Wednesday, December 30, 2015
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”
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The White Ibis is one of the most abundant and spectacular wading birds that nests in Florida. A 10-...
The White Ibis is one of the most abundant and spectacular wading birds that nests in Florida. A 10-day spring tour is one of the most thrilling ways to see them and the state's other avian splendors:
http://bit.ly/SpringFlaIbisPlusTour
Florida visitors first see ibises flying in graceful white V’s. Their huge, noisy rookeries are defining visual icons of the Everglades.
They provide the fertilizer required to create and nurture vegetated islands in otherwise infertile swamps and marshes.
What do they eat? Almost anything. In Florida, the most popular menu entrees include crayfish, Sheepshead Minnows and other fish, dragonfly larvae, Apple Snails, Giant Water Bugs and other water bugs, and Mangrove Crabs.
“As their long, decurved bills might suggest, ibises eat many things that they pull out of the mud,” says the Bird Families of the World (http://bit.ly/BirdFamiliesofWorld). The ibises also catch mobile fish and prawns, but less efficiently that the related spoonbills.
With their bill tips slightly agape, White Ibises probe flooded pastures and the soft flocculent organic debris in marsh sediment. Bays, estuaries, lawns and sides of highways attract them.
(Photo: Birding Ecotours)
They dissect farm manure for horsefly larvae. Municipal sewage sludge holding areas are nice for worms and fly larvae.
Ibises rely on the seasonal, natural variation in water levels. Up to 75% of the biomass of fish concentrated in seasonally fluctuating ponds in southern Florida can be consumed in less than a week. Ibises lead the feeding frenzy by wading birds, including herons and storks.
They form strong pair bonds and nest in rookeries of up to 12,000 pairs. As testosterone permeates a rookery like a morning fog, male ibises stray from their mates. Over 50% of the attempted copulations involving 30 females under observation by one researcher involved “extra-pair” males.
However, ultimately the females control fertilization because “cloacal eversion” is probably required for successful copulation in all birds.
As you might expect, where you find an ibis rookery you will find nest predators. In some extreme cases, Fish Crows take up to 44% of all White Ibis eggs in an entire rookery.
Is your interest piqued in that 10-day Florida birding tour?
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I believe that the more we watch, photograph, study and enjoy White Ibises, the better for the species, all birds, all wildlife and all humans.
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Glossy ibis India,Rajkot,22-08-2014. The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a wading bird in the...
Glossy ibis
India,Rajkot,22-08-2014.
The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae.This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean regions of the Americas. It is thought to have originated in the Old World and spread naturally from Africa to northern South America in the 19th century, from where it spread to North America. This species is migratory; most European birds winter in Africa, and in North America birds from north of the Carolinas winter farther south. Birds from other populations may disperse widely outside the breeding season. While generally declining in Europe, it has recently established a breeding colony in southern Spain, and there appears to be a growing trend for the Spanish birds to winter in Britain and Ireland, with at least 22 sightings in 2010. In 2014, a pair attempted to breed in Lincolnshire, the first such attempt in Britain
This species is a mid-sized ibis. It is 48–66 cm (19–26 in) long, averaging around 59.4 cm (23.4 in) with an 80–105 cm (31–41 in) wingspan. The culmen measures 9.7 to 14.4 cm (3.8 to 5.7 in) in length, each wing measures 24.8–30.6 cm (9.8–12.0 in), the tail is 9–11.2 cm (3.5–4.4 in) and the tarsus measures 6.8–11.3 cm (2.7–4.4 in). The body mass of this ibis can range from 485 to 970 g (1.069 to 2.138 lb). Breeding adults have reddish-brown bodies and shiny bottle-green wings. Non-breeders and juveniles have duller bodies. This species has a brownish bill, dark facial skin bordered above and below in blue-gray (non-breeding) to cobalt blue (breeding), and red-brown legs. Unlike herons, ibises fly with necks outstretched, their flight being graceful and often in V formation.
Sounds made by this rather quiet ibis include a variety of croaks and grunts, including a hoarse grrrr made when breeding. .[Wikipedia].
[photo© - Raju Karia]
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The Legendary Ibis. The Greeks named it Ibis, a name that hasn't changed over the centuries. ‘Nature...
The Legendary Ibis.
