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The Welcome Swallow is a small passerine bird of the swallow family, it is a species native to Australia and nearby islands. I came across this one in the Botanic Gardens in Bundaberg, Queensland.
I was told this was a bird cherry, but that has drooping flower spikes, and these are anything but drooping. It is the only one on the Cefn Ila site, and is surrounded by Wild Cherry Prunus avium, from which it is distinctly different. Thanks to those who have confirmed this identification.
I left the backing off - so it can be either made into a magnet or pinback. This one will be added to the fridge. I like it too much to part with!
Just playing around...
This bird and its surroundings have been heavily modified using The Gimp (which is a free alternative to Photoshop).
The OOB has been created using tricks I learned from Serrator's OOB Tutorial (check it out here)
The background is a composition of two different images - the rocks are from the original bird photo, and the sea and the island behind is from a totally different photo.
This bird looked to me like a contortionist but it is real and the pose is real, weird, really weird but as you can see it worked on showing the baby what to eat. Please view large for detail.
I came across this beautiful bird of prey quite by chance while trying to find the footpath down to the railway line at Marshfield. I think it was a kestrel, but really have no idea.
This little bird just sings his little heart out. I'm sorry the video didn't stay in focus the entire time but I think you will enjoy the audio.
I'm so in love with birdie stuff lately =)
Jim comes home this evening and might think i've flown over to the cockoo's nest....
The Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is the best known of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, and the only member of the genus Numida. It breeds in Africa, mainly south of the Sahara, and has been widely introduced into the West Indies and southern France.It breeds in warm, fairly dry and open habitats with scattered shrubs and trees such as savanna or farmland. The nest is a well-hidden, generally unlined scrape and a clutch is normally 6-12 eggs which the female incubates for 26-28 days. Nests containing larger numbers of eggs are generally believed to be the result of more than one hen using the nest; eggs are large and an incubating bird could not realistically cover significantly more than a normal clutch. Domestic birds at least, are notable for producing extremely thick-shelled eggs that are reduced to fragments as the chicks hatch, rather than leaving two large sections and small chips from where any chick has removed the end of the egg. The chicks are cryptically coloured and rapid wing growth enables them to flutter onto low branches barely a week after hatching. These guineafowl live as long as 12 years in the wild.
La faraona domestica deriva, secondo il Ghigi, dalla Numida meleagris meleagris L. (sinonimo Numida meleagris galeata) specie originaria dell'Africa occidentale. E' allevata e apprezzata per la sua ottima carne già dai Greci e poi dai Romani. Sembra sia scomparsa a seguito delle invasioni barbariche e reintrodotta in Europa nel Medio Evo dai Portoghesi.Animale molto timido e sospettoso, tradizionalmente allevato in Veneto, Emilia-Romagna e Lombardia.
La faraona è simile nella forma e nel portamento a una grossa pernice. Ha la testa e parte del collo denudati, ricoperti di caruncole rade e penne setoliformi. La testa presenta un cimiero corneo ricoprente un processo osseo del cranio e bargigli rossi cartilaginei. Nella faraona domestica elmo e bargigli sono più sviluppati che in quella selvatica. Poco manifesto il dimorfismo sessuale, a parte il maggior sviluppo di elmo e bargigli (più accartocciati) e il diverso peso corporeo nella forma domestica (maschio 1,8 kg e femmina anche più di 2 kg; nella faraona selvatica il peso è uguale nei due sessi e non supera 1,1 kg). La femmina ha una maggiore muscolatura pettorale. Il maschio assume un caratteristico portamento impettito mentre cammina sollevando di tanto in tanto le ali.
Il piede ha dita relativamente corte ed è privo di speroni in entrambi i sessi. I tarsi, che nelle faraone selvatiche sono grigio-nerastri, nelle forme domestiche possono essere totalmente giallo-arancio, grigio neri o neri macchiati di giallo.
Il carattere distintivo più sicuro tra i sessi sta comunque nella voce: entrambi emettono numerosi suoni ("circirr, cirr, cirr") ma solo le femmine il fastidioso "coquak... coquak...coqak...". Le faraone selvatiche sono monogame: questa caratteristica rappresentò un certo ostacolo nell'allevamento di questo specie.
Was in ‘E Street Gallery Lambton’ In Newcastle Australia and saw some flower macros that inspired me.
Bird Of Paradise from my garden rocks and Vase just lying around Set on table with black fabric
Strobism
FL50 located to the left of shot on a tripod triggered by Yongnno RF-602 FL36r set to salve on the right also in tripod
Hope you like them
Bird at parc des Rapides in Ville LaSalle. I think they are used to humans, as they let you get quite close lately.
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Greek hali- = sea, aiētos = eagle, leuco- = white, cephalos = head) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.
The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish, which it swoops down and snatches from the water with its talons. It builds the largest nest of any North American bird and the largest tree nests ever recorded for any animal species, up to 4m deep, 2.5m wide, and 1 tonne in weight. Sexual maturity is attained at the age of 4-5 years.
Bald eagles are not actually bald; the name derives from an older meaning of "white headed". The adult is mainly brown with a white head and tail. The sexes are identical in plumage, but females are about 25% larger than males. The beak is large and hooked. The plumage of the immature is brown.
The bald eagle is both the national bird and national animal of the USA. The bald eagle appears on its Seal. In the late 20th century it was on the brink of extirpation in the continental USA. Populations recovered and the species was removed from the US federal government's list of endangered species on 12 July 1995 and transferred to the list of threatened species. It was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the Lower 48 States on 28 June 2007.
The female above was at the Hawk Conservancy, near Andover in Hampshire.
This bird must have seen or heard me or the camera as it suddenly put the air brakes on and flew away.
Rare find indeed - a pirate's parrot serving station in an antique shop in Stamford.
We didn't buy it!
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