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The Norwegian liner SKAUBRYN was the only vessel lost at sea during the era of post-war migration to Australia, when it caught fire and sank in the Indian Ocean in 1958. For the 60th anniversary of the incident, a small photographic exhibition is on display in our galleries.
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ANMM Collection ANMS0214[109]. Gift from Barbara Alysen. Reproduced courtesy of the International Organisation for Migration.
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You may want to turn the volume down. Over 3,000 Common Nighthawks flew over my house in Evanston in one hour this early evening. Steve Huggins spotted 9,000+ over the city and Michal Furmanek spotted 4,615 at Fort Sheridan.
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Dry Slough Road. Fir Island - Snow Geese by the thousands start arriving from the Arctic in early October. Typically 70,000 to 90,000 winter in North Puget Sound until late March or April.
Fraser-Skagit Population Dynamic. "Snow geese that over-winter in northwest Washington comprise a unique population of intercontinental travelers shared by three countries: the United States, Canada and Russia. These snow geese make an arduous, annual flight to Russia’s Chuckchi Sea, to breed on Wrangel Island off the north coast of Siberia. They are called the Fraser-Skagit population, because the same identification collaring/banding studies that disclosed details of their migration timing and itinerary, found that snow geese of this group had a high fidelity to one nesting site on Wrangel Island and to one wintering area, here. They stay apart from the other snow geese aggregations that nest separately on Wrangel and winter in California." wdfw.wa.gov
Winged Migration is an interactive video installation, created by theatre maker Judith Hofland and filmmaker Tessel Schmidt. It is a work that has to be experienced. In the Wertheimpark there’s a larger than life-size birdbox that looks out on an old tree. As soon as you enter the little house, a bird starts to fly.The more people come in, the more birds start to fly around freely. To people freedom is not always as self-evident as it is to birds. In the theatre Judith and Tessel often use video, trying to confront the audience interactively with the current situation in Europe. In this work, as in many others they created, the artists combine reality and fiction. In this case they use video mapping on an existing, old tree, and add the projection of birds. Visitors of the birdbox are invited to ask a stranger inside with them in order te let more birds fly and make the tree glow – which constitutes the interactivity of Winged Migration.
During what is almost certainly the world's greatest wildlife spectacle thousands of wildebeest hurl themselves down a cliff-face into the Mara River. (In the 40 minutes that this frantic crossing took only 6 animals died).
Op het einde van de jaarlijkse 'great migration' die begint in de Serengeti (Tanzania) moeten de gnoes de Mara rivier oversteken die vol krokodillen zit. Zeer spectaculair!
Recent wanderings thru the forested areas of Sholayar, came across with this group of butterflies - Glassy Blue Tiger, Dark Blue Tiger n Common Crows, gathered in few hundreds, offer a feast for the fotographers' gadgets!!
Recent research unveled that the earlier theory of butterflies using their brain for selecting the exact migration route was wrong and instead they used their antennae!! The antennae located on their head act something similiar to GPS(Global Positioning System) which helps in locating exact routes of migration
Skimming the wave tops, red breasted mergansers are moving south along the shoreline in large numbers. This usually lasts a week or so and is a great opportunity to photograph a species I only see at the beginning of winter and again in spring.
They fly at such high speeds they look like darts zipping by!
Eventually a choice is made and as soon as one wildebeest enters the water they all go together in a thunderous stampede like a courageous protest of the wild — they can’t kill us all.
Read the story behind the image:
annemckinnell.com/2015/06/08/the-wildebeest-migration-a-p...
25 year old Najma Begum hails from Demra in Bangladesh.
Her Past: Goes to Abu Dhabi as domestic help, oblivious about her being recruited as a home-based commercial sex worker. Forced into prostitution, sexually exploited and brutally assaulted for one year. Somehow escapes confinement and returns to Bangladesh, penniless.
Her present: Starts life afresh with vigour and self-confidence, working in a garments factory.
Photo credit: UN Women/ Anindit Roy-Chowdhury
Migration. San Joaquin Valley, California. March 9, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Ross's geese fly across a cloud-filled late winter sky, San Joaquin Valley
By all of the usual standards, this was a spectacularly beautiful weekend here in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. Yesterday the temperature reached into the low seventy-degree range as I drove up US-5 from one photography location to another. People were wearing shorts. Daylight savings time began today (and I'll complain about that elsewhere! ;-) and the light feels like it lasts an hour longer. The weeds are coming up in our garden, but that means that we'll have a vegetable garden again before long.
I imagine that anyone reading this who lives in a place with real winter won't understand this, but I have mixed feelings about the end of winter. I'm much more interested in the extremes of winter weather, and every spring I realize that it will likely be months until I again see 30+ foot waves along the Pacific coast, new snow in the Sierra, a good rain storm, or the arrival of migratory birds in the Central Valley. The main purpose of this weekend's drive around the San Joaquin Valley, the lower Sacramento Valley, and areas of the delta was to visit those birds one more time before the marshes dry up and the birds head back to the north. I made this photograph in the morning when, to my surprise, what started out looking like a clear spring-like day turned foggy and more like winter. The birds were still there - and in large numbers in many places - and at one point lines of them flew in front of this cloud for several minutes.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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17 January 2020
Ministerial and Forum on Migration and Integration
OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler
This afternoon I watched the NOVA program "Journey Of The Butterflies". It documented the annual Monarch migration from Canada and the Northeastern US to the mountains of Mexico...2000+ miles!
Whatever awe I felt toward nature up to now pales in significance compared to how I feel about the Monarchs after watching this documentary.! The story is beyond astonishing, and remains a total mystery to scientists. This program should be seen by all nature and wildlife photographers, to give their work some perspective.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/butterflies/
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Photos is previously unseen from the archives. Nikon D300. 440mm. 1/800th @ F/5.8. Photograph taken on September 11, 2009.
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While some birds have migrated South of here for the winter, this is where others migrate to from the North. Snowy owls and eagles to name a few. It's not uncommon to see several a day when you're outside all day. It's always special and meaningful to watch eagles soaring overhead or perched in trees. This one was circling for quite a while not very high up, seemingly letting me know they're back for the season. I wish I had my Nikon but am happy to have captured this with my dumb phone.
Participants take part in a workshop to discuss issues surround the governance of labour and migration in the Pacific. ©ILO
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