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Numenius americanus. Native to western North America and Central America. Long-billed curlews often feed in flocks. Using the long bill, an individual probes the mud or other substrate for suitable food, which consists of crabs and various other small invertebrates. Found in Bolivar Flats, an Audubon sanctuary, Bolivar peninsula, Texas.
The Cattleya maxima has had a seed pod since November 2022. Now it is mature and ready to be sown.
Die Cattleya maxima hat seit November 2022 eine Samenkapsel.Jetzt ist sie ausgereift und kann ausgesät werden.
Cultivated in SGK = substrate glass culture.
One of the more common and easily recognised Galerina species in that the cap has a papilla (a raised area in the centre of the cap).
Common name: None
Found: Native Forest
Substrate: On wood
Spore: BrownHeight: 60 mm
Width: 25 - 35 mm
Season: Autumn
Edible: No
Wren Troglodytes Troglodytes
The Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) is a very small bird, and the only member of the wren family Troglodytidae found in Eurasia and Africa (Maghreb). In Anglophone Europe, it is commonly known simply as the wren.
The scientific name is taken from the Greek word troglodytes (from trogle a hole, and dyein to creep), meaning cave-dweller and refers to its habit of disappearing into cavities or crevices whilst hunting arthropods or to roost.
This small, stump-tailed wren is almost as familiar in Europe as the robin. It is mouse-like, easily lost sight of when it is hunting for food, but is found everywhere from the tops of the highest moors to the sea coast.
In most of northern Europe and Asia, it nests mostly in coniferous forests, where it is often identified by its long and exuberant song. Although it is an insectivore, it can remain in moderately cold and even snowy climates by foraging for insects on substrates such as bark and fallen logs.
Its movements as it creeps or climbs are incessant rather than rapid; its short flights swift and direct but not sustained, its tiny round wings whirring as it flies from bush to bush.
It is a bird of the uplands even in winter, vanishing into the heather when snow lies thick above, a troglodyte indeed. It frequents gardens and farms, but it is quite as abundant in thick woods and in reed-beds.
At night, usually in winter, it often roosts, true to its scientific name, in dark retreats, snug holes and even old nests. In hard weather, it may do so in parties, consisting of either the family or of many individuals gathered together for warmth.
The male wren builds several nests, up to 6 or 7. These are called cock nests but are never lined until the female chooses one to use.
The normal round nest of grass, moss, lichens or leaves is tucked into a hole in a wall, tree trunk, crack in a rock or corner of a building, but it is often built in bushes, overhanging boughs or the litter which accumulates in branches washed by floods.
In European folklore, the wren is the king of the birds, according to a fable attributed to Aesop by Plutarch, when the eagle and the wren strove to fly the highest, the wren rested on the eagle's back, and when the eagle tired, the wren flew out above him. Thus, Plutarch implied, the wren proved that cleverness is better than strength. The wren's majesty is recognized in such stories as the Grimm Brothers' The Willow-Wren and the Bear. Aristotle and Plutarch called the wren basileus (king) and basiliskos (little king).
In German, the wren is called Zaunkönig (king of the fence). An old German name was “Schneekönig” (snow king), and in Dutch, it is “winterkoning” (winter king), which all refer to king. In Japan, the wren is labelled king of the winds, and the myth of The Wren Among the Hawks sees the wren successfully hunt a boar that the hawks could not, by flying into its ear and driving it mad.
It was a sacred bird to the druids, who considered it king of all birds and used its musical notes for divination. The shape-shifting Fairy Queen took the form of a wren, known as Jenny Wren in nursery rhymes. A wren's feather was thought to be a charm against disaster or drowning.
Population:
UK breeding:
8,600,000 territories
Wren Troglodytes Troglodytes
The Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) is a very small bird, and the only member of the wren family Troglodytidae found in Eurasia and Africa (Maghreb). In Anglophone Europe, it is commonly known simply as the wren.
