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The red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, also known as the common crossbill in Eurosiberia. Crossbills have distinctive mandibles, crossed at the tips, which enable them to extract seeds from conifer cones and other fruits.
Adults are often brightly coloured, with red or orange males and green or yellow females, but there is wide variation in colour, beak size and shape, and call types, leading to different classifications of variants, some of which have been named as subspecies.
The red crossbill breeds in the spruce forests of North America, as well as Europe and Asia. Some populations breed in pine forests in certain areas of all three continents, and in North America, also in Douglas-fir. It nests in conifers, laying 3–5 eggs.
Mediaeval sketch by Matthew Paris in his Chronica Majora (1254) of a crossbill holding a fruit in its beak, with the Latin words Alaudis parum majores ('a little bigger than larks').
This crossbill is mainly resident, but often irrupts south when its food source fails. These irruptions led in the twentieth century to the establishment of permanent breeding colonies in England, and more recently in Ireland. This species forms flocks outside the breeding season, often mixed with other crossbills.
The first known irruption, recorded in England by the chronicler Matthew Paris, was in 1254; the next, also in England, appears to have been in 1593 (by which time the earlier irruption had apparently been entirely forgotten, since the crossbills were described as "unknown" in England). The engraver Thomas Bewick wrote that "It sometimes is met with in great numbers in this country, but its visits are not regular",[5] adding that many hundreds arrived in 1821. Bewick then cites Matthew Paris as writing "In 1254, in the fruit season, certain wonderful birds, which had never before been seen in England, appeared, chiefly in the orchards. They were a little bigger than Larks, and eat the pippins of the apples [pomorum grana] but no other part of them... They had the parts of the beak crossed [cancellatas] by which they divided the apples as with a forceps or knife. The parts of the apples which they left were as if they had been infected with poison."Bewick further records an account by Sir Roger Twysden for the Additions to the Additamenta of Matt. Paris "that in the apple season of 1593, an immense multitude of unknown birds came into England ... swallowing nothing but the pippins, [granella ipsa sive acinos] and for the purpose of dividing the apple, their beaks were admirably adapted by nature, for they turn back, and strike one point upon the other, so as to show ... the transverse sickles, one turned past the other."
Bianca Bender floods both wounds well with the saline wiping at each of the GSW's in turn checking for bleeding seeing some seepage still she'd tear open a quick clot and apply the material to each wound letting it sit and do it's job as she looks back up at Dazy, "100MG of liquid Ibuprofen, and the sedative...lets keep this Tom calm shall we?" she'd turn and grabbing up a surgical kit cracking it open she'd pull out the scalpel and forceps and leaving the quick clot in place she'd begin to excise the wounds of bullet fragments, murrls to Dazy, "I think he'll do...the fluids going in, and the quick clot will stop the bleeding soon enough...he's healthy he'll regenerate nicely." she'd continue to pluck fragments they ping lightly as they are dropped into the metal tray at the edge of the bed.
Iohannes Crispien's hand would lightly clast Bails'. It would be rather weak grip, as he was pretty much passing out now.
Bianca Bender frowns seeing Ioh's breathing is rather labored, she'd pull the mask up and around cranking the oxygen up to 2L and strap the mask over his face as well.
Bailey Longcloth gives his hand a light squeeze, she'd lean down and whisper to him before he passes out
Catherine Saiman watches the proceedures with a steeled expression, silent as the grave.
Bailey Dazy's ears pin back as she goes to grab the dosages Bianca ordered for Ioh's IV. She flushes his IV line with what seems like a cocktail of drugs, but a big cat like him needs a heavy dosage. When she's done she presses a few buttons on the med-bed screen (down by the foot of the bed) and the bed begins to audibly monitor and share Ioh's vital signs.
