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Hackled Orbweaver (family Uloboridae)
I finally managed to get an image of one of these 'right side up'. If you look closely you can see it is holding its prey, all wrapped up.
Some interesting information about these Spiders.
Uloboridae is a family of non-venomous spiders, known as cribellate orb weavers or hackled orb weavers. Their lack of venom glands is a secondarily evolved trait. Instead, they wrap their prey thoroughly in silk, cover it in regurgitated digestive enzymes, and then ingest the liquified body.
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Aracaris are small, slender toucans and Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus) is a typical representative of the genus. They primarily forage in the midstory and the canopy, where they often advance along branches with hops, occupies lowland evergreen forest and forest edge, advanced secondary forest, and plantations. Collared Aracari is resident from southern Mexicoto northern Colombia and northern Venezuela. Primarily is frugivorous, but, like other toucans, it also consumes large insects and small vertebrates, including eggs and nestlings of other birds. They can be very active bending, leaning, and hanging to glean fruits. They jerk head to toss back fruit to swallow fruit; may regurgitate and re-swallow fruit. The seeds of fruit with large seeds are regurgitated intact; the vast majority of these seeds are viable. After feeding, they wipe the bill against branches. Aracaris also probe epiphytes. Feeding is performed by gleaning. Aracaris swallow and regurgitate seeds multiple times over the course of feeding in order to remove all of the pulp (Birds of the world).
While in Oslo, we came across this lovely family., it was a bit jarring to observe the mom grabbing the chick hard but apparently, while a lot a feeding involved passim boots off plants, some regurgitation is also
The Quetzals were feeding on the avocado tree in this area. It swallows the avocado whole (smaller than the ones you buy in the grocery store). After digesting for about 20 minutes, it regurgitates the seed. The male has four extended uppertail coverts (not true tail feathers), which grow up to 30 inches.
Water from tidal waves flowing back to the sea.
Turimetta Beach (Sunday 23 Sep 2007 5:42am)
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It was regurgitating and secreting pine nuts in the grass. Here it favours the Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis). I found some empty pinecones in the area (1500m up, in Jirisan National Park). As none of the pines were close by, I assume it picks whole cones and transports them to a suitable place for extraction. The bill is ideally evolved for this job. It has a superb memory for cache locations, and will not go hungry throughout the winter. The Nussknacker is a real character in many ways, and you will know if there's one nearby, as it announces its presence with a raucous squawk.
African Armoured Ground Crickets (Orthoptera Bradyporidae) are the most revolting and weird insects to walk South Africa, Namibia and Botswana’s semi-dry areas. It has some strange defense mechanisms, like something from a horror movie, in which it protects itself with an armoured exoskeleton which containing 5 rows of spine that shield the back of its abdomen, as well as spikes on the front of its pronotum. If this isn’t creepy enough is not only geared for possible attack, but when attacked, they expel toxic blood (called “haemolymph” and is green and bitter) from the gaps in their bodies to avoid being eaten! They also regurgitate recently eaten food.
Wow, can you imagine, bleeding and vomiting at will to get rid of enemies? That is quite a show.
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Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, May 5, 2019.
Myiarchus crinitus
Though they’re flycatchers, these birds also eat a fair amount of fruit. Instead of picking at the flesh of small fruit, Great Crested Flycatchers swallow the fruit whole and regurgitate the pits, sometimes several at a time.
source - www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Crested_Flycatcher
The spirit of youth evident in this Whitetail as he moves from the prairie to the wetlands to regurgitate in the shade. I don't know how high he is jumping but I estimate the fence post to be about 42 inches tall.
A one- to two-week-old hatchling enjoys alternating parental protection while the other parent fishes offshore. In another week or two, the single nestling will be left alone while both parents perform provisioning duties, plunge diving into the ocean for fish and squid then returning to regurgitate meals. Spending most of their life at sea, red-tailed tropicbirds, or koa’e ‘ula, return to land only to nest. Agile in the air and in the water, they are awkward on land with short legs behind their center of mass. Nests are simple scrapes in holes and overhangs of shoreline cliffs, carefully selected to be out of reach of terrestrial predators. The return nest site landing in the vertical volcanic escarpment is challenging and may take several attempts in a strong sea breeze.
Moving on to six-legged wildlife for the next few days, let's start with the Yellow Dung Fly. I first noticed this species on a forest trail in BC, where two of them were mating atop a pile of bear poop. Gross, by human standards; sweet, if you're a dung fly. I guess.
We have them here on the northern prairie, too. One morning I spotted this fly bubbling alongside a trail. I happened to be carrying my tripod and macro lens, and this allowed me to set up quickly for a shot.
It seems the scientific community is not yet in agreement as to what is going on here. Many fly species regurgitate liquid spit bubbles, just like this. It may be part of the digestion process, or it may be a means of cooling off. Perhaps both.
