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The Nature Preserve in Nappanee Indiana, is a flurry of activity this week. The Monarch Butterflies are passing through on their migration to Central Mexico.
Some Birds fly around a IAIS job coming out of Blue Island Yard shoving to pull down the connection at grade
Nauru island has been destroyed – do you know Nauru? one of the smallest island in the world. And once the richest and wealthiest countries in the world. maybe you are wondering where the country is located, is close to the country australia.
Nauru lay on the land area of 8000 hectares in the western Pacific ocean. The extent of only about one tenth of the oil palm plantation Astra, Eka Cipta Wijaya, Prabowo, Cargill, DL Sitorus, and tycoons Crude Palm Oil (CPO) in Sumatra there. Only about a quarter of its 50 spacious logged forests conglomerates concessionaires in Borneo there. Precisely, the area of the Republic of Nauru is almost equivalent to the Lake Toba.
21km square berarea country for 30 years been listed as one of the richest countries in the world. Income per capita in 1981 reached 17,000 dollars, compared with Indonesia, which is only 530 dollars per capita in the same year. With such a high income and a population of only 13 thousand inhabitants (still more spectators Indonesian league opponents Saudi Arabia the other day, which reached 90,000) Nauru transformed into a very rich country. They build tall buildings. Buy cars and luxury commercial aircraft. There are no poor people in there, let alone bum. State subsidizes the lives of all citizens. More than 80% of the workforce was appointed as civil servants. These employees are not tied to office hours. They may come and go as they pleased. The unemployed also subsidized by the state. In short, was so rich Nauru, without any of the working population can live in luxury. People are not taxed. Education and free health care, subsidized food, who want to study abroad were given scholarships. Even so spoiled, so reluctant to Nauru population of mobile workers. His government was forced to import labor from Australia, China, Kiribati and Tuvalu.
What makes Nauru be all that rich? not because of bird droppings. More than 70% of the land consists of sediment Nauru Guano bird droppings that had accumulated over hundreds and even thousands of years ago. This is because once Nauru is a place for large colonies of birds Guano. This bird droppings into phosphate, which serves as fertilizer for crops.
Phosphate was found in 1899 and began to be explored in 1907. At that Nauru is still a part of the country Australia. Once granted independence on January 31, 1968, phosphate mining areas controlled by men. Estimated that the number of high-quality phosphate across Nauru 41 million tons. This huge amount. Compare with Indonesia, which consists of thousands of islands, the total number of phospatnya estimated at only 2.5 million tonnes. Because it is only natural that the country would fall into the list of the world’s smallest country touted as the country’s phosphate, and targeted by many countries.
After the massive phosphate exploration for decades, Nauru is now reaping the consequences. According to Greenpeace’s investigation, 90% of Nauru was severely damaged and need to be rehabilitated. That means that only about 2 square km area Nauru only habitable. Greenpeace also found spreading poison of its mining activities in three places. Toxic substances that the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos, Polyvinyl chloride plastic (PVC) and metal.
Tremendous damage this requires a very long rehabilitation period and cost prohibitive. Nauru should import fertilizer, humus, and other essential nutrients to rebuild the ecosystem. It costs about 200 million dollars, and the process took 30 years. The most crucial thing to do is reclaiming back the area of agriculture, clean water sources, livestock and plantasi trees. If this step is not performed, then the entire population of Nauru have to migrate to other areas. When kept in Nauru they will suffer from various diseases due to mining, hunger and lack of water. Migration area selection is empty islands in the Pacific Islands region.
Nauru government intends reclaiming back its territory. For the year 1989, they filed a lawsuit against Australia in the International Court. Nauru demanded Australia to pay compensation for the environmental damage done mining company. The company itself is actually a consortium of three countries, namely Australia, England and New Zealand. Australia circumvent these demands and accused Nauru as a party that should be responsible. Because the country gained independence from Australia in 1968. And since then, phosphate mining Nauru managed native son, no longer by the consortium companies.
In 1992, the International Court of Justice in favor of Nauru. According to them Australia and two other countries (the United Kingdom and New Zealand) must take responsibility for environmental damage Nauru, as they participate explore this mine before.
In 1993 the three countries were required to pay compensation. Australia have to pay compensation of 107 million Australian dollars, while the United Kingdom and New Zealand, respectively 12 million dollars.
So how? Are you curious about this country? if you want to visit to see it? it’s up to you. I hope what happened to Nauru could be a lesson to us all that exploit something excessively without any action about the future it will be bad. so do not get used to always live with a tasty and versatile plush yes, learn to appreciate life and learn to start thinking about the future.
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So fun to see so many birds, but I find it hard to photograph. If too close, you can't see the large number of birds, but too far back and they're just dots.
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This is a closer look at the Fiber Art I bought. It is befitting since now many birds will be starting their migration north. I really love the whole piece and I think the colours are very nice!
Second shot of the white pelican migration flying north flocking like hawks kettling. It was overcast, and they were flying at a good clip and gone pretty quickly, alas, but fascinating to see.
the gift keeps on being given -
last night, just before sunset I climbed into the rocky shores near our beach to photograph the large congregation of birds still hanging out there.
Can anyone identify these white seabirds here??
among the many Pelicans.....
and the Seagulls.....
these smaller white sea birds I had never seen here before!
they have a black hood and very orange beaks and are very noisy!!!