The Greeks named it Ibis, a name that hasn't changed over the centuries.
‘Nature’ by Patrick Strock | https://goo.gl/sML01v
Did you know:
Ibis is a group of birds that has stirred human interest for ages.
According to Mediterranean legend, the Southern Bald Ibis was the first bird released by Noah after the biblical flood.
In Egyptian mythology, the man with the ibis head is the god ‘Thoth’.
The ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae inhabiting wetlands, and plains and feeding usually on crustaceans.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Wednesday – Opposites Wet/Dry Parent as Teacher Explore ice with your child fill ice cube trays ...
Wednesday – Opposites: Wet/Dry
Parent as Teacher: Explore ice with your child: fill ice cube trays and set timer to check every half hour to see what happens…or put ice cubes in different spots and see which one melts first and speculate why.
Book – The First Day of Winter
SPA – I- Ibis – Baby Animal Story
Music – Freeze and Melt
Action – Flannel Board – Color Umbrellas
Cooking – Birds in the Snow (with celery, cream cheese & raisins)
Science- Wet or Dry
Строительство гостиницы мировой сети Ibis в Бресте станет примером инвестпроекта - Рогачук. Строительство...
Строительство гостиницы мировой сети Ibis в Бресте станет примером инвестпроекта - Рогачук. Строительство гостиницы мировой сети Ibis в Бресте станет примером инвестпроекта — Рогачук
29 декабря, Брест /Светлана Вечорко — БЕЛТА/. Строительство гостиницы мировой сети отелей Ibis в Бресте должно стать примером инвестпроекта. Об этом заявил сегодня во время совместного заседания... http://bel24.by/stroitelstvo-gostinitsy-mirovoj-seti-ibis-v-breste-stanet-primerom-investproekta-rogachuk/ У нас Новостной портал "BEL24" #Брест, #Гостиницы, #Инвестиции, #Строительство
Monday, December 28, 2015
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” www.hyankhauv.com #kik #kikme #kikmessenger #Instag_app...
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”
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Sunday, December 27, 2015
Ibis eating in the surf.....by Gio #bird #birds #birdslovers #birdsphotos #birdsphotography #nature...
Ibis eating in the surf.....by Gio
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Saturday, December 26, 2015
The Scarlet Ibis inhabits tropical South America and islands of the Caribbean
The Scarlet Ibis inhabits tropical South America and islands of the Caribbean
Actually ibis paint x dont need it Sketch book is better. By the way dis is NIGHTMARE NEON
Actually ibis paint x dont need it Sketch book is better. By the way dis is NIGHTMARE NEON
Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita) - Waldrapp Ibis eremita - Лесной ибис The Northern Bald Ibis...
Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita) - Waldrapp
Ibis eremita - Лесной ибис
The Northern Bald Ibis is a migratory bird which was native in Central Europe until the 17th century, before it became extinct due to the huge hunting pressure of the aristocracy. Today the Northern Bald Ibis is one of the most endangered bird species worldwide. In the context of an EU project (LIFE+ Biodiversity), with partners in Austria, Italy and Germany, the species is to be reintroduced in Europe.
Read more: waldrapp.eu
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Ibis Budget Basel City, Basel, Switzerland - From $100 - http//www.itraveland.com/hotel/ibis-budget...
Ibis Budget Basel City, Basel, Switzerland - From $100 - http://www.itraveland.com/hotel/ibis-budget-basel-city-basel-switzerland-from-100/
Glossy Ibis(Plegadis falcinellus)pictured at Tropical World,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England.To view full...
Glossy Ibis(Plegadis falcinellus)pictured at Tropical World,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England.To view full gallery of photographs click on the link below.
Handheld down by Kvarnbo here in Uppsala, Sweden. #Sony #A7ii #sel28f20 1.3 second exposure! #IBIS
Thursday, December 24, 2015
I photographed many birds during my recent trip to Florida, but overall, White Ibis shots, I'm the most...
I photographed many birds during my recent trip to Florida, but overall, White Ibis shots, I'm the most happy with.
A Little Blue Heron, a White Ibis, and a Snowy Egret at the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge this...
