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birds and blackberries

Image by mararie
picture taken near the etruscan graves of castel viscardo, with a lensbaby muse + creative aperture

birds

Image by simonsterg
The usual far-away pictures of these. The closer one is, I think, the one that has the big noisy nest in the tree next to our house. My bird knowledge is very limited - pigeon, sparrow, crow... so can anyone tell me from that what bird it is??

Eurasian Griffon Vulture / Gänsegeier (03)

Image by Georg Schwalbach (GS1311)
The Griffon Vulture or Eurasian Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) is a large Old World vulture in the bird of prey family Accipitridae.

The Griffon Vulture is 93–110 cm (37–43 in) long with a 230–269 cm (91–106 in) wingspan, and it weighs between 6 and 13 kg (13.2 and 29 lb). Hatched naked, it is a typical Old World vulture in appearance, with a white bald head, very broad wings and short tail feathers. It has a white neck ruff and yellow bill. The buff body and wing coverts contrast with the dark flight feathers.

Like other vultures it is a scavenger, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals which it finds by soaring over open areas, often moving in flocks. It grunts and hisses at roosts or when feeding on carrion.

It breeds on crags in mountains in southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia, laying one egg. Griffon Vultures may form loose colonies. The population is mostly resident.

(Wikipedia)

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Der Gänsegeier (Gyps fulvus) ist ein großer Vertreter der Altweltgeier (Aegypiinae). Das stark zersplitterte Verbreitungsgebiet umfasst große Teile der südwestlichen Paläarktis, nach Norden reicht das Areal bis in das südliche Mitteleuropa. Die Art übersommert seit langer Zeit regelmäßig in den Alpen und fliegt wohl vor allem bedingt durch eine starke Bestandszunahme in Südeuropa in den letzten Jahren im Sommer verstärkt auch in das nördliche Mitteleuropa ein.

Der Gänsegeier zählt zu den großen Altweltgeiern. Die Körperlänge beträgt 93 bis 110 cm, die Spannweite 234 bis 269 cm. Die Tiere wiegen 6,2 bis 11,3 kg. Die Art zeigt keinen Geschlechtsdimorphismus bezüglich Färbung, Größe oder Gewicht. Drei in Italien und Salzburg erlegte Männchen wogen 6,2 bis 8,5 kg, fünf Weibchen 6,5 bis 8,3 kg, im Mittel 7,48 kg. Männchen aus Europa hatten Flügellängen von 684–735 mm, im Mittel 708,7 mm, Weibchen aus dem selben Raum 690 bis 750 mm, im Mittel 707,7 mm.

(Wikipedia)

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bird envelop: kingfisher

bird envelop: kingfisher

Image by petesimon
Art created for the front of an envelop. petesimon.blogspot.com/

Thanks to ianmichaelthomas user for the reference picture: www.flickr.com/photos/7533960@N02/3198250675/

Birds at the Birdfeeder

Image by dmolsen
Geez, You can barely see them in the thumbnail. Check out the larger image for them. They're on the left side of the picture. The bird feeder was put up by c.

Masked Lapwing

Image by Sweet One
This bird was running around near the waterfront in one of the parks. It has a very unique/distinct yellow bit of skin on its face (view Large to see it)

Unknown Bird

Image by Velo Steve
This awful little picture is the best I got of this bird. I wonder if it's the same species as the one whose feathers are in the previous shot ("Unknown Feathers").

Picture A Day October 28, 2009 - Colima Warbler of the Chisos Mountains

Image by mlhradio
My best guess at identifying this bird is that it is the Colima Warbler, whose range in the United States is limited exclusively to the single mountain group in west Texas, the Chisos Mountains. I did take some other pictures, but this was the clearest I could get - the bird was very active and flitting all over the bush - and in some of the other pictures some of the light yellow coloration is slightly more visible under the rear feathers.

This was spotted in a small bush deep within the canyon leading to the Window View in the Chisos Mountains. The Chisos are an isolated stand of mountains rising abruptly half a mile into the sky in the center of Big Bend National Park, forming an island of green in the sky, with small remnant plant and animal species left over from the last ice age that used to cover the entire region when the planet was cooler. The Chisos form a big basin, and the only drainage (when there is enough rain to actually produce running water) leads through a narrow slot in the mountains called 'The Window' or the 'Window Pouroff'. There were a pair of small birds jumping between two flowering bushes deep in the shadows of the canyon. Exceptionally friendly little birds, they allowed me to get within just a few feet - although they were almost constantly in motion the entire time. I must have spent ten minutes moving around them trying to get a clear shot.

The Colima Warbler ranges only in the upper reaches of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, plus the tiny island of the Chisos Mountains. In fact, it was not even identified in the United States until 80 years ago. While an exceptionally uncommon bird by national standards, it is actually fairly common within Big Bend.

You can view more photos from my 2009 'Picture a Day' set at: www.flickr.com/photos/matthigh/sets/72157625855768121/

And the fun continues with a Picture a Day through 2010 at: www.flickr.com/photos/matthigh/sets/72157620610035860/

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