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Fast and difficult to photograph (at least for me it is)
Saw hundreds of terns while visiting Cape Cod, really fun to watch them hover and dive for their meals.
On Galveston Island recently, caught this member of the Nightjar family catching its nap early morning. They are nocturnal birds. Chordeiles minor
During winter, some Common Redpolls tunnel into the snow to stay warm during the night. Tunnels may be more than a foot long and 4 inches under the insulating snow.
The common redshank was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Scolopax totanus. It is now placed with twelve other species in the genus Tringa that Linnaeus had introduced in 1758. The genus name Tringa is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific totanus is from Tótano, the Italian name for this bird
Common redshanks in breeding plumage are a marbled brown color, slightly lighter below. In winter plumage they become somewhat lighter-toned and less patterned, being rather plain greyish-brown above and whitish below. They have red legs and a black-tipped red bill, and show white up the back and on the wings in flight.
The spotted redshank (T. erythropus), which breeds in the Arctic, has a longer bill and legs; it is almost entirely black in breeding plumage and very pale in winter. It is not a particularly close relative of the common redshank, but rather belongs to a high-latitude lineage of largish shanks. T. totanus on the other hand is closely related to the marsh sandpiper (T. stagnatilis), and closer still to the small wood sandpiper (T. glareola). The ancestors of the latter and the common redshank seem to have diverged around the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, about 5–6 million years ago. These three subarctic- to temperate-region species form a group of smallish shanks with have red or yellowish legs, and in breeding plumage are generally a subdued light brown above with some darker mottling, and have somewhat diffuse small brownish spots on the breast and neck.
The common redshank is a widespread breeding bird across temperate Eurasia. It is a migratory species, wintering on coasts around the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic coast of Europe from Ireland and Great Britain southwards, and in South Asia.
They are wary and noisy birds which will alert everything else with their loud piping call.
Redshanks will nest in any wetland, from damp meadows to saltmarsh, often at high densities.] They lay 3–5 eggs.
Like most waders, they feed on small invertebrates.
Acridotheres tristis
Hindi : Desi Myna ( Dao myna - Chachari, Bemni / Saloo- Chota Nagpur, Gulgul - Madhya Pradesh)
Tamil : Nahanavai
Kannada : Gorwantera / Myna (unnikuruli) ಗೊರವಂಕ (ಉಣ್ಣಿಕುರುಳಿ)
Malayalam : Myna / Madatha / Kaavilamkili
Marathi : Shale / Salonki
Gujarati : Kabar
Telugu : Goranka
Bengali : Salik ( শালিক ) / Bhat salik
Assamese : Salik sorai / Ghor salika
Kashmiri : Hor
Malaysian : Tiong
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Common buzzard, Buteo buteo. 15 June 2023. Hanger Hill Park, Ealing, London, England, UK.
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Common paraque
Estero Llano Grande State Park, TX USA
There is a specific location in the park where the paraque roost during the day. They have been roosting here for years.
Their camouflage is amazing.
Common Redpoll (Acanthis Flammea) of the finch family waits for place on feeder early this morning. She might have had her morning cuppa, but I had not, hence far too slow a shutter speed.
More playing with cameras and lenses rather than sorting and tossing items ;)
Nikon D4, Nikkor 300m f/2.8, Nikon 2x teleconverter (600mm)
1/100 sec; f/5.6; ISO 640
manual exposure, tripod
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Common Buckeye's will migrate south in September and October because they cannot tolerate cold temperatures. These lovelies will return in spring. Backyard, Howard County, Maryland.
Common Ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Meaning behind the name:
Charadrius = Latin for a small waterbird associated with rivers.
hiaticula = Latin meaning "Cleft dweller" perhaps referring to the rocky coastal habitat it's often found at.
The English word for "Ringed plover" was given to this bird by naming it after the thick black collar bands that it has, whilst the term "Plover" came in by the Norman's in the 1300s as "plovier." The French word found it's way into Latin "Plovarius" and was named after it's call sounding like "plo" (also described as "lo") and has oddly being associated with the word "pluere" by local folk to mean "rain" or "rain bird." This strange connection to rain has been studied by many writers, both back then and in modern times but with no success.
Other names include: "Dulwilly, Sand lark, Stone hatch, and Tullet."
The poor, put upon, grackle. He is born just plain ornery, scrappy and has a bill only a mother could love. Perhaps he could benefit from the latest mood stabilizer.
Common Morel / morchella esculenta. Nottinghamshire. 15/04/18.
With our cold and prolonged wintery weather, the morels were late in emerging on site. An extensive group search located just nine fruiting bodies ranging from approximately 3 -14cms tall and varying from a putty/creamy colour to a mid-tan tone like this one.
As there was such sparse ground vegetation (again, weather related), the morels grew up through leaf-litter and took some looking for as they were remarkably well camouflaged.
BEST VIEWED LARGE .... I know it's a very brown composition but to appreciate the wonderful honeycombed cap surface and the depth of the irregular 'pits', it is worth enlarging the image.
Common Starling / sturnus vulgaris. Nottinghamshire. 15/02/19.
'TIME TO GET SNAPPY.'
I liked the dramatic, rather menacing light that prevailed that particular afternoon. When a male Starling obligingly perched up with some of it's iridescent feathers aglow, it was the icing on the cake as well as the bird on the hedge ... time for me to get snappy with the shutter!
BEST VIEWED LARGE.