A Little Blue Heron, a White Ibis, and a Snowy Egret at the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge this past December 5:
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#BirdLoversWorldwide curated by +Robert SKREINER
#BirdsGallery curated by +Heinrich Wagner and +Susan Wilkinson
#BirdPoker curated by +Phil Armishaw
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#ShorebirdSunday curated by +Phil Armishaw
#waterbirdwednesday +Water Bird Wednesday: Curated by +Margaret Tompkins
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
+Koi In Your Fanta Fml doing base edits in Ibis paint has gotten hard so it's kinda shitty but it's ...
+Koi In Your Fanta
Fml doing base edits in Ibis paint has gotten hard so it's kinda shitty but it's Selah so that is all that matters
This is the season of giving and receiving but that shouldn't give us an excuse to be lax on sustain...
This is the season of giving and receiving but that shouldn't give us an excuse to be lax on sustainaibility.Learn interesting and cutie gift wrapper recycling ideas from KBhome sustainability blog at House to Home http://bit.ly/1OnMguO
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Saturday, December 19, 2015
travel.hotels-life.com Отель Ibis Budget Granada, Гранада, Испания Отель Ibis Budget Granada расположен...
travel.hotels-life.com Отель Ibis Budget Granada, Гранада, Испания
Отель Ibis Budget Granada расположен в 20 минутах ходьбы от центра Гранады. К услугам гостей бесплатный WiFi на всей территории, а также ежедневный континентальный завтрак «шведский стол» с кофе, пирожными, зерновыми хлопьями и фруктами. В каждом номере установлен кондиционер и имеется двуспальная кровать. В числе прочих удобств — телевизор с плоским экраном, гостиная зона с рабочим столом и собственная ванная комната с душем. Ресторан отеля специализируется как на местных блюдах, так и на интернациональной кухне, а в непосредственной близости работает несколько баров и магазинов. Расстояние до аэропорта Гранады составляет 20 км, а поездка на машине до национального парка Сьерра-Невада займет 40 минут.
Питание: Ресторан («шведский стол»), Снэк-бар
Парковка: Частная парковка на месте (предварительный заказ не требуется) предоставляется по цене EUR 3 в сутки.
Адрес: Avda. Fernando De Los Rios, s/n, Ронда, 18006 Гранада
Теги: Отель Ibis Budget Granada, Гранада, Испания, бронирование отелей, цены, отзывы об отеле
http//fineartamerica.com/featured/white-ibis-portrait-debra-martz.html White Ibis Portrait by Debra...
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White Ibis Portrait by Debra Martz
I often make visits to a natural area in Port Aransas, Texas known as the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center. From the parking lot there is a paved walkway along trees, shrubs and flowers. And then you make a corner to the nice long boardwalk over the marshy area. As I made that corner, this Ibis was standing on the rail peering into the reeds and grasses. I was so pleased that it stayed long enough for me to capture several photos of it!!!
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The Cream-colored Courser is at home on the oases, dunes and lush valleys of an enchanted country where...
The Cream-colored Courser is at home on the oases, dunes and lush valleys of an enchanted country where the corners of two continents touch and the waters of the Mediterranean and Atlantic mix.
Morocco’s unique avian habitats are home not only to African birds, but it also is a rest stop European migrants that funnel across the Strait of Gibraltar. The courser is one of the few species that has benefited from the slow expansion of the Sahara, the world’s largest hot desert.
(Photo: Adrian Binns, Wildside Nature Tours)
The courser is a descendent of waders that now runs across the hot sand in northern Africa’s and southwest Asia’s semi-arid landscape. Their feathers? Sand-colored, of course, but with stylish black and white eye stripe accents, and a subtle, blue-grey crown on the back of the head.
Females often nest near one another, and up to 25 coursers are occasionally seen in flocks.
The courser competes for birders’ attention in Morocco with the Northern Bald Ibis, many other glamour species and the lovely Morocco landscape itself. U.K. birders experience environmental and cultural shock after a short plane ride from London.
Birding tours in November take advantage of mildly warm and sunny weather that can sometimes require a jacket when breezes blow in from the Atlantic. Actually, Morocco’s Atlantic shore is a haven for storm-petrels, shearwaters and other seabirds.
The 9-to-11 days in the spring birding tours offered by Rockjumper, Tropical Birding, Birding Ecotours, begin in Marrakech, at the base of the Atlas Mountains.
