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The White-browed Spinetail is a small member of the Furnariidae, easily missed because of its size and its generally inconspicuous lifestyle. These birds keep to dense, low underbrush and bamboo, where they secure their insect food. This is the only member of its genus, whose name honours Carl Hellmayr, an Austrian ornithologist who mostly worked in museums attempting to sort out issues of nomenclature (a challenge even today despite many scientific advances). The bird in this image was seen in a high elevation habitat in Parque Nacional Chingaza, east of Bogota, Colombia, South America.
Black-browed Albatross colony in Sounders Island, Falklands, 2.1.2020, morning.
The Black-browed albatross is a member of the albatross family Diomedeidae, the ‘tube-noses’, related to shearwaters, petrels and fulmars. It is the most common and widespread albatross. The name for this large seabird comes from the dark black plumage above their eyes. Albatrosses are true marine birds, traversing the oceans in the southern hemisphere, returning to land only to breed. They are similar to the gray-headed albatross but the latter has a wholly dark bill and more complete dark markings on the head.
Distribution:
The Black-browed albatross is found anywhere in the south Atlantic and circumpolar in the southern hemisphere. It can travel further to the north with cold currents. During September and October, these birds breed on south Atlantic islands such as South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, South Sandwich, and the Cape Horn islands. These are marine, pelagic birds but they do commonly come inshore, typically moving toward the shore during violent weather. Breeding grounds are typically on steep slopes with cliff terraces, tussock grass, or level ground.
Habits and Lifestyle:
Black-browed albatrosses typically are solitary at sea, except when there is a large feeding opportunity. They forage both day and night, according to the prey species. They gather during the breeding season in nesting colonies that can number over 180,000 pairs. They are very mobile birds and can travel 500 to 3,000 km to forage. They are often seen hundreds of miles offshore following a ship, simply gliding behind it. This species only establishes territory during the breeding season. Breeding pairs will not permit another individual to come within 1.5 m of their nest. They are generally silent birds, but with breeding colonies will make rapid grunting noises. They will also make noises by beak-clapping. Breeding pairs communicate through courtship behaviors like allopreening and beak touching. Black-browed albatrosses, like all birds, perceive their environment through visual, auditory, and tactile, as well as chemical stimuli.
Mating Habits
MATING BEHAVIOR
Monogamy
REPRODUCTION SEASON
September/October-April
INCUBATION PERIOD
71 days
INDEPENDENT AGE
120 days
BABY NAME
chick
BABY CARRYING
1 egg
Source:
Thalassarche melanophris
Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire
Taken on its 100th day at Bempton this year, last year arrived later and stayed until early September.. This Albatross is believed to have lived in Europe since 2014, when he is likely to have been blown off course and left unable to return to his breeding grounds in the South Atlantic. It has now spent at least part of its summer amongst the Bempton Gannet colony on 4 occasions first visting in 2017.
Although vagrancies from the South Atlantic are rare, on several occasions a Black-browed albatross has summered in Scottish gannet colonies. A similar incident took place in the gannet colony in the Faroe Islands island of Mykines, where a black-browed albatross lived among the gannets for over 30 years. In July 2013 the first sighting of a Black-browed albatross in the Bahamas was recorded.
The Black-browed albatross feeds on fish, squid, crustaceans, carrion, and fishery discards. This species has been observed stealing food from other species. It can have a natural lifespan of over 70 years.
From High Brow the Holme valley circular walk drops down to Hepworth. Good views over Scholes towards Black hill. Im sure i saw Compo stretched out asleep here with a piece of grass in his mouth.
452) Yellow Browed Warbler
Yellow-Browed Warbler, Phylloscopus inornatus, Cekup Daun Rimba
This warbler is strongly migratory and winters mainly in tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. Like many other leaf warblers, it has overall greenish upperparts and white underparts. It also has prominent double wing bars formed by yellowish-white tips to the wing covert feathers, yellow-margined tertial feathers, and long yellow supercilium. Like most warblers, it is insectivorous.
This is one of many Chalk-browed Mockingbirds we encountered during our Pantanal trip this month. They seemed to be pretty curious birds much like our Northern Mockingbirds here at home.
