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Nows the time !! Plan on attending an amazing event, the sandhill migration thru Nebraska. Literally hundreds of thousands of cranes, waterfowl and raptors migrate thru in early spring. The 41st annual Rivers and Wildlife Celebration organized by Audubon Nebraska and the Nebraska Bird Partnership will be held March 17-20 in Kearney, NE. go to www.nebraska.audubon.org or to the Rowe santuary site www.rowesanctuary.org
It is an amazing sight to see and the overwhelming "sounds" will be running thru your mind (or in my case no mind) for months !!
Lake Shore Park with shadow from Feinberg School of Medicine (taken from the 9th floor of Prentice Women's Hospital)
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This is my final upload from this holiday. I also made a video that you might like to take a look at..
Here are some of our youth multipliers and scholarship holders who make up the AfroBreak dance group at Hummingbird. They are a pretty energetic group of youngsters who are more than dedicated to what they practice, which is mainly Break dancing.
With Beija-Flor na Comunidade (Hummingbird in the Community), it means we are taking Hummingbird to the community instead of the community coming to us. In other words, Hummingbird is spreading its wings!
The programme is part of a new strategy being developed by our youth mentors to get a preliminary feel in connection with their objectives to implant small Hummingbird nuclei in the more distant parts of our community, thus bringing our activities to the poorest kids who have no means of reaching our main centre.
The first community to be receiving some of Hummingbird’s vibrant activities is the Sitio Joaninha, which is a rough hilly area about 6 kilometres away from us, where many of the families who used to work on the rubbish tip live. The tip was closed down a few years ago and the area covered with topsoil so as to recuperate some of the natural vegetation.
Most of the shanty homes were constructed during the active years of the tip, when entire families found their livelihoods under the most unhealthy and hazardous working conditions. Since its closure there has been very few alternatives in the way of work and habitation, so very few have been able to move to better conditions. To the contrary; the area has rapidly grown to accommodate even more poverty-stricken families who have no other alternative than to grab a small plot of land and try to survive on what little is available in terms of public amenities in such places.
The majority of homes have no running water and depend on the council delivering drinking water by truck each day. Electricity is acquired through a series of illegal connections, which people have hooked-up to the main electricity network through a maze of literally thousands of metres of wiring crossing the landscape in all directions in order to bring power to one’s home.
This is quite common during the rapid growth of favela (shanty) areas and pressures from the inhabitants will eventually cause most councils to come up with a more satisfactory and less risky solution.
Many of the children who live here have a long way to walk to reach school, as there is no public transport. The tendency is therefore not to go, especially during the rainy or colder seasons. Very few have the willpower or even the means of getting to Hummingbird to participate in all the good things we have to offer in our Street Migration Prevention Programme, although there are some who do.
This is the main reason for us to bring Hummingbird to the kids. If we can manage to finance a more permanent solution we will be able to continue with a variety of activities throughout the entire year and not just during the school holiday season, which is our proposal in this phase of the project.
Tiny Planet 1. Created a "tiny planet" image using a new app called Circular. Very interesting new toy! Instead of the usual circular "planet" in the center, it made a sort of "snail shell" shape. Happened because the horizon was a bit crooked in the original image. I like how it turned out, though.
This image was achieved using a slow shutter speed while focusing on geese flying overhead during a vivid sunset over South Dakota.
Cranes migration taken in Monferrato, Grana Valley, during their journey from Hortobágy (Hungary) to Camargue (France).
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Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?
Most do not know, but Monarch butterflies cannot survive in the cold, so they fly south to places with warmer climates during the winter time.
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Nice weather last night prompted us to take a ride outside the city.. Sunset wasn't spectacular, but it was nice to see what's happening out there.. Fall has, definitely, arrived...
El río grande divide México de Estados Unidos en la ciudad fronteriza de Juarez y El Paso Texas. Miles de migrantes intentan cruzar esta frontera anualmente. No todos logran llegar a cumplir su meta.
Photo: Oscar Leiva / Silverlight Photo & Video
What an incredible sight. Over 1.5 million wildebeest do an annual migration between the Serengeti in Tanzania and the Masai Mara in Kenya and risk death by drowning or from crocodiles as they cross the Mara river
In Spain this year I had occasion to watch the yearly migration of surfer girls from the beach of Barcelona. I saw them all paddle out and disappear over the horizon.
They spread out all over the Mediterranean Sea, and most of them are never seen again.
Great flocks of sandhill cranes congregate in Fairbanks where they stage, eat and rest for further migrations to the south. They arrive in large noisy groups from breeding grounds in Siberia and Northern and Western Alaska, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
In Alaska we face a constant battle between economic, mineral, oil and gas development and the preservation of lands necessary for healthy wildlife populations and a healthy planet. My allegiance is swayed heavily toward nature and wildlife, especially when I consider the gross consumption and waste that I see around me (and sometimes try to capture in my photographs). Consumption in which I too indulge.
This photograph, ironically, was taken from the Fairbanks West Farmer's Loop DumpTransfer Station.
Bird migration forecast maps show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts.
A group of women and childern along with a few of their worldly possessions, sheep included, migrating towards the city on camel back . . .
Kutch district is inhabited by various groups and communities. Many of these have reached this region after centuries of migration from neighbouring regions of Marwar (Western Rajasthan), Sind, Afghanistan and further. Even today, one can find various nomadic, semi nomadic and artisan groups living in Kutch.
While certain groups like the Kachchi Mali Samaj, Leva Patel, Rabaris, Meghvals, Wankars,Vankaras, Ahirs, and many others have adopted a settled lifestyle and have struck a life rhythm close to that of modern-day towns, some groups such as Dhanetah Jaths, Halepotra, Bhadalas, Raisipotra, and the Sammas, Node, and other Muslim groups of the Banni region, who live simpler lifestyles.
The languages spoken predominantly in Kachchh are Kachchhi and to lesser extent Gujarati and Sindhi. Script of Kachchhi language has become extinct and it is occasionally written in the Gujarati script. Samples of Kachchhi script are available in Kachchh Museum. Increased use of Gujarati language is mainly because of being it a medium of instruction in schools. Often Kachchhi language is mistaken as dialect of Gujarati, however this is not true. Kachchhi language bears more similarity with Sindhi than Gujarati.
The Serengeti hosts the largest mammal migration in the world. This is a small fraction of the number of wildebeest and zebra that gather in this area before crossing the Mara River into Kenya.
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