The 18-day tours offered by Wildside Nature Tours and Field Guides start in Casablanca as does Worldwide Quest’s 12-day tour, which takes in more cultural highlights, such as a cooking class on tagine, or earthenware cooking.
The comprehensive Wildside and Field Guides tours take in a vast gorgeous expanse of Morocco’s land, wildlife and culture in big loops.
The Wildside itinerary is an arc that starts in Casablanca in the north and ends at Agadir on the Atlantic coast in the south, while the Field Guides’ itinerary is circle that begins and ends at Casablanca.
The tours use vehicles to reach hotspots where short walks and longer strolls are rewarded with views of Crimson-winged Finches and Atlas Horned Larks to Moussier’s Redstarts and Seebohm’s Wheatears.
Nature Trek’s tour starts in Marrakech, but veers farther south than some tours to Merzouga, a village in the Sahara known for huge sand dunes and camel safaris.
Experienced guides are important in Morocco; guides like Ornitholidays’ David Walsh have led 17 tours to Morocco.
The 8-day October tour offered by The Traveling Naturalist combines equal parts coastal birding with a boat trip out of Agadir, with drive past a bird-rich estuary to the arid Guelmim, “Gateway to the Desert.”
Here is a chronological listing of my top-10 birding tours in 2016 to Morocco:
• February 14, 11 days, Rockjumper Birding, $2,400, http://bit.ly/Rockjumper11da2016Morocco
• February 25, 10 days, Nature Trek, £1595 ($2,377) incl. U.K. flights http://bit.ly/NatureTrek-10da-Morocco
• March 14, 9 days, Tropical Birding, $2,900, http://bit.ly/TropicalBirdingMorocco
• March 24, 11 days, Birding Ecotours, $2,168 (€1995), http://bit.ly/BirdingEcotoursMorocco
• March 25, 18 days, Wildside Nature Tours, $5,700, http://bit.ly/WildsideMorocco
• April 5, 10 days, Ornitholidays, £1,999 ($2,979) http://bit.ly/OrnitholidaysMorocco
• April 12, 11 days, Wings Birding Tours, $3,250, http://bit.ly/WingsBirdsMorocco
• May 21, 18 days, Field Guides, $4,575, http://bit.ly/FieldGuidesMorocco
• October 14, 12 days, WorldWide Quest, $5,495, http://bit.ly/WWQuestMorocco
• October 29, 8 days, The Traveling Naturalist, £1,595 ($2,377) not flight from UK http://bit.ly/Trvl-NaturalistMorocco
I believe that the more we watch, photograph, study and enjoy Cream-colored Coursers, the better for the species, all birds, all wildlife and all humans.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Leftover budget for 2015? Now is the perfect time for an RBE Plus Analysis! With an RBE Plus Analysis...
Leftover budget for 2015? Now is the perfect time for an RBE Plus Analysis! With an RBE Plus Analysis we can help with consolidation and harmonization efforts, run an analysis for user and roles, authorizations, licenses, establish a COE, and much more!
Novotel /ibis Olympic path hotel is the latest location for a automatic bike hire station. Plus the ...
Novotel /ibis Olympic path hotel is the latest location for a automatic bike hire station. Plus the first to have children's bikes. Great support and enthusiasm from all the staff. Thanks Craig
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Well hello! An ibis poses for its portrait in south Florida. #birdsgallery #birdphotography +BestTop...
Well hello! An ibis poses for its portrait in south Florida.
#birdsgallery #birdphotography +BestTopPhotographer
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Ibis Black and White,pictured at Tropical World,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England.Available as a royalty-...
Ibis Black and White,pictured at Tropical World,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England.Available as a royalty-free photo.
Ibis Black and White,pictured at Tropical World,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England.
Ibis Black and White,pictured at Tropical World,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England.
White Ibis on Final Approach Florida Everglades For those who were wondering, you can get BIFs with...
White Ibis on Final Approach
Florida Everglades
For those who were wondering, you can get BIFs with the Nikon 200-500 f/5.6 AFS G VR.
Monday, December 14, 2015
Getting this week's motivation in the mountains of Savoie. #bigmountainmonday in Valloire during @world_enduro...
Getting this week's motivation in the mountains of Savoie. #bigmountainmonday in Valloire during @world_enduro 2014. Photo by @matt_wragg.#IbisCycles #mojoHDR #motivationmonday #smurfetteontheloose #smurfetteontherocks
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It was a real.. REAL! long weekend, But it was really awesome!! Some weeks ago, i was in a little bad...
