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Cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) are insects, best known for the songs sung by most, but not all, male cicadas. Males sing by flexing their tymbals, which are drum-like organs found in their abdomens. Small muscles rapidly pull the tymbals in and out of shape. The sound is intensified by the cicada's mostly hollow abdomen.
17 Year Cicadas @ Gilmore Ponds, SW Ohio. Late May, 2021.
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Caught these lil' scamps huddled together as the rain began to fall. The first brood of Hooded Mergansers at my local wetland park will surely find company with Wood Duck youngsters in the days ahead.
Huntley Meadows Park - Alexandria, VA
The day was warm when I cycled from Balmoral over to Glen Muick, but the clouds were gathering over the water.
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
Original pose by confession.
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This is the 3rd attempt for this pair of grebes this year. After losing there first nest to predators they then managed one chick from there second attempt which was also lost in unknown circumstances.
Nikon AF-S 600mm f4E FL ED VR & TC-14E AF-S Teleconverter III & Nikon D850
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Everyone knows what an eiderdown is if they are old enough to think duvet is a neologism. This is an actual eider duck on the Northumberland coast and her rough nest is lined with the eider down she pulls from her breast. Northumbrians still sometimes call them Cuddy's ducks after St Cuthbert who had a hermitage on the Farne Islands. The gathering of eider down was once hugely important to the local economy. The duck is camouflaged well for nesting on the rocky shore or in mud and leaf mould. The drake is a striking black and white (with a hint of green visible on the neck sometimes) but he can be hard to spot amongst the ripples on the bay. The duck remains with the eggs and needs her colouring to avoid predators in her most vulnerable period. The male is on the water for most of his life.
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Mow at Wizarding Faire
Sorcerers: Ed Rhode and Dora
A second-brood mating pair in the August sunshine at a former colliery site in Nottinghamshire (UK) (8981)
1st brood of Tree Sparrows 2015. Last year the tree sparrows had 4 clutches. Let's see if they can top that!
The Gullfoss waterfall is perhaps the most famous and stunning waterfall in all of Iceland. This water spectacle can be found on the Golden Circle and is created by the glacial river Hvítá. A busy spot of natural disaster that you should not miss during your tour through the land of fire and ice. This waterfall is also called golden waterfall because of the floating mist and is no less than 20 meters wide, 70 meters deep and the gorge that follows is 2.5 kilometers (!) Long. If you look closely you will see that the water at Gulfoss does not fall all at once, but gradually hits the gorge......
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The cuckoo usually does not build its own nest. Instead, the female secretly lays her eggs in the nests of other bird species. These "foster parents" then often raise the young cuckoo - a behavior known as brood parasitism.
Furthermore, one often hears the cuckoo rather than seeing it: its famous "cuckoo" call is, in fact, what gave it its name.
Der Kuckuck baut meist kein eigenes Nest. Stattdessen legt das Weibchen seine Eier heimlich in die Nester anderer Vogelarten. Die fremden „Pflegeeltern“ ziehen dann oft den jungen Kuckuck groß - dieses Verhalten nennt man Brutparasitismus.
Außerdem hört man den Kuckuck oft eher, als dass man ihn sieht: Sein berühmter „Kuckuck“-Ruf gab ihm sogar seinen Namen.