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Looks like a choir of penquins all lined up to sing.
Shot was not easy to get as the leaves on the plant were overpowering the flowers.
Found at the Hammonton Lake back in May.
Berliner Weihnachtszeit at Roten Rathaus
Kerstmarkt Berlin Roten Rathaus
Alexanderplatz is often referred to as the central meeting point in Berlin. Every day more than 300.000 people visit the square and another 500.000 travel through its stations during that same time-period. During the month December there is another reason to visit Alexanderplatz. On the square of Alexanderplatz itself you can already enjoy some stalls with music, drinks and food. But if you really want to get into the Christmas-atmosphere, you should walk in the direction of the Fernsehturm: Not far from there, in front of the Roten Rathaus, you can find the Christmas market called Berliner Weihnachtszeit. It is not hard to find the market because you will be able to spot its 50 meter high Ferris wheel from far away.
Kerstmarkt Roten Rathaus (berlin-enjoy.com)Christmas Market Berlin Rotes Rathaus The Berliner Weihnachtszeit with its Ferris Wheel
The Berliner Weihnachtszeit is one of the oldest Christmas markets in Berlin and attracts many visitors throughout the winter. The different stalls at this market are decorated in the style of the beginning of the 19th century, which gives the market a very unique and historical look.
Ice Skating
Besides the gigantic Ferris wheel and the unique stalls, the Berliner Weihnachtszeit also offers a large iceskate-ring. With a total surface of 600 square meter of ice, this Christmas market has a lot to offer for young and old. You can enter the ice for free, you only have to pay 4 euro if you want to rent skates.
Christmas Market Berlin Roten RathausThe special style of the stalls at Berliner Weihnachtszeit
The Berliner Weihnachtszeit a verypopular Christmas markets for children. Besides to the Ferris wheel there is small farm with some friendly animals. Besides that a real Santa visits this Christmas market in Berlin three times a day: His arrival is scheduled around 16.30, 18.30 and 20.30.
Name: Berliner Weihnachtszeit
Address: Spandauer Straße/Jüdenstraße
Entrance: Free
Public transport: U or S-Bahn to station Alexanderplatz
Dates: 24 November till 28 December 2014 (closed on Christmas Eve)
Opening-times: 12.00 – 21.00 (weekend 11.00-22.00)
Website: www.berlinerweihnachtszeit.de
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"Positive climb, gear up" as "Penguin One" departs Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS/KLAS) on December 31, 2013.
Kids could make their room more cozy with a personalized penguin doorknob hanger. Lots of family fun!
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Spheniscus demersus
The African penguin, also known as the black-footed penguin, is also nicknamed the “jackass penguin” because its mating call sounds like a braying donkey.
This species of penguin lives along the rocky coastline of southwest Africa, in the countries of South Africa and Namibia. It is found nowhere else in the world. Its range is restricted to a relatively small area where water temperature doesn’t fluctuate much.
Like all penguin species, the African penguin lives in the Southern Hemisphere. The African penguin also lives in a temperate climate, as do most species of penguin. Only a few species of penguin live as far south as Antarctica in an extremely cold climate.
At The Maryland Zoo, African penguins can be seen at Rock Island in the African Journey exhibit. This species is also featured in the Zoo’s Animal Embassy collection as an Animal Ambassador.
African penguins live in large colonies. They spend their days at sea feeding and their nights gathered together on shore. Like all penguins, African penguins are much more agile in water than on land. They are excellent swimmers with perfectly streamlined bodies. They can swim up to 12 mph.
They feed on small fish such as sardines and anchovies, as well as small crustaceans and squid. Each penguin eats about one pound of fish per day. They absorb water as well as nutrients from their diet, but are also adapted to drink salt water. All penguins have highly developed glands over their eyes that filter salts out of sea water. When penguins are kept in fresh water, these glands atrophy.
Because penguins gather in such great numbers, the presence of any penguin colony is hard to miss. One colony of African penguins in particular, established at Boulders Beach near Cape Town, South Africa, has become something of a tourist attraction. People go there for the beach, the swimming, and to see the penguins.
Sharks, Cape fur seals, and occasionally killer whales prey on African penguins. Mainland colonies of these penguins have to watch out for leopards, mongoose, genet, and domestic cats and dogs. Kelp gulls also steal penguin eggs and newborn chicks. Despite protections in place for this species, people continue to collect their eggs, although not to the extent that they once did. Penguin eggs have traditionally been considered a delicacy to eat, and for a very long time people also collected eggs for public and private egg collections. In the past, the birds were also food for sailors.
African penguins form monogamous pairs that stay together for about a decade, or for life, whichever comes first. Females construct nests out of guano (yes, bird poop!) because their rocky habitat offers little else in the way of nesting material. Each female lays two eggs per clutch, on average. Both male and female take turns incubating the eggs. Incubation lasts 38 to 42 days. Both parents also participate in caring for the chicks once they hatch.
Chicks are able to regulate their own body temperatures at 14 to 21 days. They then begin to form groups of chicks, or crèches, that are guarded by adults. Cooperative care allows individual sets of parents to go out to sea to feed. Both parents also feed the chicks at this time. Chicks fledge anywhere from 60 to 130 days.
Adult birds employ a few different strategies for keeping cool while stuck on shore molting, incubating eggs, or guarding newborn chicks. They stay in the shade as much as possible and cool off by opening their mouths and spreading their flippers (vestigial wings). Also, the hotter an African penguin gets, the more blood circulates to the pink glands above its eyes where air cools it.
The African penguin is an endangered species whose population has declined by 90% since the turn of the 20th century. The current wild population is estimated at about 200,000 birds. Human interference of one sort or another has always posed the greatest threat to African penguins. Collecting their eggs for sale and collecting their guano for fertilizer (thus destroying nesting sites) nearly drove this species to extinction in the 20th century. Today, although better protected as a species, African penguins still must compete with commercial fishermen for access to fish.
They also remain vulnerable to pollution of their ocean habitat, particularly oil spills from big tankers. An enormous oil spill off the coast of South African in June 2000 impacted 19,000 adult African penguins at the height of their breeding season. Volunteers from The Maryland Zoo traveled to South Africa to help with the rescue and rehabilitation effort initiated by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds. To date, this remains the largest animal rescue and recovery operation in history, with 91% of the affected birds rehabilitated and released successfully.
The Maryland Zoo maintains the largest colony of African penguins in North America and breeds the species at the recommendation of the AZA Species Survival Plan for African penguins.
Maryland Zoo, Baltimore Md.
Viking Cruise - Viking Jupiter ship Buenos Aires, Argentina to Valparaiso, Chile Jan.7-24, 2020.
Photos here Jan.12 Puerto Madryn, Argentina. Traveled south to the Punta Tombo Penguin Colony amazing!
Looks like things have pretty much come unravelled for the poster child of the NHL.... Well, it's not like your teammates are looking to you for leadership or anything. But at least you've got a few minutes to put more lipstick on.
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