It was a real.. REAL! long weekend, But it was really awesome!!
Some weeks ago, i was in a little bad mood, A wintermood i think, Posting about factionchange and stuff.. But after this anomaly! I know it, Ill stay Enlightened!
How was my weekend really awesome!
Friday: Weaking up really early! To go to Schiphol Airport! We were flying at 9:35 so meeting with some people at schiphol and then going to the gate! And go off!
After coming in Ibis and checked in with my roomie +Dennis Werners we were going into the city and did had a great meal with 20/30 people! than with a local searching for a simcard and than meeting +Thoren Gö again to pick up 116 packs! That was a lot of work! But its was done and we were off early (around 11) back in our hotels, checking the packs and put everything in my bagg! and sleeptime!
Saturday: Early morning again, eating some breakfast and off to the enl regristration, with +Torben Winter! he did gave me some swag so i was really happy! After a quick join at the enl reg with +Sophia Mair quick trade and than fast to my team! they were waiting, found nobody only +Simon Frelier was waiting there with his kid! Did a grouppic and than again searching for my team! +Rutger ter Maten and +Helga Baars my teamcaptains did lead us to a good anomaly! I really liked it! Did lost my team at the last cluster, but! No problem.. it was fun! was in the most fancy street of Milan! So i had fun! (no shopping time offcourse!)
Than that moment i did fount the team of +Vicki Ellen , and +Janina Quakenack ! But i was a little stressed and didnt know for sure if it was her! But, at the afterparty! We did meet again! A trade.. Offcourse! And did drink A LOT! That was fun! After a quick join at the res party we did go home and did get some rest! That night was a lot of fun!
Sunday: Missionday! Breakfast bla bla lots of stuff, and around 11 started missionday with +Dennis Werners +Rutger ter Maten +Dave a.k.a lollerkop :D +Tim de Boer . It was a lot of fun, hacking wrong portals.. Doing wrong missions! I did had a real laugh!
Sunday was not very special.. Just doing missions and looking around!!
Thanks everybody (even the guys who are'nt tagged) for this AWESOME anomaly!
THANKS! =D
#UKNOF33 delegate rates (between £65 and £214) for accommodation end soon. If you wish to stay at either...
#UKNOF33 delegate rates (between £65 and £214) for accommodation end soon.
If you wish to stay at either the DoubleTree (£214) or the Ibis (97), then you must book by tomorrow (15 December). Delegate rates at the other hotels and serviced apartments listed on the accommodation page are subject to availability.
http://uknof.uk/accommodation33
Dialogue held on education grant at Yendi - Yendi (N/R), Dec. 14, GNA - A day's District Level Dialogue...
Dialogue held on education grant at Yendi - Yendi (N/R), Dec. 14, GNA - A day's District Level Dialogue on Global Partnership for Education Grant (GPEG) organized by SEND - GHANA and its partners has been held in Yendi. The event was done in collaboration with Action on Voluntary Child AID, an NGO with support from Ibis and the stakeholders to the event were drawn from the Yendi Municipality. The objective of the dialogue was to share ...
Sunday, December 13, 2015
White Ibis landing approach This White Ibis was making a landing approach on a crowded snag and was...
White Ibis landing approach
This White Ibis was making a landing approach on a crowded snag and was shouting at the others to give him space.
Canon EOS 7D2, EF500 f/4L IS USM, f/8, 1/1600, ISO 500
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hotels-life.com ibis budget Sydney East, Sydney, Australia In the heart of Kings Cross, the ibis budget...
hotels-life.com ibis budget Sydney East, Sydney, Australia
In the heart of Kings Cross, the ibis budget Sydney East offers affordable accommodations just a 10 minute walk from Hyde Park and Oxford Street. The famous Bondi Beach is a 15-minute drive away. The air-conditioned rooms feature a private bathroom and a TV. Some rooms offer Sydney Harbour views. A continental breakfast is served every morning. There are also a number of restaurants and cafes within a 2-minute walk. Surrounded by Sydney’s popular pubs, clubs and nightlife, the ibis budget Sydney East is just a 30 minute walk from the iconic Sydney Opera House.
