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Chives, scientific name Allium schoenoprasum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae that produces edible leaves and flowers. Their close relatives include the common onions, garlic, shallot, leek, scallion, and Chinese onion.
A perennial plant, it is widespread in nature across much of Europe, Asia, and North America.
A. schoenoprasum is the only species of Allium native to both the New and the Old Worlds.
[Scientific name: Tasmanicosa godeffroyi}
Possibly a female Garden Wolf Spider's
skin that had been shed found hanging above this prickly bromeliad flower, full spidey marks for selecting a beautiful place to shed your skin.
Having visited a special spiders exhibition at the Queensland museum ended up coming away impressed with the complexity of a spiders legs, body joints and hairs and hope to show some of this bio-engineering.
This spider is not known to be dangerous to humans.
Some sites warn they may pose a danger to dogs and cats.
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• Helánica
Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Tribe: Papilionini
Genus: Papilio
Subgenus: Pterourus
Species: P. hellanichus
Laguna Garzón area, Maldonado–Rocha border, Uruguay
In order to know these hills, I ought to set foot upon their earth in quietness, perhaps. At least that seemed something painfully necessary at the time. Instead I go through in the sealed train, looking out from behind glass. I am cut off entirely from the hills and they are fairly abstract. What do I know of them, or they of me? There is no necessity for me to know them, or for them to know me. If I am to know those hills, if their rock faces are to be more than blanks, perhaps I have to climb them, be lost in their woods. However, it is a terrible thing to ride encased in the glass, sterile, train asking the hills who they are, and being cut off from any real answer in a sealed tube of scientifically cleaned and heated air, not the same air as fills the bitter, hostile woods outside. When the hills go to answer, they are defeated; so is the questioner. The answer can’t get through the glass.
-Thomas Merton, “January 2, 1941,” in Run to the Mountain, 282.
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Sacred Kingfisher
Scientific Name: Todiramphus sanctus
Description: The Sacred Kingfisher is a medium sized kingfisher. It has a turquoise back, turquoise blue rump and tail, buff-white underparts and a broad cream collar. There is a broad black eye stripe extending from bill to nape of neck. Both sexes are similar, although the female is generally lighter with duller upper parts. Young birds are similar to the female, but have varying amounts of rusty-brown edging to feathers on the collar and underparts, and buff edges on the wing coverts.
Distribution: The Sacred Kingfisher is common and familiar throughout the coastal regions of mainland Australia and less common throughout Tasmania. The species is also found on islands from Australasia to Indonesia and New Zealand.
Habitat: The Sacred Kingfisher inhabits woodlands, mangroves and paperbark forests, tall open eucalypt forest and melaleuca forest.
Seasonal movements: In Australia, Sacred Kingfishers spend the winter in the north of their range and return south in the spring to breed.
Feeding: Sacred Kingfishers forage mainly on the land, only occasionally capturing prey in the water. They feed on crustaceans, reptiles, insects and their larvae and, infrequently, fish. The birds perch on low exposed branch on the lookout for prey. Once prey is located, the Sacred Kingfisher swoops down and grasps it in its bill, returning to the perch to eat it.
Breeding: For most of the year Sacred Kingfishers are mainly solitary, pairing only for the breeding season. Usually two clutches are laid in a season. Both sexes excavate the nest, which is normally a burrow in a termite mound, hollow branch or river bank. The nest chamber is unlined and can be up to 20m above the ground. Both sexes also incubate the eggs and care for the young.
Calls: The voice of the Sacred Kingfisher is a loud "ek ek ek ek" repeated continuously throughout breeding season. Birds also give a "kee kee kee" in excitement and a series of chirring, scolding notes when alarmed.
Minimum Size: 19cm
Maximum Size: 24cm
Average size: 21cm
Average weight: 45g
Breeding season: September to December; occasionally extended to March, if conditions are favourable.
Clutch Size: 3 to 6
Incubation: 18 days
Nestling Period: 26 days
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and "The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds - Second Edition")
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• Ostrero común
• American oystercatcher
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Charadriiformes
Family:Haematopodidae
Genus:Haematopus
Species:H. palliatus
José Ignacio, Maldonado, Uruguay
Buckstones
When we pulled onto the car park so I could take this shot, it became apparent very quickly that it wasn’t going to be easy. Firstly I was shooting straight into the sun, even though it was behind a cloud the photo isn’t great. Secondly it was blowing a Gale, standing upright and keeping the camera steady was almost impossible.
