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This small to medium sized saprobic fungus fruits in dense clusters during winter on both exotic and indigenous fallen or standing wood. Has a sticky pale yellow to rosy-orange brown cap darker in the centae; with a distinctively velvety stem that darkens from the base upward; without a ring and having attached, close gills.
Common name: Velvet foot; Winter mushroom.
Found: Podocarp Forest
Substrate: Wood
Spore: WhiteHeight: 40 mm
Width: 30 mm
Season: Autumn to early winter
Edible: Yes, commercially cultivated
LaGrange County, Indiana
This treefrog was found sleeping up in a tree. Gray Treefrogs can change from the colors of gray to green, depending on substrate where they are sitting.
Beautiful Demoiselle (f) - Calopteryx Virgo
Mainly found along streams and rivers, particularly those with sand or gravel bottoms. The males rest on bank side vegetation waiting for females.
Males are territorial, perching in bankside plants and trees, waiting for females or chasing. They chase passing insects, often returning to the same perch. Males can stray well away from water, females live away from water unless egg-laying or seeking a mate.
As with the banded demoiselle is also in the blue wing-demoiselle a pronounced territorial behavior of sexually mature males. These days occupy territories that they defend against other males. The defense consists mostly in threatening gestures. For this they spread their wings and put them on display so clearly visible, there is also Drohflügen and in rare cases to air combat between rival males. Optimal areas correspond to the optimal nesting places for the females and are characterized by a normally increased flow and a suitable oviposition substrate in the potential breeding sites from. The size of the spots and their distance apart is the density of the population dependent as well as the occurrences of the water and may be between several meters and a few decimetres. Males who do not occupy spots can keep themselves in the vegetation on the shore and try to mate with fly to females or to fill vacant spots. Especially when only a few males are present, the territorial defense is very aggressive, with a higher number of competing male aggression but decreases significantly. The males sit in their areas mostly in exposed places in the vegetation, which extends over the water, sometimes on vegetation or rocks cushions amid the waters. This seat is waiting at the same time the center of the district they do their gaze primarily on the aquatic center and will show a behavior that is referred to as "wings lapping" and in which the wings beat quickly down and slowly lifted. It is believed that it is mainly used for communication, it also supports the ventilation in the thorax and accordingly probably also plays a role in thermoregulation of the animals
(Uratelornis chimaera)
Spiny Forest Ifaty
Madagascar
Unlike other Ground Rollers that inhabit rainforests, this one occurs only in the Spiny Forest in a very limited area around Ifaty. It's no wonder, therefore, that it has the status of Vulnerable!
The Spiny Forest is an unique ecoregion in southern Madagascar, with a nutrient-poor, sandy substrate, and little, unpredictable rainfall. Its vegetation, almost entirely endemic, consists of thorny trees and shrubs, along with some succulents ones, including the famous and stunning baobabs.
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Madagascar (2023) (174)
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- All the photos for this family Brachypteraciidae (Braquipteraciídeos) (14)
- All the photos for this species Uratelornis chimaera (3)
- All the photos taken this day 2023/11/13 (28)
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Silberra U200 Rodinol1+25
I do like this little post box.
U200 is quite nice. Its a really thin substrate but seems to work fine. No problem loading it either in the camera or the spiral. It's tougher than it feels.
The Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid is widely distributed and native to North America.
Usually grows in mesic (moist) areas at the margins of wetlands and requires neutral to alkaline substrates. Flowering occurs in Spring .
Photograph taken: A fen Eastern Ontario, Canada.
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The spectacularly bizarre Andean Cock-of-the-rock is perhaps the most popularly recognized bird of the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains. The national bird of Peru, this species is readily identified by its fan-shaped crest and brilliant orange plumage, both of which are evident to a lesser degree even in the duller female. Males spend much of their time displaying at leks, where they jump up and down on particular branches and utter low, guttural croaks. The name is derived from their preference for rocks and ledges as substrates for their mud cup nests. Often difficult to detect away from leks, birds can sometimes be found feeding at fruiting trees. Distributed from Venezuela to Bolivia in the Andes, the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock does not co-occur with the similar Guianan Cock-of-the-rock of the Guianan Shield. birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/andcot1/cur/introduction
Picture taken at Cusco - Peru, for a Peaceful Travel Tuesday.
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Taken in Spain
Stout shorebird with a bright stubby bill. Note orange legs, often bright on spring adults. Breeding plumage has bold black-and-white head and breast pattern; nonbreeding has subdued and browner pattern. In flight shows bold white wing stripe. Mellow whistled “poo-ee” call quite distinct from call of more slender and ‘spectacled’ Little Ringed Plover. Breeds on sandy and stony substrates from beaches and lakeshores to moorland above treeline. Winters coastally, where often roosts with other small waders such as Dunlin.
The American white ibis is most common in Florida. It is also commonly found in muddy pools, on mudflats and even wet lawns. On land, the American white ibis locates prey by sight and pecks, and does not have to insert its bill into the substrate.
Aster amellus (Asteraceae) 257 22
Aster amellus, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the genus Aster of the family Asteraceae.
It reaches on average a height of 20–50 centimeter. The stem is erect and branched, the leaves are dark green. The flowers are lilac. The flowering period extends from July through October.
This plant is present on the European mountains from the Pyrenees and the Alps to the Carpathians. Outside Europe it is located in western Asia (Turkey), the Caucasus, Siberia, South and Central Asia.
Its typical habitat is rocky limy areas, the edges of the bushes and copses, but also the sub-alpine meadows, marshy places and lake sides. It prefers calcareous and slightly dry substrate with basic pH and low nutritional value, at an altitude of 0–800 meters above sea level.