Our perception of insects is quite variable and often personal. A friend of mine recoiled in horror when I showed him some ultra-close shots of insects that I thought were quite beautiful. Butterflies, on the other hand, are universally accepted as pretty. Dragonflies and damselflies can be positively jewel-like, as can many species of beetle. Eye of the beholder and all that. For me, dung flies fall into the category of "mildly hideous" - a step up from "hideous" - because who doesn't look cute blowing bubbles?
Tomorrow: a truly beautiful fly!
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This is an early spring sound and sight, as the cooing and whistling wings return to our area. I find them incredibly skittish, unless they are focused on some activity: in this case, preening. A wall of cedars in a local wetland provided the deep green background - budding leaves on most deciduous trees are just starting to flower.
They are a widely-hunted species, though hunting them is currently prohibited in Ontario. They are also one of very few birds species that feed their young a version of milk: it is secreted in the crop and regurgitated for feeding nestlings. It is compared to cottage cheese in texture.
20220703_5884_7D2-215 Juvenile magpie regurgitating pellet (184/365)
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There are different reasons for having napkins at your table in a restaurant: signaling the start of a meal, keeping clothing clean, wiping your mouth and fingers, and signaling the end. This squirrel found a paper napkin in the garbage bin beside the park restaurant. I would like to say that he used the napkin to wipe his mouth and fingers clean. However, I watched him eat the whole napkin! I am not sure if actually swallowed it all or he is bringing it somewhere to regurgitate and use it to make a nest.
A red-tailed tropicbird appears to be brooding, both in temperament and biologically, as it nests in a seaside cliff. The nest is a simple scrape in a hollow in the volcanic tuff escarpment. Paired adult red-tailed tropicbirds, or koa’e ‘ula, take turns fiercely guarding their nest and their single hatchling. After several weeks, the larger nestling will be left alone as it takes the effort of both adults plunge diving into the ocean for fish and squid then returning to regurgitate meals. The red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) is one of only three species of tropicbirds worldwide and identified by the red bill and distinctive long, red, central tail streamers.
... an updated image as of 02/11/16 of the eaglets with mother ... still eating regurgitated meals and getting bigger :-))) ...
Great blue herons are monogamous within a single breeding season, but usually choose new mates each year. Both parents incubate eggs, although the females spend more time on the nest. Once the eggs hatch, both parents feed the young by regurgitating partially eaten food into the offspring’s open mouth.
Heron Pond, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA April 5, 2022.
A blue-billed white tern, or manu o Kū, tends to a coddled two-day old downy hatchling peeking out from under its wing. The manu o Kū is an arboreal nesting seabird that thrives in urban Honolulu. Monomorphic parents alternate fishing and nesting duties. Adults fish up to 120 miles offshore and return with fresh provisions rather than devouring then regurgitating a meal for their chick. This avian behavior was known to Polynesian voyagers and other seafarers. A landmass that may be out of view over the horizon could be located by following these birds conveying their catch back to their nestling.
A pair of fulmar nesting on the cliffs just below Whitby's Pavillion Theatre. It may look like they are canoodling, but I think the motive is to obtain some regurgitated fish.
The hummingbird on the left is a Sparkling Violet Ear fledgling that had only been out of the nest for a day! They were deep into some foliage so that it was a tough shot to get just right. I just had tp post this because I'd never seen anything like this before!
(Lanius senator badius) B28I9070 Settat - Morocco
Like the owls, the shrikes regurgitate balls of excretion that allow them to spit the feathers, furs and nails of their preys
D'Arnaud's Barbet (Trachyphonus darnaudii) is an African barbet. Barbets and toucans are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution. The barbets get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills.
D'Arnaud's barbet is a small East African bird. It grows to about eight inches, and is equally at home in trees or on the ground.
These mostly solitary birds eat a variety of seeds and fruits, including figs. They will also visit plantations and feed on cultivated fruit and vegetables. Fruit is eaten whole and indigestible material such as seed pits regurgitated later. They are believed to be important agents in seed dispersal. In addition to seeds and fruits, they also eat a wide range of insects are taken, including ants, cicadas, dragonflies, crickets, locusts, beetles, moths, mantids, as well as scorpions and centipedes.
This beautiful D'Arnaud's Barbet was photographed on an early morning game drive in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya.
This bird is a cleptoparasite, like the frigate down south. It spots a victim (usually a kittiwake that just caught or stole a fish) and goes chasing it, keeping what every evasive move, until the victim regurgitates the fish for the jaeger.