March Haigh reservoir is located on Marsden Moor in the Kirklees District of West Yorkshire. It’s 332 meters (1089 feet) above sea level, it is only accessible on foot, a walk of around 1 mile. It was originally constructed to feed the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and can hold 71 million gallons of water. The canal runs for approximately 20 miles from Huddersfield in the east, it rises 134 metres through 42 locks to Marsden, where it enters Standedge Tunnel, which is the longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel in the country. The moorland surrounding the reservoir is a site of Special Scientific Interest.
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Scientific name: Limosa limosa.
These large wading birds are a Schedule 1 species. In summer, they have bright orangey-brown chests and bellies, but in winter they're more greyish-brown.
Their most distinctive features are their long beaks and legs, and the black and white stripes on their wings. Female black-tailed godwits are bigger and heavier than the males, with a noticeably longer beak (which helps the sexes to avoid competing for food with each other).
They're very similar to bar-tailed godwits, which breed in the Arctic. Black-tailed godwits have longer legs, and bar-tailed godwits don't have striped wings. As the names suggest, the tail patterns are different, too. Info: RSPB.
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Southern Crested Caracara
Scientific name: Caracara plancus (Miller, 1777)
Portuguese: Carcará, caracará, carancho, caracaraí (Ilha do Marajó),gavião-de-queimada e gavião-calçudo
This big, long-legged hawk is easily identified in flight by its large head and white patches at the ends of its rounded wings.
*Sky Replacement.
Scientific name: Ramphocelus flammigerus.
Trinomial name Ramphocelus flammigerus icteronotus
Ssp name: R. f. icteronotus
Common name: Lemon-rumped tanager
Nombre: Tangara lomiflama, Sangre de toro, Lomo de fuego, Toche enjalmado.
Lugar de la captura: Reserva Ecologica Mashpi, Amagusa, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Sacred Kingfisher
Scientific Name: Todiramphus sanctus
Description: The Sacred Kingfisher is a medium sized kingfisher. It has a turquoise back, turquoise blue rump and tail, buff-white underparts and a broad cream collar. There is a broad black eye stripe extending from bill to nape of neck. Both sexes are similar, although the female is generally lighter with duller upper parts. Young birds are similar to the female, but have varying amounts of rusty-brown edging to feathers on the collar and underparts, and buff edges on the wing coverts.
Distribution: The Sacred Kingfisher is common and familiar throughout the coastal regions of mainland Australia and less common throughout Tasmania. The species is also found on islands from Australasia to Indonesia and New Zealand.
Habitat: The Sacred Kingfisher inhabits woodlands, mangroves and paperbark forests, tall open eucalypt forest and melaleuca forest.
Seasonal movements: In Australia, Sacred Kingfishers spend the winter in the north of their range and return south in the spring to breed.
Feeding: Sacred Kingfishers forage mainly on the land, only occasionally capturing prey in the water. They feed on crustaceans, reptiles, insects and their larvae and, infrequently, fish. The birds perch on low exposed branch on the lookout for prey. Once prey is located, the Sacred Kingfisher swoops down and grasps it in its bill, returning to the perch to eat it.
Breeding: For most of the year Sacred Kingfishers are mainly solitary, pairing only for the breeding season. Usually two clutches are laid in a season. Both sexes excavate the nest, which is normally a burrow in a termite mound, hollow branch or river bank. The nest chamber is unlined and can be up to 20m above the ground. Both sexes also incubate the eggs and care for the young.
Calls: The voice of the Sacred Kingfisher is a loud "ek ek ek ek" repeated continuously throughout breeding season. Birds also give a "kee kee kee" in excitement and a series of chirring, scolding notes when alarmed.
Minimum Size: 19cm
Maximum Size: 24cm
Average size: 21cm
Average weight: 45g
Breeding season: September to December; occasionally extended to March, if conditions are favourable.
