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This little beauty suddenly burst open and revealed the stamens with lots of yellow pollen, something I had never seen before...
Dicentra's flowering period: April to May, arching sprays of dainty, rose-pink, heart-shaped flowers appear in late spring above fern-like, fresh green leaves.
They come in white and pale pink too.
A single flower of Dicentra spectabilis, about the size of the tip of my thumb, it will never cease to fill me with wonder and marvel at the intricacy and beauty of Nature.
English: Venus's car, bleeding heart or lyre flower
Français : Cœur de Marie ou Cœur-de-Jeannette
German: Tränendes Herz
Nederlands: Gebroken hartje, Mariatranen, bloedend hartje.
Italian: Cuor di Maria
When you look closely you see their hidden tears...Dicentra Spectabilis
Have a beautiful day and thank you for your comments, M, (*_*)
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My photograph 'Goodbye my lover' was used as album art for a song cover of Jeff Buckley's 'Last Goodbye' by musician Patrick Thomas!
Patrick is an extraordinarily talented musician & I'm beyond honored that he asked me to contribute art. I had never heard 'Last Goodbye' before & was completely astonished with how it perfectly represented the emotions I felt when I took that photograph.
To listen to Patrick's cover of 'Last Goodbye',click here.
I truly feel that forms of art can play off of each other to create an unbelievably powerful emotional experience.
This is one of them.
I send a warm thank you to Patrick Thomas for his compassion & gratitude!
Other websites you can find Patrick:
Southern Ground-hornbills are both culturally and ecologically important. They are hailed across their sub-Saharan range as the thunderbirds or rainbirds. They are also a valuable flagship species for the savannah biome as they are easily recognizable and with such large spatial requirements, any successful conservation action in even one of their expansive territories benefits all the other savanna and grassland species, including threatened species such as vultures, wild dog, and cheetah. Their populations continue to decline towards being "Critically Endangered" in South Africa. The reasons for their decline are predominantly loss of habitat to bush-encroachment and development, overgrazing, large-scale monoculture, loss of large nesting trees, besides secondary poisoning, lead toxicosis from spent lead ammunition, and electrocution on transformer boxes.
Info sourced from ground-hornbill.org.za/
Photo capture date & Location: 2017-02 Bushtime at Mabula
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Vulnerable
Contact me on jono_dashper@hotmail.com for use of this image.
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone.
I'm sorry guys, the previous photo sucks! I'm going to re-do that concept probably!
Please press L or don't look at this at all.
Part IIII
So... these past days I was taking part on a workshop. I was invited to go as an assistant to the lecturing photographers, but I was then told that I'd participate on the challenges as well.
Which I wasn't prepared for.
The challenges consisted in telling a story with 36 clicks only. I started many and gave up on all of them, specially because it's impossible to tell a tale of self-portraits with 36 clicks only. I usually take 15 to get one good shot that I like.
Anyway, I ended up with a very mediocre story to show, which I'll share later, but going through the photos I took, I think that if I had more time and was allowed more clicks maybe I'd have something more interesting to show... hahaha
One of the things I learned from the other people participating on the workshop was to accept some kinds of light x shadow situations and angles that I wouldn't even think of using, but that actually work on a photo and look good and create an interesting atmosphere.
I took this photo on a friday morning and sunday morning we all presented a slideshow with our stories. And one of the slideshows was telling a very dramatic story, with a very dramatic kind of light.
This is the link to the video, if you wish to see: THE FARM INCIDENT (password = pwya)
If I hadn't seen Caio's slideshow I would have discarted this photo as a photo in which I had gotten the light wrong. Even if there is this vulnerability in the image which I like and which I so rarely see in myself. But in which I was most of the time during the workshop. I even had nightmares for two nights all going about my mediocrity. Heh...
In this photo, it seems like a moment in time was frozen as I was walking in to a scene. Me gusta.
Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) named "Sampson". This playful fellow is >20 years old and is the largest species in the parrot family. The hyacinth macaw is the rarest of the macaws and is found only in Brazil.
Sampson has a special yard at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park entrance where he enjoys greeting guests.
