Amazon Kingfisher photographed from a boat, Medio Queso, northern Costa Rica

The coolie butterfly, scarlet peacock or brown peacock (Anartia amathea) is a mediumsized common butterfly in South America.

The butterfly lives in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, the Brazilian highlands, the eastern Amazon, the Guianas, Venezuela, and Panama, but also on the southern Caribbean islands.

The coolie is found in disturbed habitats such as gardens, forest clearings, orchards, roadsides, fields and pastures.

It also occurs in primary rainforest, along riverbanks and in glades.

It is found at altitudes between sea level and about 1600 m, but is commonest between 100 - 800 m.

The base color of the wings is either dark brown or black and there are usually three large red spots located near the base of the lower wings. The males have a distinct red coloration, whereas the females are slightly larger and orange-brown.

The wingspan is 5 - 6 cm.

De coolie, schoenlapper of aurelia (anartia amathea) is een middelgrote veel voorkomende vlinder in Zuid-Amerika.

De vlinder leeft in Argentinië, Paraguay, Uruguay, de Braziliaanse hooglanden, het oostelijke Amazonegebied, de Guyanalanden, Venezuela en Panama, maar ook op de zuidelijke Caribische eilanden. De auelia is te vinden in verschillende en afwisselende leefgebieden als open plekken in bossen, boomgaarden, bermen, akkers, weilanden, langs rivieroevers en tuinen.

De vlinder wordt gevonden op hoogtes tussen zeeniveau en ongeveer 1600 m, maar het meest tussen 100 à 800 m.

De basiskleur van de vleugels is donkerbruin of zwart met meestal drie grote rode vlekken in de buurt van de basis van de onderste vleugels. De mannetjes hebben een rode kleur, terwijl de iets grotere vrouwtjes oranjebruin zijn. De vleugelspanwijdte is 5 à 6 cm.

Deze foto is gemaakt in het vlinderhuis van de Botanische Tuinen van de Utrechtse Universiteit.

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A small house in the Amazon Peru

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A igarape is a watercourse Amazon water first, second or third order, consisting of a long arm river or channel. They exist in large numbers in the Amazon Basin. Characterized by shallow and almost run into the forest. Only small boats such as canoes and small boats, can navagar by the waters of a stream due to its shallow depth and be narrow.

The word was adopted from the Tupi. Literally means "canoe route" through the junction of ygara terms (canoe) and loveto (path)

Amazonian streams are an integral and essential part in the functioning of the forest, because they work as ecological corridors, linking forest fragments and facilitating displacement of wildlife and gene flow between populations of species of animals and plants.

Um igarapé é um curso d'água amazônico de primeira, segunda ou terceira ordem, constituído por um braço longo de rio ou canal. Existem em grande número na Bacia amazônica. Caracterizam-se pela pouca profundidade e por correrem quase no interior da mata. Apenas pequenas embarcações, como canoas e pequenos barcos, podem navagar pelas águas de um igarapé devido a sua baixa profundidade e por ser estreito.

A palavra foi adotada do tupi. Significa, literalmente, "caminho de canoa", através da junção dos termos ygara (canoa) e apé (caminho)

Características:-

A maioria dos igarapés tem águas escuras semelhantes às do Rio Negro, um dos principais afluentes do Rio Amazonas, transportando poucos sedimentos. São navegáveis por pequenas embarcações e canoas e desempenham um importante papel como vias de transporte e comunicação.

Os igarapés amazônicos constituem parte integrante e essencial no funcionamento da floresta, pois funcionam como corredores ecológicos, ligando fragmentos florestais e facilitando deslocamento da fauna e o fluxo gênico entre as populações das espécies de animais e vegetais.

Bank of Amazon river near Manuas, July 2016

Parrot Jungle amazon parrots hamming it up.

P.S.: I'm headed to Ireland tomorrow! See you on 9/23!

UPDATE: Oh yeah, I'm going to Ireland for my Honeymoon. Important detail. ;-)

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This one, or the one behind it?

Volvo Amazon from the 60s.

Olympus SuperZoom 70

Agfaphoto APX100

Rodinal 1+50 18:30min, 19°C

10min presoak

Agitation: 1min + 5s/30s.

