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Curlew Sandpiper - Calidris Ferruginea
The male curlew sandpiper performs an aerial display during courtship. The clutch of 3–4 eggs are laid in ground scrape in the tundra and taiga, mostly in Siberia.
It is extremely difficult to measure breeding success or population trends in their breeding grounds because nests are scattered over a vast region and their positions influenced by localised weather.
Of all shorebird species, the curlew sandpiper has the smallest breeding range in relation to its non-breeding range. After breeding these birds migrate south to Africa, Australasia or India. South Africa is at the southern limit of the migration path from Siberia, 15,000 km (9,300 mi) or 130° of latitude away.
This wader is highly gregarious, and will form flocks with other calidrid waders, particularly dunlin. Despite its easterly breeding range, this species is regular on passage in western Europe, presumably because of the southwesterly migration route.
It forages in soft mud on marshes and the coast, mainly picking up food by sight. It mostly eats insects and other small invertebrates.
The numbers of this species (and of little stint) depend on the population of lemmings. In poor lemming years, predatory species such as skuas and snowy owls will take Arctic-breeding waders instead.
Counts of the birds in South Africa, specifically at Langebaan Lagoon where they are most numerous, indicate a 40% decline in numbers between 1975 and 2009. A similar trend has been noted in Australia and may be linked to effects of global warming at the breeding grounds.
This species occasionally hybridizes with the sharp-tailed sandpiper and the pectoral sandpiper, producing the presumed "species" called "Cooper's sandpiper" ("Calidris" × cooperi) and "Cox's sandpiper" ("Calidris" × paramelanotos), respectively.
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This buck stops to stretch and rub his face into this spruce bough. They do this as a means to leave their scent , secretions from eye and facial glands, on the bough and leave their mark. They will also nibble on the branch tips and their scent gets left that way as well. This "scrape" is part of their behaviour to mark territory and attract does.
The tip of the Freedom Tower at One World Trade Center.
I had a couple of hours before catching a plane in Newark and ended up in the Liberty State Park, a fantastic spot to get great shots of Lower Manhattan skyline.
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Rigs waiting to be Scraped or Refurbished, Cromarty Firth, Highlands, Scotland.
The Cromarty Firth has been used for the parking up of rigs since the start of the North Sea oil and gas industry.
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► CLASSÉ PARMI LES PLUS BEAUX VILLAGES DE FRANCE, l'antique village de Ségur offre le visage saisissant d'un ensemble préservé par les griffures du temps.
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Total of Iberdrola Tower, the tallest building in the Basque Country and the city of Bilbao with a height of 165 meters, inaugurated in 2012.
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Weathered wooden pier bollard with paint scrapes and rusted cable.
China Camp Village Pier, San Rafael, Marin County, San Pablo Bay, Northern California, USA.
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Black-fronted Dotterel
Scientific Name: Elseyornis melanops
Description: The Black-fronted Dotterel is a small wader with a distinctive black face-mask and breast-band and prominent chestnut scapulars (shoulder feathers). In juveniles, the breast-band is initially absent but a brown band slowly appears as the bird develops. Legs are pink orange, and the bill is red with a black tip. The dark eye is ringed with red. In flight the wings look broad and the tail short, while the black and white contrast is striking. Flight is slow with almost hesitant wing beats. This species is also called the Black-fronted Plover.
Similar species: The adult and immature Black-fronted Dotterel are unmistakable, though the juvenile could be confused with the juvenile and immature Red-capped Plover.
Distribution: The Black-fronted Dotterel is widespread throughout Australasia.
Habitat: The Black-fronted Dotterel is found in the shallow margins of wetlands, lakes, rivers, sewage farms, storm drains and marshes. It is normally always near freshwater and is not often seen on the coast.
Seasonal movements: Breeding resident.
Feeding: The Black-fronted Dotterel eats small molluscs as well as aquatic and terrestrial insects. When it forages, it keeps its body horizontal while bobbing its head to look for food, often running then stopping suddenly to peck at food items.
Breeding: The Black-fronted Dotterel lays its eggs in a shallow scrape, often on pebbly ground and quite close to water. It may have more then one brood per year. Both parents incubate the eggs and look after the young.
Calls: Sharp 'tip' call, singular or repeated three or four times.
Minimum Size: 16cm
Maximum Size: 18cm
Average size: 17cm
Average weight: 32g
Breeding season: September to February
Clutch Size: 2 to 3 eggs
Incubation: 27 days
Nestling Period: 25 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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nutria, coypu or river rat
Nutria
[Myocastor coypus]
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More like scraping the bottom. The building of the moron that shall not be named.
Manhattan, March 2017
Well since March 23rd we’ve been cooped up for the most part and only let out for the govt designated 1hr trot round the park.
The supply of suitable photo inspiration diminishing by the day.
So, in concert with Leon...
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...here’s my barrel scraping pic.
A tree rat basically, foraging for the crumbs I left on our balcony in the hope of attracting a nice duet of Robins. Having said that the Robin is well known in the avian world for being a vicious little b@stard.
The squirrel is now a regular customer, making the super leap from a nearby tree and landing less than gracefully onto the balcony.
Cute and less nervous than the birds, he and I shared a Maryland Cookie 🍪 ... then I remembered the bloody things are vermin and covered in fleas and ticks. The squirrel not the cookie.
Maybe it’s time for the egg and 2 forks pic?
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Australia’s largest gull, the Pacific Gull occurs only along the coasts of southern Australia. Despite its name, the species is seldom seen on the Pacific coastline, and is far more common on the beaches bordering the Southern and Indian Oceans. They breed in colonies on islands, extending from the Furneaux Group in eastern Bass Strait, west to Shark Bay. Their nests may consist of either a scrape in the ground, sometimes lined with gravel, or a neat nest made from grass, sticks and seaweed.