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It breeds on inshore (and occasionally offshore) islands and rocky coastal cliffs. Nests are placed in suitable fissures, burrows, caves and cavities, sometimes the old nest of a Humboldt Penguin One or two eggs are incubated for about four weeks, and the chicks leave the nest after seven weeks. Reduction of nesting habitat as a result of guano harvesting may affect population dynamics. However, Inca Terns are very flexible and successful in using any kind of coverage (natural or artificial) for nesting. They can nest inside abandoned buildings and huts on guano islands, and in any pile of wood and metal slabs. Reduction of anchovy stocks due to commercial fishing may limit population size. The presence of rats and cats on some islands can also prevent nesting or reduce breeding success. Inca Terns will sometimes nest in abandoned Humboldt Penguin nesting burrows.
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The Inca tern (Larosterna inca) is a tern in the family Laridae. It is the only member of the genus Larosterna. This uniquely plumaged bird breeds on the coasts of Peru and Chile, and is restricted to the Humboldt Current. It is an erratic, rare visitor to the southwest coast of Ecuador. It can be identified by its dark grey body, white moustache on both sides of its head, and red-orange beak and feet.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_tern]
The National Aviary, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the only independent indoor nonprofit aviary in the United States. It is also the country's largest aviary, and the only accorded honorary "National" status by the United States Congress. The aviary is home to over 500 birds representing more than 150 species, and is a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
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African grey parrots are a medium sized parrot native to the forests of central Africa. They are predominantly grey with a reddish colored tail. Like all parrots, African greys are naturally capable of copying sounds and are some of the best mimics in the bird world. In the wild, the birds often copy the sounds of other animals in the forest. When the parrots live around people, however, they may learn to copy laughter, the sound of the telephone ringing, whistling, human speech, and many other sounds. This trait makes many parrots, including African greys, popular as pets. Despite their popularity, parrots can make very challenging pets and are not the best choice for many families. They have a strong bite, the natural tendency to call loudly, and have a surprisingly long lifespan. African grey parrots can live to be 40-60 years old. The National Aviary is home to two African grey parrots – Zane and Earl. Zane is female and was named for the famous adventure novelist of the early 1900’s, Zane Grey. Earl is male was named after Earl Grey tea. They are siblings and were hatched at the National Aviary in 2001.
[Source: www.aviary.org/animals/African-Grey-Parrot]
The grey parrot or African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) is an Old World parrot in the family Psittacidae. This article describes the Congo grey parrot. The Timneh parrot (Psittacus timneh) was earlier treated as conspecific but has since been split as a full species.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_parrot]
The National Aviary, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the only independent indoor nonprofit aviary in the United States. It is also the country's largest aviary, and the only accorded honorary "National" status by the United States Congress. The aviary is home to over 500 birds representing more than 150 species, and is a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aviary]
In the early 1920s, an immigrant prospector from Hungary named Alexander Ringhoffer came across the Klondike Bluffs, a similar area with fins and arches to the west of Salt Valley, which he named Devil's Garden.
