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Some interesting facts about the Roseate Spoonbills...

 

The Roseate Spoonbill is one of the newest birds to join the Birdorable family. Here are some fun facts about this unique species.

 

1. The collective noun for spoonbills is bowl. Have you ever seen a bowl of Roseate Spoonbills?

 

2. Roseate Spoonbills get their pink color from their food! They feed on crustaceans who in turn have fed on algae.

 

3. In parts of their range, especially in Florida, Roseate Spoonbills are sometimes confused with another large pink wading bird: the flamingo.

 

4. There are six species of spoonbill in the world; the Roseate Spoonbill is the only one with pink plumage. Roseate Spoonbill

 

5. The Roseate Spoonbill is also the only spoonbill species found in the Americas.

 

6. The beaks of chick spoonbills are straight; the spoon-shape grows as the chick develops.

 

7. Spoonbills use their specialized bills to feed. They sweep their open bills through the water, and when a prey item like a fish or insect comes between the mandibles, the bill snaps shut.

 

8. The oldest wild Roseate Spoonbill was discovered in the Florida Keys in 2006. The bird had been banded in 1990, and was an amazing 16 years old. The previous known longevity record for the species was seven years.

 

9. Roseate Spoonbills are highly social. They feed with each other and with other wading birds. They also nest in colonies and fly in flocks.

Steps at Alexandra Palace

At Point Reyes National Seashore. Although it contains green chlorophyll, red pigments dominate and act as a sunscreen. Algae such as these need no soil.

Wilhelmshaven Stadtpark

green algae on beach rocks

foraging Lesser Flamingos at Ndutu Lake in the southeastern Serengeti, Tanzania. Taken in January 2023

 

There were no flamingos in Lake Manyara National Park because of flooding and high water levels. These are bad conditions for the growth of the algae on which they feed.

And on the day trip to Arusha National Park at the start of the trip it was impossible to reach the Momella Lakes after a heavy thunder storm so we did not see the flamingos there.

Obviously we were excited to find many flamingos at Ndutu Lake when reaching the southeastern sector of the Serengeti.

 

The Lesser Flamingo is the smallest of all flamingo species and lives in Africa south of the Sahara and in northwestern India.

It can be found in alkaline lakes, salt pans and estuaries where it filters blue-green algae from water. Besides foraging in shallow water it also feeds while swimming in deep water

 

Phoeniconaias minor

kleine flamingo

Flamant nain

Zwergflamingo

Flamenco Enano

Fenicottero minore

Flamingo-pequeno

  

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Here is a picture of a salt marsh among the hundred which are present on the Island of Ré. I took this picture because I was really fascinated by some colorful ponds.

 

I was told by a specialist that when the amount of salt in a pond is light, it turns green because the green alga into the pond is then predominant. When the amount of salt increases, then the dunaliella salina algae produces a shade from pink to red.

Диатомовая водоросль. Cymbella. Длина ~85мкм. Микрофото с объективом масляной иммерсии Carl Zeiss Jena GF-Planachromat HI 100x/1.25 ထ/0.17-А с Raynox DCR-150 в качестве тубусной линзы на штативе микроскопа МББ-1А. Стэкинг 5 кадров. Камера Fujifilm X-T5

Green algae makes landscape like on distant planet

In the SF Botanical Gardens there's a pond with a thick bright lime surface that's thick as pudding with a few sticks poking through.

A lot of turtles look pretty grubby when they live in the lakes and ponds of the city parks

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a fujifilm xf35mm f/1.4 lens

Sunrise skies over the old pier .

Another from the archives that was waiting for attention. The early spring yellow algae? was attention getting.

Once the fall monsoons ramp up and scour the footprints of cows and Labor Day campers, I'll head back up to one of my favorite spots where every few years, the water levels in the lake are low enough to venture out onto the mud flats. I've only witnessed twice the algae that stretches between mud cracks, dried weeds, and rocks. It's space alien green and covers everything with a furry skin.

 

Wilson County, Texas. Pond algae. No direct color editing.

High up on an Exmoor hill the trees along this part of the road are covered in moss and algae. This could possibly from being in cloud much of the time

Flamenco, American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber )

Residente local comun

 

El flamenco del Caribe o flamenco rojo (Phoenicopterus ruber) es un ave de la familiaPhoenicopteridae que vive en áreas tropicales de América, incluyendo las Antillas, la península de Yucatán, el norte de Colombia y Venezuela, en las islas Galápagos y en el norte de Honduras.El flamenco del Caribe puede verse en lagos poco profundos y aguas costeras. Está especializado en alimentarse en lagos con grandes concentraciones salinas o alcalinas. Obtiene su alimento desde el sedimento limoso del fondo. Estas aguas contienen suficiente alimento para satisfacer a un gran número de estas aves, que consumen insectos, camarones y pequeñas plantas, diatomeas y otras algas.

 

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The Caribbean flamingo or red flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is a bird of familiaPhoenicopteridae living in tropical areas of America, including the Caribbean, the Yucatan Peninsula, northern Colombia and Venezuela, the Galapagos Islands and in northern Honduras.El Caribbean flamingo can be seen in shallow lakes and coastal waters. It specializes in feeding on large lakes with saline or alkaline concentrations. Gets its food from the silty bottom sediments. These waters contain sufficient food to satisfy a large number of these birds, which eat insects, shrimp and small plants, diatoms and other algae.

 

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Lugar de Observacion / Taken: Minas de sal, Salinas de puerto Hermoso, peravia, Republica Dominicana.

 

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Scientific classification

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Aves

Order:Phoenicopteriformes

Family:Phoenicopteridae

Genus:Phoenicopterus

Species:P. ruber

Binomial name

Phoenicopterus ruber

  

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Momma makes sure her children eat their greens. The sound of baby coots is a real pacifier for me :)

Green Algae covering Coppice pond

Above water at minus tide,

North Point, Morro Strand State Beach,

Morro Bay, California

 

In spring and summer, the ocean returns much of the sand that was washed away from beaches during winter storm surf, with results such as this.

 

This is one of the Red Algae.

This is a photo that I took while canoeing of some sinister looking algae growing on the bottom of the river, and the reflection of my hand holding the camera.

Algae @ 2022, Limassol, Cyprus -------------------------------------------------

f/11 | 20 sec | ISO 100 | 20 mm

Cokin 64 ND Filter

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Theme : Long Exposure Photography

Series : Winter Reborn

Location: Limassol, Cyprus

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Swan feeding on algae with out streched neck.

Algae on the rocks

ODC-Bridge Over Troubled Waters

 

I used the photo below as my template to create this in DDG-Text-2. Green Water is troubled water and we have it here in the summer in Cayuga Lake. It's full of Algae Bloom and dangerous to swim in. It can cause some nasty skin rashes. Much of it occurs from the fertilizer that people put on their fields and lawns. It runs downhill into the lake since it's in a deep valley.

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Captured in Santa Cruz late afternoon before sunset.

Wildlife pond in the old woodland walk, Dalkeith Country Park, Midlothian.

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