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The Comoros black parrot is a medium-sized parrot endemic to the Comoros. Historically, it has been treated as a subspecies of the lesser vasa parrot, although it shows morphological, ecological and behavioural differences. It was split as a distinct species in 2021.
Masked Lapwing portrait......
The masked lapwing (Vanellus miles) is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia (particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent), New Zealand and New Guinea. It spends most of its time on the ground searching for food such as insects and worms, and has several distinctive calls. It is common in Australian fields and open land, and is known for its defensive swooping behaviour during the nesting season.
Mallotus villosus, know in eastern Canada as capelin, breed on the stony beaches of Newfoundland each summer. They 'roll' up onto the beaches on the incoming waves in massive numbers to lay their eggs, after which they catch the next wave back into the ocean.
However, some do get stranded too high on the beach. The fish will then flip and flop to try getting back down to where the water is. Some fail. There are three basic techniques they seem to use. Some will twist/roll. Others employ a 'moonwalk' technique where they undulate their bodies, tail first, down the beach. They will also pivot on their nose, as shown in this image.
The fish prefer to breed on beaches with smaller gravel, like this one. All the little whitish/brownish balls you see, that looks almost like sand, are eggs, but the individual in the photo is a male so it only contributed the milk that contains the spermatozoa that fertilizes the eggs. The males develop stronger colours on their back and enlarged pelvic fins. Females are more silver/white on the sides and will have a swollen abdomen due to all the eggs. If conditions are not right, they will also breed off-shore.
The photo isn't the best, but does illustrate most of the points noted above.
acrylic on canvas, 18 x 13 cm
Terug van nooit weg geweest
Zurück von nie weg gewesen
De regreso de nunca he estado lejos
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sie sind zurück
finally you are back
back from never been away
eine braune Erde
© by Jan Theuninck
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Stalag Zehn B
the feldwebel became a general
the campdoctor , a professor
and we the jews - it’s banal
we stayed jewish - no error
© by Jan Theuninck
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It didn't stop after the war and now it's back in all its intensity
im Dritten Reich durfte man nicht zu klug sein
in the Third Reich one couldn't be too clever
Op 11 oktober 2020 vertelde pastoor Jakob Tscharntke(von der evangelischen Freikirche im schwäbischen Riedlingen) aan de parochianen dat de globale elites de Derde Wereldoorlog voeren tegen burgers van alle landen en de Coronavirus-tirannie als hun vehikel gebruiken.
"das Grundrecht der körperlichen Unversehrtheit eingeschränkt" ist ein im Bundestag allzu oft verwendeter Ausdruck
"I was wrong when I said that Nazism came back in Germany. Globalist Germany is much more criminal. Globalism is really the most authoritarian and oppressive totalitarianism in history." (Cesare Sacchetti, journalist, May 9 2021)
A l'époque nazie, la liberté et l'unicité de l'individu devaient céder la place au conformisme, à la servitude et à la subordination. La pulvérisation de l'homme en une chose fut sans doute le plus grand drame du vingtième siècle. Avec cela, la proposition kantienne selon laquelle nous devrions toujours voir l'homme comme une fin et non comme un moyen, a été brutalement et impitoyablement écartée. (liberales.be)
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Jan Theuninck has been painting the evolution of Western totalitarianism for 20 years - he saw the evolution within the political spectrum where the socialist parties were lost (Fagospatose, 2001) in the Third Way (The third way is no way, 2004) movement of Clinton , Blair and Schröder with which they gave a face to communitarianism of the New World Order. He has often compared the latter to a new kind of National Socialism. His attention has always been fixed thanks to the more than 50 years of misery with blackmail games of the services and torture practices with chemical and energy weapons (Beyond the limit, 2001, Rinascimento, 2009, The culture of learned helplessness, 2011, Neostasi, 2012, Derailed system , 2012, The banality of Evil, 2013, Zersetzung, 2014, ils nous tiennent, 2015, Submission, 2015, Threat, 2016, Utopia, 2016, Conformity, 2017, Brainwashing, 2018, Warnung, 2019, Dein Kampf, 2019, Censorship, 2020, Post-truth society, 2020 and in 2021: Political Pandemic, New World Order, The Great Reset, Angel Vaccine, Aryan Corona Passport, Cytokine Storm, Back from never been away, Sustainable Dictatorship.