Conservation status: Vulnerable
This was our second meeting with this female African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus). The previous morning we photographed her resting in a tree. This time is was late afternoon and the light was fading. Our lady leopard was on the ground and moving with a purpose, perhaps shopping for dinner. We followed her a fair distance until she disappeared into the swamp grass.
Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Africa.
Conservation status: Vulnerable
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
Happy Caturday!
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat native to Africa and central Iran. It is the fastest land animal, estimated to be capable of running at 80 to 128 km/h (50 to 80 mph) with the fastest reliably recorded speeds being 93 and 98 km/h (58 and 61 mph), and as such has several adaptations for speed, including a light build, long thin legs and a long tail.
The cheetah lives in three main social groups, females and their cubs, male "coalitions" and solitary males. While females lead a nomadic life searching for prey in large home ranges, males are more sedentary and may instead establish much smaller territories in areas with plentiful prey and access to females.
The cheetah is active mainly during the day, with peaks during dawn and dusk. It feeds on small- to medium-sized prey, mostly weighing under 40 kg (88 lb), and prefers medium-sized ungulates such as impala, springbok and Thomson's gazelles. The cheetah typically stalks its prey to within 60–70 m (200–230 ft), charges towards it, trips it during the chase and bites its throat to suffocate it to death. -
The cheetah occurs in a variety of habitats such as savannahs in the Serengeti, arid mountain ranges in the Sahara and hilly desert terrain in Iran. The cheetah is threatened by several factors such as habitat loss, conflict with humans, poaching and high susceptibility to diseases. In 2016, the global cheetah population was estimated at around 7,100 individuals in the wild; it is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. – Wikipedia
A glimpse of what I hate to crave
will carve out almost fourteen days
A yellow sky, a bright red cloud,
a special song... we laughed so loud...
If it's a strength then why it tore my chest?
Must save myself; it's for the best.
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Vulnerability © Ilina S.
* Cigüita Tigrina, Cape May Warbler (Setophaga tigrina), (Mc)
* La reinita atigrada (Setophaga tigrina), también denominada chipe tigrino, chipe tigre, bijirita atigrada, cigüita tigrina, reinita tigre o tigrina, es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familiaParulidae. Es una especie migratoria que anida en Canadá y el extremo noreste de los Estados Unidos, y pasa el invierno en el Caribe.
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The Cape May warbler (Setophaga tigrina) is a species of New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America. Its breeding range spans all but the westernmost parts of southern Canada
It is migratory, wintering in the West Indies.
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Lugar de Observacion: Reserva CAOS, Jarabacoa,
Republica Dominicana.
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Parulidae
Genus:Setophaga
Species:S. tigrina
Binomial name
Setophaga tigrina
The English name refers to Cape May, New Jersey, where George Ord collected the specimen later described by Alexander Wilson. This species was not recorded again in Cape May for another 100 years, although it is now known as an uncommon migrant there.
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This young guy has done everything to call my attention, it was one pose better than the other, and he looked so funny. Look at his expression!
In Ecuador, Woolly Monkeys are classified as vulnerable.
Laguna Paikawe Reserva, Puerto Misahualli, Ecuador
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the Green Avadavat as Vulnerable because of widespread trapping for the cagebird trade, compounded by habitat loss and degradation through agricultural intensification.
Endemic to central India, one of the bird's remaining strongholds is Mount Abu and that is the main reason we visited this beautiful location. We found them fairly quickly, in a brushy open area amongst the crofts away from the busy town centre.
Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade
Activists for birds and wildlife
~ 6 month old cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) called "Ilangha" is on break and watching people watching her.
Ilangha and her sister "Tombi-Jeanne" are in training to become Animal Ambassadors for the San Diego Zoo. Now ~27 pounds each, the girls are rapidly catching up to their new dog companions, Murray and Elvis.
Conservation Status: Vulnerable
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. [C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves]
... the quiet orb of communication after my dear friend introduced me to one of her dear friends...
... another 5 minutes with CS Lewis for www.flickr.com/photos/a_walden/
mu textures
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Healesville, Victoria, Australia
Endangered
Contact me on jono_dashper@hotmail.com for use of this image.
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Also known as the peewit in imitation of its display calls, its proper name describes its wavering flight. Its black and white appearance and round-winged shape in flight make it distinctive, even without its splendid crest. This familiar farmland bird has suffered significant declines recently and is now an Red List species.
