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Most Common grackles migrated from Ontario by this time but this individual is still hanging around Guelph
The fall migration is well underway. This photo was taken last April. Cackling Geese, Tundra Swans and Sandhill Cranes are all headed in the same direction.. north to their breeding grounds.
Flagstaff County, Alberta.
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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.
Hundreds of migrating Tree Swallows; Beach Avenue, Cape May, NJ on 10/16/22. Cape May Fall Birding Festival
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.
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.
Realizzato da Vice Briffa, eretto in Castille Square in occasione del vertice sulla migrazione nel 2015 tra i leader europei e quelli africani.
I don't know what kind of birds these were, but there were 101 of them (I counted them on another wider shot).
Shot in Bordeaux, France.
An uncommon visitor to our province from the west, usually in migration season. Several females were reported in the spring but I cannot recall reports of any males in the last 2 years. This male was flocking with American Robins.
Birds in migration , Chaudfontaine , Belgium
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Wildebeest in the Mara National Reserve, Kenya, at or nearing the northern limit of their annual migration.
A2 3 colour screen print Acrylics on Fabriarno Rossipina Fine Art paper, signed and numbered - Submission for Boxbird Gallerys A to B exhibition.
watercolour and pencil: trying to capture a sense of urgency re birds flying through my garden this autumn.
Earlier this week the BNP, a British far right political party, won two seats in the European Parliament. Careful now…
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