Goddesses of Belly Dance
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Bar-bellied Pitta - Dong Nai, Vietnam
Bird Species (# 517) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/7.1, 1/1000, ISO 400. Female woodpecker. View Large.
From Cornell:
These birds often stick to main branches and trunks of trees, where they hitch in classic woodpecker fashion, leaning away from the trunk and onto their stiff tail feathers as they search for food hiding in bark crevices. When nesting, males choose the site and begin to excavate, then try to attract a female by calling and tapping softly on the wood around or in the cavity. When a female accepts, she taps along with the male, then helps put the finishing touches on the nest cavity. At feeders, Red-bellied Woodpeckers will push aside most bird species other than Blue Jays.
Based on the name of this bird, one might assume that it has a bright red belly; however, the Red-bellied Woodpecker's "red belly" is only a small reddish area that is difficult to see in the field. This bird has a black and white barred back, white uppertail coverts, grayish white underparts, black chevrons on the lower flanks and undertail coverts, and barred central tail feathers. In flight a small white patch shows at the base of the primaries.
In adult males, the entire crown, from bill to nape, is red. In adult females, the red on the head is limited to the area just above the bill and nape. [text credit Houston Audubon}
It mainly eats nectar supplemented with arthropods, often joining mixed-species foraging flocks in the day, along with other sunbirds at large sources of nectar. In the late afternoon it regularly hawks insects aerially and gleans invertebrates from foliage.
South Africa, Kruger National Park
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Back to another shot of this Christmas-day yard visitor that I hadn't posted earlier. Such a cool-looking woodpecker.
Also known as Gray Plovers, they are the largest of the North American plovers. They can be found on six different continents during the winter season, but breed only on the Arctic tundra.
A Red-bellied Woodpecker stops by the feeder before roosting for the evening. Shot at ISO 25,600. Glendale, Missouri
The blue-bellied roller is a large bird appr. 28–30 cm.
Gambia, Tujereng.
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This Northern Shoveler is standing in the rising tide but barely touching the water with his belly ;) Of course, he floats, he swims, he is in no danger. I was at Mud Bay at Homer, photographing the peeps, or at least waiting for them to get close enough for me to photograph them. Meanwhile this drake and his entourage satisfied my need for photons.
Taken 4 May 2023 at Homer, Alaska.
Red Bellied Woodpecker on the woodpile. He was having a time deciding on whether to eat peanut butter and cornmeal mix or black oil sunflower seeds. He couldn't decide on just one so he had both!
I'm back from my trip to North Carolina. My actual main reason of going is that North Carolina has the highest diversity of Salamanders in the world. So that was my main focus on the trip. I captured some other shots but I was mainly in search to photograph new species I don't have in my area.
This was the first salamander find of my trip. Black-bellied Salamanders are a relatively large and robust species measuring up to 8 inches in length. This species is in the dusky family which tend to look alike and make identification difficult.
I hope everyone enjoys this image!
Yellow bellied Avadavat, Thailand
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A Black-bellied Plover in non-breeding plumage taken at Fort De Soto, Florida. Hoping to photograph a few in breeding plumage during our next trip there in a few weeks time.
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Empidonax Flaviventris
Right place, right time. We went looking for a special Warbler. Didn't find it, but this guy surprised us.
Schwenksville, PA
I adore these tiny miracles of nature. My husband held a small translucent photo umbrella over the wee spring hyacinths. I used manual focus with Live View to avoid resting my chin on soil. Still didn't quite do these beauties justice, darn it. I might try the 105mm macro to capture more of these little ones with a different focal point.
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The "red belly" of the Red-bellied Woodpecker is often so faint that it is not seen. This picture shows a typical light reddish wash over the belly, and a male's full red crown.
Several small airplants are growing on the bark of the tree at Castellow Hammock Preserve, Florida
The Red Bellied Woodpecker is a common woodpecker that can be found on the Eastern half of the United States as far South as Texas and as far North as Canada. The Red Bellied Woodpecker is name for the little spot of rosy fluff on its belly. This on of my backyard bird that I see every week.
male Black-bellied Bustard in Kafue National Park, Zambia
(sometimes called Black-bellied Korhaan)
lissotis melanogaster (sometimes eupodotis melanogaster)
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Schwarzbauchtrappe
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A Red-bellied Woodpecker can stick out its tongue nearly 2 inches past the end of its beak. The tip is barbed and the bird’s spit is sticky, making it easier to snatch prey from deep crevices. Males have longer, wider-tipped tongues than females, possibly allowing a breeding pair to forage in slightly different places on their territory and maximize their use of available food.