View allAll Photos Tagged brows
Snowy-browed Flycatcher - Ficedula hyperythra sumatrana - Снежнобровая мухоловка
Kinabalu Park, West Coast Division, Sabah, Malaysia, 08/31/2022
Wikipedia: The white-browed crake (Porzana cinerea) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
The bright colours of this white-browed woodswallow perched on a branch, sunning himself in the morning light, instantly attracted my camera.
Climacteris affinis. Seen on the Baldry's Crossing circuit path, Green's Bush on the Mornington Peninsula (Victoria, Australia). DSCN0562
Thanks to Tim Dolby for the excellent directions to the WB treecreepers at Yarrara Flora and Fauna Reserve. Drove in late in the day to a likely looking spot in Tim's designated area, got out of the vehicle and there they were. Actually, there was this one.
Countless miles away from it's home in the Falkland Islands Albie the Black Browed Albatross continuing to grace the North sea with it's presence. Excitement galore when you sail up to one of the worlds most stunning seabirds!! Pics could have been better, but excitement overruled checks!!
Taken from on board the Yorkshire Belle, I had been scanning the area as we sailed back with no luck in picking it up. Thankfully someone else on board had caught sight and told the crew, the captain turned the boat and boom!
The yellow-browed tit (Sylviparus modestus) is a species of bird in the family Paridae. It is placed in the monotypic genus Sylviparus.
It is found in the southern Himalayas, Northeast India and southern China with smaller amounts in Southeast Asia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Brows from the Eliah skin mod set, 2 appliers for the Kemono and M3 Head included. Soft and fluffy looking. <:
The Black-browed is an Asian barbet native to Peninsular Malaysia & Sumatra, where it inhabits foremost forests between 600 and 2,000 m altitude. A loud but sluggish & difficult-to-see canopy inhabitant of highland forests in peninsular Malaysia & Sumatra. Note the leaf-green body, brightly coloured face, & heavy black bill. More often heard than seen; listen for its long, unending series of hollow-sounding notes. Like many other barbets, it can be difficult to locate when singing, but can sometimes be seen at fruiting trees. Formerly regarded as the same species as Taiwan, Indochinese, and Chinese Barbets.
Read more on: wildart.works/behindthelens/black-browed-barbet
Subscribe to continue reading the stories.
20190623-1DX29479-DN
The turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) is a colourful, medium-sized bird of the motmot family, Momotidae. It inhabits Central America from south-east Mexico (mostly the Yucatán Peninsula), to Costa Rica, where it is common and not considered threatened. It lives in fairly open habitats such as forest edge, gallery forest and scrubland. It is more conspicuous than other motmots, often perching in the open on wires and fences. From these perches it scans for prey, such as insects and small reptiles. White eggs (3–6) are laid in a long tunnel nest in an earth bank or sometimes in a quarry or fresh-water well. Its name originates from the turquoise color of its brow.
Turquoise-browed motmot in Costa Rican Pacific dry forest
The bird is approximately 34 cm (13 in) long and weighs about 65 g (2.3 oz). It has a mostly green-blue body with a rufous back and belly. There is a bright blue stripe above the eye and a blue-bordered black patch on the throat. The flight feathers and upperside of the tail are blue. The tips of the tail feathers are shaped like rackets and the bare feather shafts are longer than in other motmots. Although it is often said that motmots pluck the barbs off their tail to create the racketed shape, this is not true; the barbs are weakly attached and fall off due to abrasion with substrates and with routine preening.[2]
Unlike most bird species, where only males express elaborate traits, the turquoise-browed motmot expresses the extraordinary racketed tail in both sexes. Research indicates that the tail has evolved to function differently for the sexes. Males apparently use their tail as a sexual signal, as males with longer tails have greater pairing success and reproductive success.[3] In addition to this function, the tail is used by both sexes in a wag-display, whereby the tail is moved back-and-forth in a pendulous fashion.[4] The wag-display is performed in a context unrelated to mating: both sexes perform the wag-display in the presence of a predator, and the display is thought to confer naturally selected benefits by communicating to the predator that it has been seen and that pursuit will not result in capture. This form of interspecific communication is referred to as a pursuit-deterrent signal.[5]
The call is nasal, croaking and far-carrying.
The turquoise-browed motmot is a well-known bird in its range and has been chosen as the national bird of both El Salvador and Nicaragua. It has acquired a number of local names including guardabarranco ("ravine-guard") in Nicaragua, torogoz in El Salvador (based on its call) and pájaro reloj ("clock bird") in the Yucatán, based on its habit of wagging its tail like a pendulum. In Costa Rica it is known as momoto cejiceleste or the far-less flattering pájaro bobo ("foolish bird"), owing to its tendency to allow humans to come very near it without flying away.
Prezzo: 16,00€
Matita sopracciglia automatica a lunga tenuta dal tratto ultra sottile.
Né troppo dura, né troppo morbida, la mina delle Brow Divine è studiata per poter ricreare il pelo naturale con estrema facilità. L'alta precisione del tratto infatti definisce e riempie le sopracciglia alla perfezione imitandone la texture in modo realistico e donando un effetto assolutamente naturale.