The Australasian gannet (Morus serrator), also known as Australian gannet and tākapu, is a large seabird of the booby and gannet family, Sulidae. Adults are mostly white, with black flight feathers at the wingtips and lining the trailing edge of the wing. The central tail feathers are also black. The head is tinged buff-yellow, with a pale blue-grey bill edged in black, and blue-rimmed eyes. Young birds have mottled plumage in their first year, dark above and light below. The head is an intermediate mottled grey, with a dark bill. The birds gradually acquire more white in subsequent seasons until they reach maturity after five years. The species range over water above the continental shelf along the southern and eastern Australian coastline, from Steep Point in Western Australia to Rockhampton, Queensland, as well as the North and South Islands of New Zealand, Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Nesting takes place in colonies along the coastlines of New Zealand, Victoria and Tasmania—mostly on offshore islands, although there are several mainland colonies in both countries. Highly territorial when breeding, the Australasian gannet performs agonistic displays to defend its nest. Potential and mated pairs engage in courtship and greeting displays. The nest is a cup-shaped mound composed of seaweed, earth, and other debris, built by the female from material mainly gathered by the male. A single pale blue egg is laid yearly, though lost eggs may be replaced. The chick is born featherless but is soon covered in white down. Fed regurgitated fish by its parents, it grows rapidly and outweighs the average adult when it fledges. These birds are plunge divers and spectacular fishers, plunging into the ocean at high speed. They eat mainly squid and forage fish that school near the surface. The species faces few natural or man-made threats, and since its population is growing it is considered to be a least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. 26070
At about six weeks old, this red-tailed tropicbird nestling still lacks the gorgeous red bill and red tail streamers of adult plumage, but this molt into a juvenile black bar pattern is no less striking. I’ve been following this nestling, which is now old enough to be left alone while both parents perform provisioning duties consisting of plunge diving into the adjacent ocean for fish and squid then returning to regurgitate meals. Spending most of their life at sea, red-tailed tropicbirds, or koa’e ‘ula, return to land only to nest. Agile in the air and in the water, they are awkward on land with short legs behind their center of mass. Nests are simple scrapes in holes and overhangs of shoreline cliffs, carefully selected to be out of reach of terrestrial predators. The return nest site landings in the vertical volcanic escarpment are challenging and may take several attempts depending on the sea breeze strength and direction.
Just cruising by ........
Herring Gull
Scientific name
Larus argentatus
The herring gull is a familiar sight of our seaside towns, particularly during the breeding season, though some now nest well inland. In winter it can be found on farmland, wetland and coastal habitats, inland landfill sites, playing fields, and reservoirs throughout the UK. The distinctive red spot on its bill spurred one of the classic studies in animal behaviour in the 1950s, led by Niko Tinbergen. Having seen gull chicks peck at their parents' bills to encourage them to regurgitate food, he tried various dummy, parent shapes and colours to see the chicks' response. He discovered that gull chicks will peck at any long, yellow thing with a red spot in order to get food. In other words, gull chicks have a built-in preference from birth for their parents' bills: a worthwhile survival mechanism.
I was watching this female Kingfisher as it sat quite quietly . I decided to put on the 2x converter to see how it stood up quality wise on the 600. Just as I switched the camera back on and refocused on her, she started acting very strange....... well I thought, it is a female lol. Then all of a sudden she regurgitated this huge fish pellet. I knew they did such things, but had never seen it before !!
I suspect that no one really wants to see a creature regurgitating a pellet first thing in the morning (or ever?) but this was a pretty cool encounter. This is a species that I hear more or less all summer adjacent to the various wetlands/lakes/rivers I visit around Ottawa. But I rarely see them.
During an annual visit to a camp on a lake in North Frontenac I was surprised by a visit from this bird, what I suspect is an immature male on account of the blue and rufous chest band (the colours would be separated on a female). As I tried to get my camera and approach in as stealthy a manner as possible, thinking it may be resting briefly after grabbing a fish from the lake, the bird began yawning. And I began firing away.
Kingfisher pellets are gathered by females and used at the base of their nests to help dry or sanitize them. When the birds are nestlings, they are able to digest the pieces of fish they eat, but as they age their stomach chemistry changes. They start spitting up pellets of fish scales and bones.
I spent about fifteen minutes in this bird’s company, so I may post some less unappealing images as well.
Another shot from the Philippines. These are so common; I went for a covid test before flying home and saw one in the hospital grounds in a city centre. This one on wires by a rice paddy field was regurgitating a pellet or two and unfazed by my presence
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Why do flies blow bubbles? Well according to Google AI 'Flies blow bubbles primarily as a cooling mechanism. This "bubbling behavior" involves repeatedly regurgitating and then re-ingesting a droplet of fluid, which helps them regulate their body temperature through evaporative cooling. The process cools the fly's body, and the bubbles can also eliminate excess water and reduce their weight during flight.'