Iohannes Crispien would softly purr at hearing Bails' soft whispering voice. He'd cough slightly as his purr ran out of breath
I was never any good at catching things in my mouth yet this Hoopoe did it all the time. But if you think about it this is the only way it can get a morsel from its bill tip into its gullet. If I had, say, a peanut in my lips, I could manoeuvre them until it was on my tongue, which would then manoeuvre it to my teeth to be chewed and swallowed. But birds' mouths are very different. This Hoopoe was picking up insects (in this case a small larva) by the very tip of its forceps-like bill that it had extracted from paving cracks. But it doesn't have lips to manoeuvre it backwards, and its tongue is hard and far less flexible than ours. Moreover, it doesn't have teeth to chew its food, so maceration of food takes place in its gizzard ( a muscular organ near the start of the digestive tract). Birds that eat hard food like seeds eat grit which they retain in their gizzard to help grind up the food. This Hoopoe was frequently tossing food from its bill tip into its gullet and here's one I managed to capture of it in the act. I photographed this Hoopoe in the village of Collingham on Wednesday and it is still there today. They are scarce visitors to Britain that breed here very occasionally.
Earwig (Dermaptera)
This is a macro image of an earwig's abdomen displaying its formidable pincers, it was hiding in the lavender flowers when I spotted it.
These little insects are not poisonous or very dangerous, even with those impressive forceps, I was temped to put my finger into it's open jaws, but thought better of it?
There are 200 different species of Dermaptera or earwig around the world!
By Sean Walsh.
When I found this earwig it took my attention the color variation (specially in his intense orange pronotum and his dark abdomen and forceps).Although it seems a lie I did not notice the tremendous hole in its final abdomen part when I took the shots.
I suppose that it is a female of Forficula auricularia but I'm not sure ( There are more species of earwigs in the south of Spain than I thought).
Late afternoon natural light field stack based in 31 pictures taken with 7dmk2 + reversed 40mm Hexanon + extension tubes.
v1/3seg ; f5.6 ; iso 200
Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on.
A 1st instar common earwig nymph (3.2mm + forceps 1.3mm) with a 4.7mm rove beetle (Tachyporus cf hypnorum), vacuumed from Polytrichum moss. A bit of a puzzle - the wiglet should be in a nest, but it is unlikely that we inadvertently vacuumed a nest as the sample would have been full of them.
Quarry Wood, Shropshire.
A temple attendant in a knitted hat at the meditative task of picking up fallen leaves individually with forceps in the courtyard near the temple's vegetable garden, Jinguji Buddhist temple, Kamiyama, Japan.
22/12/2021 www.allenfotowild.com
I love it when I arrive at the right time to watch a zookeeper hand-feeding the tawny frogmouths. This is Fozzie, the male.
The conservation status of these fascinating birds is "least concern," but it is noted that many are hit by cars, especially when swooping for insects that are illuminated by headlights.
This beauty was taken in my garden in Littlestone in Kent(I haven't had much time to get out much lately!)
Earwigs
Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera. With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic cerci, a pair of forceps-like pincers on their abdomen, and membranous wings folded underneath short, rarely used forewings, hence the scientific order name, "skin wings". Some groups are tiny parasites on mammals and lack the typical pincers. Earwigs are found on all continents except Antarctica.
Earwigs are mostly nocturnal and often hide in small, moist crevices during the day, and are active at night, feeding on a wide variety of insects and plants. Damage to foliage, flowers, and various crops is commonly blamed on earwigs, especially the common earwig Forficula auricularia.
Earwigs have five molts in the year before they become adults. Many earwig species display maternal care, which is uncommon among insects.
Female earwigs may care for their eggs, and even after they have hatched as nymphs will continue to watch over offspring until their second molt. As the nymphs molt, sexual dimorphism such as differences in pincer shapes begins to show.
Some earwig specimen fossils are in the extinct suborders Archidermaptera or Eodermaptera, the former dating to the Late Triassic and the latter to the Middle Jurassic. Many orders of insect have been theorized to be closely related to earwigs, though the icebugs of Grylloblattaria are most likely.
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The bills of bee-eaters are curved, long and end in a sharp point. The bill can bite strongly, particularly at the tip, and it is used as a pair of forceps with which to snatch insects from the air and crush smaller prey. The short legs have weak feet, and when it is moving on the ground a bee-eater's gait is barely more than a shuffle. The feet have sharp claws used for perching on vertical surfaces and also for nest excavation. The plumage of the family is generally very bright and in most species is mostly or at least partly green, although the two carmine bee-eaters are mostly rose-coloured.
