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ALICE RIVER - blue-faced honeyeater

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Blue-faced Honeyeater
Scientific Name: Entomyzon cyanotis
Description: The Blue-faced Honeyeater is a large black, white and golden olive-green honeyeater with striking blue skin around the yellow to white eye. The crown, face and neck are black, with a narrow white band across the back of the neck. The upperparts and wings are a golden olive green, and the underparts are white, with a grey-black throat and upper breast. The blue facial skin is two-toned, with the lower half a brilliant cobalt blue. Juvenile birds are similar to the adults but the facial skin is yellow-green and the bib is a lighter grey. This honeyeater is noisy and gregarious, and is usually seen in pairs or small flocks. It is known as the Banana-bird in tropical areas, for its habit of feeding on banana fruit and flowers.
Similar species: The Blue-faced Honeyeater is not easily mistaken for any other bird. Its golden-green upperparts and pure white underbody distinguish it from similarly sized species with similar behaviour, such as friarbirds, wattlebirds and miners.
Distribution: The Blue-faced Honeyeater is found in northern and eastern mainland Australia, from the Kimberley region, Western Australia to near Adelaide, South Australia, being more common in the north of its range. It is not found in central southern New South Wales or eastern Victoria. This species is also found in Papua New Guinea.
Habitat: The Blue-faced Honeyeater is found in tropical, sub-tropical and wetter temperate or semi-arid zones. It is mostly found in open forests and woodlands close to water, as well as monsoon forests, mangroves and coastal heathlands. It is often seen in banana plantations, orchards, farm lands and in urban parks, gardens and golf courses.
Seasonal movements: Considered sedentary in the north of its range, and locally nomadic in the south. Some regular seasonal movements observed in parts of New South Wales and southern Queensland.
Feeding: The Blue-faced Honeyeater feeds mostly on insects and other invertebrates, but also eats nectar and fruit from native and exotic plants. It forages in pairs or noisy flocks of up to seven birds (occasionally many more) on the bark and limbs of trees, as well as on flowers and foliage. These flocks tend to exclude other birds from the feeding area, but they do feed in association with other species such as Yellow-throated Miners and Little Friarbirds.
Breeding: The Blue-faced Honeyeater forms breeding pairs, and may sometimes be a cooperative breeder, where immature birds help the main breeding pair to feed nestlings. Most nests are made on the abandoned nests of Grey-crowned Babblers, Noisy, Silver-crowned and Little Friarbirds, Noisy Miner, Red Wattlebird, Australian Magpie, Magpie-Lark and, rarely, butcherbirds or the Chestnut-crowned Babbler. Sometimes the nests are not modified, but often they are added to and relined. If a new nest is built, it is a neat round cup of rough bark, linked with finer bark and grass. Both the male and female tend the young birds, sometimes with the assistance of helpers. The fledglings remain with the parents for some time after fledging.
Calls: Noisy, varied calls. Repeated, penetrating 'woik'; 'weet weet weet' at daybreak; also squeaks uttered during flight and softer 'hwit hwit' calls.
Minimum Size: 26cm
Maximum Size: 32cm
Average size: 29cm
Average weight: 105g
Breeding season: June to February
Clutch Size: 2, rarely 3
Incubation: 16 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)

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TLV - El Al Boeing 787-9 4X-ERC

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On final approach to runway 30 from Dubai International Airport.

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Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus)

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Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus), Rookwood Cemetery, Auburn, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/checklist/S96573490

The collared sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus) is a small, slim bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found in Australia, New Guinea and nearby smaller islands. As its name implies the collared sparrowhawk is a specialist in hunting small birds.

Source: Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collared_sparrowhawk

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Divers 2021 - Musee d'Art fantastique - Festival International Pinksteren Steampunk

Amis du Fantastique, ce week-end des 2 et 3 Octobre le Centre d'Art Fantastique accueillera le Festival Pinksteren Steampunk de Bruxelles, evenement base sur le steampunk et le retro-futurisme. Au programme de ces 2 jours exceptionnels : Spectacles, Animations, Marche d'artisans, et de nombreuses autres surprises.

( Divers albums de photos prisent en 2021 sans sujet reel.
Various albums of pictures taken in 2021 without real subject. )

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A dead burro lies in the maintenance road for the power line. was it hit by a car overnight? I didn't check. When I saw it, there were two coyotes at the carcass and ,one Black and over 15 Turkey Vultures hanging around. When I parked, the coyotes ran away and the birds moved in. They came back, oneata time,later. The first one was skinnier. Then theey must have been sated as they both left, leaving the vultures to fight over the carcass. I came back that evening and was surprised to see the Turkey Vultures feeding on the carcass almost until full dark,. Two coyotes were there around 6pm and feld but three came after dark. On 20 March 2015, a 1 1/2 hour stint besides the carcass yieded nothing at all. The smell is getting horrid. Two Turkey Vultures flew overhead and did not stop and a Red-tailed Hawk showed no interest. However, some animalshad been at it overnight as the top back leg was folded over.

TLV - CAL Cargo Airlines Boeing 747-400 Freighter 4X-ICA

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The queen of the skies departs from runway 26 on this beautiful blue sky late afternoon to Hong Kong International Airport.

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Herbstzeit I

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Day 659: Surf ‘N Turf

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Blue Dacnis (male)

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Jacaranda flowers, Saturday 23 Oct 2021

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Forest Lake, southside of Brisbane, Australia.

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Hydro to Blacks

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Ampelfrau, grün

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Leider wird das Ampelmädchen schrittweise wieder verschwinden:

"...Das Landesverwaltungsamt begründet sein Verbot mit der StVO und dem Verweis auf Einheitlichkeit, Verständlichkeit und Verkehrssicherheit. „Der alleinige Zweck dieses Sinnbildes besteht in der Sicherheit des Fußgängerverkehrs“, führt die Behörde aus, „es darf nicht dazu benutzt werden, gesellschaftliche oder politische Anliegen zu transportieren.“

Wie doof!!!
In der Sprache wird gegendert, was das Zeug hält und mich nur nervt, und hier wird mal was Nettes abgeschafft. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass die Mädchen lange nicht krank werden und ausgewechselt werden müssen.


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