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Ariramba- da-cauda-ruiva - Bico-de-agulha (Galbula ruficauda), fotografado no Parque Olhos D'Água, em Brasília, Brasil.
A garganta do macho é somente branca, a fêmea distingue-se pela garganta arruivada.
Veja um vídeo no endereço br.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1zej0BAbQ
Um texto em Português:
Família: Galbulidae Espécie: Galbula ruficauda
Comprimento: 22 cm; peso: 23 g. Presente da Amazônia até o Paraná. Encontrado também do México à Bolívia e Argentina. Comum em bordas de florestas úmidas (e no interior, próximo a clareiras, capoeiras, margens de rios e brejos) e em matas ralas e secas. Vive normalmente aos pares, pousado em arbustos, de onde voa para apanhar insetos, como borboletas e abelhas.
Faz ninho em buracos escavados em barrancos ou em cupinzeiros nas árvores. Põe de 2 a 4 ovos pontilhados de marrom. Conhecido também como beija-flor-grande, ariramba-da-mata-virgem, beija-flor-d´água, jacamarici, bico-de-sovela, sovelão (Minas Gerais), ariramba-de-rabo-vermelho e ariramba-de-cauda-ruiva.
Fonte: www.eln.gov.br/Pass500/BIRDS/port.htm
Ouça seu canto no endereço: www.xeno-canto.org/browse.php?query=Galbula ruficauda&lang=port
A text in english:
See a video in the address br.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1zej0BAbQ
Rufous-tailed Jacamar, Fotographed at Brasília's Olhos Dágua (Water's Eyes) Park.
A novice may be forgiven for thinking, on first sight, that this bird was a Hummingbird. The shape, the needle-like bill and the iridescence cannot help but give that impression. But this a far larger species than any hummingbird. In overcast conditions it has a somewhat dull greenish colour on the upper parts, but in bright low-angle sunlight the bird seems to catch fire and all the colours of the rainbow, except blue, appear in a burst of splendour reminiscent of the queen of a Trinidad Carnival band. Go to Tobago and stop at the 23 1/2 mile post on the Windward Road and you are certain to see some of these birds flying in and out of their nest holes in the mudbank on the side of the road.
Listen its song at the addres: www.xeno-canto.org/browse.php?query=Galbula ruficauda&lang=port
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Galbulidae
Genus: Galbula
Species: G. ruficauda
Binomial name
Galbula ruficauda
Cuvier, 1816
The Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) is a near-passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World in southern Mexico, Central America and South America as far as southern Brazil and Ecuador.
The jacamars are elegant brightly coloured birds with long bills and tails, which feed on insects caught in the air, like bee-eaters. They distinguish between edible and unpalatable butterflies mainly according to body shape (Chai 1996). This species is a resident breeder in a range of dry or moist woodlands and scrub. The two to four rufous-spotted white eggs are laid in a burrow in a bank or termite mound.
The Rufous-tailed Jacamar is typically 25 cm long with a 5 cm long black bill. The subspecies G. r. brevirostris has, as its name implies, a shorter bill. This bird is metallic green above, and the underparts are mainly orange, including the undertail, but there is a green breast band. Sexes differ in that the male has a white throat, and the female a buff throat; she also tends to be have paler underparts. The race G. r. pallens has a copper-coloured back in both sexes.
This insectivore hunts from a perch, sitting with its bill tilted up, then flying out to catch flying insects.
The Rufous-tailed Jacamar's call is a sharp pee-op, and the song a high thin peeo-pee-peeo-pee-pe-pe, ending in a trill.
Etta is happy to scramble to the top of the old termite mound ... for a small treat (Ziwi Peak- Natural New Zealand Pet Nutrition Treats).
Kahn will keep his feet firmly on the ground :)
Termites are very vulnerable to the elements. Only the winged adults develop compund eyes and thick skins to enable them to move easily outside the nest. Kyogle, NSW.
I found a few spot where the termites ate across the bottom plate and up the tongue and grove planks on the wall. I was able to poke this hole open with my fingers.
These wedge-shaped mounds are aligned in a north-south direction as a response to the environment. The termites which build them feed on grass roots and other plant debris found in
of the mound acts as a temperature regulator, and allows the temperature to remain stable.
