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Good morning everyone. As the title indicates, presented today is the sixth in a series of some of my favorite dragonfly species photographed in 2015. Featured today is the Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa). More specifically the female and immature male since both look similar when males first emerge.
A good quick guide to differentiate gender of immature Widow Skimmers is females typically have darkened wing tips as seen above on the left, while males usually don't...but it isn't an absolute. I have seen an odd male with dark wing tips or a rare female with clear ones. Other easily visible characteristics are male abdomens tend to be narrower and they also have longer cerci than females as seen on the right.
I also posted the two photos used in the above composite in the comment section and my stream so don't forget to click on "view previous comments" if you don't see the photos in the comment section. Even better, scroll to them by clicking on the arrow thingy to the right of the above pic. And if you want to view either picture in the comment section large all you have to do is click on it where you'll also find the text describing this species of dragonfly.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you're having a truly great last week of January.
Lacey
I've been digging into the archives lately.
This day, we were at a water treatment facility where some of the holding ponds are allowed to go semi-wild, supporting all sorts of wildlife. It is an easy, nearly flat walk around the ponds and we had already spotted plenty of Tree Swallows, the males sporting beautifully iridescent, blue-green coloration. It was easy to almost miss this plain, brown swallow sitting alone in a tree.
Northern Rough-wingeds are the plainest of all the swallows with only rusty wing bars to differentiate the juveniles from the adults. The buff at their throats is a give-away mark of the species.
Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. With a population of approximately 240,342 (over 45% of Tasmania's population), it is the least populated Australian state capital city, and second smallest if territories are taken into account (after Darwin, Northern Territory). The city is located in the state's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, making it the most southern of Australia's capital cities. Its skyline is dominated by the 1,271-metre Mount Wellington, and its harbour forms the second-deepest natural port in the world, with much of the city's waterfront consisting of reclaimed land. The metropolitan area is often referred to as Greater Hobart, to differentiate it from the City of Hobart, one of the five local government areas that cover the city. Founded in 1804 as a British penal colony, Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney, New South Wales. 30161
The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.
Plate-billed Mountain-Toucans inhabit a restricted range and are listed as near threatened. They are threatened both by deforestation and subsequent habitat loss, and by illegal capture for the pet trade. These toucans inhabit humid and wet montane forests and secondary growth where they are partial to areas filled with bromeliads, mosses, and epiphytes. They mostly forage on a large variety of fruits but nestlings are also fed insects, eggs, birds, rodents, or snails. During times of limited fruit availability, groups of birds tend to leave their home range. The yellow rectangular plate on the upper bill helps differentiate this toucan from most others.
Another amazing and threatened bird... have a Peaceful day!
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I finally have learned to differentiate between Monarchs and Viceroys. That second, inner outline of black along the wings is the difference.
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/134156591
Jenny Pansing photos
This small butterfly has a silvery appearance as it flies low to the ground over sheltered flowery grasslands. In Britain and mainland Europe, the pattern of wing spots is highly variable and many local races (and sub-species) have been described.
In Scotland, most individuals are of the race artaxerxes and have a characteristic white spot in the middle of the forewing (see photo). In northern England, this spot is generally dark brown or black. Similar to Brown Argus but differentiated by orange spots. The butterfly occurs mainly as small, scattered colonies and has declined in northern England (Courtesy Butterfly Conservation).
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Red Grouse - Lagopus lagopus scotica
Scottish Moors
The red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica, is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. It is usually classified as a subspecies of the willow ptarmigan but is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Lagopus scotica. It is also known as the moorcock, moorfowl or moorbird. Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lagos (λαγος), meaning "hare", + pous (πους), "foot", in reference to the feathered feet and toes typical of this cold-adapted genus, and scoticus is "of Scotland".
The red grouse is widely known as the logo of The Famous Grouse whisky and an animated bird is a character in a series of its adverts. The red grouse is also the emblem of the journal British Birds.
The red grouse is differentiated from the willow ptarmigan and rock ptarmigan by its plumage being reddish brown, and not having a white winter plumage. The tail is black and the legs are white. There are white stripes on the underwing and red combs over the eye. Females are less reddish than the males and have less conspicuous combs. Young birds are duller and lack the red combs.
