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Small waxbill, adult olive green above, gray below, with red eyebrow, red bill, and black tail. In flight, bright red rump apparent. Juvenile with red rump but otherwise olive drab with dark bill. Inhabits grassy areas close to thick cover in eastern and southeastern coastal Australia. Often-heard call is a thin "seeeeep." (eBird)
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Finally, one stopped moving long enough to get a photo! These beautiful finch live in large flocks and all want to land on the feeder at the same moment. This one was just contemplating his next move.
Julatten, Queensland, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Eastern Australia.
**Vivid Nature Challenge**
KP February Contest Fantasy Floral Art
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+The stone-curlews, also known as dikkops or thick-knees,
Taken at Paignton Zoo, Devon.
Hopefully I have the right Species
consist of 10 species within the family Burhinidae, and are found throughout the tropical and temperate parts of the world, with two or more species occurring in some areas of Africa, Asia, and Australia. Despite the group being classified as waders, most species have a preference for arid or semiarid habitats.
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Thick dark low clouds with big holes for the suns rays to offer up a truly beautiful show...
Myrtle Beach, SC
Sunday, November 27, 2011 8:22 AM
1/250 sec. f/5.9 68.48mm ISO100
Gordonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, related to Franklinia, Camellia and Stewartia. Of the roughly 40 species, all but two are native to southeast Asia in southern China, Taiwan and Indochina. They are evergreen trees, growing to 10–20 m tall. The bark is thick and deeply fissured. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, serrated, thick, leathery, glossy, and 6–18 cm long. The flowers are large and conspicuous, 4–15 cm diameter, with 5 (occasionally 6-8) white petals; flowering is in late winter or early spring. The species are adapted to acidic soils, and do not grow well on chalk or other calcium-rich soils. They also have a high rainfall requirement and will not tolerate drought. 59879
Scientific name: Euphonia laniirostris
Common name: Thick-billed Euphonia
Nombre: Calandria piquigruesa, Curruñatá piquigordo, Eufonia piquigruesa, Fruterito de pico grueso.
Lugar de la captura: Amagusa reserve, Mashpi, Pichincha, Ecuador.
A Thick-legged flower Beetle (Oedemera nobilis) having an early snack on a Rockrose flower (Helianthemum nummularium) after overnight rain. Only males have a very swollen hind femora, hence the name. Browne's Folly Nature reserve. Avon Wildlife Trust, Bathford near Bath, England, UK
I must say, I was shocked when I saw how nighttime changes an owl's face. While they become fearsome predators at night, they also become much more adorable to us humans, who have evolved to perceive large eyes as captivating and innocent.
In an effort to find area barred owls, I set out to a local park before sunrise and came upon this Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio) in the dark. This darkness was so inky and thick, in fact, that I could not see if he was in his hole or not, so trained my tripoded camera on the hole, manually focused, and finally saw him in the preview window! Shocked for sure by those massive pupils staring down at me, a frog (which he swallowed greedily prior to this photo and while I watched) in his talons!
Interestingly, owl eyeballs are not balls at all, but so well evolved for night vision that they have elongated into eye cones. For this reason, they cannot move their eyes in their sockets, and have evolved wildly-flexible necks. With their highly acute retinas replete with rods (the light and movement sensing eye bits), there wasn't much room for cones, and so most owls see limited or no color!
The Indian pangolin, thick-tailed pangolin, or scaly anteater (Manis crassicaudata) is a pangolin found on the Indian subcontinent. It is not common anywhere in its range. Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armour. It can also curl itself into a ball as self-defence against predators such as the tiger. The colour of its scales varies depending on the colour of the earth in its surroundings.
It is an insectivore, feeding on ants and termites, digging them out of mounds and logs using its long claws, which are as long as its fore limbs. It is nocturnal and rests in deep burrows during the day.
The Indian pangolin is threatened by hunting for its meat and for various body parts used in traditional medicine.