Clutch Size: 3 to 6
Incubation: 18 days
Nestling Period: 26 days
(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net and "The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds - Second Edition")
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Oystercatcher
Scientific name: Haematopus ostralegus
The oystercatcher is very noisy wading bird with a loud 'peep-ing' call. On the coast, it specialises in eating shellfish, particularly cockles and mussels, which it either prises or hammers open with its strong, flattened bill. Originally a coastal species, the oystercatcher has moved further inland over the last 50 years to breed on waterways and lakes. Most UK birds still spend their winters by the sea, however, and are joined by birds from Norway and Iceland.
Júpiter es el más grande de los planetas del Sistema Solar, con alrededor de 143000 km de diámetro en su zona ecuatorial. Más del 80% de su composición es de hidrógeno y alrededor del 17% es de helio (otros compuestos en mucha menor medida). El planeta está atravesado por una dinámica turbulenta que permite distinguir zonas brillantes y cinturones oscuros. En esta modesta imagen, se puede ver una de sus características más notables: la Gran Mancha Roja, cuyo tamaño excede en más de dos veces el de nuestro planeta Tierra.
Obtuve esta fotografía mediante el apilado de los fotogramas de un video capturado empleando un pequeño telescopio Maksutov-Cassegrain Explore Scientific 127, f/15, Barlow Meade 2x y Cámara Player One Ceres-C.
Tiempo y lugar: 2022-10-04 - 01:51 UT - Zona Rural, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
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Jupiter is the largest of the planets in the Solar System, with about 143,000 km in diameter at its equatorial zone. More than 80% of its composition is hydrogen and about 17% is helium (other compounds to a much lesser extent). The planet is crossed by a turbulent dynamics that allows to distinguish bright zones and dark belts. In this unassuming image, one of its most notable features can be seen: the Great Red Spot, which is more than twice the size of our planet Earth.
I obtained this photograph by stacking of the frames of a video captured using a small Maksutov-Cassegrain Explore Scientific 127, f/15, Barlow Meade 2x and Player One Ceres-C Camera.
Time and place: 2022-10-04 - 01:51 UT - Rural Zone, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Lapwing on the Rushy yesterday.....
Scientific name
Vanellus vanellus
Familiar birds of farmlands and wetlands, lapwings can often be seen wheeling through winter skies in large, black and white flocks. As spring approaches, these flocks get smaller; some birds head back to their continental breeding grounds and others disperse to breed in the UK. Males put on dramatic aerial displays, tumbling through the air, accompanied by their piercing 'peewit' call, which gives them their other, common name: peewit. Females can be spotted on their nests, which are simple scrapes in the mud or sand. By late spring, cute, fluffy lapwing chicks can be seen venturing out to forage. If the nest is threatened at all, the parents will attacked or 'mob' the potential predators.
• ピルスブリムシオイガイ
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
(unranked):clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:Cyclophoroidea
Family:Cyclophoridae
Subfamily:Alycaeinae
Genus:Chamalychaeus
4mm
Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan
From my collection
The low winter sun highlights the dramatic Jurassic strata that form the cliffs at Dunraven bay, south Wales.
This area of coastline is a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its geological and biological value.
It also forms part of the larger 'Glamorgan Heritage coast', which is a 23km length of the coastline, of which Dunraven bay is near the western end.
The beautiful Victorian Palm House.
In the botanical garden you will find Denmark’s largest scientific collection of plants.
Scientific :Oenanthe oenanthe leucorhoa
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This Yellow-billed Stork was photographed at Lake Elementaita (also spelled Elmentaita) where we stopped on our way to the Maasai Mara. It’s a beautiful stork that was originally classified as an ibis, hence the scientific name, shown below. It now is believed to be a close relative of our American Wood Stork and behaves similarly. It’s a contact feeder, like our stork, swishing its beak through the water and snapping down when it makes contact with prey. In the background are flamingos. (Yellow-billed Stork, aka Wood Stork, aka Wood Ibis – Mycteria ibis) (Sony a1, 200-600mm @ 588mm, 1/4000 second, f/6.3, ISO 640)
Minnesota DNR entrance sign at Iona's Beach Scientific and Natural Area on Lake Superior north of Two Harbors, Minnesota.
Once upon a time, this place was once the site of a charming mom & pop resort called Twin Points Resort. Iona Lind, her husband John and their children ran the resort for over 50 years. Iona kept on for a short time after her husband passed away in the 1980's.
