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Rip Rap Islands serve as crucial nesting ground for seabirds near the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in coastal Virginia. Currently, species that rely on the island include the royal tern, common tern, gull-billed tern, sandwich tern, herring gull, laughing gull, great black-backed gull, black skimmer, and snowy egret.
For decades before the expansion of the HRBT, two artificial islands anchored the underwater tunnels and housed the large colony of seabirds. The construction made these islands unsuitable nesting grounds.
In February 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam tasked the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources with relocating the colony. A quick yet massive renovation of Fort Wool, a Civil War-era military installment built in 1819, transformed Rip Rap Islands into a landscape for the seabird colony similar to the barrier islands. Along with Fort Wool, DWR leased three flat-top barges to create additional habitat next to Rip Rap Islands for the birds to nest. July 15, 2021 (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)
Female Wompoo Fruit-dove, Ptilinipus magnificus, sitting on her sparse stick nest in Australia's World Heritage Wet Tropics area in far north Queensland. In this side view she is showing her deep purple breast plumage.
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DSC_3864: Nesting Osprey on July 3rd, 2014 at Grand Lake, New Brunswick. I spent about 30 minutes taking pics and videos of this very cooperative subject on her nest today. She wasn't afraid of me at all, and just sat on top of her nest brooding over her young one.
Work for upcoming show at: www.aokayofficial.com/ in April!
I can take commissions for custom nesting dolls :)
Tell me about your Matryoshka!
Just a little comic trying to promote Nesting Dolls (Matryoshka Dolls) for www.therussianstore.com
Nesting Dolls sometimes 'crack' up - har har!
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Killdeer standing over its eggs in their ground nest. Entrant in Bear River Refuge 2014 photo contest in bird life category.
Photo Credit: Judy Watson / USFWS
In 2007, the Service, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, completed construction of Iguaca Aviary. This new facility will serve as the Service’s main facility to advance the parrot recovery. Photo by Roy Hewitt, USFWS.
A nesting endangered California Least Tern. Didn't have the reach to get a great image but an uncommon shot nonetheless.
Phoebe nests that have fallen from our entry posts. This is the first year the nest stuck and babies were hatched & ultimately fledged.
Up and over...Coot leaps from the water to bring nest building twigs and branches on to the pontoon in the old dock near Techniquest in Cardiff Bay,South Wales,UK.
A very interesting nesting site of Anthidium manicatum, Anthidium septemspinosum, Anthidiellum strigatum, Halictus quadricinctus, Halictus scabiosae and Halictus sexcinctus and also Philantus apivorus and many others parasits (Chrysis) or cuckoo-bees.
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Boy Scout Jadyn Hickman led teams that built and installed six wood duck nesting boxes along Gasheys Creek at Swan Harbor Farm in Havre de Grace as his Eagle Scout Service Project.
The project was carried out over two days: Oct. 28 and Nov. 11,
2017. Fellow scouts, friends and family served as helpers to carry out the project, which spanned two days (Oct. 28 and Nov. 11, 2017) and required nearly 250 man hours to complete.
The project was supported by Delta Waterfowl, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Maryland
Wood Duck Initiative.
The Good the Bad and the Babushka Dolls
Just a little comic trying to promote Nesting Dolls (Matryoshka Dolls) for www.therussianstore.com
more to come on our blog www.therussianstore.com/blog