The red grouse is endemic to the British Isles; it has developed in isolation from other subspecies of the willow ptarmigan which are widespread in northern parts of Eurasia and North America.
It is found across most parts of Scotland, including Orkney, Shetland and most of the Outer Hebrides. They are only absent from urban areas, such as in the Central Belt.
In Wales there are strong populations in places but their range has retracted. They are now largely absent from the far south, their main strongholds being Snowdonia, the Brecon Beacons and the Cambrian Mountains. There are reports of Welsh birds crossing the Bristol Channel to Exmoor.
In England it is mainly found in the north – places such as the Lake District, Northumberland, County Durham, much of Yorkshire, the Pennines and the Peak District, as far south as the Staffordshire Moorlands. There is an isolated introduced population on Dartmoor, and overspill Welsh birds visit the Shropshire Hills such as Long Mynd, where they breed. The Exmoor population would now appear to be extinct, with the last birds sighted as recently as 2005. An introduced population in Suffolk died out by the early 20th century, though a population on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire lasted longer.
The British population is estimated at about 250,000 pairs with around 1–5,000 pairs in Ireland. Numbers have declined in recent years and birds are now absent in areas where they were once common. Reasons for the decline include loss of heather due to overgrazing, creation of new conifer plantations and a decline in the number of upland gamekeepers. Some predators such as the hen harrier feed on grouse and there is ongoing controversy as to what effect these have on grouse numbers.
Red grouse have been introduced to the Hautes Fagnes region of Belgium but the population there died out in the early 1970s.
The red grouse is considered a game bird and is shot in large numbers during the shooting season which traditionally starts on August 12, known as the Glorious Twelfth. There is a keen competition among some London restaurants to serve freshly killed grouse on August 12, with the birds being flown from the moors and cooked within hours.
Rain on Douglas fir tree.
Douglas fir, which has sometimes been called the Douglas tree, Oregon pine, and Douglas spruce, is not actually a true fir, a pine, or a spruce. Indicative of the taxonomic confusion about this tree, the scientific genus name Pseudotsuga means “false hemlock,” alluding to yet another kind of tree somewhat similar to this unique but important tree. Douglas firs are evergreen trees, meaning they keep their needle-like leaves year-round. There are two varieties of this species, coast Douglas fir and Rocky Mountain Douglas fir, which are differentiated by their habitats, growth rates, and physical characteristics.
When Douglas firs grow in dense forests, they self-prune their lower branches so the conical crown starts many stories above the ground. Trees growing in open habitats, especially younger trees, have branches much closer to the ground. Coast Douglas firs are the faster-growing and larger of the two varieties, and they commonly grow up to 250 feet (76 meters) in old-growth forests and can reach five to six feet (1.5 to 1.8 meters) in diameter. Rocky Mountain Douglas firs measure about the same in diameter but only grow up to 160 feet (49 meters).
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Hmm, forgot to adjust the time on this camera...
To the human ear, it may seem like all roars are more or less the same, but lions are able to clearly distinguish between instructions from the higher ranking lion to fight, escape or to relax. Warnings and calls for help from a fellow lion in the pride are also differentiated from the roars of lions that do not belong to the pride.
Contrary to what many uninformed people believe, a lion which is planning to hunt, will never roar as that would scare away the prey and thus the purpose will be lost. They may roar to call for help once they have the prey surrounded, but never before that. Although male lions roar much louder, females roar as well.
The main objective of the lioness’s roar is to call their cubs that are beyond her visual range, but even the lioness calls for help while hunting a strong prey or engaged in a fight with an adversary.
Juvenile Black-bellied Plovers, American Golden Plovers, and Pacific Golden Plovers, look very similar. There are subtle differentiating field marks, but only the Black-bellied Plover has the black "armpit" in any phase of life.
Sturgeon County, Alberta.
sometimes the truth requires a little more differentiation, effort and objectivity ...
manchmal erfordert die Wahrheit etwas mehr Differenzierung, Mühe und Objektivität ...