The scientific name is taken from the Greek word troglodytes (from trogle a hole, and dyein to creep), meaning cave-dweller and refers to its habit of disappearing into cavities or crevices whilst hunting arthropods or to roost.
This small, stump-tailed wren is almost as familiar in Europe as the robin. It is mouse-like, easily lost sight of when it is hunting for food, but is found everywhere from the tops of the highest moors to the sea coast.
In most of northern Europe and Asia, it nests mostly in coniferous forests, where it is often identified by its long and exuberant song. Although it is an insectivore, it can remain in moderately cold and even snowy climates by foraging for insects on substrates such as bark and fallen logs.
Its movements as it creeps or climbs are incessant rather than rapid; its short flights swift and direct but not sustained, its tiny round wings whirring as it flies from bush to bush.
It is a bird of the uplands even in winter, vanishing into the heather when snow lies thick above, a troglodyte indeed. It frequents gardens and farms, but it is quite as abundant in thick woods and in reed-beds.
At night, usually in winter, it often roosts, true to its scientific name, in dark retreats, snug holes and even old nests. In hard weather, it may do so in parties, consisting of either the family or of many individuals gathered together for warmth.
The male wren builds several nests, up to 6 or 7. These are called cock nests but are never lined until the female chooses one to use.
The normal round nest of grass, moss, lichens or leaves is tucked into a hole in a wall, tree trunk, crack in a rock or corner of a building, but it is often built in bushes, overhanging boughs or the litter which accumulates in branches washed by floods.
In European folklore, the wren is the king of the birds, according to a fable attributed to Aesop by Plutarch, when the eagle and the wren strove to fly the highest, the wren rested on the eagle's back, and when the eagle tired, the wren flew out above him. Thus, Plutarch implied, the wren proved that cleverness is better than strength. The wren's majesty is recognized in such stories as the Grimm Brothers' The Willow-Wren and the Bear. Aristotle and Plutarch called the wren basileus (king) and basiliskos (little king).
In German, the wren is called Zaunkönig (king of the fence). An old German name was “Schneekönig” (snow king), and in Dutch, it is “winterkoning” (winter king), which all refer to king. In Japan, the wren is labelled king of the winds, and the myth of The Wren Among the Hawks sees the wren successfully hunt a boar that the hawks could not, by flying into its ear and driving it mad.
It was a sacred bird to the druids, who considered it king of all birds and used its musical notes for divination. The shape-shifting Fairy Queen took the form of a wren, known as Jenny Wren in nursery rhymes. A wren's feather was thought to be a charm against disaster or drowning.
Population:
UK breeding:
8,600,000 territories
Eunota togata globicollis -- male
This species blends into the substrate and when they stand still are almost invisible.
Taken under a cloudy sky
Magnification: 400x, bright field (negative image), stacked image
Zeiss Standard, 40x Planapochromat, 10x ocular
The rotifers (Rotifera, commonly called wheel animals) are microscopic and near-microscopic animals and they are an important part of the freshwater zooplankton, being a major foodsource and with many species also contributing to the decomposition of soil organic matter. Most rotifers are around 0.1–0.5 mm long (although their size can range from 50 μm to over 2 mm), and are common in freshwater environments throughout the world with a few saltwater species. Some rotifers are free swimming and truly planktonic, others move by inchworming along a substrate, and some are sessile, living inside tubes or gelatinous holdfasts that are attached to a substrate (Source: Wikipedia).
This is a stacked image, made by using a microscop and composed of 95 single photos. For any information about stacking technique, please see: (digital-photography-school.com/a-beginners-guide-to-focus...).
Rotifers are fast swimmers, so it stands to reason that it is impossible to make a stacked image of a living specimen. I had to use a fixated, i.e. dead specimen instead.