When Iona died, she donated the land and it ended up in the hands of Minnesota's DNR.
Iona's Beach SNA is about halfway between Gooseberry Falls and Split Rock Lighthouse State Parks on Minnesota's legendary, historic Highway 61.
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Common Crow Butterfly
Scientific Name: Euploea core
Identification: The Common Crow Butterfly is a large black butterfly with white spots on the fore wings and a band of elongated spots on the hind wings. The outer wing margins have small white spots. The males have a pair of hidden orange-yellow brushes at the tip of the abdomen, which they can extend into bright coloured patch as part of the mating ritual or to deter predators. These brushes emit a musky odour. The caterpillars are striped. Pupa have metallic silvery sheen.
Other Names: Oleander Butterfly
Size: wingspan 70mm, Caterpillar about 50mm
Habitat: The Common Crow is found in open forest and woodland. Often seen in parks and gardens
Food: Common Crow Butterfly caterpillars feed on a wide range of native plants. They are often found in gardens feeding on Ficus (figs), Hoya, Mandevilla, Nerium oleander, Trachelospermum (star jasmines). The larvae eat the leaf and soft stem parts.
Range: Throughout tropical Australia and eastern Queensland. Adults sometimes disperse further down eastern Australia as far as Victoria, but there are no permanent breeding populations further south than northern New South Wales.
(Source: www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Common-Crow-Butterfly/Euploea/co...)
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Cockatiel
Scientific Name: Nymphicus hollandicus
Description: The Cockatiel is an unusual member of the cockatoo family. It is small in size, and has a slender body and long pointed tail, which is more characteristic of the smaller parrots. Its plumage is mostly grey, paler below, with a white wing patch, orange cheeks and a distinctive pointed crest. The male can be identified by its bright yellow forehead, face and crest. Young Cockatiels resemble the adult female, although the young males usually have a brighter yellow face. The Cockatiel is not found naturally in any other country, but is a popular cage bird, second only to the Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulates. The Cockatiel does not have the screeching voice of many other parrots and may learn to 'speak'.
Distribution: The Cockatiel is widespread throughout mainland Australia, but is uncommon in Tasmania, with only a few sightings being reported to date.
Habitat: The Cockatiel is seen in pairs or small flocks, in most types of open country, usually near water. It is common throughout its range, especially in the north and the more arid inland areas.
Seasonal movements: Throughout its range, the Cockatiel is strongly nomadic, moving around in response to the availability of food and water.
Feeding: Cockatiels feed on a variety of grass seeds, nuts, berries and grain. They may feed either on the ground or in trees, and always in small to large numbers. Cockatiels roost in trees near water and travel from these areas in large flocks to feeding grounds.
Breeding: Cockatiels may breed at any time, in response to suitable periods of rain, especially in the more arid regions. Both sexes share the incubation of the eggs, which are laid in a hollow, high up in trees. Suitable trees are either in or close to water. Cockatiels enter the nest hollow tail first.
Calls: Although mostly silent, the Cockatiel gives a long and distinctive "queel-queel" in flight. It does not have the screeching voice of many other parrots and may learn to 'speak'.
Minimum Size: 30cm
Maximum Size: 33cm
Average size: 32cm
Average weight: 90g
Breeding season: Normally July to December in south of range
Clutch Size: 2 to 9, usually 5
Incubation: 19 days
Nestling Period: 30 days
(Source: www.birdsinbakyards.net)
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Focused........
Grey heron
Scientific name: Ardea cinerea
Herons are often seen standing as still as a statue on their long thin legs in shallow waters of ponds and lakes patiently waiting for their next meal to swim by. These tall birds spend most of their time alone feeding mainly on fish but can be tempted by the occasional tasty mole! When feeling particularly lazy the heron will visit gardens with ponds for a quick and easy snack. Make sure you look out for these incredible birds in flight, their slow-flapping wings and long legs held out behind make them hard to miss!
