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Just returned from a trip to Homer, Alaska. I just missed the bird festival there but spent four days right afterwards.
I believe this to be a nonbreeding or immature Common Loon. We found it at the end of the spit at Homer, Alaska. It was fishing near the shore and at least twice it reared up and beat its wings several times.
This is another new bird for me! And I've so been looking forward to getting some Loons photos here in Alaska! We visited the Pratt Museum in Homer and they had a Loon there, via taxidermy of course, but I was shocked by how large this bird really is. I was thinking more duck-sized but it turns out to be more goose-sized!
Taken 14 May 2018 at Homer, Alaska.
Acridotheres tristis
Hindi : Desi Myna ( Dao myna - Chachari, Bemni / Saloo- Chota Nagpur, Gulgul - Madhya Pradesh)
Tamil : Nahanavai
Kannada : Gorwantera / Myna (unnikuruli) ಗೊರವಂಕ (ಉಣ್ಣಿಕುರುಳಿ)
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Telugu : Goranka
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A lone common goldeneye with striking black and white plumage calmly swims across a reflective surface. The water mirrors the bird and surrounding environment!!!
Common Ringed Plover, Charadrius hiaticula
Bontbekplevier
Nieuwe Driemanspolder, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Nikon Z50II
Nikon Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3
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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Moccas Hill National Nature Reserve. Herefordshire. SO339424
Literally hundreds of butterflies on a 2 hr walk in this beautiful reserve.
Woodbury Common in East Devon, England is an area of common land that is predominantly heathland adjacent to the village of Woodbury, Devon. It is bordered to the south by the edge of the towns of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton, the hamlet of Yettington to the east, and the A3052 to the north. It is part of the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbury_Common,_Devon
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The common ostrich (Struthio camelus) or simply ostrich, is a species of large flightless bird native to certain large areas of Africa. It is one of two extant species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus Struthio in the ratite order of birds. The other is the Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes), which was recognized as a distinct species by BirdLife International in 2014 having been previously considered a very distinctive subspecies of ostrich. The common ostrich belongs to the order Struthioniformes. Struthioniformes previously contained all the ratites, such as the kiwis, emus, rheas, and cassowaries. However, recent genetic analysis has found that the group is not monophyletic, as it is paraphyletic with respect to the tinamous, so the ostriches are now classified as the only members of the order. Phylogenetic studies have shown that it is the sister group to all other members of Palaeognathae and thus the flighted tinamous are the sister group to the extinct moa. It is distinctive in its appearance, with a long neck and legs, and can run for a long time at a speed of 55 km/h (34 mph) with short bursts up to about 70 km/h (43 mph), the fastest land speed of any bird. The common ostrich is the largest living species of bird and lays the largest eggs of any living bird (the extinct elephant birds of Madagascar and the giant moa of New Zealand laid larger eggs). The common ostrich's diet consists mainly of plant matter, though it also eats invertebrates and small reptiles. It lives in nomadic groups of 5 to 50 birds. When threatened, the ostrich will either hide itself by lying flat against the ground, or run away. If cornered, it can attack with a kick of its powerful legs. Mating patterns differ by geographical region, but territorial males fight for a harem of two to seven females. The common ostrich is farmed around the world, particularly for its feathers, which are decorative and are also used as feather dusters. Its skin is used for leather products and its meat is marketed commercially, with its leanness a common marketing point. R_21455
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.
Sterna hirundo, Visdief, Common Tern.
When the evening falls.. these Terns hunt for flies and insects.
The white bird pops out against the greenish reed.
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.
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) female having a good stretch along the ice edge of a small urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
5 May, 2018.
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