Helsinki, Finland, 2022.

a lot of multiple long exposures

and a pencil

series

Amazon Lowlands - Ecuador

Wreck of the Amazon.

Inverloch, Victoria, Australia.

The Amazon Kingfisher is about a foot (30cm) long with a long heavy bill. It is found from the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Tamaulipas south through Central America into Colombia and Venezuela and separately east of the Andes in every South American country except Chile, reaching as far south as central Argentina.

Photographed May 7th in Costa Rica on tour with Neotropic Photo Tours, led by Juan Carlos Vindas.

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Just another day in the jungle for the indigenous people

Amazon kingfisher just emerging out of the water with its catch. From the moment they leave their branch to dive in for the fish and come back up it seems it's just a second. I took hundred of shots this day and most of them show only water or just a part of this fast moving bird.

Pantanal, Brazil

Inside the Amazon Spheres. Seattle, 2019

SEASPAN AMAZON

London Gateway

ANTWERP >>> LONDON GATEWAY

IMO: 9630391 - Built 2014

Container Ship - 337m X 48m

Aos deputados e senadores:

Tramita no Congresso Nacional um projeto de lei que, se aprovado, será um golpe mortal para todas as florestas brasileiras e, em especial, a amazônica. O PL 6424/2005, conhecido com Floresta Zero, reduz a reserva legal da região para 50% e ainda permite compensar, em outros locais, qualquer desmatamento que vá além desse limite.

O Brasil demorou 450 anos para botar no chão praticamente uma floresta inteira, a Mata Atlântica, que se espalhava em 1 milhão de quilômetros quadrados entre o Paraná e o Rio Grande do Norte. Infelizmente, parece que não aprendemos nada dessa lição. A velocidade de destruição da Amazônia é quase dez vezes maior. Em pouco menos de 40 anos, já perdemos para sempre mais de 700 mil quilômetros quadrados de Amazônia – o equivalente a quase três estados de São Paulo. Se o Floresta Zero passar no Congresso, a devastação assumirá um ritmo ainda mais avassalador.

O Floresta Zero incentiva a derrubada da floresta e inocenta milhares de crimes ambientais. A Amazônia ocupa 5% do solo do planeta e abriga a maior biodiversidade do mundo. Somos hoje o quarto maior emissor de gases de efeito estufa do mundo. Cerca de 70% de nossas emissões são decorrentes do desmatamento e das queimadas.

Destruir a Amazônia provoca um grande impacto econômico e social no país. A chuva que é produzida na Amazônia é importante não apenas para a região. Ela ajuda na geração de energia, na produção de alimentos e no abastecimento de água no centro, sul e sudeste brasileiro. Para os mais de 22 milhões de brasileiros que habitam a Amazônia, o desmatamento nunca trouxe desenvolvimento social. Cerca de 85% dos casos de trabalho escravo do país ocorrem nas áreas desmatadas da Amazônia.

Ao invés de aumentar a proteção do meio ambiente e estabelecer metas para a redução do desmatamento, o Congresso Nacional estará dando as costas para a Amazônia e abrindo as portas para mais destruição. A sociedade brasileira exige um ponto final no desmatamento de nossas florestas, em especial a Amazônia. Seja a favor da floresta. Diga não ao PL 6424/2005.

Acesse

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Assine, divulgue.

Uma sociedade organizada em prol do bem comum, é uma sociedade justa.

Faça parte! Faça a sua parte

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The plane which I was on flew into Lima due to bad weather at it's original destination, Iquitos...

From there, a later plane was taken to Iquitos and the plan was to join a boat a little down river from there....( travelling down to it by canoe with small motor ). It is a recent realisation that I had travelled by plane or boat from the West Coast to the East, arriving a little south of the marked route into Belem and then up the coast to French Guiana and the Surinam border.......

While taking a dip in the Amazon today, I saw this Piranha staring at me intending to nibble on my toes. :-))

Costa Rica

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By far the most common kingfisher that we encountered during our time in the Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica was the Amazon Kingfisher. This female was quite a great model.

We will be doing this trip again next spring, if you think you might be interested more information is available here: www.texastargetbirds.com/group-photo-trips/2018-costa-ric...

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Chloroceryle amazona

Olha só o tamanho desse bichão!!!