(In 2014 he already painted Virus Attack without believing that this would become a climax of the Davos counter-revolution years later)
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
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www.graphiste-webdesigner.fr/blog/2013/04/la-peinture-bel... (année 2016)
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The roe deer, *Capreolus capreolus*, is a captivating and graceful member of the deer family, found across much of Europe and Asia. Known for its slender form and delicate features, this species is often admired as a symbol of the serene beauty of nature. This close-up exploration delves into the intricate details of the roe deer's life, habitat, and behaviours, providing a window into the gentle existence of this woodland creature.
Muppet preens the new feathers on her baby. This was one of those special moments, behaviour I have not noticed before. This is Muppet's first youngster.
'CARE' for Flickr Friday.
2 arrived on 15th June 2020 and spent most of the day fishing and flying around Clowbridge Reservoir.
It is my first record locally. They are not common inland Lancashire.
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The Sandwich tern is a very white tern, with a black cap on its head, a long black bill with a yellow tip and short black legs. In flight it shows grey wedges on its wings tips and it has a short forked tail. In the UK, many of the important colonies survive because they are on nature reserves.
Overview
Latin name
Sterna sandvicensis
Family
Terns (Sternidae)
Where to see them
There are colonies of Sandwich terns scattered around the UK coasts including the North Norfolk coast; Minsmere, Suffolk; and Dungeness, Kent.
When to see them
From late March to September.
What they eat
Fish such as sandeels, sprats and whiting.
UK breeding:- 12,490 pairs
Characteristics
Sandwich tern (adult breeding)
Size: between pigeon-mallard
Feather colours: black, white, grey
Beak colours: black/dark grey, yellow
Beak length: long
Beak thickness: long
Beak shape: long
Leg colour: black/grey
Behaviour: part of flock, on ground, bird walks/runs on the ground, dives underwater
Sandwich tern (adult winter)
Size: between pigeon-mallard
Feather colours: black, white, grey
Beak colours: black/dark grey, yellow
Beak length: long
Beak thickness: long
Beak shape: long
Leg colour: black/grey
Behaviour: part of flock, on ground, bird walks/runs on the ground, dives underwater
Sandwich tern (juvenile)
Size: between pigeon-mallard
Feather colours: brown, black, white, grey
Beak colours: black/dark grey
Beak length: long
Beak thickness: long
Beak shape: long
Leg colour: black/grey
Behaviour: part of flock, on ground, bird walks/runs on the ground, dives underwater
Such behaviour is generally part of a preening routine or a display to attract a mate or assert dominance.
Photographed at Old Moor Nature Reserve.
Normally, when very young mountain bluebirds leave the nest they often huddle together along a branch since that closeness is what they were used to in the nest. It likely also helps the parents keep track of them better while they are learning to fly better and how to forage.
In this case, vertical stacking was attempted. It was a dismal failure. However, it was quite comical to watch and I got a good laugh. The top juvenile in this shot actually tried twice to land on the other youngster.
En la imagen una hembra joven de Sympecma fusca. Habrá pasado estos meses fríos como adulto y cuando lleguen los primeros calorcillos se dejarán ver, se reactivarán y buscarán machos y hembras aparearse.
Este comportamiento es único en el mundo de los Odonatos de Europa.
Fotograma completo adaptado a formato panorámico.
Cerca de Biar (Alicante) España.
In the image, a young female Sympecma fusca. She will have spent these cold months as an adult and when the first warm weather arrives, she will show herself, become active and look for males and females to mate with.
This behaviour is unique in the world of European Odonata.
Full frame adapted to panoramic format.
Near Biar (Alicante) Spain.
Miners are highly gregarious, exhibiting complex co-operative and colonial behaviour. Social interaction includes 'corroborees', where numbers of birds congregate briefly with much wing waving and vocalisation.
Young birds may indulge in play behaviour, dropping leaves and attempting to catch them in the air.When fishing over water, they may sometimes land in the water, but manage to swim and take off without much trouble.