Pittsburgh (/ˈpɪtsbɜːrɡ/ PITS-burg) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. As of 2017, a total population of 305,704 lives within the city limits, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S. The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania (behind Philadelphia), and the 26th-largest in the U.S. Located at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers, Pittsburgh is known as both "the Steel City" for its more than 300 steel-related businesses, and as the "City of Bridges" for its 446 bridges. The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclined railways, a pre-revolutionary fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. The city developed as a vital link of the Atlantic coast and Midwest, as the mineral-rich Allegheny Mountains made the area coveted by the French and British empires, Virginians, Whiskey Rebels, and Civil War raiders. Aside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in manufacturing of aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, sports, transportation, computing, autos, and electronics. For part of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment; it had the most U.S. stockholders per capita. America's 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out. This heritage left the area with renowned museums, medical centers, parks, research centers, libraries, a diverse cultural district and the most bars per capita in the U.S. Today, Google, Apple, Bosch, Facebook, Uber, Nokia, Autodesk, and IBM are among 1,600 technology firms generating $20.7 billion in annual Pittsburgh payrolls. The area has served as the long-time federal agency headquarters for cyber defense, software engineering, robotics, energy research and the nuclear navy. The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The nation's fifth-largest bank, eight Fortune 500 companies, and six of the top 300 U.S. law firms make their global headquarters in the Pittsburgh area, while RAND, BNY Mellon, Nova, FedEx, Bayer and NIOSH have regional bases that helped Pittsburgh become the sixth-best area for U.S. job growth. In 2015, Pittsburgh was listed among the "eleven most livable cities in the world"; The Economist's Global Liveability Ranking placed Pittsburgh as the first- or second-most livable city in the United States in 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014. The region is a hub for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh]
Point of View is a 2006 landmark public sculpture in bronze by James A. West; it sits in a parklet named for the work of art, Point of View Park, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The piece depicts George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta, with their weapons down, in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770, when the two men met while Washington was in the area examining land for future settlement along the Ohio River. The work weighs 750 lbs. and cost $130,000 for materials with charitable donations of land, pedestal and artist time. Point of View sits on the edge of Mt. Washington (Grandview Avenue at Sweetbriar Street) on the westernmost end of Grand View Scenic Byway Park and the Grand View Scenic Byway, a designated Pennsylvania scenic byway. The sculpture was dedicated on October 25, 2006 by mayor Luke Ravenstahl.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_View_(sculpture)]
Point of View Park is a parklet in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It sits on the edge of Mt. Washington (Grandview Avenue at Sweetbriar Street) on the westernmost end of Grand View Scenic Byway Park, of which it is a part, and the Grand View Scenic Byway, a designated Pennsylvania scenic byway. The park is named for a landmark public sculpture in bronze by James A. West, Point of View. The piece depicts George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta, with their weapons down, in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770, when the two men met while Washington was in the area examining land for future settlement along the Ohio River. Before the dedication of the park in October 2006 by mayor Luke Ravenstahl, it had been known by locals as "Photography Park" because of its popularity with tourists who perched on the concrete overlook taking pictures of the cityscape below.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_View_Park]
Pelicans are large, bulky waterbirds with webbed feet, short legs, and a remarkably long bill. The underside of their bills extends into a pouch that can hold 2-3 gallons of water at a time, used to trap fish. When hunting, they spot their prey from the air and plunge into the water head-first. After trapping the fish, they drain the water out the sides of the bill, and then swallow the fish whole. Brown pelicans incubate their eggs with their feet, essentially standing on them to keep them warm. Unfortunately, the use of the pesticide DDT caused brown pelican numbers to plummet during the 20th century. Much like the decline of the bald eagle, DDT thinned the pelicans’ egg shells, causing them to break during incubation. After DDT use was banned, brown pelican numbers slowly recovered and they were officially removed from the federal endangered species list in 1985. The National Aviary is home to two brown pelicans, Ralph and Dexter. They were both injured in the wild and are unable to be released. The Brown Pelican is one of only three pelican species found in the Western Hemisphere, and one of only two pelican species which feed by diving directly down into the water.
