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Natures fractal found in a agave that has thorns, I got stung trying to clear out dead leaves.
Named after the English queen Victoria, the Agave victoriae-reginae is a striking solitaire agave. Just beware of the sharp spine at the end of each leaf, and keep it removed from pathways. Several varieties are available in cultivation that offset heavily.
Each leave has a sharp terminal spine that will get any inattentive finger in its proximity.
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EXPLORE #78 February 25, 2009
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A year-round resident of Southeast Arizona is the violet-crowned hummingbird. Very unique with its white-white undercarriage, violet crown and red bill. And, interestingly, both males and females look alike (usually the males are the colorful ones)
This a bird I would like to get better images of. I love the color of it's plumage but perched on a branch or a wire just doesn't do it for me.
Japanese dogtooth violet @ Showa Commemorative National Government Park
Carlzeiss Y/Contax sonnar T*2.8/85
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The yellow violets are not usually the first to bloom. This one was in a very sunny, sheltered spot. It's tiny, but I was happy to see it.
Photos from a birding trip to the Atlantic Forest of Southeast Brazil. Only 10% of this forest is left, yet it contains many endemic, near endemic, and bird species in general. Separate and distinct from the Amazon.
There is no question about how this swallow got its name. The colors are very striking when the sun illuminates them. He is sitting on tufa at the edge of Mono Lake.
Violet, violet, sparkling with dew!
Down in the meadow-land wild where you grew,
How did you come by the beautiful blue
In which your soft petals unfold ?
Explore #27, 27.02.2016
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This violet-crowned hummingbird is getting suspicious about all the photographers at Beatty's Guest Ranch (Cochise County, AZ)
Violet Saberwing - La Paz Waterfall Gardens, Costa Rica
Bird Species (# 262) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
Tindakon Dazang Beach,
Kg.Terongkongan Laut, Kudat.
Some of the best sunset colours I've seen in my short time here .
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ource: Wikipedia
The violet-headed hummingbird (Klais guimeti) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is the only species in the genus Klais.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest.
Taxonomy
The violet-headed hummingbird was formally described in 1843 by the French ornithologist Jules Bourcier from specimens collected near Caracas in Venezuela. Bourcier coined the binomial name Trochilus guimeti.[3] The violet-headed hummingbird in now the only species placed in the genus Klais that was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.[4][5] The genus is named after Kleis (or Cleis), the daughter of the Lesbian poet Sappho. The specific name was chosen to honour the French chemist Jean-Baptiste Guimet.[6]
Three subspecies are recognised:[5]
K. g. merrittii (Lawrence, 1860) – east Honduras to east Panama
K. g. guimeti (Bourcier, 1843) – east Colombia and north Venezuela to east Ecuador and extreme north Peru
K. g. pallidiventris Stolzmann, 1926 – east Peru and west Bolivia
Description
Violet-headed hummingbirds are on average 8.1 cm (3.2 in) in length with a short, straight bill that averages 13 mm (0.51 in) in length.[7] The head and throat of the male are intense violet or blue (depending on the angle viewed) with white spots behind each eye that stands out against the dark head. The back is metallic bluish-green (or bronze-green depending on the angle) and breast is green fading to a grey belly. The tail is green with tiny white-grey tail spots. The wings are black.[7][8][9][10]
The female is duller with a blue cap, green back and grey throat, breast and belly. The wings and tail are the same as the male. The female also has the white spot behind the eye.[7][8][9][10]
Distribution and habitat
The violet-headed hummingbird ranges from Central America well into South America. This includes Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in Central America and western Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, northern Brazil, western Venezuela and northern Bolivia.[7][8][9][10] The species tends to be local in distribution, common in some areas and rare in other seemingly identical areas.[7][11]
The violet-headed hummingbird occurs in the mountains and has been recorded to occur from 200 to 850 m (660 to 2,790 ft) in Costa Rica,[9] from 400 to 1,850 m (1,310 to 6,070 ft) in Colombia[7] and 150 to 1,900 m (490 to 6,230 ft) in Venezuela.[10]
Violet-headed hummingbirds are found on the edges of humid primary forest, openings in secondary forests, in shrub and thicket clearings[7][8] and in various human modified habitat such as Stachytarpheta hedges in Costa Rica[12] and shade-grown coffee plantations in Venezuela.[11]
Behaviour
Breeding
In Costa Rica, males sing in loose leks[7] beginning in October and intensifying until the breeding season in December.[13] The chorus continues until the dry season causes the flowers to disappear in February and March. The chorus picks up again when the rains begin again in April, but the heavy rains of May shut the chorus down again until October.[13] The leks are located 5 to 18 m (16 to 59 ft) above the ground on the edge of clearings where the males sing conspicuously from slender dead twigs.[14] Occasionally, an individual will sing solo without other violet-headed hummingbirds nearby.[7]
The nest is a mossy cup[7] built 1 to 5 m (3.3 to 16.4 ft) above forested mountain streams. They are normally built in February,[15] but sometimes as early as January.[7] The last young fledge in May.[7][15]
Food and feeding
The violet-headed hummingbird drinks nectar from understory flowering shrubs as well as taking small insects[11] on the wing.[7] In Costa Rica, a particular fondness for Stachytarpheta flowers has been reported with as many as one individual every 5–7 m (16–23 ft) on a hedge near Murcia.[12]
Relationship with humans
The violet-headed hummingbird has been designated as a species of Least Concern due to its large range and ability to exist in human modified habitat.[1][11] The flowering shrubs near Murcia, Costa Rica, were reported to be in an area cleared for agriculture with very few trees.[12]
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
The violet turaco, also known as the violaceous plantain eater (Musophaga violacea), is a large turaco, a group of African otidimorphae.
These are unmistakable birds, but shy and often inconspicuous in the treetops. They are approximately 48 cm (19 in) long, including a long tail and a 4 cm (1.6 in) bill. They boast a winglength of 21 cm (8.3 in)[2] and weigh approximately 360 g.
The plumage is glossy violet, except for the yellow forehead, chestnut crown and white ear coverts; the bill is thick and red. In flight, the violet turaco's crimson primary flight feathers contrast with the violet plumage. The red colour in the wings is typical of turacos.
The violet-green swallow is a small North American passerine bird in the swallow family. These aerial insectivores are distributed along the west coast from Alaska to Mexico, extending as far east as Montana and Texas.
Belgium.
Antwerp National Zoo.
Antwerp Zoo (Dutch: ZOO Antwerpen) is a zoo in the centre of Antwerp, Belgium, located next to the Antwerpen-Centraal railway station. It is the oldest animal park in the country, and one of the oldest in the world, established on 21 July 1843.
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probably Dog violet. At a local nature reserve near Poole
Unfortunately the slight breeze took the edge off the sharpness here
Sussex.
Having recorded this species in neighbouring Hampshire, I was keen to find some in Sussex but despite searching several possible locations, this was the only one I found (one other had been nibbled off).
This is the last of the Helleborines for this year. There remain a further 4 species to see but only one of those can be found in the South East.
A little picture of the two loves of the house.
Please say a prayer for my John. He is in the hospital with pneumonia and very sick.
I've never seen beige violets before, there are so many species of violets I didn't know about now that I have the time to walk about and discover them! Have a lovely weekend everyone!! Note: these were beige but my camera wanted to make them white, so I had to adjust the color a bit.