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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....
After tiding up my shelves I wanted to put some lavender but I did not have any however I had some folded birds. I perfumed them and placed them on my shelves.
This bird must have seen or heard me or the camera as it suddenly put the air brakes on and flew away.
It is devoted to Leonid Semago (1928-2008), the scientist-ornithologist, the writer-naturalist.
Design of Textori. Work is created in 2000
I know I know, another bird. I am leaving for yellowstone in the morning, so hopefully when I get back I will have some interesting photos to share and not a house finch ;)
US postage stamp.
Scott #3044
American Kestrel (1996)
The American Kestrel live throughout the Americans, from Minnesota to Mexico and beyond. In North America alone, it is estimated that there are 1.2 million breeding pairs. The are the continents smallest falcons and the second smallest falcons in the world.
Bird at parc des Rapides in Ville LaSalle. I think they are used to humans, as they let you get quite close lately.
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.
2012, acrylic on canvas, 15x10 cm
I painted this Trapogan Caboti for the son of a neighbor; he had such a beautiful bird.
Glancing in the night sky she could see a celestial blue bird crossing her constellations so she joined in orbital motion within it.
Mixed Media on L'Anaquarelle
11 x 14
Salt treated acrylic, white ink, vintage blueprints, magazine clips, orbit gum package, vintage sheet music, tape transfer feet, old pencil box, clip from "Fourteen Weeks in Astronomy" by Steele (copyright page missing, late 1800's?)
SOLD
Neochmia phaeton
Mornington Wilderness Camp
Mornington-Marion Downs Sanctuary (owned by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy)
Gibbs River Road, The Kimberley Western Australia
This class was looking at rainforest species so we built some junk/modroc sculptures. We had some difficulty making them stand, hence the flowerpot props!
We get Sparrowhawks, Little Owls occasionally. This was in our tree in the garden, when it flew off it was typical bird of prey, it had some kind of rodent as it flew off.
These birds have been clocked at speeds in excess of 240mph in a dive and then incur 50G as they pull out of one (fighter pilots black out around 12G). Here he is fitted with his hood to keep him calm and a radio transmitter just in case he makes a bid for the hills.
I tried to capture him flying whilst he was swooping after the leather lure - failed miserably.