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Brown Honeyeater
Scientific Name: Lichmera indistincta
Description: The Brown Honeyeater is a medium-small pale grey-brown honeyeater with a distinctive yellow tuft behind its eye. It also has yellow to olive wing patches and tail panels. It is pale grey below, darker olive brown above and has a long curved black bill. Young birds are paler with more yellow colouring and a yellow gape (open bill). It has a fast, undulating flight and is seen either singly, in pairs or small flocks in flowering trees and shrubs.
Similar species: The Brown Honeyeater is similar to the Dusky Honeyeater, Myzomela obscura, in size and shape, but this species is much darker brown and lacks the tuft behind the eye and the yellowish wing patches. It could also be confused with females or young birds of the Scarlet Honeyeater, M. sanguinolenta, or Red-headed Honeyeater, M. erythrocephala, but these are smaller with shorter tails, lack the eye tuft, often have a reddish face and have very different calls.
Distribution: The Brown Honeyeater is widespread in Australia, from south-western Australia across the Top End to Queensland, and through New South Wales on the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range to Swansea in the Hunter Region. It is rarely seen southwards from Lake Macquarie to the Parramatta River, Sydney, but is regularly recorded in suitable habitats such as Homebush Bay and Kurnell in small numbers, and is a vagrant to the Illawarra region. It is found west of the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales to Tamworth and Gunnedah and south-west to Hillston. The Brown Honeyeater is also found in Bali and the Lesser Sundas, Indonesia, Aru Island and in parts of Papua New Guinea.
Habitat: The Brown Honeyeater is found in a wide range of wooded habitats, usually near water. It is often found in mangroves and woodlands or dense forests along waterways. It can also be found in mallee, spinifex woodlands, low dense shrublands, heaths and saltmarshes, as well as in monsoon forests or rainforests in the Top End. It is common in parks, gardens and street trees in urban areas as well as on farms and in remnant vegetation along roadsides.
Seasonal movements: Nomadic or partly nomadic in response to flowering of food plants. Some seasonal movements in parts of its range.
Feeding: The Brown Honeyeater feeds on nectar and insects, foraging at all heights in trees and shrubs. It may be seen in mixed flocks with other honeyeaters. In Western Australia, these include the Singing Honeyeater, White-fronted Honeyeater and the Red Wattlebird, while in the Top End it is often seen with the Dusky Honeyeater. However, it will be displaced at bird feeders by larger birds.
Breeding: During the breeding season, male Brown Honeyeaters defend a nesting territory by singing from tall trees and they stand guard while the female builds the nest and lays the eggs. The small neat cup-nest is made from fine bark, grasses and plant down, bound with spiders web, and is slung by the rim in a shrub, fern or tree at up to 5 m from the ground and is usually very well-hidden by thick foliage. Only the female incubates, but both sexes feed the young. Nest predators include Pied Currawongs, snakes and cats. Brush Cuckoos, Pallid Cuckoos,Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoos and Shining Bronze-Cuckoos will parasitise nests.
Calls: Clear, ringing, musical: 'whit, whit, whitchit'
Minimum Size: 12cm
Maximum Size: 16cm
Average size: 14cm
Average weight: 11g
Breeding season: April to November in north; June to February in south
Clutch Size: 2 to 3 eggs
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
Wilga - attracts a lot of honeyeaters in flower and red-tailed black cockatoos when the fruit comes - Geijera parviflora, commonly known as wilga, is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to inland parts of eastern Australia. It has drooping branches, linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves, small white flowers in loose panicles and spherical fruit containing a shiny black seed. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Name: Black-capped kingfisher
Scientific: Halcyon pileata
Malay: Pekaka Kepala Hitam / Pekaka Kopiah Hitam / Pekaka Ubun Hitam
Family: Alcedinidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
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Scientific classification:
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Subclass:Heterobranchia
Infraclass:Euthyneura
Subterclass:Tectipleura
Superorder:Eupulmonata
Order:Stylommatophora
Suborder:Helicina
Infraorder:Helicoidei
Superfamily:Helicoidea
Family:Helicidae
Subfamily:Helicinae
Tribe:Allognathini
Genus:Iberus
Species:I. gualtieranus
Subspecies: I. gualtieranus mariae
Punta Entinas, Almería, Andalucía, Spain
February 2016
From my collection
Teal
Scientific name: Anas crecca
The teal is a pretty, little dabbling duck, which can be easily spotted in winter on reservoirs, gravel pits, and flooded meadows. Watching flocks of this bird wheel through a winter sky is a true delight.
