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Cormorant - Phalacrocorax Carbo
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags
Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large birds, with body weight in the range of 0.35–5 kilograms (0.77–11.02 lb) and wing span of 60–100 centimetres (24–39 in). The majority of species have dark feathers. The bill is long, thin and hooked. Their feet have webbing between all four toes. All species are fish-eaters, catching the prey by diving from the surface. They are excellent divers, and under water they propel themselves with their feet with help from their wings; some cormorant species have been found to dive as deep as 45 metres (150 ft). They have relatively short wings due to their need for economical movement underwater, and consequently have among the highest flight costs of any flying bird.
Cormorants nest in colonies around the shore, on trees, islets or cliffs. They are coastal rather than oceanic birds, and some have colonised inland waters. The original ancestor of cormorants seems to have been a fresh-water bird. They range around the world, except for the central Pacific islands.
Kizzie is three days old in this photo. Her colouring is called a buckskin, that is a tan coat with black markings (mane, tail and lower legs).
Her colouring is also a dun, which is similar, but also includes primitive markings (shoulder blade stripes, dorsal stripe, zebra stripes on legs, webbing).
Webbing refers to the fine 'spider' like lines on her forehead, darker patches on her face and the black lined ears.
When a horse has both of these colour genes, they are generally referred to as a buckskin dun or a dunskin.
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Stone Harbor Point, New Jersey, USA
The most common of the small plovers on migration through most areas. On its breeding grounds in the north, it avoids the tundra habitat chosen by most shorebirds, nesting instead on gravel bars along rivers or ponds. In such surroundings, its seemingly bold pattern actually helps to make the plover inconspicuous, by breaking up its outline against the varied background. The name 'semipalmated' refers to partial webbing between the bird's toes.
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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:9
Macro Mondays: Perfect Match.
Matching water droplets on matching droops of webbing, appear much like magical bands of fall garlands in the garden.
The trickiest part was trying to capture the droplets when a breeze wasn't blowing... It is almost always windy on the coast.
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Cappuccino is an Andalusian gelding I say, 'Hi' to sometimes. I love his braided forelock, and have tried more than once to nail a shot like this.
It's harder than it may look, for he is quite the character and does not stay still, but makes me laugh by tilting his head sideways to reach me through the banded fence webbing.
Yesterday I succeeded!
Once again, I have been off Flickr for quite awhile. I am looking forward to the end of the month, when schooling the boys will be done for the summer, and I can enjoy admiring your images more easily. I'm also looking forward to sharing some brand-new foal images. :)
In the meantime, this is just a quick pop-up for me....and a quick check into your most recent images...until next time.
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This Eurasian Coot put on an up close and personal show of his feet. I never realized how cartoonist and colorful they were until I saw them so close and out of the water.
While its shape might look strange to the human eye, the curious configuration of the coot's foot makes the bird adept at getting around both on water and on land, unlike most other waterfowl. Comparable to webbing on a duck's foot, the palmate toes help a coot push through the water. On land, the lobes fold back when the bird lifts its foot, which facilitates walking on a variety of surfaces like mud and grass.
The oversize, bizarre-looking feet have been described by some as reminding them of dinosaurs or aliens.
Taken in the south of France.
-Fulica atra
Each spider has their own style for creating a webbed home and sometimes you will see in close proximity webbing neighbours.
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
Have a safe and fantastic day dear Flickr friends !
This is an image from the spring I never posted because I thought I missed the moment with the mink’s one eye covered by the leaf. However, it seems perfect for this Smile on Saturday’s theme of “ one eye”. I am sure his cute little pose will put a smile on someone’s face. His pose shows off the little white patch under his chin and the webbing on his paw.
Was able to go back last night and photograph the bird my friends and I first found on the 14th. He's still present today allowing for over 30 people to see him!. We got great photos of the feet too showing the lack of webbing. This is a SY male.
The Monarch butterfly may be the most familiar North American butterfly, and is considered an iconic pollinator species. Its wings feature an easily recognizable black, orange, and white pattern, with a wingspan of 8.9–10.2 cm ( 3 1⁄2–4 in). The male Monarch Butterfly may be easily distinguished from the female by noting the two highly visible black spots on the insect's hind wings and the thinner black webbing within the wings. The female's webbing is thicker and she has no identifying wing spot as the male does. The Monarch migrate thousands of miles a year from Canada to Mexico. They have even migrated their way to space, Monarchs were transported to the International Space Station and were bred there.
It's tarantula mating season and Mount Diablo State Park is NorCal's hotspot for spider lovin.' On our trip up to Mount Diablo State Park in Contra Costa, we spotted a few tarantulas crossing the road. Every year around September and October, Mount Diablo becomes a love nest for tarantulas looking for that special mate. The best place to see one is near a female tarantula’s den. You will know you've found one because it'll be covered with webbing. They may be large spiders, but tarantulas are not poisonous to humans. The number of people killed by tarantulas, to date, is zero.
I don't know what tree this is but this scene caught my eye.
Thanks to May ( www.flickr.com/photos/161506865@N08 ) for the ID.