Overview
Latin name
Vanellus vanellus
Family
Plovers and lapwings (Charadriidae)
Where to see them
Lapwings are found on farmland throughout the UK particularly in lowland areas of northern England, the Borders and eastern Scotland. In the breeding season prefer spring sown cereals, root crops, permanent unimproved pasture, meadows and fallow fields. They can also be found on wetlands with short vegetation. In winter they flock on pasture and ploughed fields. The highest known winter concentrations of lapwings are found at the Somerset Levels, Humber and Ribble estuaries, Breydon Water/Berney Marshes, the Wash, and Morecambe Bay.
When to see them
All year round. Leaves upland areas after the breeding season and moves to lowland fields for the winter. Large numbers of N European birds arrive in autumn for the winter.
What they eat
Worms and insects
Population
UK Breeding:- 140,000 pairs
UK Wintering:- 650,000 birds
Breeding
The winter flocks begin to break up in February, when the birds will start to return to their breeding grounds.
The lapwing has a spectacular songflight. The male wobbles, zigzags, rolls and dives while calling to advertise his presence to rival males and potential mates. The birds tend to nest in loose groups. Individual territories are small about 0.4-0.8 ha and are only held until the chicks hatch.
In the breeding season, lapwings need a mosaic of habitats, because they need different conditions for nesting and for chick rearing.
The nest is a scrape in the ground, lined with a variable amount of plant material. The birds need a good all round view from the nest to spot predators, and nest either on bare ground or in short vegetation. They often choose rough or broken ground to aid concealment of the nest. Spring sown crops and rough grazing are ideal.
They lay clutches of four cryptically coloured eggs from late March to early June, and chicks hatch 3-4 weeks later. They are covered in down when they hatch, and are able to walk about and feed within hours.
Soon after hatching, the parents will lead them to suitable feeding areas, where the supply of surface invertebrates is good and the vegetation low. They particularly need to have nearby grassland, especially if it contains flood pools and damp patches.
The transfer between the nesting and chick-rearing habitats can be hazardous, and chick survival often depends on how far they have to travel. The families stay in the chick-rearing habitat until the young are ready to fly at 5-6 weeks old. Lapwings only rear one brood a year, but may lay up to four replacement clutches if the eggs are lost.
Legal status
The lapwing is fully protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981; it an offence to kill, injure or take an adult lapwing, or to take, damage or destroy an active nest or its contents.
The only exception is legitimate farming practices that cannot be reasonably delayed, although farming methods can often be modified to reduce the impact on the lapwings.
Population trends
Lapwing numbers have decreased in Britain since the middle of the 19th century. The early declines were caused by large scale collection of eggs for food. Introduction of the Lapwing Act in 1926 prohibited this, and was followed by a considerable recovery in bird numbers.
Since the 1940s lapwing declines have been driven by large-scale changes to farming. Large areas of grassland were converted to arable, marginal land was drained and improved, and chemicals were introduced for fertilisers and pest control with increasing reliance on them. By 1960 the lapwing population had stabilised at a lower level.
Another sharp and sustained decline started in the mid-1980s, with range contractions in south-west England and in parts of Wales. This followed further intensification and specialisation - abandonment of rotations, switch from spring to autumn sown crops, increased drainage, increased use of agrochemicals. Such changes have resulted in much of the arable land becoming unsuitable for nesting by April because the crop grows too high. Tillage, drainage and pesticides have also caused a reduction in food availability.
As pasture land is improved, the resulting increased risk of trampling by livestock, earlier cutting for silage and lower food availability have affected lapwings adversely. Phasing out of rotational farming and shift of arable to the east of England and pastureland to the west of England has removed the habitat mosaic that is essential for successful chick rearing.
Mosaic where grass and spring tillage fields are close together has declined significantly in recent years, and the loss of this prime habitat has resulted in a decline in lapwing numbers.
Nest failures on arable land come from egg losses during cultivation and from predation, and poor chick survival due to crop growth. Crop growth can also shorten the laying season.
The declines in lapwing population have been greatest in southern England and Wales, where the farming changes have been greatest and farmland is the only suitable habitat for the lapwing. Between 1987 and 1998 lapwing numbers dropped by 49% in England and Wales. Since 1960 the numbers dropped by 80%.