The Indian pangolin is a solitary, shy, slow-moving, nocturnal mammal. It is about 84–122 centimetres (33–48 in) long from head to tail, the tail usually being 33–47 cm long, and weighs 10–16 kg. Females are generally smaller than the males and have one pair of mammae. The pangolin possesses a cone-shaped head with small, dark eyes, and a long muzzle with a nose pad similar in color, or darker than, its pinkish-brown skin. It has powerful limbs, tipped with sharp, clawed digits. It is an almost exclusive insectivore and principally subsists on ants and termites, which it catches with a specially adapted long, sticky tongue.The pangolin has no teeth, but has strong stomach muscles to aid in digestion. The most noticeable characteristic of the pangolin is its massive, scaled armour, which covers its upper face and its whole body with the exception of the belly and the inside of the legs. These protective scales are rigid and made of keratin. It has 160–200 scales in total, about 40–46% of which are located on the tail. Scales can be 6.5–7 cm long, 8.5 cm wide, and weigh 7–10 grams. The skin and scales make up about one-fourth to one-third of the total body mass of this species.
The Indian pangolin has been recorded from various forest types, including Sri Lankan rainforest and plains to middle hill levels. The animal can be found in grasslands and secondary forests, and is well adapted to desert regions as it is believed to have a tolerance to dry areas, but prefers more barren, hilly regions. This pangolin species may also sometimes reach high elevations, and has been sighted in Sri Lanka at 1100 meters and in the Nilgiri mountains in India at 2300 meters. It prefers soft and semi-sandy soil conditions suitable for digging burrows.
Pangolin burrows fall into one of two categories: feeding and living burrows. Feeding burrows are smaller than living burrows (though their sizes vary depending on the abundance of prey) and are created more frequently during the spring, when there is a greater availability of prey. Living burrows are wider, deeper, and more circular, and are occupied for a longer time than feeding burrows, as they are mainly used to sleep and rest during the day. After a few months, the pangolin abandons the burrow and digs a new one close to a food source. However, it is not uncommon for the pangolin to shift back to an old burrow.
Unlike its African counterpart, the Indian pangolin does not climb trees, but it does value the presence of trees, herbs, and shrubs in its habitat because it is easier to dig burrows around them. Features that promote an abundance of ants and termites (grasses, bare grounds, bases of trees, shrubs, roots, leaf litter, fallen logs and elephant feces) are often present in pangolin habitats.
Few details are known about the breeding behaviour of the Indian pangolin. During the animal's mating period, females and males may share the same burrow and show some diurnal activities. Males have testes in a fold of the skin located in their groin areas. The female's embryo develops in one of the uterine horns. The gestation period lasts 65–70 days; the placenta is diffuse and not deciduate. Usually, a single young is born, but twins have been reported in this species. The young weigh 235–400 g at birth and measure roughly 30 cm. The newborn animals have open eyes, and soft scales with protruding hairs between them. The mother pangolin carries her young on her tail. When the mother and young are disturbed, the young pangolin is held against its mother's belly and protected by the mother's tail.
Exactly one year ago I flew to Iceland. It was a gift that the country was covered with a thick blanket of snow
You could hear the sea, like a continuous avalanche, the incessant thunder of a storm born of who knows what sky. It didn't stop for a moment. He knew no weariness. A. Baricco
Senegal Thick-knee - Queen Elizabeth National Park, Western, Uganda
Bird Species # (651) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
On this trip to Uganda we used Ngoni Safaris Uganda. They provided excellent service. I highly recommend them.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/645046996
*Lifer* This rare find was off to the left of the Jetty at Barnegat Light. I (Barbara) will personally never forget this bird because it cost me a shoulder injury falling on the rocks while trying to find it.
The thickest fog I've ever seen over the street.
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... Combination of Flora and Fauna.
A Thick-legged flower beetle ~ Oedemera nobilis on a Seaside Daisy ~ Erigeron glaucus.
I took this photo on the 6th, but didn't know what the theme was for today at the time. Since last Monday, I've hardly been out due to the horrible weather.
The photo hasn't been on Flickr before, although similar ones of it have.
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Thick With Leaves....
The forest floor was thick with leaves. the many trees had shed some of them and they had gathered in numbers all along the forest path. it was a multicolored patchwork quilt of leaves that brightened the normally dull mud and stone pathway.
