Estuaries
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A rare and wild pitta sighted at a heartland park has attracted many birders over the last few days..
Roseate Spoonbill - Merritt Island
From Audubon:
Habitat: Coastal marshes, lagoons, mudflats, mangrove keys. Forages in shallow water with muddy bottom, in both salt and fresh water, including tidal ponds, coastal lagoons, extensive inland marshes. Nests in colonies, in Florida mainly in red mangroves, farther west in willows or on coastal islands in low scrub, including mesquite and salt cedar.
Space Coast Photo #16
Mangrove species have specialized above ground roots called breathing roots or pneumatophores. In some species, these roots are pencil sized and peg like whereas in some other species they look like a knee. These roots have numerous pores through which oxygen enters into the underground tissues.
Was lucky to have a record shot of this Mangrove Blue Flycatcher at Pasir Ris Park today. I was told that this little beauty was last seen in 2016. Special thanks to the birder who shared this sighting.
307) Mangrove Blue Flycatcher
Mangrove Blue Flycatcher, Cyornis rufigastra, Sambar Biru Bakau
A species of flycatcher usually found in mangroves. As the name suggests, the bird is insectivores, feeding on a variety of insects, usually obtained on the wing.
These skeletal mangrove trees in Bako National Park on Borneo died when their roots became silted up. The haze is due to forest burning in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo.
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Mangroves provide a variety of environmental services: they are areas of food, shelter and growth of juvenile crustaceans and fish fry, so that sustain much of the fish production, have high aesthetic and recreational values, act as natural systems and flood control and hurricane barriers against intrusion, control erosion and protect shorelines, improve water quality by acting as a biological filter, contribute in maintaining natural processes such as responses to changes in sea level, maintain sedimentation processes and serve as a refuge for flora and fauna, among others.
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Mangrove swamps are an important part of the coastal protection in Thailand and elsewhere in South East Asia. After years of being removed, harsh lessons were learned from the tsunami event of 2004 and mangrove areas are much more actively protected. This one is in a park in Phuket Town
Continuing to dip into my archive this week.
This is a shot from my trip to Australia back in 2011, Sunrise over the mangroves at Port Douglas Northern Queensland, If only I knew then what I know now about processing my raw files.
The Mangrove Tree Nymph is a large butterfly, with a wingspan usually exceeding 130mm and often reaching 150mm or more. It displays the aposematic black and white colours like the other species of its genus. It features large black spots on both wings where the marginal and submarginal black spots are conjoined to form an irregular black band. The post-discal triangular spots on the hindwings are large and always touching the black veins, forming a jagged black band. The wing bases are yellow tinted.
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...from a walk on the Nudgee Beach Mangrove Boardwalk at low tide.
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