The birds have fared better in Scotland, where the crucial changes to farming were introduced later than in England and Wales. However, even there the numbers have dropped by 29% since 1987.
Lapwings have to fledge at least 0.6 young per pair each year to maintain the population. They usually can achieve this in rough grazing and unimproved pastures, but often not on arable land or improved grassland. Since the birds cannot produce enough chicks to offset the natural mortality of adults, population declines.
It is possible to halt and reverse the decline in lapwing numbers with sympathetic farming methods, which include creation of a mosaic of spring sown crops and grassland, managing grazing pressure and maintaining damp areas on unimproved grassland. Agri-environment schemes in each part of the UK provide grants to help land-owners manage their land to help lapwings.
Survival
Egg survival and hatching success varies depending on the habitat, and appears to have declined in some habitats over the past decade.
Main causes of nest failure are predation, agricultural activity and desertion. While the birds often re-lay, changes in cropping practices often result in the habitat being unsuitable for replacement clutches because the vegetation has grown too tall, thus shortening the potential breeding season.
Only about 25-40% of chicks survive to fledging. Most of the chick mortality occurs in the first few days after hatching, when chicks are most vulnerable to cold or wet weather, and when they may be undertaking hazardous journeys from nesting to feeding areas. The further chicks have to go, the lower their survival.
Once the birds have reached adulthood, they can expect to live a further 4-5 years. The oldest known individual was about 20 years. Lapwings normally breed one year after fledging.
I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise & Before
Baby boy mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) named "Isoke" born on 6/14/18. He lives with his mom ("Kesi" -pictured here), his dad ("Jasper") and his 1.5 year old brother ("Ajani") in the San Diego Zoo . Conservation status: vulnerable
Nombre común: El pibí boreal
Nombre científico: Contopus cooperi
Nombre en inglés: OLIVE -SIDED FLYCATCHER
Nombre en alemán: Olivflanken Schnäppertyrann
Nombre en francés: Moucherolle á côtés olive
Lugar de la foto: Cataratas de Medina, Mariquita, Tolima, Colombia.
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Eisbär
(Polarbär)
Ursus maritimus
Vorkommen:Arktis (Kanada, USA (Alaska), Grönland, Norwegen (Spitzbergen = Svalbard), N-Russland)
Lebensraum:Eisflächen mit Meereszugang, arktische Inseln und Küstengebiete
Kopf-Rumpf-Länge:180 - 280 cm
Schwanzlänge:6 - 13 cm
Gewicht:150 - 650 (800) kg
Nahrung:Robben, gestrandete Wale, Aas, menschl. Abfälle; selten auch Kräuter, Gräser und Beeren
Gefährdungsstatus:VU (gefährdet)
Vulnerable (VU)
Common name: Hyacinth Macaw
Nome comum: Arara-azul-grande
Scientific name: Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus
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The Very Beautiful yet Vulnerable - The Nilgiri Flycatcher (Male)
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@ Coonoor, Nilgiris Dist
Tamil Nadu, India
08 Mar 2022
Description Credit – Birds of the World (The Cornnel Lab) & Wiki
About the Bird - The Nilgiri Flycatcher a Vulnerable Species, is small and somewhat long-tailed flycatcher that is about 10 to 13 centimetres and is found mainly in the higher altitude Shola forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris.
The Male is almost entirely deep indigo-blue, except for some violet-blue on the forehead and area over eye and darker lores. The female is duller with dark brown on the upperparts and dark grey below. The two central tail feathers are blue and the lateral feathers are dark brown and edged with indigo. The base of the outer tail feathers are white but this is not easily visible when the bird is sitting. The wing feathers are dark brown with a narrow outer fringe of blue.
With a very restricted range in the hills of Southern India, it is found mainly in the higher altitude Shola Forests of the Western Ghats and the Nilgiris which provide ideal oscillating climate and unique floral structure in the montane ecosystems provide special microclimatic conditions and habitat for the species, and such montane ecosystems are known as ‘sky islands’.
Climate change induced by human activities, restricted range and increased environmental degradation has put this beautiful bird at rink and is making it more and more vulnerable.