places left where one can find such relics still in operation and in such good condition, definitely making the MDS a gold mine for a railfan.
Shot from a moving helicopter! It's lucky I have anything in the frame and the horizon level!
When I was in New Zealand, I took a helicopter ride (my first ever) to land at the Franz Joseph Glacier and do a flyby of the Fox Glacier. The mountains shown in the picture are either part of Mount Cook or Mount Tasman, the highest mountains of the Southern Alps.
Lake Manyara NP, Tanzania
The largest hornbill in the world.
A ground dwelling bird that lives in pairs or in small groups in savanna or in woodland.
They have a loud booming call that is typically heard in the morning.
Beautiful in flight when the white parts of the wings are visible
Southern Ground-Hornbill or Ground Hornbill
Bucorvus leadbeateri
zuidelijke hoornraaf
Bucorve du Sud
Rotgesicht-Hornrabe
Cálao Terrestre Sureño
Bucorvo meridionale
Calau-gigante
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Species: Lanius meridionalis.
Location: Canary Islands, Spain.
Southern grey shrike and Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) are now recognised as different species. Not only do they differ in some plumage details, but also in size, voice, behaviour and favoured habitat.
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The first picture of this series shows the egrets enjoying the rice field by themselves But when people, animals and machines come, the fields are worked to produce rice for the millions of people of India.
Limenitis reducta
Taken in the Pirin Mountains (Bulgaria).
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I really wanted to see the Caracara. I didn't see them in Florida but this area had a lot of them. I think this is a juvenile but I am not sure so I would appreciate if someone could please clarify for me. Taken in South Pantanal, Brazil.
Thank you Thelma for confirming that this is a juvenile.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_crested_caracara
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Three Southern Railway GP50’s wheel a southbound manifest through Faber, Virginia. Although GP50’s had been around for close to two years, they did not sell in the northeast, and this was my first encounter with one.
The sewage treatment plant is a hotspot for birds, which I believe are attracted to the location because of the fresh water and the ample insect life. Definitely not the most glamorous of locations. But that is where to find the southern lapwings.
We've come a long way from debutants and cotillion balls.
I have started a new series for experimental portraits. I hope you enjoy it as much as I had fun making them.
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A beautiful pair of Southern Marsh orchids (Dachtylorhiza praetermissa) hiding in tall grass. Lower Moor Farm NR, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, England, UK
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This southern Magnolia was growing near the National bank of Australia in the main street of Oberon NSW Australia
Southern Jeløy sunrise shot from a multicopter
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Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
In Africa Southern Ground-hornbills are classified as ‘vulnerable’ by the IUCN, however, in South Africa they are classified as ‘endangered’ and on the Red List of Threatened Species as only about 1500 individuals still live within the country. Loss of habitat, loss of nesting trees, electrocution from transformer boxes and even, in some cases, killed for use in traditional medicine, have all contributed to the rapid decline of these majestic birds.
This is how we usually see them, strolling in the veld at a fast pace.