;-) ...
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Everyone tells us they are surprised at how alike we are, they cannot differentiate between us. It used to be worse before JJ found color in the bottle, hit the tanning bed and then started getting tattoos...
También en las mismas se pudieron ver hembras de variada edad en ambos parajes.
Podemos observar la disposición de los apéndices anales que diferencian a machos y hembras, como también el abdomen más estilizado en los machos como significativos.
Fotograma completo adaptado a formato panorámico
Cerca de Biar (Alicante) España
Also in the same ones it was possible to see females of varied ages in both places.
We can observe the arrangement of the anal appendages that differentiate males and females, as well as the more stylized abdomen in males as significant.
Full frame adapted to panoramic format
Near Biar (Alicante) Spain
Red Grouse - Lagopus lagopus scotica
Yorkshire Moors
The red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica, is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. It is usually classified as a subspecies of the willow ptarmigan but is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Lagopus scotica. It is also known as the moorcock, moorfowl or moorbird. Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lagos (λαγος), meaning "hare", + pous (πους), "foot", in reference to the feathered feet and toes typical of this cold-adapted genus, and scoticus is "of Scotland".
The red grouse is widely known as the logo of The Famous Grouse whisky and an animated bird is a character in a series of its adverts. The red grouse is also the emblem of the journal British Birds.
The red grouse is differentiated from the willow ptarmigan and rock ptarmigan by its plumage being reddish brown, and not having a white winter plumage. The tail is black and the legs are white. There are white stripes on the underwing and red combs over the eye. Females are less reddish than the males and have less conspicuous combs. Young birds are duller and lack the red combs.
The red grouse is endemic to the British Isles; it has developed in isolation from other subspecies of the willow ptarmigan which are widespread in northern parts of Eurasia and North America.
It is found across most parts of Scotland, including Orkney, Shetland and most of the Outer Hebrides. They are only absent from urban areas, such as in the Central Belt.
In Wales there are strong populations in places but their range has retracted. They are now largely absent from the far south, their main strongholds being Snowdonia, the Brecon Beacons and the Cambrian Mountains. There are reports of Welsh birds crossing the Bristol Channel to Exmoor.
In England it is mainly found in the north – places such as the Lake District, Northumberland, County Durham, much of Yorkshire, the Pennines and the Peak District, as far south as the Staffordshire Moorlands. There is an isolated introduced population on Dartmoor, and overspill Welsh birds visit the Shropshire Hills such as Long Mynd, where they breed. The Exmoor population would now appear to be extinct, with the last birds sighted as recently as 2005. An introduced population in Suffolk died out by the early 20th century, though a population on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire lasted longer.
The British population is estimated at about 250,000 pairs with around 1–5,000 pairs in Ireland. Numbers have declined in recent years and birds are now absent in areas where they were once common. Reasons for the decline include loss of heather due to overgrazing, creation of new conifer plantations and a decline in the number of upland gamekeepers. Some predators such as the hen harrier feed on grouse and there is ongoing controversy as to what effect these have on grouse numbers.
Red grouse have been introduced to the Hautes Fagnes region of Belgium but the population there died out in the early 1970s.
The red grouse is considered a game bird and is shot in large numbers during the shooting season which traditionally starts on August 12, known as the Glorious Twelfth. There is a keen competition among some London restaurants to serve freshly killed grouse on August 12, with the birds being flown from the moors and cooked within hours.
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Fairly small gull, common and widespread throughout most of North America. Breeding adults are white-headed with a bold black ring around the bill; nonbreeding adults have smudgy brown markings on the head. Note pale eye and yellow legs. Immatures are mottled brownish overall; note pink bill with black tip. Found along lakes, rivers, ponds, and beaches. More common inland than most other gull species, and quite fond of parking lots and urban areas. Often in flocks. Most similar to Short-billed Gull, but larger and larger-billed. Immatures of the two species are especially difficult to differentiate, but Ring-billed is usually more coarsely mottled. (eBird)
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A small flock in winter plumage enjoying our very unseasonable fall temperatures. They will get a shock tomorrow when the weather returns to normal.