The tree is a Lacebark Kurrajong.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. C.S. Lewis
Using the vantage point of the Ferry that was taking us to Vancouver, clouds in a close by mountain looked like a web. Given the time of day, this webbing appeared to have caught color as its quarry. The myriad of colors had been hunted down and fallen prey while I watched them mull about, ever changing while we moved.
Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae), and all other living and fossil Crocodylomorpha.
Although they appear similar, crocodiles, alligators and the gharial belong to separate biological families. The gharial, with its narrow snout, is easier to distinguish, while morphological differences are more difficult to spot in crocodiles and alligators. The most obvious external differences are visible in the head, with crocodiles having narrower and longer heads, with a more V-shaped than a U-shaped snout compared to alligators and caimans. Another obvious trait is that the upper and lower jaws of the crocodiles are the same width, and the teeth in the lower jaw fall along the edge or outside the upper jaw when the mouth is closed; therefore, all teeth are visible, unlike an alligator, which possesses in the upper jaw small depressions into which the lower teeth fit. Also, when the crocodile's mouth is closed, the large fourth tooth in the lower jaw fits into a constriction in the upper jaw. For hard-to-distinguish specimens, the protruding tooth is the most reliable feature to define the species' family. Crocodiles have more webbing on the toes of the hind feet and can better tolerate saltwater due to specialized salt glands for filtering out salt, which are present, but non-functioning, in alligators. Another trait that separates crocodiles from other crocodilians is their much higher levels of aggression.
Crocodile size, morphology, behaviour and ecology differ somewhat among species. However, they have many similarities in these areas as well. All crocodiles are semiaquatic and tend to congregate in freshwater habitats such as rivers, lakes, wetlands and sometimes in brackish water and saltwater. They are carnivorous animals, feeding mostly on vertebrates such as fish, reptiles, birds and mammals, and sometimes on invertebrates such as molluscs and crustaceans, depending on species and age. All crocodiles are tropical species that, unlike alligators, are very sensitive to cold. They separated from other crocodilians during the Eocene epoch, about 55 million years ago. Many species are at the risk of extinction, some being classified as critically endangered.
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An Anhinga from the underside.
From Animalia:
The anhinga is found in warmer regions of the Americas. Being members of the family of darters, they are related to cormorants and pelicans. "Anhinga" come from the Tupi language of Brazil and means snake bird or devil bird. These Central and North American birds are skilful swimmers with unique characteristics that help them when hunting for fish. With a large wing span, they are able to fly in the manner of a vulture or a hawk. Males and females look different, with the females being smaller and browner and the males blacker. Their feathers provide less buoyancy than ducks, so they are able to dive under the water, and swim with just their thin necks above the water, earning them the nickname of the "snake bird".
From the photographer - the Anhinga has an amazing webbed claw foot - as you can see they can easily grab a branch with their claws - but their webbing helps make them adept swimmers.
Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large birds, with body weight in the range of 0.35–5 kilograms (0.77–11.02 lb) and wing span of 60–100 centimetres (24–39 in). The majority of species have dark feathers. The bill is long, thin and hooked. Their feet have webbing between all four toes. All species are fish-eaters, catching the prey by diving from the surface. They are excellent divers, and under water they propel themselves with their feet with help from their wings; some cormorant species have been found to dive as deep as 45 metres (150 ft). They have relatively short wings due to their need for economical movement underwater, and consequently have among the highest flight costs of any flying bird.
Phalacrocoracidae, ya sure it easier for you to say lol
Wiki...
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of some 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed recently, and the number of genera is disputed. There is no consistent distinction between "cormorants" and "shags" as these appellations have been assigned to different species in these genera at various points in time, with no real quantifiable differences between the two terms.
Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large birds, with body weight in the range of 0.35–5 kilograms (0.77–11.02 lb) and wing span of 45–100 centimetres (18–39 in). The majority of species have dark feathers. The bill is long, thin and hooked. Their feet have webbing between all four toes. All species are fish-eaters, catching the prey by diving from the surface. They are excellent divers, and under water they propel themselves with their feet with help from their wings; some cormorant species have been found to dive as deep as 45 metres. They have relatively short wings due to their need for economical movement underwater, and consequently have the highest flight costs of any bird.[1]
Cormorants nest in colonies around the shore, on trees, islets or cliffs. They are coastal rather than oceanic birds, and some have colonised inland waters – indeed, the original ancestor of cormorants seems to have been a fresh-water bird. They range around the world, except for the central Pacific islands.
American Coot scurries back to the water after a bit of grazing. "The bird’s long, yellow-green toes have two to three fleshy lobes that are attached to its tall, sturdy legs. While its shape might look strange to the human eye, the curious configuration of the coot's foot makes the bird adept at getting around both on water and on land, unlike most other waterfowl. Comparable to webbing on a duck's foot, the palmate toes help a coot push through the water. On land, the lobes fold back when the bird lifts its foot, which facilitates walking on a variety of surfaces like mud, grass, and even ice." Information from the Audubon website audubon.org.
