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Juvenile
Brown Thrasher BRTH (Toxostoma rufum)
tentatively or
experimentally feeding
Carmichael, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Mike McGrenere found one in Greater Victoria July 11th...Great Find Mike!
Always entertaining to watch but once you see them coming together you've missed it, just managed to spot the build up with this pair.
St Aidan's Nature Park.
Sheila on my belly supervising my after-lunch-powernap, the
camera is under my chin
Repost for
Happy Caturday 22.10.2022 "Behaviour"
In loving memory of Sheila (2004 - May 2nd, 2019)
The Sheila story: www.wolfgang-kynast.de/hst-sheila.htm
The Sheila album: www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgang-kynast/albums/721576512156...
I had read about this behaviour by this species of hoverfly but had never seen it before. The male hovers closely above a female feeding on a flower and gets very aggressive towards anything else flying in the vicinity.
Photographed at Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB reserve.
Partially hidden by the foliage meant AF was difficult to say the least but luckily it snapped into focus just when I was about to give up.
St Aidan's Nature Park.
These guys were not playing, the dust they were kicking up , the heat haze off the path, plus a large crop, messed with things here, as did having to quickly drop to one knee and hand hold., these excuses aside, worth sharing I thought.
Taken at RSPB Titchwell, on the main path, MORE IN THE SERIES BELOW IN COMMENTS
Canon EOS-1D X
Æ’/10.0
700.0 mm
1/5000
iso 1250
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds in much of the Old World and the Atlantic coast of North America. In European waters it can be distinguished from the Common Shag by its larger size, heavier build, thicker bill, lack of a crest and plumage without any green tinge. In eastern North America, it is similarly larger and bulkier than Double-crested Cormorant, and the latter species has more yellow on the throat and bill. Great Cormorants are mostly silent, but they make various guttural noises at their breeding colonies.
Many fishermen see in the Great Cormorant a competitor for fish. Because of this it was nearly hunted to extinction in the past. Thanks to conservation efforts its numbers increased.
Cormorant fishing is practiced in China, Japan, and elsewhere around the globe. In it, fishermen tie a line around the throats of cormorants, tight enough to prevent swallowing, and deploy them from small boats. The cormorants catch fish without being able to fully swallow them, and the fishermen are able to retrieve the fish simply by forcing open the cormorants' mouths, apparently engaging the regurgitation reflex.
In North Norway, cormorants are traditionally seen as semi-sacred. (wikipedia)
There are many Cormorants that fish along the shoreline of Dublin Bay. This adult was coming into the base of the east pier, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
This Robin swayed and rocked from side to side for quite a while (minutes at least) with puffed feathers and beak slightly opened, displaying to another one sitting just above it. Amazing behaviour to witness. Had never seen this before.
Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU (Cerorhinca monocerata)
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Salish Sea
BC
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DSC_5086 etc Publication1 RHAU power dive
Prey appears to be
Pacific Sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) aka Needle Fish
Initially i thought this bird was working on taking off.
It was not stressed by being too close to boat or anything like that ... just seemed to want momentum for a deep dive.
1st time i have seen that behaviour
House Finches
April 8, 2025, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
In the hedge in the yard a pair of house finches displaying courting behaviour with the male giving seeds to the female.
Haemorhous mexicanus
The red of a male House Finch comes from pigments contained in its food during molt (birds can’t make bright red or yellow colors directly). So the more pigment in the food, the redder the male. This is why people sometimes see orange or yellowish male House Finches. Females prefer to mate with the reddest male they can find, perhaps raising the chances they get a capable mate who can do his part in feeding the nestlings.
House Finches feed their nestlings exclusively plant foods, a fairly rare occurrence in the bird world. Many birds that are vegetarians as adults still find animal foods to keep their fast-growing young supplied with protein.
The Long-tailed Tit is different to other tits. In fact, it isn’t really a tit at all, differing in its behaviour and appearance, and being more closely related to the bbalers of Africa and south-east Asia than our familiar Blue and Great Tits. It is easily distinguishable by its dainty size, long tail and patterned, soft-pink plumage. Long-tailed Tits are often found in parties of around 8-20 individuals, their distinctive bubbly ‘prrrt-prrrt’ calls revealing their presence.
In the winter the birds are to be found in small groups, numbering from 6-8 birds up to 20, and occasionally reaching 50 individuals within a single flock. Prior to dusk Long-tailed Tits are very busy and active before heading off to roost in thick shrubbery, such as a hawthorn. As Long-tailed Tits lose a lot of energy because of their small body mass, they need to keep warm. In order to maintain their body temperature overnight, the birds huddle in small bundles.
Taken @ Kidwelly
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Coal tit (Periparus ater)...Coal tits have a curious bit of behaviour; look closely and you may notice them nesting deep within rotting tree stumps, or perhaps other holes, cracks and crevices such as burrows of mice or old Magpie nests. They commonly use materials such as moss, hair and grass; most breeding begins in March to April, with around seven to eleven red-spotted white eggs being laid in May.
This is the original George. Georgina looks so much like him I got them confused. He is a big boar now, not quite as large as Brutus, most bears aren't. Any desire to get the low off the water pov was quickly diminished when our eyes met...too bad that would have made such a good shot :)
The behaviour of the "Cardinal fish " in the breeding season with the incubation of its fry in the mouth resembles that used by freshwater cichlids that incubate and protect their fry in their mouths, so we can say that the "Wren" is the cichlid of the Mediterranean.
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El comportamiento del "Apogon Imberbis" en la época reproductiva con la incubación de sus alevines en la boca se asemeja a la que utilizan los ciclidos de agua dulce que incuban y protegen a sus alevines en la boca, por lo podemos decir que el "Reyezuelo" es el ciclido del Mediterráneo.