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These mating thick-headed flies look almost identical to the mason wasp that I photographed and posted on Flickr yesterday! However, they are flies and not wasps, if you can believe that, and so have no ability to sting. But that's no comfort to area bumble bees, for after mating here, the female (on the bottom) waits for a bumble bee to land on a flower and start gathering pollen. Then she pounces on its back and pries an opening between the bumble bee's abdominal segments and lays an egg before flying off. Notice the hook-like structure on her last abdominal segment for doing this, working like a can-opener. After hatching inside the bumble bee, the baby thick-headed fly starts eating the bumble bee's insides. It takes about 10 days for the larval thick-headed fly to eviserate the bumble bee and just before dying, the bumble bee buries itself in the dirt, giving the fly larva a nice safe winter home. Next spring, the thick-headed fly larva will pupate and then emerge as a new adult thick-headed fly when the bumble bees are abundant and active.
This Yellow-throated Warbler was giving us fits as it popped quickly from branch to branch in the thick leaves of a small tree in Loxahatchee NWR, but he ventured out on this branch momentarily. Happily, I was able to catch it for Life Bird Photograph #259.
Depending on which source of information one uses, there are approximately 1000 species of birds in North America. With this warbler, I have now photographed 259 different species, so I obviously have a long ways to go :-)
Leaves: Alternate, seven to nine-lobed, oblong-ovate to oblong, five to ten inches long, four to six inches broad; seven to eleven lobes tapering gradually from broad bases, acute, and usually repandly dentate and terminating with long bristle-pointed teeth; the second pair of lobes from apex are largest; midrib and primary veins conspicuous. Lobes are often less deeply cut than most other oaks of the red oak group. Leaves emerge from the bud convolute, pink, covered with soft silky down above, coated with thick white tomentum below. When full grown are dark green and smooth, sometimes shining above, yellow green, smooth or hairy on the axils of the veins below. In autumn they turn a rich red, sometimes brown. Often the petiole and midvein are a rich red color in midsummer and early autumn, though this is not true of all red oaks. / from en.wiki/
Червоний дуб – напрочуд гарне дерево. В Україні навіть люди, які мало цікавляться природою навколо себе, восени звертають увагу на його червоне листя з гострими "зубами".
Батьківщина цього дерева – Північна Америка. До Європи його завезли наприкінці XVII, а в Україну – на початку XIX століття. Сьогодні в нашій країні американський дуб можна побачити не тільки в містах, де його використовують для озеленення, але й у лісах, де його активно висаджують лісівники. В кінці минулого року вийшла наукова стаття групи українських дослідників, присвячена тому, як дуб червоний впливає на українські ліси. Автори серед іншого показали, що в насадженнях американського дуба трав'янистих рослин було дуже мало або й зовсім немає. Тоді як у сусідньому лісі з дуба звичайного різні трав'янисті рослини почуваються чудово.
Річ у тім, що червоний дуб має дуже густий підріст, і в його тіні нічого не росте. Крім того, в наших умовах його листя довго не розкладається і вкриває землю щільним шаром, що заважає рости іншим рослинам. Нарешті, грають роль так звані алелопатичні властивості – червоний дуб виділяє сполуки, які пригнічують конкурентів.
Фактично, насадження американського дуба стають так званими "біологічними пустелями". Здалеку схоже на ліс, але якщо придивитися ближче – немає майже нічого, крім дерев одного виду.
The thick-legged flower beetle, swollen thighed beetle, false oil beetle...does one glitzy little beetle really need so many names?!
A Western Palearctic "lifer" for me - Morocco 2019.
Off birding in Iceland so won't be posting for a while...happy birding!!
Thank you for taking a look at my images.
Large finch, nearly twice the size of a goldfinch. Stocky with strong, thick, pale bill and short, notched tail. Males are stunning with dark head fading to bright yellow underparts, and mostly black wings with bright white secondaries. Females are overall gray with some white on the wing. Flocks often come to feeders for sunflower seeds. Found in forested regions especially at higher elevations. Populations declining dramatically. (eBird)
Taken through my dining room window on the first and only time that they visited the feeders in one of my former homes.
My garden, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. May 2009.
Early in 1914, moreover, we realized that it would be impossible to free the Saint Anna from the ice; at best, we would drift until the autumn of 1915, more than three years after we had departed Alexandrovsk.* If we stayed on board, starvation would become a real threat by January 1915, if not sooner. In the darkness of the long polar night, a struggle against hunger carries no hope of salvation. During this season, hunting is out of the question, as all animals are in hibernation. The only certainty for those trapped in its realm is that "white death" lies in wait for them.
excerpt from In the Land of White Death by John Krakauer