It feels amazing to feel the dolphin's contact on the skin!

This handsome is the Pink Giant!

The dolphins live loose in the river, there is nothing that holds them, nor do they go through training; they are conditioned by the caretaker, to go to the platform to feed, end up getting used to the place and the people. Many are known by names.

Photo Edition - Photo Art

HDR

FREE ANIMALS

Play Photo - Colagem

Boto cor-de-rosa

É uma sensação incrível sentir o contato do Boto na pele!

Esse lindão é o Gigante Rosa!

FREE ANIMALS

Na classificação dos biólogos, não há nenhuma diferença entre botos e golfinhos é só uma questão de nomenclatura regional. O termo boto ganhou força no Brasil para nomear o pequeno cetáceo encontrado nos rios da Amazônia. A partir daí, passou a ser ensinado em escolas que boto era de água doce e golfinho, de água salgada

Fonte: Info Escola

Rio Negro - Amazônia

Manaus, Brasil

Art Week Gallery Group: Summer Days Week II

Amazonas, Brasil

We were very fortunate to see the five Kingfishers in the Pantanal.

Thank you for your visit and comments. They are very much appreciated.

Here is the full diorama of all four Amazon builds created for mine and Bartu's Amazon collaboration!

First of all: Be sure to check out the Full Video of this build! This includes Bartu's masterful compositions, which is how this collaboration really comes alive! Don't miss it! :D

Hope you've enjoyed this collaboration! It has been quite a different one, working in two separate mediums, but I really want to thank Bartu for initiating this! It's been a very fun, interesting and intense month! Thanks!

One last thing: You seriously need to check out the VIDEO result of this collab to see how the music and lego builds work together. If not, you will just be seeing half of it :)

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(Chloroceryle amazona) B28I9342.jpg Piuval - Mato Grosso - Brazil

Crazy Tuesday: Packaging

I tore open the layers of this padded packing envelope expecting to find a thin shield of bubble wrap. Instead, it was full of these little fluff bumps. Who knew?

A small village on the Manati river in Peru

A composite image of the wreck of the Amazon under southern starry skies. I'm not sure about posting this as it's not my usual style: I like to use infrared, long exposures, modified lenses and tilt-shifts to create an interpretation that is still strongly linked to the subject in front of me. In this case I've combined a single 2-second image of the shoreline with a 21-minute night sky exposure taken 3 weeks later from my backyard.

I really like the end result but it just doesn't feel honest, in the way of my usual techniques.

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Arnhem

Arguably the longest river in the world, the Amazon meanders its way from the towering Andes in Peru to the sweeping coastline of Brazil, where it empties into the vast Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon River and its tributaries is located in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. The entire river measures over 4,000 miles from its source to the river mouth. However, the exact length of the Amazon is arguable as the location of its start and end points have both been disputed historically. The Amazon River is currently alleged to be 6,992 kilometers long.*

*https://www.rainforestcruises.com/amazon-river-peru-map

Another snap shot of one of my husbands Amazon Tree Frogs. The eyes are amazing they also have a blue tongue .

Milk frogs are highly arboreal and in nature rarely if ever come down from their home in the trees which is why they require extra habitat and frog supplies. Provide perches above ground such as cork bark, bamboo trigs etc. Artificial plants or live plants can also be used.

Arguably the longest river in the world, the Amazon meanders its way from the towering Andes in Peru to the sweeping coastline of Brazil, where it empties into the vast Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon River and its tributaries is located in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. The entire river measures over 4,000 miles from its source to the river mouth. However, the exact length of the Amazon is arguable as the location of its start and end points have both been disputed historically. The Amazon River is currently alleged to be 6,992 kilometers long.*

*https://www.rainforestcruises.com/amazon-river-peru-map

SEmetro_2020-07-08__MG_7373 Here she is perched nicely and the first one I have seen since last year

Lora Amazónica, Orange-winged Amazon, Amazona amazonica.

Especie # 2.053

El Mono y la Gata

Departamento de San Martín

Perú

So, I realised it would be a really nice idea to start putting some pictures here, so here it is! Me as massive amazon~ Picture made by amazing Nephthys~

Amazon Kingfisher, Costa Rica

Amazon and rainforest