Cette superbe plante à fleurs rose carmin est dite héliophile (qui affectionne la lumière) des prairies humides. Elle se développe généralement aux étages collinéens et montagnards sur des sols pauvres en nutriments et riches en matière organique. Elle supporte particulièrement bien les variations d’humidité du substrat, sur lequel, elle se développe. En effet, son bulbe porte une tunique fibreuse qui le protège de la déshydratation et de l’inondation prolongée. Grâce à cet organe vivace qui assure par ailleurs la pérennité́ des plantes durant la mauvaise saison, le glaïeul des marais est adapté́ à de fortes variations de niveau piézométrique. Il supporte ainsi des sécheresses, mais aussi des inondations prolongées.
Pour en savoir plus: www.estrepublicain.fr/actualite/2019/06/09/le-jura-dernie...
This superb carmine-pink flowering plant is said to be heliophilous (which likes light) from wet meadows. It generally develops on hill and mountain levels on soils poor in nutrients and rich in organic matter. It supports particularly well the variations of humidity of the substrate, on which it grows. Indeed, its bulb wears a fibrous tunic which protects it from dehydration and prolonged flooding. Thanks to this perennial organ which also ensures the sustainability of plants during the bad season, the marsh gladiolus is adapted to strong variations in piezometric level. It thus supports droughts, but also prolonged floods.
To find out more: www.estrepublicain.fr/actualite/2019/06/09/le-jura-dernie ...
Cultivated in SGK = substrate glass culture.
This is the second flowering stalk that has one hundred and five flowers.
Mesmerising eyes.
Dardanus pedunculatus usually lives on coral reefs and in the intertidal zone, at depths of 1–27 metres (3–89 ft). It usually carries sea anemones on its shell, which it uses to protect itself from its main predator, cephalopods of the genus Octopus. The anemones are collected at night, and comprises the crab stroking and tapping the anemone until it loosens its grip on the substrate, at which point it is moved onto the gastropod shell that the hermit crab inhabits. (Wikipedia) Anilao, South Luzon, Philippines
The Robberg Nature Reserve and Marine Protected Area is an inshore conservation region in the territorial waters of South Africa, near Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape province.
Rocky shores and reefs There are rocky reefs and mixed rocky and sandy bottoms. For many marine organisms the substrate is another type of marine organism, and it is common for several layers to co-exist. Examples of this are red bait pods, which are usually encrusted with sponges, ascidians, bryozoans, anemones, and gastropods, and abalone, which are usually covered by similar seaweeds to those found on the surrounding rocks, usually with a variety of other organisms living on the seaweeds.
The type of rock of the reef is of some importance, as it influences the range of possibilities for the local topography, which in turn influences the range of habitats provided, and therefore the diversity of inhabitants. Sandstone and other sedimentary rocks erode and weather very differently, and depending on the direction of dip and strike, and steepness of the dip, may produce reefs which are relatively flat to very high profile and full of small crevices. These features may be at varying angles to the shoreline and wave fronts. There are fewer large holes, tunnels and crevices in sandstone reefs, but often many deep but low near-horizontal crevices.
Taken at Masirah Island, Oman.
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Delicately built small plover with bright yellow eyerings. Note dull pinkish legs and large white forehead patch (in adults). Plumage much like bulkier Ringed Plover, but white eyebrow continues unbroken across forehead. In flight shows narrow, indistinct whitish wing stripe. Breeds on stony substrates around lakes, gravel pits, and along rivers; migrants occur in wide variety of fresh and brackish wetland habitats, but rarely out on open tidal areas. Clipped “peu” call quite distinct from call of similar Common Ringed Plover.
(eBird)
DFD_4676
Pousada Aguapé - Aquidauana, MS, Brazil.
The lizard Tropidurus lagunablanca occurs in Paraguay and Brazil. This little-known species selects microhabitats in trees with thicker trunks and higher substrate temperatures — showing how it actively chooses spots to bask and hide.
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Tropiduridae
Genus: Tropidurus Frost, Etheridge, Janies & Titus, 2001
Species: T. lagunablanca Carvalho, 2016
Binomial name: Tropidurus lagunablanca