Info source URL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee-eater
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Photo capture date & Location: 2017-10 Rietvlei Nature Reserve
A 2.8mm long (excluding antennae & forceps) nymph, beaten by Rockwolf from a grass tussock. Conventional wisdom says this should still be in a nest, being tended by its mother. Some precocious nymphs do apparently leave the nest early, but this is surely too young to be fending for itself. On the other hand, the green colour is food in the gut, so it has fed recently. Goodness knows how far away the nest was, and what was really going on.
Cound, Shropshire.
Shot of the forceps of an Earwig ( Dermaptera sp.♂)
Earwig forceps contain hardened material made of chitin, the same material as the exoskeleton and usually a darker chitin means that the shell has hardened.
Tech info | 133 exposures stacked, exp.time 2sec, ISO200, ~5x magnification,Stacking soft / Zerene Stacker - Bugslabber
The scene lit by two IKEA Jansjö led lamp and diffused with a foam cup
5X Mitutoyo M Plan Apo NA 0.14 Infinity Corrected Long WD Objective | Raynox DCR-150 | Nikon PB-6 Bellows | Sony A7
I visited Pugneys Country Park on the first of April to see if any of the previous day's Little Gulls were present. Fortunately there were three adults still present, but unfortunately the weather was awful. I managed to catch this one a split second before it picked an insect off the water's surface. You can see the characteristic black underwing and the pink flushed underparts, plus its delicate forceps-like bill. They are also the smallest gull in the world, being much smaller than Black-headed Gull. Photo-opportunities with Little Gulls are few and far between for me as they only briefly pass through inland Yorkshire en route to their Baltic breeding grounds.
Forcipiger flavissimus - Poisson-pincette jaune ou Chelmon à long bec ou Poisson-papillon long bec - Yellow longnose butterflyfish or Forceps butterflyfish
Munroe Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts, which was temporarily commandeered as a field hospital by British troops during their retreat from Concord to Boston following the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775.
After an early morning victory over a small militia in Lexington, the British encountered a much larger force in Concord and were turned back. During their retreat, they were repeatedly attacked and ambushed by the colonists and suffered heavy casualties. Many of the wounded were brought here for treatment.
Buddlia flowers dried in the Aga. Forceps borrowed from work tightened with a rubber band to hold the flower. Forceps supported by 3 clothes pegs then placed on a slate which was half of the roof of the bird box. Lit by a match then photographed on constant without igniting the light box. Window then opened to stop smoke detector alarming.job done!
Clausiliidae Gray, 1855
Garnieriinae C.R. Boettger, 1926
Tropidaucheniini H. Nordsieck, 2002
Megalauchenia H. Nordsieck, 2007
Megalauchenia proctostoma forceps
(Loosjes & Loosjes-Van Bemmel, 1973)
Vietnam. Ninh Bình Province
Cuc Phuong National Park
Surroundings of Cave of Prehistoric Man (Động Người Xưa)
02-X-2009
Photo: Claude and Amandine EVANNO, 2018
-Ponte cómodo! La cirugía puede tardar unos cuantos minutos...
-No...por favor sin extracciones.
(La visita periódica al dentista puede ayudarte a que este momento nunca llegue... o por lo menos que se aleje bastante!!)
Uno de los relieves más importantes es el de los médicos, que representa material quirúrgico de la época. El relieve es del siglo II a.C.
Este relieve está dividido en cuatro registros, representando instrumental médico de la época, alguno de los cuales muy similar a los utilizados en la actualidad. En un primer momento se utilizó, como material para fabricar instrumentos quirúrgicos, cobre endurecido, posteriormente el bronce, y después el hierro.
Descifrando el contenido de este relieve, quedaría del siguiente modo
1º registro, en orden de izquierda a derecha:
Doble gancho romo
· Forceps para huesos
· Sierra para huesos o amputaciones
· Sonda, utilizada para explorar cavidades o aplicarles medicamentos.
· Sonda en horquilla, igual uso que la anterior, pero con forma distinta.
· Catéter usado para drenar líquidos
· Cauterio, para cicatrizar heridas y para la cauterización de quistes y tumores.
· Sierra para cortar miembros o huesos
· Otro cauterio para cicatrizar heridas
· Dos espéculos trivaldos, para dilatar cavidades en intervenciones quirúrgicas.