I've no idea what's going on in this pic, other than the awesome behaviour of nature and what's going on inside the camera — particularly the strobe-like artefacts, but mostly the bounce!
a drop of rainwater from a drainpipe into a water butt outside Rob's
They were too far away for a good picture however, I took this shot anyway because of the male's behaviour charging females at several occasions while I was there. Females either ignored him or pushed him away. I have never seen this before even though I observed them a lot in the past. I don't think it is courting time in mid-January. It was just bizarre.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Arhats:
The Sixteen Arhats (十六羅漢) are a group of legendary Arhats in Buddhism. The grouping of sixteen Arhats was brought to China, and later to Tibet, from India. In China, an expanded group of Eighteen Arhats later became much more popular, but worship of the sixteen Arhats still continues to the present day in China, Japan and Tibet. In Japan sixteen Arhats are particularly popular in Zen Buddhism, where they are treated as examples of behaviour. In Tibet, the sixteen Arhats, also known as sixteen sthaviras ('elders') are the subject of a liturgical practice associated with the festival of the Buddha's birth, composed by the Kashmiri teacher Shakyahribhadra (1127-1225). They are also well represented in Tibetan art.
A familiar and popular garden songbird whose numbers have declined markedly on farmland and in towns and cities. It's smaller and browner than a mistle thrush with smaller spotting. Its habit of repeating song phrases distinguish it from singing blackbirds.
Song thrushes will eat all kinds of food, but earthworms make up a large part of their diet. When the ground becomes too hard to get at them, song thrushes will eat snails instead. To get at the meat inside, they take the shell and crack it open by banging it against a stone 'anvil'. This behaviour is unique to these birds.
Taken @ Kidwelly Quay
I'm finally learning to play chess (again).
About 30 years ago my younger brother tried to teach me. At some point I packed it in believing he was just making the rules up to suit himself.
Now I'm back learning again and I'm pretty sure it was the castling move that got me!! I called my bro & apologised for my poor behaviour. Luckily he didn't remember my hands in the air but he did have a giggle agreeing that castling could easily have been the last straw.
A tan-coloured coastal wolf cub, born in the spring, so around 4 months old, walking through the shore grass along a small tidal stream, NE Hecate Strait, BC. She also had a black sibling. Photo taken with a long lens by waiting quietly for hours for the wolves to appear (or not) so their natural behaviour was not affected.
04/04/2023 www.allenfotowild.com
The idea of blogging fashion at this present time feels a little bit trivial, and though I’m going to continue to show you as much loveliness as I can, I hope you don’t mind if I just occasionally use these posts to let off a little steam. Just at the moment the world seems to be in a more dangerous place than it has been in my lifetime, and it seems to be largely down the lunatic behaviour of one man. I won’t say his name, because it feels like a cuss word, but I think you all know who I mean. God help us all (and I mean that literally).
I only managed a snapshot of this interesting behaviour. I wasn't sure if these were two males, facing off, or a courting couple?
With the thousands of fall migratory geese and swans that hung out on this lake, there was a lot of grooming and shedding of feathers. Many of those feathers would blow across the water and collect along the mucky shores. That muck is what the snow geese feed in. As in this example, a number of the smaller feathers would catch on their jagged-edged beaks, making the goose look like they were collecting feathers.
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Kallang. This is part of the courtship behaviour of little terns, where the male would offer food to the female.
Most people prefer portraits of roe deer looking straight at the camera, but this is not their natural behaviour. My approach is to gain trust by observing roe in plain sight. Once the deer work out that I'm not a threat, a whole new world is revealed. In early summer, older roe deer bucks drive away younger bucks encroaching on their territory. All the deer in my latest blog appear comfortable with me being nearby, even when they are looking at the camera: www.alanmackenziephotography.com/2022/06/early-summer-roe...
If a mate can't walk on water he will be out of luck.
A combination of up to 20 steps per second, forceful slaps on the water’s surface with splayed feet, and an unusual stride help these grebes defy gravity
Isle Lake
I had an amazing experience going out much later than I normally do: this turtle creating the site and then laying eggs. I saw it digging with its back legs from a distance, and then came back a little while later - I kept my distance and didn’t disturb her - to see her laying the eggs. I have never seen this behaviour before. Simply amazing.