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A long river. Stretches around 46 miles from head to mouth. It has two heads West and East Dart that merge at Dartmeet and then flows through the South Hams via Totnes to Dartmouth.
Common Darter - Garden, Hullbridge, Essex. Landed on our rotating clothes line which gave me an easy opportunity to get the under wing image.
The Darter is a large slender water bird with a long snake-like neck and sharp pointed bill. Male Darters are dark brownish black with chestnut brown under parts. The wings are glossy black on top, streaked and spotted white and silver. There is a white stripe from the bill to extending across each side of the face and down upper part of the neck. Females and immatures are grey-brown above and pale grey or white below. Immatures have less prominent neck stripe. The Darter often swims with only the snake-like neck showing above the water. It is similar in appearance to the cormorants but has much longer neck and more pointed bill.
Other Names
Shag, Snake Bird
Size
85 - 90cm
Info thanks go to OZanimals.com.au
Long Term Intervention Monitoring project is currently underway in the Gwydir catchment.
As part of this monitoring program, solar powered RMCAM internet enabled cameras and weather sensors were recently installed in remote locations across the Gwydir Wetlands State Conservation Area.
There is good water availability in the wetlands this season due to prolonged water deliveries to the wetlands.
As luck would have it, a number of waterbirds have now set up nests, close to these cameras. Species include Little Pied Cormorants, Darters, Magpie Geese, Plumed Whistling Ducks and Australian White Ibis.
The camera is now set up to take images every 10 minutes.
The obvious advantage of using this approach is being able to monitor species/events etc in a remote location, with flexible regularity and without disturbance.
A neat species, seen at the Avis Dam outside Windhoek, Namibia, on our very last afternoon in the country. This is an interesting species, they have little oil in their feathers, so the feathers totally soak when they enter the water. This allows them to swim underwater more easily because they don't have to be fighting the pull of the air that would be caught in the feathers. However, it means that after they hunt they have to stay out in the sun and hold their wings up for long periods of time, to dry.
We didn't see very many birds on the boat trip since it was the middle of the day and mostly about seeing hippos, but we did see this darter.
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Dennis Dart Plaxton body B40F
New Aug 1996, South London. LDR24.
At Ketley Bank, 29 Aug 2009.
For posterity. I had to sell this dart board a few days ago in preparation for the move across the country. It was sad, because I had always imagined that I'd bring it with me. So I thought I'd post a few pictures so that I can remember the good times... dartsing it up in my garage in Val Verde. I don't feel too bad about selling it though, as I bought it for $100, put $50 worth of parts on it, and then sold it for $400. I win...
Catalog #: 00066105
Manufacturer: Driggs
Designation:
Official Nickname: Dart
Notes: Models 1 and 2
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
The Red-veined Darter is a dragonfly of the genus Sympetrum commonly found in southern Europe. Since the 1990's it has increasingly been found in northwest Europe, including Britain and Ireland. There is genetic and behavioral evidence that the Red-Veined darter is not closely related to the other members of the Sympetrum genus. If this is proven to be the case, they will at some time in the future be removed from this genus. The Red-Veined Darter is similar to other Sympetrum species, but a good view with binoculars should give a positive identification, especially with a male. Males have a red abdomen, redder than many other Sympetrum species. The wings have red veins and the wing bases of the hind-wings are yellow.
Red-Veined Darter Physical Description
The pterostigma are pale with a border of black veins and the underside of the eye is blue/grey. The female is similar but the abdomen is yellow, not red, and the wings have yellow veins, not red veins as found in the males. The legs of both sexes are mostly black with some yellow. Immature males are like females but often with more red. The male Red-Veined Darter can be mistaken for Crocothemis erythraea as both are very red dragonflies with yellow bases to the wings, red veins and pale pterostigma. However C. erythraea has no black on the legs, a broader body and no black on the head.
Red-Veined Darter Distribution
The red-Veined Darter can be found in much of central and southern Europe including most Mediterranean islands, in Africa, the Middle East and south-western Asia including India, Sri Lanka, and Mongolia. In Europe it is resident in the south of its range but in some years it migrates northward and has been found as far north as Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Poland and northern England. It is the only libellulid to be found in the Azores and it is also found on the Canary islands and Madeira. It is found in all sorts of still water but being a migrant it is often found away from water. It has been seen flying over the sea.
The Red-Veined Darter can be seen on the wing throughout the year around the Mediterranean and in the south of its range, however, its main flight period is May to October and it is scarce during the winter months. It is a territorial species of insect, with the males often sitting on an exposed perch.
After copulation the pair stay in tandem for egg laying and pairs can be seen over open water with the female dipping her abdomen into the water depositing eggs. Pairs are known to fly over the sea in tandem dipping into the salt water where the eggs soon perish. The eggs and larvae develop rapidly and the red-veined darter, unlike most other species of European dragonflies, has more than one generation a year. #ourbreathingplanet
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Pima Air and Space Museum
DART TOWED AERIAL GUNNERY TARGET
Pilot gunnery practice led to the development of targets that could be towed at a safe distance behind utility aircraft. The target on display was manufactured in the 1950s. The dart disposable target was made of lightweight, inexpensive materials including aluminum foil skin and honeycomb filler installed on a wood framework.
Common Darter, Sympetrum striolatum,
The maie abdomen is red and slightly constricted near the front.
Females and immature males are yellowish brown . In both sexes the iegs are dark brown or black with a yellow stipe on the outside This very common species breeds in still water, and flies June - October, often travelling far from the water. It perches on shrubs and hedgerows and also on the ground. Most red darters seen in England are likely to belong to this species. Individuals from the bogs and moors of Scotland and Northern Ireland have more extensive black markings on the sides of the thorax and are sometimes treated as a separate species,...
Darter or snakebirds refers to their long thin neck, which has a snake-like appearance when they swim with their bodies submerged, or when mated pairs twist it during their bonding displays. Darters feed mainly on mid-sized fish; far more rarely, they eat other aquatic vertebrates and large invertebrates of comparable size.They usually breed in colonies, occasionally mixed with cormorants or herons.There are many different types of displays used for mating. Males display to attract females by raising their wings to wave them in an alternating fashion, bowing and snapping the bill, or giving twigs to potential mates.