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Part of a series of photos taken for my colleague Prof. Doug Levey for the PR surrounding their paper in PNAS about mockingbird recognition of individual people, not just people in general. This photo went out on the wire and was published in a number of newspapers.
Saving the planet one step at a time
Have you heard of climate change?
Temperatures are getting higher. Storms are getting worse. Ice is melting and sea levels are rising. Portions of the coast of Bangladesh are likely to go underwater, lost forever. Millions will become homeless. The ability of the earth to sustain people is threatened.
Why is climate change happening?
Because people are burning up fossil fuels (diesel, petrol, natural gas, coal) at such rapid rates that future generations are now threatened.
Is it possible to slow climate change?
Yes, but we cannot continue to waste time. Carbon dioxide levels are rising rapidly. That is where the number 350 comes in. If we can limit CO2 in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million then we can avoid the worst of the harm to come.
Is there anything we can do?
No one person cam stop climate change but everyone contributes something significant. We can slow out own use of fossil fuels by walking and cycling and taking cycle rickshaws rather than using motorized transport. We can reduce our use of electricity. We can avoid, as a nation, burning coal (pure carbon) or selling it to others to burn. We can encourage the government to act to encourage reductions in fuel use and to encourage walking, cycling, and rickshaws.
This will mean making some changes. Fortunately most of those changes are likely to
increase rather than reduce our quality of life. Imagine being able to cycle safely in
Dhaka. Imagine the air being fresh and clean. Imagine children and youth being able to play in side streets. If we move our focus from cars to people, from traveling long
distances to accessing basic needs close to home, we can reduce congestion and all the misery it causes, We can have more time with family and for the other important parts of life.
Remember 350 is not just a number. It is not just an ideal. It is something we can all work to make a reality.
Syed Saiful Alam
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303/365: Out this window, our new and very young neighbors are having quite a party. When we got home tonight, someone's giant truck was almost blocking our way into the yard. All their stupid loud friends are in the front yard, the backyard. Every time I think they've quieted down, they get louder again! This is awful. This is worse than our prior neighbors, who were young and had a bad reputation, but actually just played a lot of muffled music from their basement and liked to smoke on their porch. These neighbors are like a downmarket Abercrombie ripoff. Drunk, loud, fake voices, big trucks and SUVs. At least they are not playing music. But I still have to sleep with all the windows closed. Fucking kids. I am old and cranky!
I wish people would give the Short-eared Owls some space. This guy is walking right through the hillside where they hunt for squirrels, voles, and other small rodents. Not pictured here, yet about 100 yards away to the left, are two other photographers crouched down in some bushes directly above where I've observed one of the SEOWs perch for long periods of time. There was also someone trampling down the bushes about 50 yards to the right of him. With that many people traipsing all over their hunting grounds, I'm afraid they'll be scared off. When people are trampling all over the hillside they are interfering with the owl's ability to hunt, by driving their prey underground.
I haven't gotten any fantastic Nat Geo quality photos of them, but I've been thrilled just to observe their interactions from afar. I'm afraid these poor owls are going to be loved to death.
Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) displaying hording behavior by burying a food source for later consumption. I don't know if it was for long term or short term, but it was interesting to see a bird displaying this behavior as it is usually associated with rodents. Hoarding behavior occurs when there is a lack of food, so animals will store food for short term, in which it will be consumed over days or weeks, or for long term in which it will be eaten months later. An interesting side effect of hoarding behaviors is the dispersal of seeds. Buried food can be forgotten about, and if it is a seed that is buried deep enough it helps with the dispersal of some plant species.
The video was taken on Weber State University campus around 4 pm.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_(animal_behavior)
I was wondering where were their parents. As usual, in Japan mothers often say nothing. Good their shoes are off but this is not excuse to jump.
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Odd paper wasp behavior - Polistes aurifer - Female
Jackson County, Oregon, USA
April 26, 2018
Every summer paper wasps nest around the outside of the house. These in the photos are on the porch ceiling (so actually they are clinging UPSIDE DOWN, I rotated the photos to make them easier to comprehend). The nests are attended by multiple individuals but they seem to be pretty goodnatured, never bothering me or the dogs, even if I get fairly close to photograph them on the nest. At this point in the year the females are just exploring to find where to build a nest.
