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Common Grackles are large, lanky blackbirds with long legs and long tails. The head is flat and the bill is longer than in most blackbirds, with the hint of a downward curve. In flight, the wings appear short in comparison to the tail. Common Grackles appear black from a distance, but up close their glossy purple heads contrast with bronzy-iridescent bodies. A bright golden eye gives grackles an intent expression. (Cornell)
Olare Motorogi Conservancy (OMC), Masai Mara, Kenya
Common or Central African Warthog [Phacochoerus Africanus]
Safaris seem to be mostly about the cats and some of the more engaging species, such as elephants and giraffe, with many of the other animals hardly getting a look in when it comes to photos. There seems to be some sort of unofficial pecking order, and usually down near the bottom of that list is the good old common warthog, affectionately known as the pumba after the Disney character in the Lion King. They are also regarded as one of the 'ugly five'. This is probably the main reason you rarely see photos of them, plus the fact that they usually turn tail as soon as they see you, so I was rather surprised that this female was happy to pose, with her piglet.
This is a Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata) that I photographed at the Córdoba wetland (Humedal de Córdoba) in Bogotá, Colombia in June 2017. It eats plant material and small aquatic animals, and its wide feet let it walk on lily pads. It was split from the common moorhen in 2011. It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals and other wetlands in the Americas. Of all the wetlands of Bogotá, Córdoba has the most bird species on record, 96 of them.
I photographed it with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1600. IUCN lists the Common Gallinule as Least Concern, and the Bogotá Water Company is in charge of rescuing and restoring the city's wetlands, of which only about 1,500 of the 150,000 hectares mapped in 1940 remain.
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A trip to WWT Slimbridge mid October. Weather was sunny intervals.
This Common Pochard swam out from the undergrowth on South Lake and started to dive feeding off the bottom.
The Common Pochard, or Pochard, is a medium sized Diving Duck which feed by either diving or dabbling.
They often mix with other diving ducks, such as the Tufted Duck, to which they are known to hybridise.
Common Twayblade / neottia ovata. Hartslock NR, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. 31/05/18.
Although I had seen Common Twayblade before in other parts of the country, they were still a pleasing find on my 'orchid twitch' in late May..
It was convenient that a small colony at Hartslock were growing in an accessible place with plenty of light. This helped to enliven the easily overlooked green flowers and make their citric green, notched lips really stand out.
Common Frog / rana temporaria. Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. 26/03/18.
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"AN ANIMAL'S EYES HAVE THE POWER TO SPEAK A GREAT LANGUAGE ... "
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If you can relate to the words quoted above by Martin Buber, (Jewish philosopher 1878-1965), you could easily imagine that this humble frog was saying something of immense magnitude when i photographed it!
What a fantastic eye.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Common Starling - Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris - Скворец
National Park Losiny Ostrov, Mytishchi, Moscow Region, 04/29/2017
A Common Blue butterfly feeds on a thistle at the National Trust's Mwnt y Foel, near Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales.
Common myna, Acridotheres tristis. 26 March 2022. Tel Aviv, Israel.
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The common murre or common guillemot is a large auk. It is also known as the thin-billed murre in North America. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring in low-Arctic and boreal waters in the North-Atlantic and North Pacific.
A trip to WWT Slimbridge mid October. Weather was sunny intervals.
A male Common Mallard flying over the outer fields at Slimbridge.
The Mallard is a large and heavy-looking duck. It has a long body, and a long and broad bill. The male has a dark green head, a yellow bill, is mainly purple-brown on the breast and grey on the body. The female is mainly brown with an orange bill. Mallards breed in all parts of the UK in summer and winter, wherever there are suitable wetland habitats.
Olare Motorogi Conservancy (OMC), Masai Mara, Kenya
Common or Central African Warthog [Phacochoerus Africanus]