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bjekkergauken · 3 years
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Tundra birds & desert birds
P1: Tundra swan, Steller’s eider, yellow-billed loon, red-breasted goose, rock ptarmigan, red pharalope
P2: Ivory gull, snowy owl, spotted redshank, little auk, arctic redpoll, siberian tit
P3: See-see partridge, sooty falcon, cream-coloured courser, northern bald ibis, houbara bustard, crowned sandgrouse
P4:Humes owl, trumpeter finch, lanner falcon, black-crowned sparrow-lark, egyptian nightjar, african desert warbler
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goroose · 7 years
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Wildlife photos from my recent trip to iceland.
Northen fulmar, Harbour seals, eiders, black-legged kittiwakes, barnacle geese, red-necked pharalope
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elsewhereuniversity · 2 years
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I've asked for a new name once before, but I am soon to leave this place and need a name with which to go forth and reclaim myself with. I have to offer for your perusal a strand of hair kissed by the love of starlight, the smell of underbrush near the stream, and the experience of a dog's unending love.
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clipartx-blog · 6 years
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Pharalope Outline outline http://www.clipartx.com/outline-Clipart/pharalope-outline-145774
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lies · 6 years
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sylvia-morris replied to your post “I went on a spectacularly successful pelagic birding trip last Sunday....”
that red-necked pharalope is ADORABLE
This is definitely true. Phalaropes in general have a certain something that makes them cute as buttons. Is it the thin beak and elegant proportions? The clean, contrasting colors?
Fun fact: Phalaropes reverse the usual bird-world rule for sexual dimorphism. Wikipedia explains:
The sexual dimorphism and contribution to parenting are reversed in the three phalarope species. Females are larger and more brightly colored than males. The females pursue and fight over males, then defend them from other females until the male begins incubation of the clutch. Males perform all incubation and chick care, while the female attempts to find another male to mate with. If a male loses his eggs to predation, he will often rejoin his original mate or a new female, who will lay another clutch. Once it becomes too late in the season to start new nests, females begin their southward migration, leaving the males to incubate the eggs and care for the young. Phalaropes are uncommon among birds and vertebrates in general in that they engage in polyandry, one female taking multiple male mates while males mate with only one female. Specifically, phalaropes engage in serial polyandry, wherein females pair with multiple males at different times in the breeding season.[8]
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lindoig1 · 6 years
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Our cruise - Part 3
Wednesday. Shetlands I Day 56
An early start and into the zodiacs to a wet/damp beach landing. I set off with a few other enthusiastic companions to walk to the lighthouse 3 and a bit kilometres away. It was quite scary in places, often walking on the very edge of the cliff with hundreds of nesting fulmars and kittiwakes at our feet. It got steeper and boggier as we went and I decided not to go all the way – but eventually did anyway. The view is said to be fantastic from the top, but through the fog, all I could see were a few fulmars 20 metres away – and a couple of wrens. The wrens were a bit of a highlight because they are hard to spot and several of the islands have a slightly different subspecies unique to their own few square kilometres.
On return to the starting point, I had a look around a restored village, including a small fortified castle and a lot of underground houses and other structures. Heather had already seen this because she did the tour with Carol and gained a lot of information about it while I exhausted myself on the moors.
When we got back to the ship for lunch, I found that our PC was DEAD. I had used it in the morning and logged off as normal, but at lunchtime, nothing would bring it to life – but I have told the long version of this story in an earlier post from our time in Edinburgh (my John O’ Groats post). But this starts to explain why my blog has almost no photos in it – something I may or may not be able to rectify, but probably not until I get home again. This was doubly annoying because the ship staff wanted people to contribute photos for a booklet about the trip and I had a few that I thought might be worth submitting.
After lunch, most people, including us, had a short nap before we all embarked on another long zodiac cruise around the bird colonies. It was really great, but the sea was getting choppy, the wind was cold and the fog just kept rolling in. It would start to clear, but return thicker than before so the GPS became the essential tool to locate the ship again. It didn’t impede our view of the birds though – and there were thousands of them, gannets, fulmars, shags, cormorants, kittiwakes, gulls, terns, puffins, guillemots…….
After dinner, about half of us did a third landing for the day to visit a broche – a circular stone watchtower/fortification. It seems people enjoyed the experience, particularly the Scotch they were given, but Heather and I both stayed on board. We were cold and achy and I wanted to try to use one of the ship’s PCs to see if I could access the photos on my camera. It all got too hard though, so most of my pics are still on the memory cards.
Thursday Shetlands II Day 57
A long undulating overnight voyage to the southern end of the Shetlands and a pretty rocky couple of hours anchored before breakfast. They offered 3 choices for the morning’s activity – a very short stroll, a medium walk and a more challenging trek. We both chose the medium one of about 3km! It was a very pretty walk and our leader was a local plant specialist and Heather spent a lot of time with the group examining and discussing the wide variety of very beautiful flowers on the island. I stayed with them for a while, but spent more time wandering further afield looking for, and at, birds. I rejoined the group a little later, just in time to be advised NOT to go close to a small loch because for the first time ever, a pair of red-necked pharalopes were nesting there – and right on cue, they both wandered out and let us have a long-distance view of them. I saw one at Werribee a couple of years ago so was able to identify it immediately. It was some sort of special day for the people on the island and there was a display at the local school – along with numerous gooey cakes, biscuits and drinks, all made by the school kids during the week. The display was mainly about local conservation issues and was really quite good – obviously, the teachers gave the littler ones a lot of help.
