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(Anhinga rufa)
The African darter (Anhinga rufa), sometimes called the snakebird, is a water bird of sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq.
The African darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American (Anhinga anhinga), Oriental (Anhinga melanogaster), and Australasian (Anhinga novaehollandiae) darters.
The male is mainly glossy black with white streaking, but females and immature birds are browner. The African darter differs in appearance from the American darter most recognisably by its thin white lateral neck stripe against a rufous background colour. The pointed bill should prevent confusion with cormorants.
It is an 80 cm long cormorant-like fish-eating species with a very long neck, like other anhingas.
The African darter is found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of water occur; overall the species remains widespread and common.
One subspecies, the Levant darter (Anhinga rufa chantrei), occurred at Lake Amik (Amik Gölü) in south-central Turkey, in Hula valley lake and marshes in northern Israel and in the Mesopotamian Marshes of the lower Euphrat and Tigris rivers in southern Iraq. The Turkish population disappeared during the 1930s and the Israeli population during Hula drainage in the 1950s. It was feared that it also had disappeared from Iraq, but a small and threatened population remains at least in the Hawizeh Marshes (part of the Mesopotamian Marshes), which are also home to numerous other waters birds such as little grebe, pygmy cormorant, marbled teal and sacred ibis.
This species builds a stick nest in a tree and lays 3–6 eggs. It often nests with herons, egrets and cormorants.
It often swims with only the neck above water, hence the common name snakebird. This, too, is a habit shared with the other anhingas.
Unlike many other waterbirds the feathers of the African darter do not contain any oil and are therefore not waterproof. Because of this, the bird is less positively buoyant and its diving capabilities are enhanced. After diving for fish, the feathers can become waterlogged. In order to be able to fly and maintain heat insulation, it needs to dry its feathers. Thus the African darter is often seen sitting along the waterside spreading its wings and drying its feathers in the wind and the sun along with cormorants which may share its habitat.
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Cardiff Bus Dennis Dart SLF 233.CN54NTL at the Bus and Coach Wales, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales on the 5th September 2010.
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Darter dragonfly . Background is a slight cheat- it's a sun chair but I expanded it out to take away some rather ugly white shapes
Metrobus 344 (X344 YGU) stands at 'The Village' terminus at Weston Drive.
Annoyingly, I didn't quite get there in time, so by the time I'd got to the front of the bus, the driver had switched the engine off and the LEDs turned off. He then went shopping (and ended up leaving late) - so I had to abandon waiting and walk back to Chaldon Road to see the last Surrey Connect operated 540. Annoyingly, even though I got there in time for the 540 (just!), I didn't see it, so it must have been running the last journey early :(
Surrey CC Bus Review phase 2, from September 2011, saw the 541 and 542 withdrawn - replaced by the new 509 off peak, and the 409 (being diverted into The Village) at peak times.
By this point, the 541/2 were into the last two weeks, and 344, the regular bus, had already been de-branded.
Weston Drive, The Village, Caterham-on-the-Hill, Surrey.
Another not so nice day, weather is very changable with rain periods, and we sure have had some rain over the past week or so. Miss Cheeky is not all that fond of traipsing thru wet grass. So I went out by my lonesome and took a few pictures. Kept me out of mischief 😁
Common Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum striolatum). The most common UK dragonfly and there were many of them at Potteric Carr Nature Reserve near Doncaster. (Yorkshire Wildlife Trust)
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Black Darters are now emerging at Whixall Moss. I saw a couple of males and a handful of females. There will soon be thousands!
Vagrant Darter (Sympetrum vulgatum). This photo is taken through a reversed 50mm lens. I saw someone here ( myriorama) posting photos made like that, and wanted to give it a try. I had to come really close to the dragonfly, a few centimeters. On earlier efforts the lens touched its wings and it flew away. But in this case it worked.
date: 2006-07-28
location: Adelaarhoftuin, Utrecht, Netherlands
original filename: Img_2894
This is a rare 1958 Goggomobil Dart that was on display in the museum.
Taken at Goolwa Motor Museum, South Australia in 2015.
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Rendering of a 3D Studio 5 model of one of my darts. The model is to scale, and accurate to within a fraction of a millimeter. Original