A baseball settles into the stitched webbing of a leather ball glove as a catch is made. Unfortunately, I forgot to clean up the baseball before the shot, so you see a bit of dirt smudge on it... Oh well, I kinda like 'em that way, as it shows that they've been used. :-)
Done for Macro Mondays: Stitch theme
An interesting aside about stitches: When Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs won the World Series earlier this month, it had been 108 years since they last won the championship. A baseball: it has 108 stitches. Coincidence? I hope so, because I don't have time to wait another 108 years for the next championship... :-)
Shorebirds, also known as waders, gather in intertidal areas or on the fringes of freshwater wetlands. They generally have long legs in relation to their body size, no webbing on their feet and they don't swim. The shape and size of their bill gives a clue to their preferred diet and habitat.
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Les oiseaux de rivage, également connus sous le nom d'échassiers, se rassemblent dans les zones intertidales ou en bordure des zones humides d'eau douce. Ils ont généralement de longues pattes par rapport à leur taille, pas de palmes aux pieds et ils ne nagent pas. La forme et la taille de leur bec donnent un indice sur leur régime alimentaire et leur habitat préférés.
Webbing seat buckle on a KC-130 aircraft. The buckle is designed to be buckled and unbuckled "wearing boxing gloves." It seems to work as advertised. I was able to quickly buckle and unbuckle it using my fists. Hill Air Force Base, Utah. For the Macro Mondays challenge, Buckle.
Area shown is 6.8cm square. Happy Macro Monday!
The face seemed just hanging in the air. I did not see the fine webbing with my eyes. I feel sometimes just like this.
♫Gray skies are gonna clear up,
Put on a happy face;
Brush off the clouds and cheer up,
Put on a happy face ♫
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Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Cormorants and shags are medium-to-large birds, with body weight in the range of 0.35–5 kilograms and wing span of 45–100 centimetres. The majority of species have dark feathers. The bill is long, thin and hooked. Their feet have webbing between all four toes. All species are fish-eaters, catching the prey by diving from the surface. They are excellent divers, and under water they propel themselves with their feet with help from their wings; some cormorant species have been found to dive as deep as 45 metres. They have relatively short wings due to their need for economical movement underwater, and consequently have the highest flight costs of any flying bird. Cormorants nest in colonies around the shore, on trees, islets or cliffs. They are coastal rather than oceanic birds, and some have colonised inland waters – indeed, the original ancestor of cormorants seems to have been a fresh-water bird. They range around the world, except for the central Pacific islands. 21165
These ladies will try anything to fool prey. It's not enough that their webs are three to four feet in diameter. No, they have learned many tricks and rarely sleep on an empty stomach, or whatever they have.
The White's tree frog is native to Australia and southern New Guinea and has been introduced to New Zealand. This one (Paco) lives at Hershey Gardens with his companion Kermit. Like many other tree frogs, White's tree frogs can change color to some degree.These frogs have enormous toe pads with partial webbing between fingers and almost complete webbing between toes. The eye has a horizontal pupil; most other tree frogs have vertical pupils. The fatty ridge over the eye is a distinctive feature of the species. White's tree frogs are rather large, ranging in length from 3 to 4.5 inches (7 to 11.5 centimeters). Females are usually slightly bigger than the males.
Also known as Marsh Hen or by its scientific name – Gallinula chloropus.
This medium-sized bird is a migratory bird in some parts of the U.S., Canada, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa but they love Florida and Mexico and stay year round. The Moorhen, a part of the rail family. spends its life on the water and is usually 12 to 15 inches in size when fully grown. In spite of having no webbing on their feet, they are good swimmers. Of course, you can not miss them with their gray-black feathers, a line of white feathers, and a red bill with a yellow tip.
Moorhens are omnivores and love to eat seeds and other plant material floating on the water. They also eat algae, small fish, tadpoles, insects, aquatic roots, berries, grass, snails, insects, rodents, lizards, and worms. On land, you will see them ‘peck’ like a chicken for their food.
Moorhen pairs are monogamous. Females will lay 4 to 12 eggs, laying only one egg a day. The chicks will fledge within 5 to 7 weeks and Momma Moorhen might have another brood later in the season.
Predators such as foxes, dogs, coyotes, and raccoons are the main predators of the moorhen. Large reptiles and Wildcats may also prey on them.
I found this one along Peavine Road in Osceola County, Florida.
My Blade and Soul Assassin
Finally hit max level (for now) and obtained the armor I've been coveting. It's been such an awesome game so far and a great way to relax with my SL friends.
Don't worry! I'm still blogging~
Race: Jin
Class: Assassin
Favorite Skill: Webbing
Server: Yehara
A cormorant perched on a tree against the setting sun. Found this lone ranger near a water hole ready for a another dive.
Cormorants are medium-to-large birds having dark feathers. The bill is long, thin and hooked. Their feet have webbing between all four toes. All species are fish-eaters, catching the prey by diving from the surface. They are excellent divers, and under water they propel themselves with their feet with help from their wings; some cormorant species have been found to dive as deep as 45 metres. They have relatively short wings due to their need for economical movement underwater, and consequently have the highest flight costs of any bird.