· Dos catéteres uretrales para explorar hombres adultos
2º registro, en orden de izquierda a derecha:
· Pipeta aspiradora de líquidos
· Frasco para enemas
· Dos erinas para sujetar tejidos durante la intervención
· Tres pipetas para aplicar ungüentos
· Craneoclasto, utilizado para aplastar el cráneo del feto muerto en casos de abortos espontáneos
· Fórceps para extraer piezas dentarias
· Paleta
· Cuchillo
· Vasos para triturar y mezclar preparados medicamentosos
3º registro, en orden de izquierda a derecha:
· Dos fórceps para extraer piezas dentarias, o fragmentos pequeños de huesos.
· Tres frascos para enemas
· Dos vasos para triturar y mezclar preparados medicamentosos
· Otro frasco para enemas
· Balanza para pesar los ingredientes para preparados
4º registro, en orden de izquierda a derecha:
Vasos para ventosas en la piel
· Caja para guardar instrumental quirúrgico
· Tijeras
· Cajas de vendas
· Esponja
· Dos sondas de doble extremo
· Dos escalpelos
Marta Pérez Torres. (Akesha) 2014
"Todas las verdades aguardan en todas las cosas,
ni se apresuran ni se demoran,
no precisan el forceps del cirujano,
para mí lo mínimo no es menos importante que lo demás (...)"
Hojas de hierba. Walt Whitman
[order] PICIFORMES | [family] Picidae | [latin] Dendrocopos major | [UK] Great Spotted Woodpecker | [FR] Pic epeiche | [DE] Buntspecht | [ES] Carpintero Picapinos | [NL] Grote Bonte Specht | [IRL] Mórchnagaire breac
spanwidth min.: 38 cm
spanwidth max.: 44 cm
size min.: 23 cm
size max.: 26 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 10 days
incubation max.: 13 days
fledging min.: 20 days
fledging max.: 13 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 4
eggs max.: 7
Status: Recent colonist to broadleaf forests in eastern Ireland.
Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population has been evaluated as Secure.
Identification: About the same size as Mistle Thrush. A distinctive black and white bird when seen well. The face, throat and underparts are white, while the back, rump and tail are black. Also has a large white patch at the base of the wings, while the vent is pale red. In flight, the wings are mainly black, with obvious rows of spotting on the primaries and secondaries. Adult male Great Spotted Woodpeckers are identifiable by a small red patch on the back of the head. Adult females have a black nape and crown.
Similar Species: None in Ireland.
Call: The most frequently heard call is a loud "kick", when agitated given in a continous series. Does not sing, but has distinctive drumming display from early Spring onwards. Drumms last between 1 and 2 seconds.
Diet: Feeds on insects found in wood, as well as pine cones in autumn. During the breeding season, may also take eggs and chicks of other birds. Will visit garden bird tables in suburban areas.
Breeding: Only a handful of pairs breed in Ireland, usually in oak woodlands with some coniferous woods nearby. A common species in Britain and Continental Europe and frequently visits bird feeders in gardens. Breeds in nestholes it excavates in decaying wood.
Wintering: Great Spotted Woodpeckers remain on their territory during the winter. Young birds move to new territories in autumn
Where to See: The good places to look for Great Spotted Woodpeckers include the woodlands around the Glendalough Lakes, as well as Tomnafinogue Wood in south County Wicklow.
Physical characteristics
Great-spotted Woodpecker is the most widespread and common woodpecker on the European continent. Male has black and white plumage, with red vent and rear crown. Forehead is buffy-white and crown is black. Cheeks and throat are white with a black moustache, joining the red nape, descending towards the chest and joining again the black back while it borders a white patch on the side of the neck. Upperparts are black, with white large patches on wings and white edges on primaries. Tail is black with white spots on outer feathers. Underparts are whitish with a broad black semi-collar on upper breast, and red vent. The strong pointed bill is black, eyes are dark, circled by fine white stripe. Legs and zygodactylous feet are greyish. It has long sticky tongue, to extract insects and larvae from bark crevices. Female has entire black crown. Juvenile has red crown and duller plumage than adults. Birds of west and south of Europe have brownish-white forehead and underparts, and weaker bill. Birds from Algeria and Tunisia have black and red chest, and red of the vent extending to belly.