Location: Lichfield National Park, Darwin, Australia
Gear: Canon 5D Mark III + Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS + B+W CPL
Exposure: f/4 1/800sec ISO100 135mm
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A day at Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
The Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) is a bear found primarily in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. Its Malay and Indonesian name is Beruang Madu (Honey Bear).
The Sun Bear stands approximately 1.2 m in length, making it the smallest member in the bear family.
Males tend to be 10-45% larger than females; the former normally weigh between 30 and 60 kg, the latter between 20 and 40 kg. Despite its small size, the Sun Bear possesses a very long, slender tongue, ranging from 20 to 25 cm in length. The bear uses it to extract honey from beehives.
The diet of the Sun Bear varies widely and includes small vertebrates, such as lizards, birds, and other mammals, in addition to fruits, eggs, termites, the young tips of palm trees, nests of bees, honey, berries, sprouts, insects, roots, cocoa, and coconuts.
Being a primarily nocturnal creature, the Sun Bear tends to rest during the day on lower limbs not far above the ground. Because it spends so much time in trees, the Sun Bear can sometimes cause a good amount of damage to private property. It has been known to destroy coconut palms and cacao trees on plantations.
TERMITE MOUNDS DAWNING"
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Es gibt Orte die haben einfach was mystisches. Egal wann man diese besucht, es herrscht eine spezielle Stimmung. So ein Ort sind die Termite Mounds im Litchfield National Park - zumindest für mich.
Als wir im September 2013 wieder in dieser Gegend waren entschlossen wir uns diesen 350km Abstecher zu den Termite Mounds zu machen - obwohl es eigentlich nicht eingeplant war. Doch wollte ich die Gelegenheit nutzen wenn wir schon in dieser Gegend sind, diesen Ort erneut zu besuchen und zu fotografieren. Wer Interesse hat mehr darüber zu efahren kann meinen neusten Blog Artikel auf nature-moments.com's Blog nachlesen.Der Link zum Blog findet ihr bei den Kommentaren!!!!!!!!!!!
There are a few places on earth that have something mystical. No matter what time you visit them there's just that special mood, something you can describe with words. One of those places are the Termite Mounds at Litchfield National Park, at least for me. When we traveled through the area in september 2013 we decided to make this 350km trip to Litchfield though we haven't planned to visit this places on this trip. But I thought I might as well take the opportunity while we are travelling through, to visit an photograph the Termite Mounds again. A wonderful and magic place!
In one of the most ancient instances of monoculture, Macrotermes termites cultivate gardens of Termitomyces fungus as a form of external digestion, enabling the break down plant lignin for their consumption. Here, soldiers and nymphs of M. gilvus attend their fungus comb, found deep within their subterranean nest. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
A large termites nest in the Northern Territory Australia. They ranged from red, to the colour shown and grey.
This termite mound, at Fitzroy Falls in the Morton National Park, New South Wales, hosts an estimated half a million milk termites (Coptotermes lacteus) – underground creatures that live mainly on dead wood, thus helping natural recycling... unless, of course, it's your house they're eating. The mound, which is constructed from soil pellets, termite saliva and body waste, protects the termites from extreme weather and most predators (though not echidnas and goannas).
One of the key roles of the mound is temperature control – the termites can open and close vents to create a stable temperature, and to control humidity, which rarely varies by more than 1 per cent.
Incidentally, all praise to the National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales, which provides excellent, well-marked walking facilities and information boards around the Fitzroy Falls. Clearly defined and maintained, they enable visitors to meander at leisure and discover nature at its best.
One major confusing when comparing ants and termites is the issue of winged, flying ants and winged termite swarmers.
Termite Swarmers are young king and queen termites. These termites are the ones that leave the termite colony to start a new one. They have their wings to make this significant journey, but loose them after they mate. Termite swarmers will only emerge when weather conditions are right, usually on a warm, moist day. This frequently happens after a rain storm. They tend to emerge in swarms (hence the term “swarmer”).
Photographed Eudlo, Queensland, Australia.
The next in my series of steampunk inspired creepy crawlies. More of a generic bug that wasn't initially meant to be a termite, just what it kinda looked like in the end. I'll be posting one each day until I have them all photographed concluding with a group shot of them. Each standard photo will be accompanied by an "in the wild" photograph of them.