Le Brow Divine accostano un risultato impeccabile ad un gesto semplice ed essenziale.
• Cruelty Free & Vegan.
colori:
Venus Beige-taupe. Adatta a tutti i tipi di biondo e per disegnare la forma del sopracciglio come step preliminare.
Mercury Marrone caldo. Adatta a capelli castani di media tonalità dal riflesso caldo o ramato.
Neptune Marrone freddo. Adatta ai capelli castani dai più chiari fino ai medio-scuri, ed anche ai capelli grigi o argentati.
Jupiter Marrone scuro neutro ed intenso. Adatto ai capelli castano scuro.
Uranus Marrone scuro freddo. Adatta a capelli mori e neri.
Very slightly cropped to get the horizon straight as this was taken hand held at sea of a boat in a small swell
St Botolph, Tottenhill, Norfolk
A remote church, and rather bleakly situated, or so it seemed to me on this morning of drifting rain. The church is locked, and there's no keyholder notice. I'd found a number on the parish website, and a pleasant old couple had arranged to meet us at the church. They were a little surprised, because they hadn't realised that their number had been made public, but they were no less welcoming for that.
The church is an odd mixture. There's a typical small 14th Century tower, and the east end is the typical middle-brow work of Ewan Christian, but sandwiched in between is a tall Norman church with a spectacular south doorway and a similarly grand chancel arch. The latter has been restored, but the former is powerful in all its primitive glory.
This is a sad place, not just because it is remote and a bit bleak. This church was once a star in the Anglo-catholic firmament, home to a small community from Little Bardfield in Essex, which is still a High Church hotspot to this day. The incumbent who had been here for more than thirty years had retired two years previously, and of course there was no longer what the lady keyholder called 'a resident priest'. There were survivals of an earlier age - a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham in an alcove, a cross in the style of Lawrence King above the pulpit. The chancel was lovely, full of neat colour, but the nave was more ramshackle and seemed disused. I was put in mind of Philip Larkin's line about being
out on the end of an event
waving goodbye to something that survived it.
It's worth noting in passing that the great majority of East Anglian churches are open to passing strangers every day, and the great majority of those that aren't have a notice telling you where to get the key. Churches like Tottenhill are few and far between, but whenever I stand in one I get an uneasy feeling that I will, in fact, live long enough to see the last days of the Church of England. The nice lady spoke softly of their declining congregation, how nobody comes to church anymore, and how since their parish priest had retired people didn't seem so interested. Thanks to the benefice system they could rely on people from other churches coming on a rota basis to fill at least some of the seats, but even so, one of the other churches in the benefice, South Runcton, had recently closed. She wasn't despairing, or anything, or even terribly sad - "that's just the way it is now", she observed.
I thought about something I'd written about another church, about 'churches only for the slightly smug activities of the Sunday club, while the graveyard is left to the pagan cult of the dead, the bereaved worshipping their recent ancestors with propitiatory flowers, unable to combine this with a prayer said inside a sacred building, increasingly unaware even that this might be an appropriate thing to do.
As the years go by, the congregation gets smaller, and older, and less welcoming to strangers, hanging on to the rituals that comfort them but which otherwise serve no community devotional purpose, and are no means for sharing the faith and love and life of the parish. The building is used less and less often, eventually being abandoned altogether by people who, no doubt, bemoan the decline and fall of their congregation and shake their heads gravely at the immorality of the young of today, their lack of respect and belief.
And yet, they have not even once taken the risk of letting themselves be found by us, the strangers wondering at the God-shaped hole within ourselves, surprising a hunger to be more serious, and gravitating with it to this ground.'
The turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) is a colourful, medium-sized bird of the motmot family, Momotidae. It inhabits Central America from south-east Mexico (mostly the Yucatán Peninsula), to Costa Rica, where it is common and not considered threatened. It lives in fairly open habitats such as forest edge, gallery forest and scrubland. It is more conspicuous than other motmots, often perching in the open on wires and fences. From these perches it scans for prey, such as insects and small reptiles. White eggs (3–6) are laid in a long tunnel nest in an earth bank or sometimes in a quarry or fresh-water well. Its name originates from the turquoise color of its brow.
Turquoise-browed motmot in Costa Rican Pacific dry forest
The bird is approximately 34 cm (13 in) long and weighs about 65 g (2.3 oz). It has a mostly green-blue body with a rufous back and belly. There is a bright blue stripe above the eye and a blue-bordered black patch on the throat. The flight feathers and upperside of the tail are blue. The tips of the tail feathers are shaped like rackets and the bare feather shafts are longer than in other motmots. Although it is often said that motmots pluck the barbs off their tail to create the racketed shape, this is not true; the barbs are weakly attached and fall off due to abrasion with substrates and with routine preening.[2]
Unlike most bird species, where only males express elaborate traits, the turquoise-browed motmot expresses the extraordinary racketed tail in both sexes. Research indicates that the tail has evolved to function differently for the sexes. Males apparently use their tail as a sexual signal, as males with longer tails have greater pairing success and reproductive success.[3] In addition to this function, the tail is used by both sexes in a wag-display, whereby the tail is moved back-and-forth in a pendulous fashion.[4] The wag-display is performed in a context unrelated to mating: both sexes perform the wag-display in the presence of a predator, and the display is thought to confer naturally selected benefits by communicating to the predator that it has been seen and that pursuit will not result in capture. This form of interspecific communication is referred to as a pursuit-deterrent signal.[5]
The call is nasal, croaking and far-carrying.