Shirley's Bay, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. October 2024.
Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which are called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore. The drying of food is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage life of several years. The method is cheap and effective in suitable climates; the work can be done by the fisherman and family, and the resulting product is easily transported to market.
Over the centuries, several variants of dried fish have evolved. The stockfish (fresh dried, not salted) category is often mistaken for the clipfish, or salted cod, category where the fish is salted before drying. After 2–3 weeks in salt the fish has salt-matured, and is transformed from wet salted fish to clipfish through a drying process. The salted fish was earlier dried on rocks (clips) on the foreshore. The production method of clipfish was developed by the Portuguese who first mined salt near the brackish water of Aveiro, and brought it to Newfoundland where cod (bacalhau) was available in massive quantities. Salting was not economically feasible until the 17th century, when cheap salt from southern Europe became available to the maritime nations of northern Europe.
Stockfish is cured in a process called fermentation where cold-adapted bacteria matures the fish, similar to the maturing process of cheese. Clipfish is processed in a chemical curing process called salt-maturing, similar to the maturing processes of other salt-matured products such as Parma ham.
In English legal records of the Medieval period, (written in Latin), stock fishmongers are differentiated from ordinary fishmongers when the occupation of a plaintiff or defendant is recorded.
A small, colorfull bird that is endemic to the hills of the Indian west coast and high-altitude grasslands of peninsular India. It is easily identified by its striking deep red bill and legs. The bird is gorgeous and easily differentiated from other quails in the region.
These quails are elusive, usually found in small coveys of 6 to 10 birds. They forage on the slopes for seeds and insects, often in the early morning and late evening. When startled, a covey will scatter in different directions with a liquid alarm call before regrouping with soft whistles.
We went to the western part of India to see these birds / lifer and were not disappointed. They are quite active in the monsoon season and we could hear them a lot in several places. Most of the time we saw solitary birds, and not in groups as the literature suggested. The place was active with these lavendar flowers and it was quite a beautiful scene to be around. A sudden fog that stayed for a long time impacted the shots, but we enjoyed the weather and the scene though.
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Wing span
Medium-sized, 35–44 mm (1.38–1.73 in.).
Wing upper side
White, forewing tip grey (female) or black (male).
Wing underside
Light yellow, green and grey patches.
Habitat
Forest edges and clearings.
Flying time
Early May–late June. Second generation possible (July–August).
Overwintering form
Cocoon.
Larval foodplant
Meadow vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis), tufted vetch (Vicia cracca) and possibly also other Pea family (Fabaceae) plants.
There are three subfamilies of the Whites and yellows (Pieridae) in Finland. The Mimic sulphurs (Dismorphiinae) contains two species, the better known of which is wood white. The two other Pieridae subfamilies are the Whites (Pierinae) and the Sulphurs (Coliadinae).
The wood white is common in southern and central Finland and can be found here and there in Lapland. It usually rests with its wings against each other, so the upper surface is difficult to study without taking the butterfly in one’s hands. Its long, round-tipped wings and slow, fluttering flying style are characteristic properties of the species. The males fly around looking for females. Females lay their eggs one by one among the leaves that will be the caterpillar’s foodplant. The species is very difficult to differentiate from its close relative, the cryptic wood white. Naturegate Luontoportti
Red Grouse - Lagopus lagopus scotica
Highland Moors
The red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica, is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. It is usually classified as a subspecies of the willow ptarmigan but is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Lagopus scotica. It is also known as the moorcock, moorfowl or moorbird. Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lagos (λαγος), meaning "hare", + pous (πους), "foot", in reference to the feathered feet and toes typical of this cold-adapted genus, and scoticus is "of Scotland".
The red grouse is widely known as the logo of The Famous Grouse whisky and an animated bird is a character in a series of its adverts. The red grouse is also the emblem of the journal British Birds.
