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The Winged Victory of Samothrace at the top of the Daru Staircase in the Louvre museum, Paris, France.
I will be posting this Cooktown/Cape Bedford Coloured Sands series in Groups, and here is the first. The tree is quite spectacular in flower which it does after the cooler months, and flowers just as it gains the new season's leaves. This one was by the road between Cairns and Mareeba.
The tree has distinctive leaves like bats in flight, and grows across northern and eastern Australia, and can reach 30 metres near Cairns but much shorter in drier and desert areas. Brown pods will follow the flowering which contain red seeds, and once aboriginal people made necklaces from the seeds. The bark is furrowed and corky, sometimes thorny, wood soft and light. Aborigines used to make bowls from the wood, as well as shields.
Wisconsin Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 John H. Carroll and Sgt. Donald R. Simmons of the 1st Battalion, 147th Aviation in Madison, Wis., load a collapsable ladder into the back of their truck late at night on Dec. 19. Carrol and Simmons install the ladder so that when they pick up civilians, they can easily access the back of the truck. 112th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment photo by Pfc. Christopher L. Enderle
***Rarity***Glaucous-winged Gull 11/18/2011 Glendale Recharge Basins, Maricopa Co., AZ. Previously reported by Tommy DeBardeleben 11/9/11, seen by many.
In late spring, the red-winged blackbird is a very common visitor to Fort Whyte.. with the many ponds are marsh areas, these birds find many locations to nest...
This Grey-winged Trumpeter, Psophia crepitans, was photographed in Peru, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
The Kampeska Wing Fling in Watertown, South Dakota has great activities for the whole family to enjoy. www.travelsd.com
More than 120 children of Wisconsin National Guard employees at the 115th Fighter Wing and Joint Force Headquarters in Madison, Wis., participated in the annual "Take Your Child to Work Day" Thursday (April 25). Wisconsin National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Joe Trovato
Gewone melba
(Pytilia melba)
Female
The green-winged pytilia (Pytilia melba) is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 6,000,000 square kilometres (2,300,000 sq mi).
It is widespread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, though it is more rarely seen in central, far southern and coastal western parts of the continent. It has two subspecies groups, nominate melba in the south and the northerly citerior, which are sometimes treated as separate species. Usually, additional subspecies are recognized within these two groups.
Origin and phylogeny has been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al. Estrildinae may have originated in India and dispersed thereafter (towards Africa and Pacific Ocean habitats).
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Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) is the second most abundant duck in North America. Some migrate very long distances from Canada to South America.
Taken at Peaceful Waters Sanctuary, Wellington, Florida. Canon EOS 7D Mark II and Canon EF 400mm USM L lens.
Lindsay oredered up this CNC cut foam core with the desired profile of the finished wing. After tracing and cutting the profile of the wing in plywood, these plywood plates were glued to the ends of the wing.
White-winged Crossbill feeding on hemlock seeds in section 10 of the Lexington Cemetery.
February 3, 2013
PK Spaulding
State Command Sgt. Maj. George Stopper presents Sgt. Travis Vollmer with a challenge coin during a visit to the Wisconsin National Guard's 97th Agribusiness Development Team Monday (Jan. 14) while the unit was conducting mobilization training at Camp Atterbury, Ind. The 97th ADT is Wisconsin's second agribusiness team, and will deploy to Afghanistan's Kunar Province to replace the state's first such team, the 82nd ADT. Wisconsin National Guard photo by Vaughn R. Larson
Captured at Surfland Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, USA — settings: Camera: ILCE-9, focal length: 50mm, SS: 1/400, Aperture: f/1.4, ISO: 125, Flash: off — by Kevin Lowery
The spur-winged lapwing or spur-winged plover (Vanellus spinosus) is a lapwing species, one of a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae.
It is one of several species of wader supposed to be the "trochilus" bird said by Herodotus to have been involved in an unattested cleaning symbiosis with the Nile crocodile.
The spur-winged lapwing breeds around the eastern Mediterranean, and in a wide band from sub-Saharan west Africa to Arabia. The Greek and Turkish breeders are migratory, but other populations are resident. The species is declining in its northern range, but is abundant in much of tropical Africa, being seen at almost any wetland habitat in its range. The spur-winged lapwing is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
These are conspicuous and unmistakable birds. They are medium-large waders with black crown, chest, foreneck stripe and tail. The face, the rest of the neck and belly are white and the wings and back are light brown. The bill and legs are black. Its striking appearance is supplemented by its noisy nature, with a loud did-he-do-it call. The bird's common name refers to a small claw or spur hidden in each of its wings.
This species has a preference for marshes and similar freshwater wetland habitats. The food of the spur-winged lapwing is insects and other invertebrates, which are picked from the ground.
It lays two blotchy yellowish eggs on a ground scrape. The spur-winged lapwing is known to sometimes use the wing-claws in an attack on animals and, rarely, people, who get too close to the birds' exposed offspring.
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