Food & Drink:
Parking: No parking available.
General services:
Activities:
Service: 24-Hour Front Desk, Baggage Storage, Laundry, Business Center, Fax/Photocopying
Internet:
Pets: Pets are not allowed.
Payment: American Express, Visa, Euro/Mastercard, Diners Club, JCB, Eftpos,
Address: 201 William Street, Darlinghurst, 2010 Sydney
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Across Africa and Australia, birds are routine casualties in a chemical war against an agricultural ...
Across Africa and Australia, birds are routine casualties in a chemical war against an agricultural pest that also is a huge avian food source: locusts.
(Photo: Nature’s Wonderland Safaris, http://www.natureswonderlandsafaris.com/)
Birdwatchers in Africa may see big flocks of ibis, egrets, storks and other birds on the move toward a feast of locusts. However, farmers may also be preparing to spray the locusts from the air with deadly pesticides before swarms of insects take flight to attack agricultural fields.
During one Desert Locust upsurge in northern Africa more than $200 million and “about 15 million liters of concentrated pesticide was donated,” according to the book “New Strategies in Locust Control.”
After such massive chemical campaigns, the net effect on the locusts, especially on a long-term basis, may not be assessed. In addition, often little or no assessment of the collateral damage to natural locust predators is ever conducted.
It’s a silent, massive ecological trap, a slaughter of wildlife, usually from aerial sprays of lethal chemicals.
Authorities in Africa and Australia are now focusing on more bio-friendly or less ecologically disastrous approaches to locust control. Where the impacts of birds and other natural predators of locusts have been studied, the results have been impressive.
Researchers decades ago, before massive pesticide campaigns were initiated, “reported reductions of up to 100% of hopper bands due to the activity of predators like birds, jackals, rodents, reptiles and arthropods,” wrote a scientist with Deutsche Geselischaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), a sustainable development company based in Germany.
These ground-moving locust bands contained roughly 100,000 locusts. However, in some cases, bands can grow to 700,000 or more locusts and overwhelm natural predators to eat all the locusts.
“Birds are particularly important as a natural control factor, and hoppers were sometimes reduced to 1% of the initial population,” GTZ researchers wrote in New Strategies in Locust Control.
For example, Cream-colored Coursers, Desert Sparrows and other African birds feast on Desert Locust bands in Niger, Mauritania and other West African countries eager to promote agriculture.
Hundreds of Sphecoid wasps also pursue Desert Locusts and subdue them with powerful stings. They bury their paralyzed prey in “wasp fields” that are in the paths of future locust outbreaks.
“Birds can be effective in controlling small gregarious populations but that the sheer numbers of large gregarious populations defeat them,” D.J. Greathead, a researcher at Uganda’s Institute of Biological Control, said in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
When bird and other locust predators are reduced, their ability to blunt or eliminate locust bands declines, too. However, more wildlife sanctuaries in areas known for locust outbreaks could have large positive economic impacts on wildlife and agriculture.
The Woodland Kingfisher is one of Africa’s true grasshopper specialists. Each of these blue, noisy birds can eat 26 grasshoppers a day. The Desert Locust and equally dreaded Red Locust are eaten by the kingfisher.
This highly territorial kingfisher chases raptors, hole-nesting birds and humans from its breeding territories from South Africa to sub-Saharan countries. It migrates to within 8° of the equator in the dry season, which is when locust bands routinely appear.
In Botswana, the Woodland Kingfisher is found in woodlands near water and gardens, much more often when rainfall is abundant.
Like many “tree kingfishers,” the Woodland Kingfisher seldom takes fish, but it will occasionally dive into shallow water for them. It prefers grasshoppers and locusts, and also takes beetles and cockroaches. It is known for its beautiful wing displays.
Nature’s Wonderland Safaris leads tours throughout East and South Africa to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and other bird-rich countries in the region.
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I believe that the more we watch, photograph, study and enjoy Woodland Kingfishers, the better for the species, all birds, all wildlife and all humans.
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Mount Kenya National Park is one of the best of the few mountainous African habitats available to the...
Mount Kenya National Park is one of the best of the few mountainous African habitats available to the little-known Jackson’s Francolin. It has a loud call, but is rarely seen by birders or described by ornithologists, probably because its high-altitude habitat is photographed from afar much more than actually visited.