The red grouse is differentiated from the willow ptarmigan and rock ptarmigan by its plumage being reddish brown, and not having a white winter plumage. The tail is black and the legs are white. There are white stripes on the underwing and red combs over the eye. Females are less reddish than the males and have less conspicuous combs. Young birds are duller and lack the red combs.
The red grouse is endemic to the British Isles; it has developed in isolation from other subspecies of the willow ptarmigan which are widespread in northern parts of Eurasia and North America.
It is found across most parts of Scotland, including Orkney, Shetland and most of the Outer Hebrides. They are only absent from urban areas, such as in the Central Belt.
In Wales there are strong populations in places but their range has retracted. They are now largely absent from the far south, their main strongholds being Snowdonia, the Brecon Beacons and the Cambrian Mountains. There are reports of Welsh birds crossing the Bristol Channel to Exmoor.
In England it is mainly found in the north – places such as the Lake District, Northumberland, County Durham, much of Yorkshire, the Pennines and the Peak District, as far south as the Staffordshire Moorlands. There is an isolated introduced population on Dartmoor, and overspill Welsh birds visit the Shropshire Hills such as Long Mynd, where they breed. The Exmoor population would now appear to be extinct, with the last birds sighted as recently as 2005. An introduced population in Suffolk died out by the early 20th century, though a population on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire lasted longer.
The British population is estimated at about 250,000 pairs with around 1–5,000 pairs in Ireland. Numbers have declined in recent years and birds are now absent in areas where they were once common. Reasons for the decline include loss of heather due to overgrazing, creation of new conifer plantations and a decline in the number of upland gamekeepers. Some predators such as the hen harrier feed on grouse and there is ongoing controversy as to what effect these have on grouse numbers.
Red grouse have been introduced to the Hautes Fagnes region of Belgium but the population there died out in the early 1970s.
The red grouse is considered a game bird and is shot in large numbers during the shooting season which traditionally starts on August 12, known as the Glorious Twelfth. There is a keen competition among some London restaurants to serve freshly killed grouse on August 12, with the birds being flown from the moors and cooked within hours.
This small butterfly has a silvery appearance as it flies low to the ground over sheltered flowery grasslands. In Britain and mainland Europe, the pattern of wing spots is highly variable and many local races (and sub-species) have been described.
In Scotland, most individuals are of the race artaxerxes and have a characteristic white spot in the middle of the forewing (see photo). In northern England, this spot is generally dark brown or black. Similar to Brown Argus but differentiated by orange spots. The butterfly occurs mainly as small, scattered colonies and has declined in northern England (Courtesy Butterfly Conservation).
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Lac-Delage (Québec)
Fière comme un paon
Le dimorphisme sexuel chez certains oiseaux, fait que la femelle a des couleurs ternes, donc peu attrayantes. Notre réflexe naturel est de prioriser la photographie du mâle. Si il y a un oiseau qui ne perd pas de cette différenciation, c'est bien la femelle cardinal rouge. Au contraire! Elle a de quoi être fière et le montre très bien dans cette photo.
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Proud as a Peacock
Sexual dimorphism in some birds, causes that the female has dull colors, therefore unattractive. Our natural reflex is to prioritize the photography of the male. If there is a bird that does not lose of this differentiation, it is indeed the female red cardinal. On the contrary! She can to be proud of her appearance, as this picture shows so well.
Most of the stain mills are white, varying slightly the color of the roof, black, gray, etc., that's why Belmonte mills attract so much attention.
These mills are made of ancient stone and a bit neglected, which in part is what gives it that special beauty and differentiates it from the rest of the mills with its light brown color.
Belmonte (Cuenca/ Comunidad autónoma Castilla-La Mancha/ Spain).
Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. With a population of approximately 240,342 (over 45% of Tasmania's population), it is the least populated Australian state capital city, and second smallest if territories are taken into account (after Darwin, Northern Territory). The city is located in the state's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, making it the most southern of Australia's capital cities. Its skyline is dominated by the 1,271-metre Mount Wellington, and its harbour forms the second-deepest natural port in the world, with much of the city's waterfront consisting of reclaimed land. The metropolitan area is often referred to as Greater Hobart, to differentiate it from the City of Hobart, one of the five local government areas that cover the city. Founded in 1804 as a British penal colony, Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney, New South Wales. 30931
My goal in this photo was to create a seemingly endless staircase, with very vibrant, but rather different colors. I used orange and green to differentiate from one another, and as you look closer into the photo, you can see just how much these colors there are. Looking up closer towards the "end" of the staircase in the photo you can also determine that there's a sun shining on the bushes.