[Source: www.aviary.org/animals/brown-pelican]
The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a North American bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae. It is one of three pelican species found in the Americas and one of only two that feeds by diving in water. It is found on the Atlantic Coast from Nova Scotia to the mouth of the Amazon River, and along the Pacific Coast from British Columbia to northern Chile, including the Galapagos Islands. The nominate subspecies in its breeding plumage has a white head with a yellowish wash on the crown. The nape and neck are dark maroon–brown. The upper sides of the neck have white lines along the base of the gular pouch, and the lower foreneck has a pale yellowish patch. The male and female are similar, but the female is slightly smaller. The non-breeding adult has a white head and neck. The pink skin around the eyes becomes dull and gray in the non-breeding season. It lacks any red hue, and the pouch is strongly olivaceous ochre tinged and the legs are olivaceous gray to blackish-gray. The brown pelican mainly feeds on fish, but occasionally eats amphibians, crustaceans, and the eggs and nestlings of birds. It nests in colonies in secluded areas, often on islands, vegetated land among sand dunes, thickets of shrubs and trees, and mangroves. Females lay two to three oval, chalky white eggs. Incubation takes 28 to 30 days with both sexes sharing duties. The newly hatched chicks are pink, turning gray or black within 4 to 14 days. It takes about 63 days for chicks to fledge. Six to nine weeks after hatching, the juveniles leave the nest, and gather into small groups known as pods. The brown pelican is the national bird of Saint Martin, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the official state bird of Louisiana. In 1902, it was made a part of the official Louisiana seal and, in 1912, a pelican and her young became part of the Flag of Louisiana as well. It has been rated as a species of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It was listed under the United States Endangered Species Act from 1970 to 2009, as pesticides like dieldrin and DDT threatened its future in the southeastern United States and California. In 1972, the use of DDT was banned in Florida, followed by the rest of the United States. Since then, the brown pelican's population has increased. In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt set aside the first National Wildlife Refuge, Florida's Pelican Island, in order to protect the species from hunters.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_pelican]
The National Aviary, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the only independent indoor nonprofit aviary in the United States. It is also the country's largest aviary, and the only accorded honorary "National" status by the United States Congress. The aviary is home to over 500 birds representing more than 150 species, and is a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aviary]
"Forrest Gump Hill" was named after the multi-award winning motion picture Forrest Gump: The site on the desert road near Monument Valley in Utah is a key location from the 1990's movie and appears in the film as the place where Forrest breaks his run across the USA
Point of View Park is a parklet in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It sits on the edge of Mt. Washington (Grandview Avenue at Sweetbriar Street) on the westernmost end of Grand View Scenic Byway Park, of which it is a part, and the Grand View Scenic Byway, a designated Pennsylvania scenic byway. The park is named for a landmark public sculpture in bronze by James A. West, Point of View. The piece depicts George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta, with their weapons down, in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770, when the two men met while Washington was in the area examining land for future settlement along the Ohio River. Before the dedication of the park in October 2006 by mayor Luke Ravenstahl, it had been known by locals as "Photography Park" because of its popularity with tourists who perched on the concrete overlook taking pictures of the cityscape below.
[Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_View_Park]
Landscape Arch was named by Frank Beckwith who explored the area in the winter of 1933–1934 as the leader of an Arches National Monument scientific expedition.
Washington Square is an 2.8-acre / 1.1 ha park in the North Beach district of San Francisco. It was established in 1847 and is one of the city's first parks.
Heinz Field is a stadium located in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It primarily serves as the home to the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) and the Pittsburgh Panthers of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The stadium opened in 2001, after the controlled implosion of the teams' previous stadium, Three Rivers Stadium. The stadium is named for the locally based H. J. Heinz Company, which purchased the naming rights in 2001. It hosted the 2011 NHL Winter Classic between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals on January 1, 2011. On September 10, 2016, it hosted the Keystone Classic, which featured a renewal of the Penn State-Pitt football rivalry, setting a new attendance record at 69,983 people. In 2017 it hosted the Coors Light Stadium Series game featuring the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers. Funded in conjunction with PNC Park and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the $281 million (equivalent to $380.07 million in 2016) stadium stands along the Ohio River, on the Northside of Pittsburgh in the North Shore neighborhood. The stadium was designed with the city of Pittsburgh's history of steel production in mind, which led to the inclusion of 12,000 tons of steel into the design.[6] Ground for the stadium was broken in June 1999 and the first football game was hosted in September 2001. The stadium's natural grass surface has been criticized throughout its history, but Steelers ownership has kept the grass after lobbying from players and coaches. Attendance for the 68,400 seat stadium has sold out for every Steelers home game, a streak which dates back to 1972 (a year before local telecasts of SOLD OUT home games were permitted in the NFL)[citation needed]. A collection of memorabilia from the Steelers and Panthers of the past can be found in the Great Hall.