Great-spotted Woodpecker feeds mostly in trees, on trunks and large branches. It drills holes to get sap, and the insects attracted to it. Rarely feeds on the ground. It catches pine-cones or nuts between the bark, in order to open the seeds with its beak. The routine is to work upwards on the trunk, and also side to side, taping the bark to extract food from crevices, with the tip of its sticky tongue. Spring is announced by early morning drumming, and aerial chases with 2 or 3 birds through the canopy, while they chatter loudly. Flight displays are performed by both adults. They perform spiral flights and align close to the trunk with semi-open and quivering wings. The Great-spotted Woodpecker is very shy, and outside breeding season, solitary. It roosts in old holes in trees.
Habitat
From arctic taiga through boreal and temperate to Mediterranean and alpine forest zones, wherever there are trees of any sort with sufficient growth to accommodate nest-holes. Isolated and scattered trees in parks, avenues, gardens, orchards, and open or miniature woodlands less favoured, unless adjoined by larger stands of broad-leaved, coniferous, or mixed tree species, latter being commonly preferred.
Other details
Dendrocopos major is a widespread resident across most of Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global range. Its European breeding population is extremely large (>12,000,000 pairs), and was stable between 1970-1990. Although there were declines in a few countries during 1990-2000, populations were stable or increased across the majority of its European range?including sizeable ones in France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Russia?and the species remained stable overall.
Two races inhabiting the Canary islands of this widespread woodpecker are included in Annex I. The race canariensis, endemic to Tenerife, is estimated at about 100 breeding pairs- the race thanneri, endemic to Gran Canaria, at maximum 250 breeding pairs. Both are strictly dependent on native pine (Pinus canariensis) forests and are vulnerable
Feeding
Mainly insects, but tree seeds (mainly of conifers) often staple diet in winter- bird eggs and nestlings may be common in diet during summer. Climbs trees in search of insects using stiff tail-feathers as prop- may hang upside down from branches but never proceeds head downward. In summer, pokes and probes fissures in bark for surface insects and uses bill as forceps to pull away bark. In winter, seeks insects in decaying trees mainly by hacking and pecking at bark and wood, knocking off loose material with lateral blows of bill and cutting grooves with vertical blows. Chisels holes up to 10 cm deep to expose wood-boring beetles and larvae. Tongue extends up to 40 mm and harpoon-like tip used to impale soft-bodied prey- harder insects adhere to tongue bristles coated with sticky saliva. In many populations conifer seeds important in winter- cones gathered and taken to ?anvil? (often specially prepared) for extraction of seeds. Fleshy fruits regularly eaten in summer and autumn. Locally, may be major predator of tit nestlings, especially Willow Tit. Drills rings of holes round trees to drink sap oozing out, or possibly also to eat exposed cambium of tree or to feed on insects attracted to sap.
Conservation
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence 30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is extremely large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
Great-spotted Woodpecker nests in holes. Both adults excavate this hole, in March and April. They use a new nest each year, excavating the hole during one or two weeks, depending on the hardness of the wood. The chamber of the nest is about 30 cm deep, and the entrance is oval-shaped, at about 4 m above the ground. The chamber is lined with wood chips. The female lays 4 to 7 white eggs, between mid-may to early June. Incubation lasts about 16 days, done by female during the day, and by male at night. Chicks hatch altricial, and both parents feed them. They fledge at about 18 to 21 days of age. They reach their sexual maturity at one year. Adults keep the nest clean, removing chicks droppings. Young are very noisy. Adults remain in nearly area while chicks are in the nest. This species produces only one brood per year.
Migration
Largely resident and dispersive- N populations also subject to eruptive migration. Juvenile dispersal often over 100 km, and up to c. 600 km. In N Europe, periodic eruptive movements triggered by poor crop of pine or spruce seeds, begin in late Jul- small groups and loose flocks migrate S & W, and occasionally large numbers involved, e.g. 2240 through Pape, in Latvia, during Aug-Oct 1999, and Sizeable flocks recorded in N Britain in autumn 2001- individuals may stray more than 3000 km, some reaching oceanic islands. Similar movements in Far East, but less well studied- stragglers found even on remote islands. Also, populations in mountain areas descend to valleys in winter. (del Hoyo J Elliott A, Sargatal J (eds) 2002)