A large, stocky shorebird endemic to New Zealand. Adults vary in color from all black to pied, with a range of intermediate morphs in between. Juveniles have a dark-tipped bill, browner plumage, and gray legs. A coastal bird, breeding on sandy beaches, sand spits, rocky coasts, and occasionally the shores of coastal lakes. Will forage in paddocks. Gives a loud piping alarm call. Pied-morph birds appear similar to South Island Pied Oystercatcher (SIPO) and Chatham Oystercatcher. Adult pied-morph Variable Oystercatchers are visibly larger, with smudgy border between pied plumage on breast. Also note less white showing forward of folded wing around “shoulder.” (eBird)
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We woke early on our second day of the tour and decided to walk down to the beach (our first NZ beach) to see what was there. Great closeup views of these oystercatchers, clearly showing why they are named "variable". The all black one is an adult and the two-toned bird is a pied-morph juvenile. It takes some experience to differentiate between the pied variables and the South Island Oystercatchers, which are also two-tone and are often in the same flock as the Variables and we relied on our guide to help with the IDs. Given the adult/immature combination here, I'm feeling fairly confident in this identification.
Paihia, Northland, New Zealand. February 2024.
The Ugandan Kob is a subspecies of the kob, a type of antelope. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa in South Sudan, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Ugandan Kob is normally reddish-brown, differentiating it from other kob subspecies.
It is typically found in open or wooded savanna, within a reasonable distance of water, and it also occurs in grasslands near rivers and lakes. Its habit of lying out in open grassland make it an accessible target for poachers, and 98% of the present population are found in national parks and other protected areas.
A Ugandan Kob appears on the coat of arms of Uganda, along with a Grey Crowned Crane, representing the abundant wildlife present in the country.
Queen Elizabeth II National Park, Uganda. February 2017.
The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.
Okavango Delta
Moremi Game Reserve
Botswana
Southern Africa
Baboons are some of the world’s largest monkeys. There are five species of baboon—olive, yellow, Chacma, Guinea, and Hamadryas—scattered across various habitats in Africa and Arabia.
The baboon, like other Old World monkeys, does not have a prehensile (gripping) tail, but it is still able to climb when necessary. All baboons have dog–like noses, powerful jaws, sharp canine teeth, and thick fur. The male baboon also has a ruff—a longer mane around its neck. The Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family.
The Chacma Baboon is perhaps the longest species of monkey. It is also one of the heaviest. The female Chacma is a lot smaller.
There are three subspecies, differentiated by size and color. The Cape chacma is a large, heavy, dark-brown, and has black feet. The gray-footed chacma is slightly smaller than the Cape chacma, lighter in color and build, and has gray feet, this is the one found in Botswana.
The chacma baboon is omnivorous with a preference for fruits, while also eating insects, seeds, grass, smaller vertebrate animals, and fungi (the desert truffle Kalaharituber pfeilii).
Located primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviors, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pairings. - Wikipedia
This small butterfly has a silvery appearance as it flies low to the ground over sheltered flowery grasslands. In Britain and mainland Europe, the pattern of wing spots is highly variable and many local races (and sub-species) have been described.
In Scotland, most individuals are of the race artaxerxes and have a characteristic white spot in the middle of the forewing (see photo). In northern England, this spot is generally dark brown or black. Similar to Brown Argus but differentiated by orange spots. The butterfly occurs mainly as small, scattered colonies and has declined in northern England (Courtesy Butterfly Conservation).
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The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.
Seehund und Kegelrobbe bei gemeinsamer Siesta auf der Insel Helgoland-Düne. Ich muss zugeben dass ich beide nicht wirklich gut unterscheiden kann. Gibt es da ein klares Unterscheidungsmerkmal auf diesem Foto?