(Chionis albus). The snowy sheathbill does not have webbed feet and is the only landbird native to the Antarctic continent. The Snowy Sheathbill is the dustbin of the bird world in the Antarctic regions. It is an omnivore, a scavenger, and a kleptoparasite and will eat nearly anything. It steals regurgitated krill and fish from penguins when feeding their chicks and will eat their eggs and chicks if given the opportunity. Sheathbills also eat carrion and animal faeces.
I’d like to think I caught the wonderful moment a Loggerhead Shrike was calling and singing out its song, but this is truthfully just moments before it herked up a small pellet of indigestible food bits. Still, I believe it’s an interesting behavioral moment without all the unnecessary viewable unpleasantness that there could be. Majestic bird, moments before not being so regal.
An adult manu-o- Kū returns from a successful fishing trip with several translucent larval fish for breakfast. The three-week-old chick gulps down the offerings whole, one at a time, head first. The manu-o-Kū, or white tern, is an arboreal nesting pelagic seabird that doesn’t actually fabricate a nest; instead, it uses a flat or hollow or fork in the tree to keep the egg from rolling away. The hatchling uses its strong, clawed, semipalmate feet to cling to the tree branch that will be its home until fledging. Parents alternate brooding duties until a week or two after hatching when the chick can thermoregulate and be left unattended for up to several hours. Then both parents engage in fishing and feeding, often alternating their arrival time back to the nest. Adults fish up to 120 miles offshore and provision the chick with fresh whole fish or squid rather than devouring then regurgitating a meal. This avian behavior was known to Polynesian voyagers and other seafarers. A landfall that may be out of view over the horizon could be located by following these birds conveying their catch back to their nestling.
Though they look too gargantuan to be dependent chicks, these herons are a little over 4 weeks old and awaiting mum and dad for dinner. The only thing better than raw minnow and eels is regurgitated raw minnow and eels! This photo was taken at a distance that tested the limit of my camera, but at this rookery, my options were to get too close or remain too far. I wanted to throw rocks at the people who chose the former.
Preening appears to include an oral hygiene inspection of this one-week-old nestling by an adult tern. The manu-o-Kū, or white tern, is an arboreal nesting pelagic seabird that doesn’t actually fabricate a nest; instead, it uses a flat or hollow or fork in the tree to keep the single egg from rolling away. The hatchling uses its strong, clawed, semipalmate feet to cling to the tree branch that will be its home until fledging. Parents alternate brooding duties until a week or two after hatching when the chick can thermoregulate and be left unattended for up to several hours. Then both parents engage in fishing and feeding, often alternating their arrival time back to the nest. Adults fish up to 120 miles and several hours offshore and provision the chick with fresh whole fish or squid rather than devouring then regurgitating a meal. This avian behavior was known to Polynesian voyagers and other seafarers. A landfall that may be out of view over the horizon could be located by following these birds conveying their catch back to their nestling.
Taken along Loop Road in western Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA.
This is a male Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) caring for its young. Both parents feed young, by regurgitation. This is a common species that is found throughout most of North America. There are two distinct races of Northern Flicker, the Yellow-shafted in northern and eastern North America and the Red-shafted in the west. In this image we see the yellow shafts in the bird's wing and tail feathers.
This bird is a sight to behold! Males have iridescent green plumes, a red lower breast and belly, black inner wings and a white undertail with two long tail feathers. This male, regurgitated an avocado pit while I was taking photos. It is the national animal of Guatemala, being featured on the flag and coat of arms; it also gives its name to the country's currency, the Guatemalan quetzal. E-bird shows Quetzel sightings from southern Mexico to northern Panama in Central America. This bird was photographed at the 2,200 m elevation. It migrates between different elevations in the cloud forest. What a treasure!
Young Herring Gull....
Scientific name: Larus argentatus
The herring gull is a familiar sight of our seaside towns, particularly during the breeding season, though some now nest well inland. In winter it can be found on farmland, wetland and coastal habitats, inland landfill sites, playing fields, and reservoirs throughout the UK. The distinctive red spot on its bill spurred one of the classic studies in animal behaviour in the 1950s, led by Niko Tinbergen. Having seen gull chicks peck at their parents' bills to encourage them to regurgitate food, he tried various dummy, parent shapes and colours to see the chicks' response. He discovered that gull chicks will peck at any long, yellow thing with a red spot in order to get food. In other words, gull chicks have a built-in preference from birth for their parents' bills: a worthwhile survival mechanism.
I have just returned from a fantastic trip to Costa Rica and loved it. We had an amazing guide who found so many beautiful birds for us. This Resplendent Quetzal is a bird that is sought by every photographer that comes to this area. And what a thrill it was to see both the male and the female. They eat the small wild avocado whole and regurgitate the pit thereby starting a new tree. Unfortunately my picture of the male does not show his gorgeous long tail feathers. A photo of the female is in the comment box. A lifer for me!
Best wishes to everyone for a healthy and happy 2019. I will catch up in the next few days.
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