This is the first time I have noticed the activity shown, where one wasp gets on top of another. The one on the bottom has her wings folded over her body making the body look dark from some angles so at first I thought this was a predatory behavior between two species.
In the preceding picture the wasp that will be "mounted" adopts a submissive posture while two others "stand up" to do something: recognize each other? Then one gets on top of the submissive one, and the third one hangs around or wanders off. Often there is no third wasp, just the "dominant" and "submissive" ones.
Female paper wasps collaborate on building and guarding a nest though only one female may actually lay eggs in the nest. I don't think the males appear at the nest site, but breeding takes place before nestbuilding, elsewhere. So I'm thinking this isn't copulation. Maybe one female exerting dominance to become the one that reproduces? I need to mark them so I could track better.
More details: they build small (2-4 inches across) cup-shaped nests attached to a ceiling or inside a sheltered place like a shade, with a slender pedicel, and each nest contains >15 cells. Cells are stopped up with more paper not with the cobwebby material I have seen in pictures of the nests of some species.
I would be grateful for more information on these very interesting insects. Although observed in SW Oregon they may be European paper wasps but I'm not sure.
This is by far the most common lizard here... and the most interesting. The male has an extendable throat fan that is bright orange or yellow. The female has a wide stripe on the back that has scalloped borders. While not a native species, it is now well established in southern Florida. (It was introduced from the West Indies centuries ago... not necessarily deliberately.
IMG_5421; Brown Anole
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The George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Vancouver, BC
Adult males are a sight to behold, with sharp black-and-white patterns set off by chestnut flanks. Females get their own distinctive elegance from their cinnamon crest. Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They nest in tree cavities; the ducklings depart with a bold leap to the forest floor when only one day old. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hooded_Merganser
Taken during a “Winter Birds of Vancouver Workshop” led by Jess Findlay and Connor Stephanison, February 2020. See www.jessfindlay.com/winter-birds-workshop for more information.
drop in at cafe on my way home, have a rest with a cup of coffee and take a shot on the table, the series of these behavior are becoming like the ritual one for me...
at cafe "pause" in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.
with OLYMPUS XA.
I'm playing catch up on posting my files of juvie Hummers. While this may seem repetitive to viewers, I've given permission to birding pros to use my images... they access Flickr to access these images.
In the fall months here, there are more juveniles that appear to be adult females than actual adult females. Both sexes of first-year Hummers look much like adult females. You have to take multiple shots and look closely at the gorget area for metallic greens and reds. These juvies had a few such flakes at the margin of the gorget.
IMG_5999; Broad-tailed Hummingbird
The neighborhood Bear is at it again, he knocked down this empty birdfeeder this afternoon after successfully snatching a full feeder this morning!
This is Kubota, the buck in the Whitetail Deer habitat on Grandfather Mountain, marking a fallen tree branch with his scent. They have glands on their foreheads between the eyes and antlers that they use to rub their scent off on branches etc. He was also very interested in sniffing everywhere where his does had presumably left their scent. Kubota has had a vasectomy to prevent breeding, but he will still go into rut and act like a buck. At one point, he was chasing the females around. The other male in the enclosure, Dozer, has been neutered to prevent fighting and was mostly just staying out of sight.
There is no sound on this video. I took it out because the only thing you could hear was the conversation of the people next to me and a plane flying overhead, so it didn't really contribute anything to the video. Curiously enough, Movie Maker decided to give the video a black border when I saved it.
This video is now also available on youtube if you prefer to watch it there.
Update, sad news: I just learned on my last trip to Grandfather Mountain that Kubota and two other deer in the habitat had to be put down this past winter due to injuries and infections. :-( Kubota had a large abscess in his jaw that wasn't responding to medication and it was decided to end his suffering. Lab results revealed that he had contracted tetanus.
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