Mimus saturninus
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I've finally got round to visiting a few 'celebrity' birds this year with the latest being the black-browed albatross at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. It took a couple of visits but it was well worth the wait, what a bird!
© Harshith JV
Common name: White-browed wagtail
Scientific name: Motacilla maderaspatensis
Place: Mangalore, Karnataka
Date: December 29, 2016
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With over 60 different species of birds found around the resort, I was thrilled to find one of the most beautiful birds of Costa Rica.
(National bird of El Salvador and Nicaragua).
The Black-browed Albatross currently (May 2022) resident on the cliffs at RSPB Bempton at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire. Normally, this species of albatross would be found in the South Atlantic Ocean but this one appears to favour the Yorkshire coast as this is the second year it has spent the summer here, along with many thousands of Gannet, Razorbill, Guillemot, Puffin and other seabirds.
Red-browed Finch, Neochmia temporalis
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Lots of these little birds hard at work among the native grasses going to seed.
"White-Browed Coucal" or Lark-Heeled Cuckoo... Spotted after the heavy morning shower, as I was having my breakfast, and heard its call. It is native to eastern and southern Africa, and the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula. A large, robust cuckoo with rufous wings and a long, broad tail, with underparts and back streaked, and has a distinctive white eyebrow. Often moves clumsily on vegetation or walks on the ground foraging for insects.
*UPDATE*
OCTOBER 14th 2012 : Accepted to the DINGWALL 2012 National Image Exhibition
Highly Commended NEMPF Exhibition 2011
The yellow-browed bulbul (Acritillas indica), or golden-browed bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family. It is found in the forests of southern India and Sri Lanka.
Currently there are 178 photographs of this individual Black-browed Albatross on Birdguides and most of these photographs look pretty much the same (flying with a sea/sky background). Now I know this photograph is cluttered, and it isn't a competition winner, but it is a bit different. First it shows the Albatross flying over the Gannet colony on Staple Neuk at Bempton. Black-browed Albatross is usually only found in the Southern Hemisphere and Northern Gannet is only found in the north, so the two species don't normally come into contact. But more importantly this is a great size comparison with Britain's biggest seabird. Gannets have nearly a six foot wingspan but you can see that looks small next to the Black-browed Albatross's nearly eight foot wingspan right next to it. And the final reason I liked this photograph is that it was really difficult to track and keep it in focus as it flew over the Gannet colony, so I was proud of my achievement.
White-browed Woodswallow, Artamus superciliosus
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This is the male of the pair nesting.
He has a favoured perch over the paddock and simple swoops off, circles, and returns.
Woodswallows are a soaring bird and when in a flock they fly high and circle about in huge numbers, 200+ or more.
Small bird, plump and compact with stout bill. Male and female both lime green with yellow belly and blue cap. Males have prominent yellow eyebrow. Usually seen in pairs or small flocks, often in association with a fruiting tree. Forages at all levels, most frequently the canopy. Listen for its single low-pitched whistle.
A delicate-looking inhabitant of densely vegetated wetlands, where it scrambles over floating plants and between the stems of standing ones.
The White-browed Scrubwren is a drab bird which inhabits the dense undergrowth in many different habitats. Although scrubwrens are wary and alert, they are often inquisitive and easily called up from the dense vegetation, with one or more birds appearing briefly in the open to scold loudly at the intruder. They are also remarkably sedentary, often remaining in the same patch of vegetation.
This Australian bird's range extends from northern Queensland, in a broad coastal band through South Australia to the mid Western Australian coast, and Tasmania.
The White-browed Scrubwren lives in rainforest, open forest, woodland and heaths. It is usually seen in pairs, low down in the thick vegetation.
All autumn whenever I've been wandering around my local reserves I've been hoping to hear the characteristic call of a yellow-browed warbler. I've seen them before but not in Northants and it has therefore been a high priority for my county list. We were visiting people after Christmas and lo and behold, not one but two yellow-browed warblers turn up at one of my local patches, Summer Leys. After a couple of days of hoping they would stay, I visited and enjoyed a couple of hours with these brilliant little birds
Red-browed Finch, Neochmia temporalis
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One of a small number feeding among the grasses. As I passed by they scattered to the bushes. This one chose a perch well under the bush, but at least in the open.