We went back to the ship for lunch then all piled back into the zodiacs for an amazing cruise around, and in and out of, some phenomenal sea-caves. We saw some similar caves when we went into Fingal’s Cave a few days ago, but these were simply mind-blowing. Some went into/under the rocks for 100 metres or more and we went right to the end in some of them. Some had a collapsed area at the end so it was light, but others were quite dark inside. In one of them, we went in and in and in…… and eventually there was a bit of a glimmer, then a glow and suddenly we were out in the open again – the cave was a few hundred metres long, but went right through and came out into another inlet 100 metres around the corner from the entrance. We explored quite a few similar caves and each seemed more dramatic than its predecessor. It is simply astounding that so many similar, but all different, caves could have been formed in the same area – and more amazing are the forces that were in play to create them over so many thousands or millions of years. Some of them were like cathedrals inside with high arched ceilings, others were so low that we had to crouch down in the zodiacs to avoid braining ourselves on the rocks above. It was an almost religious experience winding our way in and out of the caves, being pushed and pulled by the waves and cruising the coast with seals popping their heads up beside us.
After a couple of hours cruising, some of us, including me, made a wet landing on the island and walked up and over to the other side while the rest, including Heather, took the zodiacs around the island to pick us up when our cross-island adventure was completed. It was a wonderful evening and the island was not too high so the walk was very pleasant.
Back on board, it was a BBQ dinner, fully catered, and everyone had to wear a funny hat. They had a big bag of hundreds of them and everyone chose something to make themselves look totally absurd. They played our sort of music on a boombox and soon everyone (not quite everyone!) was up dancing. Most people really got into the mood but I wimped out and went to bed and read while others retired to the bar and karaoked the night away. Heather went down to the bar for a while and said that some of the singing was great, but a lot of it was seriously less so, especially with a bit of booze on board.
Friday. Shetlands III and the Orkneys Day 58
We were up at 6:30 for brekky and in the zodiacs before 8am, heading to Fair Isle. Immediately we landed, I set off alone on a trek to North Light accompanied only by a great many wheatears, rock and meadow pipits, hooded crows and a variety of other avian friends. It was quite a trek, more than I had been led to believe, and I saw only one of the several promised new species. The climb to the lighthouse was strenuous, but I passed a few dramatic cliffs and delightful little lochs on the way so the effort was well compensated. I then set off cross-country to try to get to the airport where other new species had been predicted. Alas, the higher I climbed to the island’s central spine, the more fraught the skua attacks became. I must have stumbled into a rookery and they were dive-bombing me from all directions. I took a hard left and tried to get out of their territory, but it was still close to a kilometre over very challenging terrain before the raids abated. I subsequently attempted to reach the airport from 3 alternative directions, but each time, I was thwarted by aerial bombardments. I gave up and decided to use the shuttle service the islanders provided to ferry us around the island. Unfortunately, after standing around for half an hour, I gave up and walked most of the way until I saw Heather and many of our group watching the locals shear their sheep. We had been told on board that many things would not be open on the island because it was the annual sheep mustering day when everyone bands together to round up all the sheep from across the hills to shear them. Apparently, they do it in a couple of drives a week or so apart and all the sheep are tagged and colour-coded so each owner knows which ones are his or hers when the roundup is complete. All the sheep are corralled in a pen in the middle of the island and the owners haul out their own sheep one at a time and shear them, mainly using hand clippers, with just a few using electric clippers powered by car batteries. It was fascinating to watch and the care taken by some owners using just scissors to collect the precious wool was quite wonderful.
The fog descended as we went back to the ship so out came the GPS again so we didn’t miss the boat and sail off into the literal invisible sunset.
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andydrarch · 4 years
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Tomorrow is global big day and this is the first thing I’ve willingly woke up at 8 for in years
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omglssoctworld · 7 years
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Pharalope and the mirror by CharlaineJean
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http://goo.gl/plM6ud Pharalope and the mirror by CharlaineJean
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bjekkergauken · 7 years
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Some quick paintings of various birds I saw during my trip to iceland this july.
Puffin, Red-necked pharalope, Eider, Snow buntling, Black-legged Kittiwake
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loopwhole · 9 years
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bjekkergauken · 3 years
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Some more of my quick bird paintings, european birds this time
P1: Ruddy shelduck, king eider, water rail, northern hobby, oriental pratincole, red-necked pharalope
P2: Atlantic puffin, great spotted cuckoo, eurasian green woodpecker, european turtle dove, barn owl, rufous bush robin
P3: Bluethroat, bearded reedling, european golden oriole, firecrest, wallcreeper, horned lark
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