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This drive through the Minnesota woods near Grand Marais took us to a wonderful maple syrup plant. We loaded up on the fantastic product!!
Embarcadero Center is a commercial complex of four office towers, two hotels, and a shopping center located in San Francisco downtown
Mohave Point is located at an altitude of 2,125 meters. Another remarkable viewpoint on West Rim Drive.
The West Rim Drive consists of the driveable section from Grand Canyon Village west to the road's endpoint at Hermits Rest. In this context, however, drivable means that this 13.1-kilometer section can be traveled from March 1 to November 30 by a regularly scheduled, free shuttle bus. During this time, however, the route is closed to private vehicles. The trail runs along the canyon rim past Trailview Overlook, Maricopa Point, Powell Point, Hopi Point, Mohave Point, The Abyss and Pima Point.
The Look-Out Studio – designed by architect Mary Jane Colter it was built in 1914. It is located within the Grand Canyon Village Historic District. The rubble stone building is at the edge of the canyon. The walls rise to an irregular parapet which incorporates the building's chimneys. Before a roof replacement the roof carried a pile of stones designed to look like they had fallen into ruin. The lookout is on three levels, with a main level housing a shop and enclosed viewing area, a lower viewing platform and a small enclosed observation tower
John Wesley Powell was a geologist, U.S. Soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon.
I made my way to Boulder after a fresh snowfall early Saturday morning to capture this winter wonderland. January 12, 2019 - Contact - anthony@anthonyquintano.com for use
Starting point for a walk to the freestanding natural arch: the parking lot at the Delicate Arch Trailhead. The trail to Delicate Arch is 3 miles / 4.8 kilometer round trip with an elevation change of 480 feet / 146 meters. The trail is well defined for the first 1/2 mile, then does a steep incline over open rock. There is a narrow ledge for the last 200 yards / 185 meter before reaching the arch.
On East Rim Drive (Desert View Dr.) between Grandview Point and Mather Point there is a stop worth making on the right handside, it's easy to miss, but worth stopping for; it's names 'Duck on a Rock' and it's not misnamed
The lake was created as an irrigation project and for the use of hydropower. Unfortunately, the beautiful rocky landscape of Glen Canyon, created by the Colorado River, is now flooded and thus irretrievably lost.
The easternmost viewpoint on the South Rim is Desert View Point. If you approach the Grand Canyon from the northeast via Cameron, this will be the first place to stop and risk a look into the depths. Accordingly, the viewpoint is developed. A huge parking lot along with tourist information and souvenir stores make this part of the South Rim an attraction of its own.
Glen Canyon Dam is part of the Colorado River Storage Project managed by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
It took more than 17 years to fill Lake Powell with water after the dam was completed.
Total capacity of Lake Powell: 27,000,000 acre⋅ft / 33 km3.
Surface area:161,390 acres / 65,310 ha.
One of the first scenic overlooks of Oak Creek Canyon along Hwy 89a, Midegly Bridge is a beautiful site to photograph.
A great starting point for hiking trails to explore the magnificent countryside on foot.
A infrequently traveled trail, the Hance Trail, passes west of Moran Point via two descending trails down Red Canyon, which extends north just below Moran Point and leads directly to Hance Rapids. The stacking rocks visible in the picture is one of the trail markers on the Hance Trail.
Isis Temple is a prominence in the Grand Canyon. It is located below the North Rim and adjacent to Granite Gorge. The prominence lies north of the north bank of the west-flowing Colorado River and is just north of Granite Gorge. The Trinity Creek and canyon flow due south at its west border; its north, and northeast border/flank is formed by Phantom Creek
The Isis Temple prominence (a short remainder caprock of bright-white Coconino Sandstone, on an erosion slope of brownish Hermit Formation), is only about 202 ft / 62 m lower than Grand Canyon Village, the main public center on Grand Canyon’s South Rim.