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These bird images are all taken at the bird sanctuary at Bharatpur at the 'Keoladeo National Park' or 'Keoladeo Ghana National Park'. The sanctuary that plays host to thousands of birds especially during the winter season. Over 230 species of birds are known to have made the National Park their home. It is also a major tourist centre with scores of ornithologists arriving here in the hibernal season. It was declared a protected sanctuary in 1971. It is also a declared World Heritage Site.
Keoladeo Ghana National Park is a man-made and man-managed wetland and one of the national parks of India. The reserve protects Bharatpur from frequent floods, provides grazing grounds for village cattle and earlier was primarily used as a waterfowl hunting ground. The 29 km2 (11 sq mi) reserve is locally known as Ghana, and is a mosaic of dry grasslands, woodlands, woodland swamps, and wetlands. These diverse habitats are home to 366 bird species, 379 floral species, 50 species of fish, 13 species of snakes, 5 species of lizards, 7 amphibian species, 7 turtle species, and a variety of other invertebrates. Every year thousands of migratory waterfowl visit the park for wintering breeding etc. The Sanctuary is one of the richest bird areas in the world. It is known for nesting of its resident birds and visiting migratory birds including water birds. The rare Siberian cranes used to winter in this park but this central population of Siberian cranes is now extinct. According to founder of the World Wildlife Fund Peter Scott, Keoladeo Sanctuary is one of the world’s best bird areas.
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Squarepeg SF04RHJ has been running with a private plate for some months but is now originally registered again, here it is operating the 22 in Garforth. This vehicle was new in Scotland with Mc Colls but became a loan vehicle with a dealership before moving on again and eventually finding a home here.
▪︎ Operator: Iarnród Eireann/Irish Rail
▪︎Train Type: 8520 Class DART train
▪︎Fleet Number: 8640
▪︎Manufacturer: Tokyu Car Corporation
▪︎Location: Clontarf Road
▪︎Route: Howth - Greystones
This was a very funny collab with HRVB a few months ago. Dart game and pub meets beer flush overkill.
A “selfie” at Dart Glacier near Cascade Saddle in Mt Aspiring National Park, New Zealand. I last hiked/tramped here in February 1979. It has changed a little bit but not as much as I would have thought. Will post photos from 1979 when I get home.
A vehicle I've been hunting down for years as it rarely sees the light of day at last showed its face in Hayward's Heath this afternoon, 29th January, 2025. P831 JPO is one of a handful of Dennis Darts never used as buses. It was bodied by Leicester Carriage Builders as a command unit for West Sussex Fire Brigade. It did have a twin which was tragically lost in a huge blaze at a firework factory near Lewes in 2006.
Male Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum)
As it's name suggests this dragonfly is very abundant in England. It breeds in still water, even stagnant ponds, and can be seen well into November.
This fellow decided to stake out my garden pond for the day :)
I like this photograph as I rarely find British dragonflies in this near obelisk pose. He never did quite manage the full pose.
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Fairly boring bus, this!
Numberplate: SN03WLK
Fleet Number: 42483
Type: Dart Pointer
Route: 24
Destination: Southend Travel Centre
Location: Southend Travel Centre
History: None to speak of, new in Barbie livery
As part of an effort to formalize my photo stream, I present some new and old designs (with reshaping) in higher quality photographs of set dimensions.
Made from a 15 inch square of Origamido.
A variation of the shaping on my Poison Dart Frog base that involves a thinner body.
I am currently diagramming this model.
Stagecoach 34816 (PX06 DWA) appears to be back on the old route 12 the buses used to take, but today, For a while at least, Badby Road was closed, so a now rare sight of a Dennis Dart along High Street, Braunston. I assume the buses went to Willoughby, and back to Barby via Longdown Lane?
24th March 2017
This family is very closely related to the other families in the suborder Sulae, i.e. the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants and shags) and the Sulidae (gannets and boobies). Cormorants and anhingas are extremely similar as regards their body and leg skeletons and may be sister taxa. In fact, several anhinga fossils were initially believed to be cormorants or shags (see below). Some earlier authors included the darters in the Phalacrocoracidae as subfamily Anhinginae, but this is nowadays generally considered overlumping. However, as this agrees quite well with the fossil evidence some unite the Anhingidae and Phalacrocoracidae in a superfamily Phalacrocoracoidea.
The Sulae are also united by their characteristic display behavior, which agrees with the phylogeny as laid out by anatomical and DNA sequence data. While the darters' lack of many display behaviors is shared with gannets (and that of a few with cormorants), these are all symplesiomorphies that are absent in frigatebirds, tropicbirds and pelicans also. Like cormorants but unlike other birds, darters use their hyoid bone to stretch the gular sac in display. Whether the pointing display of mates is another synapomorphy of darters and cormorants that was dropped again in some of the latter, or whether it evolved independently in darters and those cormorants that do it, is not clear. The male raised-wing display seems to be a synapomorphy of the Sulae; like almost all cormorants and shags but unlike almost all gannets and boobies, darters keep their wrists bent as they lift the wings in display, but their alternating wing-waving, which they also show before take-off, is unique. That they often balance with their outstretched wings during walking is probably an autapomorphy of darters, necessitated by their being plumper than the other Sulae.
The Sulae were traditionally included in the Pelecaniformes, then a paraphyletic group of "higher waterbirds". The supposed traits uniting them, like all-webbed toes and a bare gular sac, are now known to be convergent, and pelicans are apparently closer relatives of storks than of the Sulae. Hence, the Sulae and the frigatebirds – and some prehistoric relatives – are increasingly separated as the Suliformes, which is sometimes dubbed "Phalacrocoraciformes".
New Horizon Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer,M65 VJO was new to Thames
Transit in March 1995.Still employed on local school runs by New Horizon. Close behind Dennis Trident Alexander V124 MEV.
Darter dragonfly in the garden. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene. This is using a Raynox MSN202 clip on diopter on the front of my Tamron90 but at max focus
On 27th August, Seaford & District held their annual running day with vintage buses on routes 123 (Lewes - Seaford) and 124 (Lewes - Eastbourne).
Operator: Maidstone & District (P238MKN Group)
Type: Dennis Dart
Vehicle: 3238 (P238MKN)
Route: 123
Destination: Lewes
Location: Newhaven, Denton Corner
Service: 1500 Seaford - Lewes
1975 Dodge Dart Swinger
Location: Villingen, Germany
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