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The Gang-gang Cockatoo is a small, stocky bird with a wispy crest, large, broad wings and a short tail. The adult male has a distinctive scarlet red head and crest, with the rest of the body slate-grey.
Found across South Eastern Australia, Gang-gang Cockatoos feed mainly on seeds of native and introduced trees and shrubs. Thus it is not uncommon also see them in suburbs. These were photographed in suburban Canberra, with a group of the birds coming to a bird feeder.
While walking the streets of Cagliari on Sardinia, Italy I came across this street gang. They did not seem to be bothered.
Gang Gang Cockatoo
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She flew in and landed, calling to her mate.
After a few minutes he flew past and she took to wing to join him further along the forest
Chicago. 2014
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Varanasi is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. The city has a syncretic tradition of Islamic artisanship that underpins its religious tourism. Located in the middle-Ganges valley in the southeastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi lies on the left bank of the river. It is 692 kilometres to the southeast of India's capital New Delhi and 320 kilometres (200 mi) to the southeast of the state capital, Lucknow. It lies 121 kilometres downstream of Prayagraj, where the confluence with the Yamuna river is another major Hindu pilgrimage site.
Varanasi is one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities. Kashi, its ancient name, was associated with a kingdom of the same name of 2,500 years ago. The Lion capital of Ashoka at nearby Sarnath has been interpreted to be a commemoration of the Buddha's first sermon there in the fifth century BCE. In the 8th century, Adi Shankara established the worship of Shiva as an official sect of Varanasi. Tulsidas wrote his Awadhi language epic, the Ramcharitmanas, a Bhakti movement reworking of the Sanskrit Ramayana, in Varanasi. Several other major figures of the Bhakti movement were born in Varanasi, including Kabir and Ravidas. In the 16th century, Rajput nobles in the service of the Mughal emperor Akbar, sponsored work on Hindu temples in the city in an empire-wide architectural style. In 1740, Benares Estate, a zamindari estate, was established in the vicinity of the city in the Mughal Empire's semi-autonomous province of Awadh. Under the Treaty of Faizabad, the East India Company acquired Benares city in 1775. The city became a part of the Benares Division of British India's Ceded and Conquered Provinces in 1805, the North-Western Provinces in 1836, United Provinces in 1902, and of the Republic of India's state of Uttar Pradesh in 1950.
Silk weaving, carpets, crafts and tourism employ a significant number of the local population, as do the Banaras Locomotive Works and Bharat Heavy Electricals. The city is known worldwide for its many ghats—steps leading down the steep river bank to the water—where pilgrims perform rituals. Of particular note are the Dashashwamedh Ghat, the Panchganga Ghat, the Manikarnika Ghat, and the Harishchandra Ghat, the last two being where Hindus cremate their dead. The Hindu genealogy registers at Varanasi are kept here. Among the notable temples in Varanasi are the Kashi Vishwanath Temple of Shiva, the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple, and the Durga Temple.
The city has long been an educational and musical centre: many prominent Indian philosophers, poets, writers, and musicians live or have lived in the city, and it was the place where the Benares gharana form of Hindustani classical music was developed. In the 20th century, the Hindi-Urdu writer Premchand and the shehnai player Bismillah Khan were associated with the city. India's oldest Sanskrit college, the Benares Sanskrit College, was founded by Jonathan Duncan, the resident of the East India Company in 1791. Later, education in Benares was greatly influenced by the rise of Indian nationalism in the late 19th century. Annie Besant founded the Central Hindu College in 1898. In 1916, she and Madan Mohan Malviya founded the Banaras Hindu University, India's first modern residential university. Kashi Vidyapith was established in 1921, a response to Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement.
They're surprisingly clumsy on ice.
They slip and slide into each other, stumbles and crash.
If I was a Mallard, in the current conditions, I would rather fly from point A to B instead of strutting around.
A question leads to other questions while a statement ends with a full-stop.
ps: This is one of the shots that would always elicit a “WOW” and/or a 'WHAT?"
I kept rolling my eyes, telling people that although well framed, it is such an easy shot to take. No major challenge there. The spiralling water is because the water was being sucked in by an under water hose, to be treated by a water treatment plant nearby.
No mystery there.
Bio-Cup 2025, Round 1, theme: Mythical Beasts. Subtheme: Troll/Orc/Goblin.
I like goblins... they're not on anybody's side, they're everywhere
More on Cyclopic Bricks.
A splash of red among the gum trees.
Male gang gang parrot. The female is all grey.
As you can see, the sky was one big white cloud, and this was a rare shot where the parrot wasn't hopelessly back-lit by the unkind white sky.
The gang gang gives away its presence before you ever see it. Their call is like the creaking of an old heavy door.
Callum Brae, Australian Capital Territory, 2017.
Created for Photoshop Contest week 1102
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Thanks to Gillian Everett for starter image
IL CENTRO GEOGRAFICO DELLA SICILIA.
"La ricerca geografica sulla Sicilia, attraverso l'osservazione cartografica, conduce alla individuazione del Centro Geografico della Sicilia in una località all'interno dell'Isola, dove coincidono il Centro Orografico, inteso come luogo di convergenza dei tre spartiacque primari siciliani, ed il Centro Idrologico, inteso come luogo di origine delle tre aste fluviali siciliane principali, quelle cioè che delimitano i tre territori siciliani che sottendono alle suddette linee spartiacque.
Tale luogo si riscontra nell'Altopiano di Gangi."
Es ist nun auch in Norge soweit, das Tauwetter ist im Gange und die Wasserfälle werden wieder richtig attraktiv.
Bevor ich mit Rjukan weitermache als Einstand mal wieder ein Norgebild ;))
Ein Pano aus fünf Einzelaufnahmen.........und.......es war eine richtig nasse Angelegenheit ;)))
Aber.......es hat verdammt viel Spass gemacht.