Scientific name is Cerasus Incisa. Japanese name is Fujizakura Hakonezakura,Mamezakura.
富士山周辺、箱根、伊豆半島に特有の野生種の桜。樹の高さは高くても6ｍ程度と樹高が低く、花弁は下を向いて咲きます。花弁の色は白色と薄紅色。フジザクラ、ハコネザクラと地域に依って種々呼称されます。
Taking time to preen in the sun....
Glossy ibis
This glossy wading bird is a scarce visitor to the UK, though records have become more common in recent decades.
Scientific name
Plegadis falcinellus
The glossy ibis is a heron-like bird with a long, curving beak. They breed in parts of southern and southeast Europe and are occasional visitors to the UK. However, in recent decades sightings here have become more common, mirroring an increase in their breeding population in southwest Europe. Glossy ibises made a couple of breeding attempts in England in 2014 and 2016, with the first confirmed successful nest in 2022. It's predicted that breeding may become more common as climate change results in drier summers in southwest Europe and milder winters in the UK.
Most glossy ibises arrive in autumn, occasionally staying through the winter, though they could be seen in any month. It's often young birds that turn up here, sometimes just months after leaving the nest. Bird ringing projects have allowed us to see where some of these visiting ibises have travelled from, as they're fitted with a ring on their leg that allows birdwatchers to identify individual birds and trace their origins. Most of the ringed birds that have been spotted here were given their identifying rings as nestlings in Doñana in southwest Spain, though a few have been young birds from the Petite Camargue in the south of France.
Glossy ibises are usually found in wetlands or damp fields, using their long bill to probe the mud for food. They have a varied diet, mostly feeding on invertebrates like water beetles and dragonfly larvae, but occasionally eating newts, frogs, lizards, and other vertebrates. Their bills have special sensory organs in the tip that can detect pressure and vibrations, allowing them to find food buried in the mud.
Medium sized lark with a prominent crest. Separated from the more range-restricted Thekla's Lark by longer bill with straight lower mandible and usually longer and spikier crest. Lots of variation in plumage color, which matches local soil types, but usually grayer and darker than Eurasian Skylark. Short tail and rust-tinged underwings obvious in flight. Found in dry areas with scarce vegetation, especially agricultural land and at roadsides. Song is an often magnificently long and highly impressive series of varied jumbled twitters, trills, warbles, and slurred notes. Often gives a plaintive “ch’wee.” (eBird)
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When we saw this bird it had recently been split from Crested Lark to become the Maghreb Lark. Three years later it has been re-lumped with the Crested Lark. These scientific studies certainly play havoc with one's Life List and photo files.
Barrage el-Mansour Eddhab, Morocco. March 2019.
Barcelona Birding Point.
Scientific name: "Panurus Biarmicus"
Meaning behind the name:
Panurus = exceedingly tailed (no doubt referring to their long tail)
Biarmicus = bearded, which refers to its moustached appearance / with two beard stripes. The same Latin name "Biarmicus" is also given to the Lanner Falcon due to its masked bearded appearanceon it's face.
The original English name was "Bearded titmouse" in 1776, and renamed "Bearded tit" in 1843.
A more appropriate name "Reedling" was used from the Middle English period, (of which my references doesn't give a year). The name "Reedling" speaks for itself as the species is so attached to living in Reed-beds.
A similar scene shoot by Color-Lanthar and Trioplan. Not scientific way but some similarities and differences may be examined :-)
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Eastern Great Egret
Scientific Name: Ardea modesta
Description: The Great Egret's overall plumage is white, and, for most of the year, when not breeding, the bill and facial skin are yellow. The feet are dark olive-grey or sooty black, as are the legs. During the breeding season, the bill turns mostly black and the facial skin becomes green. Also at this time, long hair-like feathers (nuptial plumes) hang across the lower back, and the legs become pinkish-yellow at the top. Young Great Egrets are similar to the adults, but have a blackish tip to the bill.
Similar species: The Great Egret can be confused with other white egrets found in Australia. It can be distinguished by the length of its neck, which is greater than the length of its body (and with a noticeable kink two-thirds of the way up), a dark line extending from the base of the bill to behind the eye and the overall larger size.