The turquoise-browed motmot is a well-known bird in its range and has been chosen as the national bird of both El Salvador and Nicaragua. It has acquired a number of local names including guardabarranco ("ravine-guard") in Nicaragua, torogoz in El Salvador (based on its call) and pájaro reloj ("clock bird") in the Yucatán, based on its habit of wagging its tail like a pendulum. In Costa Rica it is known as momoto cejiceleste or the far-less flattering pájaro bobo ("foolish bird"), owing to its tendency to allow humans to come very near it without flying away.
I really don't know what was so interesting ....I was only hanging out the washing!
(And yes, I quite often have my camera with me when I'm hanging out the washing!!!!) You never know what's going to fly over or land close by.
Looking down the cobbled street of Bush Brow, Stanier 'Jubilee' 4-6-0 45699 'Galatea' undertakes a shunting move of the empty stock from the 'Dalesman' charter from York, heading north out of Carlisle station and beneath the Victoria Viaduct on 16 June 2015.
© Copyright Gordon Edgar - No unauthorised use
A black-browed albatross sits on its nest amid the tussac grass of Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands.
The Black-browed Barbet or Müller's Barbet (Megalaima oorti) is a bird belonging to the Asian barbet family, Megalaimidae.
It is 20-23.5 cm long. The plumage is mostly green apart from the head which is patterned with blue, yellow and red. There is a black stripe above the eye. The bill is black and the feet are grey-green. The Chinese name for the bird, "five-colored bird" (五色鳥) refers to the five colors seen on its plumage. Because of its colorful plumage and that its call resembles that of a percussion instrument known as a wooden fish, the species is also referred to as the "spotted monk of the forest" in Taiwan.
IMG_6644-299
White-browed Crake - Porzana cinerea - Белобровый погоныш
near Tondano city, Minahasa Regency, Sulawesi island, Indonesia, 08/14/2015
Vintage postcard. Photo: Edison.
Tall, mustachioed Robert Brower (1950-1934) was an American character actor of the silent cinema. The elderly gent joined Edison in 1911. He remained prolific during the 1920s and was still seen in small roles in early sound films.
Robert Brower was born in 1850 in Point Pleasant, New York. He was already an ascetic-looking stage veteran when he made his film debut in the short Edison drama A Rose of the Tenderloin (J. Searle Dawley, 1909) starring Mary Fuller. The following year he played the toymaker who falls in love with his own doll in The Toymaker, the Doll and the Devil (Edwin S. Porter, 1910). In 1911, he joined the Edison Manufacturing Company permanently. He played Captain de Treville in the two-part version of The Three Musketeers (J. Searle Dawley, 1911) with Sydney Booth as D'Artagnan. Among his other early films were How Mrs. Murray Saved the American Army (J. Searle Dawley, 1911) with Miriam Nesbitt, The Bank President's Son (Oscar Apfel, 1912) with George Lessey as his son, and as Henry VIII in A Tudor Princess (J. Searle Dawley, 1913). George Lessey directed him in several episodes of Edison's mystery series The Chronicles of Cleek (1914) in which he played the super intendant opposite Ben F. Wilson as Detective Hamilton Cleek. In the following years, he played supporting parts in such films as Vanity Fair (Charles Brabin, Eugene Nowland, 1915) as Mr. Osborne opposite Shirley Mason as the young Becky Sharp, The Cossack Whip (John H. Collins, 1916) starring Viola Dana, and A Burglar for a Night (Ernest C. Warde, 1918) with J. Warren Kerrigan.
During the 1920s, Robert Brower continued to play supporting parts in dozens of films. Brower specialised in portraying stern aristocrats, lawyers, doctors, and others in a wide variety of films. William C. de Mille directed him in Jack Straw (William C. de Mille, 1920), and What Every Woman Knows (William C. de Mille, 1921), based on the play by J.M. Barrie. Another J.M. Barrie adaptation was The Little Minister (Penrhyn Stanlaws, 1921) starring Betty Compson. He also acted in Thirty Days (James Cruze, 1922) with Wallace Reid, Adam's Rib (Cecil B. DeMille, 1923) with Milton Sills, and The Gay Defender (Gregory La Cava, 1927) starring Richard Dix. In Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), he could be glimpsed as the Minister to the King. In Beggars of Life (1928), starring Wallace Beery and Louise Brooks, he was the hobo Blind Sims. Hans J. Wollstein at AllMovie: "The seemingly indefatigable but by then quite elderly actor continued in films until the year of his death." Robert Brower died of a heart attack in 1934 in West Hollywood, California. He was 84. His final, uncredited part was in the sound Western The Silver Bullet (Bernard B. Ray, 1935) starring Tom Tyler.
Sources: Hans J. Wollstein (AllMovie) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.