See them in the large view (click on the image)
Maybe this is their stop-over on their flight to Alaska??
Could be (((:
P.S. I accidentally had deleted this post earlier.... with all your comments )))-:
therefore am re-posting it here.
UPDATE:
Thank you so much for the name of these birds, Isis0isis yes yes yes Arctic Terns.
I googled for them, also in images, they are the farthest migrating birds of the world!
Imagine all the way from the their breeding grounds in Greenland to their winter ground in the Antarctica..... and using Mexico's Bahia de Banderas as a one of the many stop-over on their flight back north again! For two days we had them here, making a racket, feeding for their long journey home!!
The Danube Delta (Romanian: Delta Dunării) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent [1]. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania (Tulcea county), while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is situated in Ukraine (Odessa Oblast). The approximate surface is 4152 km², of which 3446 km² are in Romania. If the lagoons of Razim-Sinoe (1015 km² of which 865 km² water surface; situated in the south, but attached to the Danube Delta from geological and ecological perspectives, as well as being the combined territory of the World Heritage Site) are to be added, the considered area of the Danube Delta grows to 5165 km².
The Danube branches into three main distributaries into the delta, Chilia, Sulina, and Sfântul Gheorghe (Saint George). The first two branches form the Tulcea channel, which continues as a single body for several kilometers after the separation from the Chilia. At the mouths of each channel gradual formation of new land takes place, as the delta continues to expand.
THE MIGRATION! One day, our group drove almost 100 miles to get in the midst of the migration. I think most people think of the migration as that time when the nature shows on tv highlight the wildebeest and zebras crossing the Mara River. But the migration is essentially year-round and the herds just follow the rains.
In this photo we're among thousands of animals. It's really quite impressive. The clouds helped, too.
I have already posted several pictures of the Semipalmated Sandpipers I captured in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. These images were taken in the Bay of Fundy at Johnson's Mills, New Brunswick where I headed after Sackville, only a 30 minute drive. This is where you will find the greatest numbers of these shorebirds during their migration between mid-July to mid-August. I spent two days observing them and this is the biggest flock for me which was approximately 45,000. Much greater than in Grand Pré. In this case, the Peregrine Falcon flew over the flock at rest on the beach and picked one up. Needless to say the entire flock took off..... the view and sound cannot be described, just spectacular.
Best viewed large :0)
Juvenile migrating Spoonbill not as colourful as it's Floridian cousins. Just a pity this guy came out to play just as the light was fluctuating and fading as the sun retreated toward the clouded horizon :0)
Not the camera settings I would have preferred but I suppose I have to console myself that it was a first encounter in the UK. Maybe next time I'll get the daddy :0)
These wonderful birds begin nesting after a migration from the Antarctic, just the other side of the world.
Images taken by hoan luong is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Mara River, Tanzania, Africa
Each year around the same time, the circular great wildebeest migration begins in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area of the southern Serengeti in Tanzania and loops in a clockwise direction through the Serengeti National Park and north towards the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya. This migration is a natural phenomenon determined by the availability of grazing. The initial phase lasts from approximately January to March, when the calving season begins – a time when there is plenty of rain-ripened grass available for the 260,000 zebra that precede 1.7 million wildebeest and the following hundreds of thousands of other plains game, including around 470,000 gazelles.
During February, the wildebeest spend their time on the short grass plains of the southeastern part of the ecosystem, grazing and giving birth to approximately 500,000 calves within a 2 to 3-week period. Few calves are born ahead of time and of these, hardly any survive. The main reason is that very young calves are more noticeable to predators when mixed with older calves from the previous year. As the rains end in May, the animals start moving northwest into the areas around the Grumeti River, where they typically remain until late June. The crossings of the Grumeti and Mara rivers beginning in July are a popular safari attraction because crocodiles are lying in wait. The herds arrive in Kenya in late July / August, where they stay for the remainder of the dry season, except that the Thomson's and Grant's gazelles move only east/west. In early November, with the start of the short rains the migration starts moving south again, to the short grass plains of the southeast, usually arriving in December in plenty of time for calving in February.
About 250,000 wildebeest die during the journey from Tanzania to the Maasai Mara National Reserve in southwestern Kenya, a total of 800 kilometres. Death is usually from thirst, hunger, exhaustion, or predation.
We visited the butterfly gardens In Zilker Park this weekend since the migration is happening. So many butterflies - lots of species as well, though queens were the most common by far.
I was delighted and surprised to see this bird this morning. They are summer visitors and usually set off on their migration to North Africa at the end of August. I suspect the recent south westerly winds we have experienced of late as held it up. Can i say it was much to my delight.
Pacific Grove - Butterfly Sanctuary
Every Year thousands of Monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove. Arriving in October, monarch butterflies cluster together on pine, cypress and eucalyptus trees in the Sanctuary. Their migration to Pacific Grove is so unique that Pacific Grove is nicknamed "Butterfly Town, U.S.A."
I like to keep a dated record of shots on spring migration !
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The park rangers counted a total of 319 manatees entering the spring that day. When I was a kid, our schools would travel by bus to witness these natural events. As an adult, I traveled 3,000 miles to feel "home".
Blue Springs State Park, Florida. January 2025.
120 Kodak Portra 400. Made with the Yashica Mat-124G.