Distribution: Great Egrets occur throughout most of the world. They are common throughout Australia, with the exception of the most arid areas.
Habitat: Great Egrets prefer shallow water, particularly when flowing, but may be seen on any watered area, including damp grasslands. Great Egrets can be seen alone or in small flocks, often with other egret species, and roost at night in groups.
Feeding: The Great Egret usually feeds alone. It feeds on molluscs, amphibians, aquatic insects, small reptiles, crustaceans and occasionally other small animals, but fish make up the bulk of its diet. The Great Egret usually hunts in water, wading through the shallows, or standing motionless before stabbing at prey. Birds have also been seen taking prey while in flight.
Breeding: The Great Egret breeds in colonies, and often in association with cormorants, ibises and other egrets. Both sexes construct the nest, which is a large platform of sticks, placed in a tree over the water. The previous years' nest may often be re-used. Both sexes also incubate the eggs and care for the young (usually two or three).
Minimum Size: 70cm
Maximum Size: 90cm
Average size: 80cm
Breeding season: October to December in the south; March to May in the north.
Clutch Size: 2 to 6
Incubation: 28 days
Nestling Period: 40 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Scientific name: Morpho menelaus
Common name: Menelaus blue morpho
Nombre: Mariposa morfo azul
Lugar de la captura: Zona del canal de Panamá, Panama!
As per Wikipedia:
The Menelaus blue morpho (Morpho menelaus) is one of thirty species of butterfly in the subfamily Morphinae.
[1] Its wingspan is approximately 12 cm, and its dorsal forewings and hindwings are a bright, iridescent blue edged with black, while the ventral surfaces are brown.
[2] Its iridescent wings are an area of interest in research because of its unique microstructure.
[3] Due to its characteristic blue color, Morpho menelaus is considered valuable among collectors and was widely hunted in the 20th century.
Today Beety is in his greenhouse studying his flowers. He is very happy with them, because it is Mother's Day here in the Netherlands on Sunday, so there must be a nice one for his mummy Addy ;-))
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Reed warbler
Scientific name: Acrocephalus scirpaceus
The reed warbler is a medium-sized warbler of reedbeds. A summer visitor to the UK, it weaves its nest as a sling between two or three reed stems, and lays three to five eggs in it. Forming monogamous pairs, both parents raise the chicks, bringing them insects to eat. Reed warblers are common victims of brood-parasitism by cuckoos. Having laid an egg in the nest while the parents are unaware, the female cuckoo leaves the intruding chick to hatch. The cuckoo chick pushes all the other eggs and chicks out of the nest so its foster parents can concentrate solely on bringing it food.
Widespread summer visitor to lowland central and southern England and Wales. Rarer in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Scientific name: Mellisuga minima
Common name: Vervain hummingbird
Nombre: Zumbadorcito, Zumbador verbena, Zumbaflor
Lugar de la captura: República Dominicana
According to Wikipedia: Mellisuga is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. They are notable for being the first and second smallest bird species in the world.
The genus was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the vervain hummingbird as the type species.[ The name Mellisuga is a combination of the Latin words mel or mellis, meaning "honey" and sugere, meaning "to suck".
Redshank
Scientific name
Tringa totanus
The redshank is a large sandpiper with long, bright red legs. It is a typical wader, feeding in shallow water around lakes, marshes, mudflats and coastal wetlands. It breeds on open marshes, mires and saltmarshes, particularly in Scotland and northern England. Look for it typically posed on top of a post, fence or rock in wet grassland or farmland areas.
Scientific name: Periparus ater.
Not as colourful as some of its relatives, the coal tit has a distinctive grey back, black cap, and white patch at the back of its neck. Its smaller, more slender bill than blue or great tits means it can feed more successfully in conifers. A regular visitor to most feeders, they will take and store food for eating later.
In winter they join with other tits to form flocks which roam through woodlands and gardens in search of food. Info: RSPB.
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Pied Currawong
Scientific name: Strepera graculina
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_currawong
Ulladulla
South Coast of New South Wales
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Herring gull
Scientific name: Larus argentatus
The herring gull is the typical 'seagull' of our seaside resorts, though our coastal populations have declined in recent decades.
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