This morning I went to Orlando Wetlands Park. I was hoping to see the Vermilion Flycatchers that were seen there this past November, and I found both without much difficulty. They’re such a beautiful red I can’t miss them even with my red-green colorblindness. They were pretty far a way, but since they’re such pretty […]
Category: Wildlife
Cold Stare…
A Brown Snake-Eagle (Circaetus cinereus) gives me the cold stare as he takes flight, somewhere in the Okavango Delta. Okavango Delta, Botswana. Nikon D3. Nikon 200-400 mm. ISO 800. f 5.6 @ 1/4000 sec. Lexar Media. © Dana Allen www.photosafari-africa.net www.facebook.com/DanaAllenPhotoSafari
2 de Febrero “Día mundial de los humedales”
El 2 de febrero se celebra el Día Mundial de los Humedales, conmemorando la firma de la Convención sobre los Humedales en la ciudad de Ramsar, Irán, el 2 de febrero de 1971. De esta manera, los países signatarios de la Convención de Ramsar han querido simbolizar la importancia de los bienes y servicios que […]
Picaflor vientre negro (Black-throated Mango)
Siguiendo con los picaflores de esta tarde comparto estas fotos del Picaflor vientre negro, entretenida mateada hoy en el patio después de la lluvia aprovechando la tregua del calor entre picaflores.
Potential Whooping Crane Deaths Demand EIS for North Dakota Wind Project, Groups Say
Seventy-six groups led by American Bird Conservancy (ABC), one of the nation’s leading bird conservation organizations, have called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to fully analyze the environmental consequences of a proposed North Dakota wind farm to the endangered Whooping Crane. FWS is considering issuing the first-ever Incidental Take Permit (ITP) to […]
Along the East River
I took a cold walk by the East River today. Brant geese, Branta bernicla, were lunching on the lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Brant are often mistaken for Canada geese, but they are different species. I’ve written about their differences; click here for that blog. The lawn the brant geese were trying to eat turned […]
Finding mammals in Sydney (Urban mammals)
When most of us think about wildlife watching, cities are not the environments that usually come to mind. Typically urban development is associated with habitat destruction and local extinctions. However, not all wildlife species are equally affected by human activities and some have adapted and become quite successful in human-dominated landscapes. Sydney – Australia’s largest […]
The start of this years White Breasted Dipper observations.
For the previous three years I have been observing breeding White Breasted Dippers on my nearby river. Breeding activity starts very early in the season, around now in fact. I had been waiting for the water levels on the river to retreat just a little before I started this year’s observations. We have had a […]