Mount Kenya National Park has no wildebeest or cheetahs and only a few wayward Secretarybirds, but it would be an ideal setting for an animated Disney movie with a cast of intrepid bird and mammal characters from elephants and eagles to monkeys and mole-rats.
Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest mountain, but the diverse ecological habitats of Mount Kenya at each altitude zone support a rich variety of birds, fish and mammals, including the Jackson’s Francolin.
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Nature’s Wonderland Safaris, a Kenya-based guiding service, offers a guided Mount Kenya climbing trip on the Naro Moru Route, a bird-rich, spectacularly scenic adventure. The five-day trek is as challenging as it is unforgettable.
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From 2,200 to 3,700 meters (7,200-12,100 ft), the pheasant-like francolins forage in the underbrush of montane forest, bamboo and juniper forest and moorland, heath and scrub to well above treeline. It eats bulbous roots, grass, berries and insects. The handsome bird with a red bill and legs walks around mole-rat mounds up to 6 meters in diameter that are widely distributed in the park.
The francolin begins feeding before sunrise in dry weather, according to The Handbook of the Birds of the World. They pass elephants drawn to Mount Kenya to gorge on dense growths of Giant Groundsel, a type of high-altitude sunflower.
The francolins share the highest parts of Mount Kenya that still have vegetation with the Rock Hyrax, a 4-kilogram (9 lb) mammal that likes to bask in the warm morning sun, ever alert not to become the breakfast of Leopards, Verreaux's Eagles or other predators.
Lions are very sparse where temperatures can dip below freezing every night. Here, the king of the carnivores is the African Wild Dog. They hunt hoofed mammals such as Zebra.
On the lower plains near the park, ethnic groups living within sight of Mount Kenya typically build their houses with front doors facing the sacred mountain.
From an ecologist’s perspective, the 17,021-foot (5,188 m) mountain is an island. It's Kenya’s wildlife version of Noah's Ark in an area where many animals are losing to development, deforestation, agriculture and poachers’ snares that are found right up to the park’s fences. Many Black-fronted Duikers, African Buffalo and other animals at the park can’t go back.
An electric fence keeps the elephants in the park from leaving it to raid crops now growing in their ancestral feeding grounds. Mount Kenya’s fertile volcanic soil and plentiful water are a blessing to the country’s booming agricultural sector.
Of course, it’s easier for birds to come and go, and many come here. Some of the birds seen on the mountain include the Hamerkop, Open-billed Stork, White Stork, Green Ibis, African Black Duck, Maccoa Duck, Rüppell's Vulture, Lammergeier, three harriers (Eurasian Marsh, Pallid and Montagu’s), three eagles (Tawny, Steppe and Verreaux’s), three buzzards (Augur, Common and Mountain), Black Kite, Lesser Kestrel, Black-winged Plover, African Snipe, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Speckled Pigeon, Cape Grass Owl, Cape Eagle-owl, Montane Nightjar, three swifts (Mottled, Alpine and Scarce), Cinnamon Bracken-warbler, Slender-billed Starling, Yellow-crowned Canary, Streaky Seedeater, White-naped Raven and many others.
A primate species that is the ghost of Mount Kenya is the Sykes’ Monkey. Biologists surveying the mountain in the mid-1900s found two mummified monkeys below the Darwin Glacier. There is no easy explanation for why a monkey would climb above treeline to the retreating glacier. A mummified Colobus Monkey also was found - at 15,420 feet (4,700 m). They live at lower elevations, but not above treeline.
The East African Mole Rat is a different matter. They are supremely adapted to flourish in underground burrows on Mount Kenya up to about 3,000 meters (9,800 ft).
Truman P. Young, a Fordham University (U.S.) biologist, and Matthew R. Evans, a zoologist from the University of Cambridge (U.K.) published a detailed summary in 1993 of their observations from 1977 to 1990 of the alpine vertebrates of Mount Kenya along with previously published observations and studies of others.
I believe that the more we watch, photograph, study and enjoy the Jackson’s Francolin, the better for the species, all birds, all wildlife and humans.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light...
Have Yourself a
Merry Little Christmas
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on
our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yule-tide gay
From now on
our troubles will be miles away ~ DK +Dulce Karamelo #christmas #snow #holiday #merrychrtmas #happyholiday #family #friends
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