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Phoca vitulina
common seal or sometimes called harbour seals seen at Mablethorpe seal sanctuary awaiting release back into the wild www.thesealsanctuary.com/
Common Cranes - Habitat
Grus grus
Location: Little Rann of Kutch, Gujerat, India
6th. November 2006
Distribution: avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&id=AF222746FB...
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Always an highlight when the Common Terns arrive at St Aidan's great to watch and a nice challenge to photograph, usually distant though hence the generous crop.
On it's return journey to it's nest site with a Stickleback.
Solid and handsome, as well as compact and simple to space, this square grot style is common on Berlin gravestones at the end of the 1800s.
Common Lousewort (Pedicularis canadensis), also called Canadian Lousewort or Wood Betony (although this latter name is also used for an unrelated plant). A fascinating characteristic of this species is that the flowers can be yellow, maroon, or white – or a combination of these colors, as shown here. Pine Log WMA, Bartow County, Georgia.
Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata).
Joan and Scott Holt Paradise Pond. September 19, 2021.
Port Aransas, Nueches County, Texas.
Nikon D7500. AF-P Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E ED VR.
(300mm) f/6.3 @ 1/2000 sec. ISO 560.
Common lizard sunbathing in Espoo, Finland.
Info: Nikon D80, Nikkor 70-300 VR at 300mm, ISO 200, 1/500 sec at f/5.6.
Common lizard is sunbathing on the top of a bird tower, 5 meters above ground level. No post processing on the golden background.
Richmond, BC
I spotted three Common Redpolls while looking for the Western Scrub-Jay in Richmond. They were quite cooperative for photos! While they birds have been everywhere this winter, I have been away for a lot of the time and missed them in multiple places when I was in town, so these were the first ones I have seen in BC since 2013.
The lakes are pretty well ice covered but the channel is still open and there were 7 Common Goldeneyes diving in the cold water.
Bobcaygeon, Ontario
Common Koel (male) AKA stormbird to locals. (Eudynamys scolopacea)
Because the males have such strong black plumage, photographs of them reveal little or no detail. This guy was close enough to use a flash! They are usually quite clever and hide behind the branches or tree-trunks so you can't photograph them.
Here's a link to a female I spotted in the same tree a couple of days before: farm6.static.flickr.com/5246/5238227188_bbe290735e.jpg
Common Checkered Skipper, photographed at Salt Marsh Nature Center, Marine Park, Brooklyn, NY with Pentax K200D and Tamron 70-300 Di LD Macro zoom.
A finch species that is common in the Top End of Australia. This one is a male. They rarely feed on the ground as other finches but feed on seed of tall grass species in well watered locations by streams and swamps.
@ Zoo Berlin
The Common Eland is considered, alongside the ironically similarly-dimensioned Giant Eland, the largest species of "antelope", though in many respects the Elands are quite bovine. Females weigh 300–600 kg (660–1,300 lb), measure 200–280 cm (79–110 in) from the snout to the base of the tail and stand 125–153 cm (49–60 in) at the shoulder. Bulls weigh 400–1,000 kg (880–2,200 lb), are 240–345 cm (94–136 in) from the snout to the base of the tail and stand 150–183 cm (59–72 in) at the shoulder. The tail adds a further 50–90 cm (20–35 in).[2][3][4] Females have a tan coat, while males have a darker tan coat with a blueish-grey tinge; there may also be a series of white stripes vertically on the sides of bulls (mainly in parts of the Karoo in South Africa). Males have dense fur on their foreheads and a large dewlap. Both sexes have horns, about 65 cm (26 in) long and with a steady spiral ridge (resembling that of the bushbuck). The female's horns are wider set and thinner than the male's. They eat branches leaves and berries .
Common Coot / fulica atra. Derbyshire. 26/05/18.
'COUNTING DAISIES'.
Coots can be birds of two extreme behaviours ... either running aggressively across water, wings raised in pursuit of each other, before engaging in fierce battle ... or, like this one, so chilled they can't be bothered to stand up when feeding!
The latter behaviour seems to be a daily routine trait with them (though interestingly, not with Moorhens).
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
The Common Iora, Aegithina tiphia, is a small passerine bird. This Iora breeds across tropical South Asia from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka into Indonesia. This common species is found in forest and other well-wooded areas. Two to four greenish white eggs are laid in a small, loose, cup-shaped nest made out of grass and built in a tree.
The adult Common Iora is about 15cm long. The breeding male has black or greenish upperparts, and bright yellow underparts. The flight feathers are blackish with an obvious white wing bar. Non-breeding males have uniformly greenish upperparts. The females are similar to non-breeding males, but with grey-black wings.