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Seals and gray seals having a common siesta on the island of Helgoland-Düne. I have to admit that I can't really tell the difference between the two. Is there a clear differentiator in this photo?
Ya'll know it's Flyday! How could I not post one? This is a female Dance fly, differentiated from the male by the dark band between the eyes. The name Dance fly comes from their erratic movements while in flight. Their courtship involves the male presenting a dead fly to the female, and mating does not take place until the female accepts and eats it. Usually found in moist areas, they feed on smaller insects. They are also referred to as Dagger flies, because of that sharp piercing mouthpart, seen here below it's bright red eyes. 2-image handheld stack.
Happy Fly Day Friday. Jan 14/22
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Hello friends, you will visit Sicily with me, the next two weeks? = O)
Last summer's trip, Sicily is a land full of beauty and contrasts, contrasts that I want to differentiate in two parts, the first with photos of the most tourist sites and the second is a look of a quotidian life in your streets.
Welcome to my series "La Sicilia è ..."
Happy friday my friends! =O)
The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.
Los caracteres morfológicos por los que podemos diferenciar a este Onychogomphus de forcipatus y uncatus, esencialmente y a la vista, son:
El tórax es de tonos más verdosos, el abdomen más pálido y el apéndice inferior amarillo.
En el tórax, en la banda negra inferior, podemos apreciar dos dibujos amarillos, algo que parece un siete y en la parte inferior, algo que asemeja a una gaviota en vuelo.
The morphological characters by which we can differentiate this Onychogomphus from forcipatus and uncatus, essentially and in sight, are:
The thorax is more greenish in color, the abdomen is paler and the lower appendix is yellow.
On the thorax, in the lower black band, we can see two yellow drawings, something that looks like a seven and in the lower part, something that resembles a seagull in flight.
A large resident and colorful Bee-Eater species that are locally migratory and mostly seen in winters. They prefer the habitats around edges of lakes / ponds / waterbodies and hunt flying insects, dragonflies and bees.
When the lakes are full, they do come and perch on the tall trees nearby. This perching behaviour easily differentiates the common green bee eater vs this bird. This season we already sighted 30-40 of them - and the numbers are very good. The weather too is pleasant and the lakes are overflowing. I sighted a couple of them hunting insects and they didn't mind our presence. The area they were hunting though had thick slushy black soil and it was quite challenging to shoot in those conditions.
Thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.
The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.
The head is red; the belly is on the pale side. But despite the obvious, this is the red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus, not the red-headed woodpecker.
The red-bellied is, by our observations, the most common of the woodpeckers likely to be seen in Florida. It roams pretty much anywhere there are trees, in the woods and in the 'burbs. You might come across one in your backyard.
The red-bellied is found throughout much of the eastern United States as far north as Minnesota and New England and as far west as Texas and Nebraska. It does not migrate anywhere in its range. It has the same combination of reds, blacks and whites that most other North American woodpeckers have. What differentiates the red-bellied from the red-headed are two obvious features. The head on the red-headed is completely red, face and all, and the back is completely black. The face of a red-bellied is mostly white with only a hint of red, and its back has black-and-white stripes. The red-headed, by the way, is the only member of the woodpecker family with a completely red head.
The red-bellied is a medium-sized woodpecker, with a body length of about nine inches and a wingspan of less than 18 inches. It has a fairly long and stout bill and a slightly red tinge to an otherwise pale underside.
Dinner for the red-bellied includes insects and spiders, nuts, seeds and various fruits and occasionally small fish and nestling birds. They can be acrobats of sorts, maneuvering, up, down and around, even upside down as they hunt for food.The bird in the photos above and to the left was eating the fruit of a strangler fig. Red-bellied are more likely to pick through the surface of a tree in search of food than to pound a hole in one.
Red-bellied woodpeckers are notorious for drumming on metal and wood siding around houses. When trying to attract a mate they will tap on anything that resonates, including metal gutters, TV antennas, and even cars.
I found this one in my backyard in Lake Wales, Florida.
