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Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
Rogue Valley - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Habitat : Grasslands
Food : Insects
Nesting : Ground
Behavior : Ground Forager
Conservation : Low Concern
"A shorebird you can see without going to the beach, Killdeer are graceful plovers common to lawns, golf courses, athletic fields, and parking lots. These tawny birds run across the ground in spurts, stopping with a jolt every so often to check their progress, or to see if they’ve startled up any insect prey. Their voice, a far-carrying, excited kill-deer, is a common sound even after dark, often given in flight as the bird circles overhead on slender wings... The Killdeer’s broken-wing act leads predators away from a nest, but doesn’t keep cows or horses from stepping on eggs. To guard against large hoofed animals, the Killdeer uses a quite different display, fluffing itself up, displaying its tail over its head, and running at the beast to attempt to make it change its path."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
This mama GHO was preening herself when one of her three little ones came over and requested her attention. Such a sweet encounter.
RKO_5158. Love is in the air!
Couldn't resist to upload another shot of this young pair of Grebes during their courtship ritual.
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A young Common Sandpiper pauses in the Dutch Dollard area of the Wadden Sea during its migration, quietly foraging along the shallow water’s edge
Sterna forsteri,
Morro Bay, California
The juvenile had been closely following the adult and they move so fast that I don't really know what happened next. And then this. I look at it as chiding, but it could be encouragement, or, of course, anything much less anthropomorphic.
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Anhinga's are one of my favorite birds. Their behavior always entertains. From the way they fish, feed their young, land and greet their mate when arriving at the nest. Here's one taken under good light bringing some nesting material home from a nearby tree.
The Red-tailed hawk on the left tried (unsuccessfully) to dislodge the other hawk from a Redwood treetop. It reminds me of some countries, but with fewer casualties of war.
Seen in the Countrywood/Bancroft neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California.
Le comportement de ce Geai est difficile à cerner, parfois il est relativement facile à l'approcher à 25m et d'autres impossible à moins de 50m...
Cette photo a été prise dans le jardin public à Bordeaux
The behavior of this Jay is difficult to define, sometimes it is relatively easy to approach it at 25m and others impossible within 50m ...
This photo was taken in the public garden in Bordeaux
Okavango Delta
Moremi Game Reserve
Botswana, Southern Africa
Baboons are some of the world’s largest monkeys. The baboon, like other Old World monkeys, does not have a prehensile (gripping) tail, but it is still able to climb when necessary.
All baboons have dog–like noses, powerful jaws, sharp canine teeth, and thick fur. The male baboon also has a ruff—a longer mane around its neck.
The Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family.
The Chacma Baboon is perhaps the longest species of monkey, with a male body length of 20–45 in (50–115 cm) and tail length of 18–33 in (45–84 cm). It also one of the heaviest; the male weighs from 46–99 lb (21–45 kg) with an average of 70 lb (31.8 kg). The smaller female Chacma weighs from 26–55 lb (12–25 kg), with an average of 34 lb (15.4 kg).
The chacma baboon is omnivorous with a preference for fruits, while also eating insects, seeds, grass, smaller vertebrate animals, and fungi (the desert truffle Kalaharituber pfeilii). Located primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviors, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pairings.
Porphyrio porphyrio, often known as the Western Swamphen, is a vibrant wetland bird in the rail family, found in southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa.
Unique Physical Characteristics:
Dexterous Feeders: Unlike most birds, swamphens use their large, unwebbed feet like hands to grasp and manipulate food, often bringing it to their beak while standing on one leg.
Massive Feet:
They have exceptionally long toes that act like snowshoes, allowing them to walk easily over floating lily pads and unstable wetland vegetation without sinking.
Frontal Shield:
They possess a prominent, fleshy red "shield" on their forehead that extends from their thick bill, which is a key identification feature.
Behavioral Traits:
Vocal Commotion: Known for being extremely noisy, they make a wide variety of "un-birdlike" sounds, including loud bleating, hooting, and harsh "kak-kak" calls, especially during the breeding season.
Aggressive Nature:
They are surprisingly territorial and aggressive, known to drive away other waterbirds and even prey on the ducklings of other species.
Communal Breeding:
In some regions, they engage in cooperative breeding where previous offspring and other adults help the primary pair with incubation and caring for the new chicks.
I mentioned once before how amazing it is to see something in nature that you didn't set out to see. Well, this was one of those stories. Out looking for other wildlife, out of nowhere comes along this lone wolf. It was just so beautiful as it smelled it's way along the tundra. Though I have seen wolf previous to this encounter, I was never on the ground with them at eye level, especially with so few people around. I felt strangely comfortable with its presence. It was a day that left me with tears in my eyes, a great sense of gratitude, and of course, a great big smile. A day that I'll never forget. That's what makes being out in nature so amazing ... it's more that just about us ... so much more.
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Stingless bees (SB), sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (from about 462 to 552 described species), comprising the tribe Meliponin (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors).
