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it was a hot Friday afternoon wile i was traveling from DUBAI to ABUDABI in U.A.E i just loved the wild wilderness of middle east .FULL VIEW RECOMMENDED
Location:somewhere in Arabian desert ,U.A.E ,Middle east
... seen during our evening walk.
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Blume der Wilden Möhre
... während unseres abendlichen Spaziergangs gesehen.
Coppersmith Barbet Megalaima haemacephala indica
The Coppersmith Barbet, Crimson-breasted Barbet or Coppersmith (Megalaima haemacephala), is a bird with crimson forehead and throat which is best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer. It is a resident found in the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. Like other barbets, they chisel out a hole inside a tree to build their nest. They are mainly fruit eating but will take sometimes insects, especially winged termites.
This species of barbet is found to overlap in range with several larger barbets in most of South Asia. In the Western Ghats, it partly overlaps with the Malabar Barbet which is of a very similar size but having a more rapid call. The red forehead, yellow eye-ring and throat patch with streaked underside and green upperparts, it is fairly distinctive. Juveniles are duller and lack the red patches. The sexes are alike. The Sri Lankan form has more black on the face, more red on the breast and darker streaks on the underside.
During the nesting season, the wear and tear on the feathers can cause the plumage of the upper back to appear bluish.
Within the Old World Megalaima barbets, they are found to be basal in phylogenetic analyses. Most of the remaining Asian species are more recent in their divergence and speciation.
About nine subspecies are well recognized.
nominate haemacephala (P. L. S. Müller, 1776) is found in the Islands of the Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines
indica (Latham, 1790) is found in the Indian Subcontinent form northeastern Pakistan and extends into Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Several former supspecies from India are synonymized into indica.
Throughout their wide range they are found in gardens, groves and sparse woodland. Habitats with trees having dead wood suitable for excavation is said to be important. Birds nest and roost in cavities.
In the Palni Hills of southern India it is said to occur below 4000 feet.In the Himalayas it is found mainly in the valleys of the outer Himalayas up to 3000 feet. They are rare in the dry desert zones and the very wet forests.[
Keeps solitary, pairs, or small groups; larger parties occasionally on abundantly fruiting Ficus trees. Fond of sunning themselves in the morning on bare top branches of tall trees, often flitting about to sit next to each other. The flight is straight, with rapid flaps.
They compete with other cavity nesting birds and frugivores. Megalaima asiatica have been noted to evict them from their nest holes, while Red-vented Bulbuls have been seen to indulge in kleptoparasitism, robbing the male of berries brought to the female at the nest.
The nest holes are also used for roosting and some birds roost alone in cavities and these often roost during part of the day. Immatures will roost with the parents but often return to roost early so as not to be prevented by the parents from entering the roost cavity.
The call is a loud rather metallic tuk…tuk…tuk (or tunk), reminiscent of a copper sheet being beaten, giving the bird its name. Repeated monotonously for long periods, starting with a subdued tuk and building up to an even volume and tempo, the latter varying from 108 to 121 per minute and can continue with as many as 204 notes. They are silent and do not call in winter.
The beak remains shut during each call - a patch of bare skin on both sides of the throat inflates and collapses with each tuk like a rubber bulb and the head is bobbed.
Prefers Banyan, Peepul, and other wild figs, various drupes and berries, and the occasional insect, caught in aerial sallies.Petals of flowers may also be included in their diet. They eat nearly 1.5 to nearly 3 times their body weight it berries each day.
Courtship involves singing, puffing of the throat, bobbing of the head, flicking of the tail, ritual feeding and allopreening.
They breed through much of the year with local variation. The breeding season is mainly February to April in India and December to September in Sri Lanka. Both sexes excavate the nest on the underside of a narrow horizontal branch. They may also roost inside the nest holes.Three or four eggs are laid and like in many hole nesting birds the incubation period is not well known but has been estimated to be about 2 weeks. Both sexes incubate. Often two broods are raised in quick succession.
Adult birds are sometimes taken by predatory species. In urban areas, there are records of collisions with structures including white walls.Pesticide poisoning has also been noted.
From Wikki ...
Photographer :© Sharad Agrawal
Location :Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Date :23 June 2013
English synonyms:Coppersmith, Crimson-breasted Barbet, Crimson-headed Barbet
Bird Family :Megalaiminae - Asian barbets
Bird Group :PICIFORMES
Red Data Status :Least Concern
Now Germany won against Argentina. The score was 4:0. I'm verry very very happy. =D Keep it up, Germany!!! And I think the title fits to the game Germany vs. Argentinia and the picture, too. xDD
I really like the pink ones...so I went a little wild with the lupine today lol...they are so pretty and don't last for very long. Hope everyone has a great evening. Thanks so much for your visits :)
I recently acquired an Auto-Takumar 35mm/2.3 for it's bubbly bokeh, but also because the front element is easily reversed and creates an even wilder effect.
Guess these berries are not edible and possibly toxic. They look nice when ripened though.
The way they cluster, it's to me, formed a basic shape of Swine Flu (H1N1) virus. I have got this thinking maybe it’s due to the news I heard over the radio just now about nine Swine Flu deaths recorded thus far, today, in Malaysia.
The plague of H1N1 is getting uglier these days and quite alarming. The college where my wife is lecturing had been ordered for one week closure by the Ministry of Health of Malaysia last week due to one of the students confirmed positive as a carrier. And it only today opens.
I feel like, it gets closer to me by the day.
My son was down with fever two days ago. In the height of the pandemic like this, it is untimely for him to fall sick as I am afraid something worse would happen. I quickly rushed him to hospital and what a relief to learn it was only a normal fever.
That was scary!
HBW!!!
The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American twin-engine, medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation. The Wild Cargo B-25 is being maintained at Military Aviation Museum and fly's to many WWII airshows.
The Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is home to one of the world's largest collections of warbirds in flying condition. It includes examples from Germany, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, from both World War I and World War II, although the complete collection ranges from the 1910s to the early 1950s.
'wild child'
bit of a tenuous one this.. does it say wild to you?
I think she fits the subject and I did go a little wild on the processing :-)
used my sigma 10-20 to give a bit of distortion too..
Made with actionscript. New curve-engine with wild freaky colors. I've created this one at 6000x6000px.
Available for print (limited edition)
A wild flower taken this evening while coming back home. Very minimal editing,
almost straight out of camera using the vignette Olympus filter
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Camera Olympus E-620
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/4.2
ISO Speed: 500
Focal Length: 108 mm
It's been a while since I've done a hair shot. Here I am frustrated with a current project at work, writing.
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Roses at Teddy the Wheaten's house... the background is a black granite tabletop. The light is coming from the open glass sliding door behind me on this rainy morning. The weather has been hit or miss lately. Thanx Pam, for always putting out such gorgeous flowers for me to photograph. :)