Con este punto de vista podemos observar una de las características que diferencian a Onychogomphus forcipatus de otros gómfidos similares.
Es la mancha rectangular amarilla que tiene en el vértex (zona negra entre los ojos). He puesto una nota.
O, uncatus no tiene macha y O. cazuma tiene un círculo amarillo.
Fotograma completo y adaptado a formato panorámico.
En la rambla de Tobarra. Agramón (Albacete) España
With this point of view we can observe one of the characteristics that differentiates Onychogomphus forcipatus from other similar gomphids.
It is the yellow rectangular spot on the vertex (black area between the eyes).
O, uncatus is spotless and O. cazuma is circled in yellow.
Full frame and adapted to panoramic format.
On the Tobarra boulevard. Agramon (Albacete) Spain
Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. With a population of approximately 240,342 (over 45% of Tasmania's population), it is the least populated Australian state capital city, and second smallest if territories are taken into account (after Darwin, Northern Territory). The city is located in the state's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, making it the most southern of Australia's capital cities. Its skyline is dominated by the 1,271-metre Mount Wellington, and its harbour forms the second-deepest natural port in the world, with much of the city's waterfront consisting of reclaimed land. The metropolitan area is often referred to as Greater Hobart, to differentiate it from the City of Hobart, one of the five local government areas that cover the city. Founded in 1804 as a British penal colony, Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney, New South Wales. 30927
The Kuranda tree frog aka Myola tree frog (Litoria myola) is only known from a handful of rainforest creeks in the vicinity of Myola and Kuranda. They look extremely similar to the sympatric Litoria serrata, but can be differentiated by listening to their calls
IUCN: Critically Endangered
Location: Myola, Far North Queensland, Australia
A large resident and colorful Bee-Eater species that are locally migratory and mostly seen in winters. They prefer the habitats around edges of lakes / ponds / waterbodies and hunt flying insects, dragonflies and bees.
When the lakes are full, they do come and perch on the tall trees nearby. This perching behaviour easily differentiates the common green bee eater vs this bird. This season we already sighted 30-40 of them - and the numbers are very good. The weather too is pleasant and the lakes are overflowing. I sighted a couple of them hunting insects and they didn't mind our presence. The area they were hunting though had thick slushy black soil and it was quite challenging to shoot in those conditions.
Thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.
Flamborough Old and New Lighthouses.
The new lighthouse isn't exactly new. It was built in 1806 to guide ships to Bridlington and Scarborough. The old lighthouse dates back to 1674 with very little evidence that it was ever lit.
The new lighthouse was the first in the country to utilise coloured glass to differentiate it from the lighthouse further south at Cromer in Norfolk, with seafarers learning the mnemonic "Two whites to one red / indicates Flamboro' Head."
Interesting reading up about the history of lighthouses around the UK's coast. I never realised, though it makes complete sense, that every lighthouse has it's own unique signal. Something that I had noticed flying the drone the evening before from this same field and trying to coordinate the flashes with taking an image. It now flashes four white lights in close succession every 15 seconds.
As usual, with so many people drawn to the headland to watch sunrise and sunset I didn't feel comfortable flying the drone so retreated to this recently harvested field an hour or so before sunset.
I'd bought a Freewell circular polariser a few weeks ago and this was the first time I'd use it. Took a few attempts taking an image then landing and changing the position of the polariser to have it only affect the sky. The low sun was bringing out the colour in the field and didn't need anything added to it further, though the light leakage in the bottom right corner is something I need to have a play with.
The number is not the number of cats I have. They are numbered to give an overview and a differentiation possibility.
Adult Roesel's bush-crickets are medium-sized Tettigoniid between 13–26 mm in length. They are normally brown or yellow, often with a greenish shade and a rarer green form also sometimes occurs. An identifying feature is the yellow-green spots along the abdomen, just behind the pronotum, along with a matching margin along the border of the pronotum. This margin is entire, unlike the bog bush-cricket.
Males and females can be easily differentiated, as the females have a long sword-like ovipositor at the end of their abdomen, which the males lack.