They belong in the family Apidae (subfamily Apinae), and are closely related to common honey bees (HB, tribe Apini), orchid bees (tribe Euglossini), and bumblebees (tribe Bombini). These four bee tribes belong to the corbiculate bees monophyletic group. Meliponines have stingers, but they are highly reduced and cannot be used for defense, though these bees exhibit other defensive behaviors and mechanisms.
Meliponines are not the only type of bee incapable of stinging: all male bees and many female bees of several other families, such as Andrenidae and Megachilidae (tribe Dioxyini), also cannot sting.
The main honey producing bees of this group generally belong to the genera Scaptotrigona, Tetragonisca, Melipona and Austroplebeia, although there are other genera containing species that produce some usable honey. They are farmed in meliponiculture in the same way that European honey bees (genus Apis) are cultivated in apiculture.
The majority of native eusocial bees of Central and South America are SB, although only a few of them produce honey on a scale such that they are farmed by humans. The Neotropics, with approximately 426 species, boast the highest abundance and species richness, ranging from Cuba and Mexico in the north to Argentina in the south.
A Blue Jay checks out its reflection as it pauses at the heated bird bath for a refreshing drink of water on the coldest day of the winter to date: 20 degrees F (-7 C) at 7 a.m.
My friend Rachel has such a wonderful relationship with Bolingo. She has spent years developing this connection. The handstand happened while they were doing their normal training exercises. This regular training allows the keepers to elicit certain behaviors in order to provide routine medical checkups and other examinations without the need to sedate them. In a perfect world none of these animals would need to be in captivity, but unfortunately the way we are destroying the natural world it may be the only way to prevent these amazing animals from going extinct. Bolingo has already fathered two children, Oliver and Enzi. This sort of world wide breeding program helps to ensure the long term survival of these animals.
Buck Brannaman says "The horse is a mirror to your soul."
This is not my horse.
I won't elaborate. But, I will say this:
It's not his fault...
The Brown Pelicans (Pelicanos occidentalis) soar over the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal, where fresh water from the locks dump into the Pacific Ocean and consequently, stuns the fish. This makes for easy pickings for the Pelicans.
A mother sea otter cracks open a mussel's shell prior to handing it to her eager and not very patient pup. She is also balancing more mussels on her stomach as she floats along on her back.
We were able to observe this behavior many times as the otters were feeding near a small bridge at the entrance to Jetty Road off Highway 1 in Moss Landing, California. Mom would dive down and gather the mussels. The pup would call out and swim close to its mother expecting a handout and fussing if dinner did not come quick enough. It would then swim away and eat happily, only to repeat the process over and over again.
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This Mew Gull in breeding plumage (the red eye ring) gives its feathers some careful attention.
Taken 5 June 2021 at Potter Marsh, Alaska.
Maasi Mara, Kenya, Africa
It's easy to believe that hippos can be dangerous when you see those incredibly long, sharp teeth!
Shot this candid through a pedestrian guard rail before his owner decided to get on with their morning walk. Lots of puppies out early in order to avoid the hellish afternoon temps we've been having.
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Late autumn heading into early winter here in the northern hemisphere. There's a grittiness to the landscape now, accentuated by bare tree limbs and overall lack of foliage. The killing frost took care of that. The bareness of the earth brings with it a depletion of color that only adds to the feeling of inhospitality. There's a feeling that there's nowhere now to hide from the often wintry blasts that howl across open farmland. Yet somehow this is all very fitting. As much as I dislike winter I find this atmosphere strangely comforting. Every dreary cemetery scene my mind can conjure seems to now appear before me as a reality. The cold and darkness take a back seat to the excitement this causes me. A very strange duality of thought. Nothing about visiting cemeteries seems strange about. Any last vestige of that sort of thinking left me while still a teenager, if it even existed then. If there is any oddness with this behavior it's my fixation with standing on the boundary of the cemetery property gazing back at the outside world. It's not the same doing this from within the cemetery. For me it's all about getting right up to the edge, near the graves that form the boundary between the dead and the living. It's like standing over an unsee energy field. Like an invisible fence for dogs. Dunno. But standing here on this grim November day the energy field was wide open. I looked past the graves of people that died over a century ago. In the distance the remains of a cornfield that was harvested just a few days ago. The cycle of life and death so wonderfully manifested and in the shadow of that gnarly old tree. Late autumn heading into early winter and I'm right where I belong.
This Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) was holding on to and swimming with the carcass of this Horn Shark; Both Alice and I got shots--the only photographers there. Mike Harris, local Sea Otter Biologist with California Fish and Wildlife arrived after the otter had gone. We sent Mike photos as well as Gena Bentall, Director/Senior Scientist with Sea Otter Savvy in Watsonville CA; According to Gena, its rare for California sea otters to feed on fish, but relatively common in Alaska and Russia; I did see, through binoculars, the otter nibble on areas of the shark's face; Mike thought it was a female otter; I'm glad I was "camera ready" for this natural history moment. Sony a9; Sony 200-600mm lens at 200mm; 1/1600 sec; f/7.1; ISO 4000; Gitzo tripod; Topaz AI Sharpen and De Noise;
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