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Grey-crowned Babbler
Scientific Name: Pomatostomus temporalis
Description: The Grey-crowned Babbler is the largest of Australia's four babbler species. It is dark brown-grey above, with a distinctive grey crown stripe and a dark face mask that contrasts with a white eyebrow. The chin and throat are white, running into a pale grey lower breast. It has a long, curved bill, short rounded wings with cinnamon brown wing patches and a long tail tipped white. The eye is pale yellow in adults. There is a darker-coloured subspecies, rubeculus, in north-western Australia (often called the Red-breasted Babbler), that has a rufous lower breast and darker crown stripe. The Grey-crowned Babbler is a noisy and gregarious bird, usually found in small groups of four to twelve, and is often seen on the ground or in low trees. It is sometimes called the Yahoo, after one of its calls.
Similar species: The Grey-crowned Babbler lacks the dark crown of other babblers and has a yellow rather than a dark eye.
Distribution: The Grey-crowned Babbler is widespread throughout north-western, northern, central and eastern Australia. It is also found in Papua New Guinea.
Habitat: The Grey-crowned Babbler is found in open forests and woodlands, favouring inland plains with an open shrub layer, little ground cover and plenty of fallen timber and leaf litter. May be seen along roadsides and around farms. In south-east Melbourne, small populations survive on golf courses.
Seasonal movements: Sedentary.
Feeding: Grey-crowned Babblers feed on insects and other invertebrates and sometimes eat seeds. They forage in groups of two to fifteen birds on the ground among leaf litter, around fallen trees and from the bark of shrubs and trees (they tend to use trees more than other babblers).
Breeding: Grey-crowned Babblers live and breed in co-operative territorial groups of two to fifteen birds (usually four to twelve). Groups normally consist of a primary breeding pair along with several non-breeding birds (sometimes groups may contain two breeding pairs or two females that both breed). Most members of the group help to build nests, with the primary female contributing the most effort. Two types of nest are built: roost-nests (usually larger and used by the whole group) and brood-nests (for the breeding females), and often old nest sites are renovated and re-used from year to year. The large domed nests are placed in a tree fork 4 m - 7 m high and are made of thick sticks with projections that make a hood and landing platform for the entrance tunnel. The nest chamber is lined with soft grass, bark, wool and feathers. The brooding female (sometimes more than one) is fed by the other group members and all help to feed the nestlings. Larger groups tend to raise more young, and two broods are usually raised per season.
Calls: Loud scolding and chattering calls: 'wee-oo'. Also distinctive 'ya-hoo' duet by breeding female ('yah') and male ('ahoo') repeated six to eight times.
Minimum Size: 25cm
Maximum Size: 29cm
Average size: 27cm
Average weight: 81g
Breeding season: July to February
Clutch Size: Usually two to three, up to five if more than one female.
Incubation: 23 days
Nestling Period: 23 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Traveling eastbound on Union Pacific’s North Fork Subdivision, an Operation Lifesaver special is between Payne and Rogers Mesa, Colorado, on June 14, 2009. Powering the passenger train is Rio Grande heritage locomotive No. 1989 and E9B No. 963B, and on the other end is GE AC4400CW No. 7250 used on westbound trips on the branch.
My take on a famous photograph titled “Fork” by Hungarian photographer André Kertész. My angle and light are slightly different and my plate is much smaller and shorter than Kertész’s. Regardless, I haven’t done many still life photos this year and it was a good practice exercise.
Developed with Darktable 4.8.0.
... Just the two of them, arranged to form a couple of arches, and then a reflection of those arches...
Macro Mondays: Forks
The inner part of the saucer (seen fully in the other pictures) is 8 cm in diameter.
For the Macro Mondays challenge "Three" (July 24th 2017)
A small cake fork that has just 3 tines or prongs. Shot in the sunshine on ceramic kitchen tiles. Lines and shadows give extra 'threes', which I rather liked. The size of the fork shot against a 3x2" credit card in the first comment field
HMM!!
My 2017 set: 2017 Macro Mondays
All the previous years of the challenge:
My 2016 set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My 2015 set: 2015 Macro Mondays
My 2014 set: 2014 Macro Mondays
My 2013 set: 2013 Macro Mondays
The idea of forks as the subject of a photo has always appealed to me and finally, today I followed through. For We're Here! who are looking at forks and for my POTD.
My attempt at the "Smile on Saturday" theme "fork(s) reflected in spoon(s)"
Shot with Isco-Göttingen "Super-Kiptar 50 mm F 1.6" (projection) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Kruger National Park
10h20
A red-eyed all-black upright bird with a narrow tail that splays out into a fork. Pairs and singles occasionally join mixed-species flocks in a variety of wooded and open country, although they avoid forest. The species sits in the canopy and midstory, hawking insects from a perch, and it sometimes associates with large mammals, eating prey that they flush. It is loud and noisy, singing a variety of unmelodic, noisy, and mechanical notes, sometimes including imitations of other bird species.
The Dupont Underground is an abandoned cable car station under Dupont Circle. it later got turned into a food court, but has been abandoned since the 90s. It has an art installation in part of it, but the rest is straight up urban darkness.
An old, wooden crossbuck that has seen the passage Northern Pacific steam-powered freights and the elegant North Coast Limited, still guards a rural road crossing at Three Forks, Montana, for the Montana Rail Link’s 844 local on September 17, 2012.
For Macro Mondays' theme: Familiar. Photograph a familiar object in an unusual way.
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Late season snow near Pienza, Tuscany.
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