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Drunk Bird

Image by Mijonju
Camera: Argus C3 Matchmatic
Film: DNP 200 Centura

Joe: ohh its a dead bird
Mijonju: em… i think im gonna take a picture
Joe: err.. ok
Mijonju: Oh~ its not dead! its DRUNK!

Yes the argus c3 makes a strange spin on most of its photos.
faulty? ya you might think its faulty but i like the style.

Birds into the sunset

Image by Chris-Håvard Berge
Two birds flying into the sunset just outside Holmen Grå in Norway.

#TwPhCh004
Når det gjelder TwPhCh 004 så har jeg tre av de fire elementene med i bildet, og prøver meg med det. Havet er vannet, fuglene og bølgene viser vinden og solen indikerer ild.

# TEKNISK INFO #
Kamera: Canon EOS 500D
Lukkerhastighet: 1/1250
Blenderåpning: f 5,6
Eksponering: Manuelt
Brennvidde: 80 mm
Blits: Av
ISO: 100

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The outer skin of Beijing’s Olympic Stadium aka Bird’s nest

Image by DonDomingo

Baby Bird

Image by diathesis
Christophe awaiting feeding, like a baby bird.

Bird in a cage

Image by Weiyi1984
This bird made me nuts! It was jumping around like crazy and I couldn’t take a clear sharp shot at it!

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Dome and the bird

Image by HAMED MASOUMI
Iran/Isfahan/ Sheikh Lotfollah dome

Trees and birds nr. 4

Image by ▲▼▲▼▲
This is one in a series of thirteen drawings in which I was trying to explore all the different kinds of paper that I have. I think I used 18 different sorts of paper in total. Two returning elements are trees and birds. And the little unworldly and lonely characters of course.

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bye bye black bird

Image by red nails; wrong city
red nails; wrong city / 2010/02/bye-bye-blackbird

Bird of prey

Image by Restless mind

mentaly ill boy disguised us a bird

Image by spiderjelly
resin,wire,color (sold-private collection Israel)

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“A bird in the hand is worth two in the tree”~ EXPLORE

Image by turtlemom4bacon
EXPLORE April 14, 2009 #154 – Thanks so much for your support my dear friends!!!

~The things we already have are more valuable than the things we only hope to get.~

I know it is SUPPOSE to be "bush" but the baby cardinal’s Mom & Dad landed in our Orange Trees watching as their baby was in our neighbor’s hand.
They have flown off now to start their new life, so I wish them well!

Please view on the ORIGINAL size ~

Can You See the Bird?

Image by Old Shoe Woman
While I was at The Hair Clinic in Valdosta, Robert looked out the window and saw a bird hanging from my car’s grill. Poor Little Bird! Jan said that it was a Brown Thrasher, Georgia’s State Bird. She was kind enough to remove it. Jim thinks it is a quail.

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Brown forest bird – Brauner Waldvogel (Aphantopus hyperantus)

Image by Maggi_94

Der Schornsteinfeger ist da,
so wird auch der Braune Waldvogel genannt, die Ausprägung seiner Augenflecken auf der Oberseite können sehr unterschiedlich sein.

Bird

Image by toufeeq
See the original sized image to see the bird (note present)

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Birds of Paradise

Image by jewelsbyldesigns
The jewel featured in this necklace is a glass lampwork beads which is handmade by me in the flame. Rich swirls of golden yellow and deep rich amethyst purple layered over a base of mixed frit for added depth.

The necklace started with a circle of solid sterling silver hammered and coiled with fine gauge sterling silver wire. Once wrapped I added an outer layer of delicate lacy loops and an interior of faceted ametrine rondelles. In the center is my glass lampwork bead topped with a cluster of beautiful deep purple amethyst briolettes. Dropping down below is a huge smooth polished deep purple amethyst briolette for added "wow" factor.

The chain is a large and very chic solid sterling silver circle chain. Rich deep fancy cut citrine briolettes were added to each circle along the bottom and faceted ametrine rondelles to the top of the chain for a graduated range of color. These colors remind me of the beautiful birds of paradise… still waiting for ours to bloom, just before Fall arrives.

Trip with black birds

Image by τeresa.яomano
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Day 197 – The Torogoz, the national bird of El Salvador

Image by LShave
Somebody found this little guy this morning and brought him in to city hall. Apparently he was sitting on a fence post, with no sign of the mother. The person who brought him in looked around and waited for quite a while before determining that the mother must have been killed. He took the orphaned bird in to town to see if anything could be done for him. After posing for dozens of pictures, he was placed in a short tree out back. I wish there had been something that I could have done for him, but he wouldn’t eat anything, and I had to leave in a hurry. The last I heard he had disappeared.

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Vintage Postcard ~ Swallow Bird

Image by chicks57

Wind Up Birds A6

Image by Danny PiG

Bird Bath of Reused Materials

Image by Jacob Moyer
I have a bird feeder that has been attracting a lot of birds, and I thought maybe they’d like a cool drink of water or a little splash to clean up after lunch.

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Common tailor Bird

Image by Umang Dutt
Explored at #170 on 5 Dec 2009

The Common Tailorbird ( Orthotomus sutorius) – I was lucky to be able to spend some time with this little beauty and got some nice pics.

More can be seen here – www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=130347&id=713333786&am…

Birds, trees, and Fields of Gold

Image by mbgrigby

Flock of Seagulls…”How blessings brighten as they take their flight..Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

Image by Hєคשєภlא Pђ๏t๏ﻮгคקђא©
Captured AS SEEN MY WAY.. Just looked up into the sky and watched the seagulls fly..with such grace and wings out wide tranquilty moments on an air ride..
thought the sense of distance near and far look, the sky making the perfect canvas,just that feeling of freedom and peace.. fly anywhere .. love to be a bird…

Gulls (often informally called seagulls) are birds in the family Laridae. They are most closely related to the terns (family Sternidae) and only distantly related to auks, skimmers, and more distantly to the waders. Until recently, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but this arrangement is now known to be polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera.
Gulls are typically medium to large birds, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls, stout, longish bills, and webbed feet. Gull species range in size from the Little Gull, at 120 g (4.2 oz) and 29 cm (11.5 inches), to the Great Black-backed Gull, at 1.75 kg (3.8 lbs) and 76 cm (30 inches).Most gulls, particularly Larus species, are ground nesting carnivores, which will take live food or scavenge opportunistically. Live food often includes crabs and small fish. Apart from the kittiwakes, gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea. The large species take up to four years to attain full adult plumage, but two years is typical for small gulls. Large White-Headed Gulls are typically long-lived birds, with a maximum age of 49 years recorded for the Herring Gull.Gulls nest in large, densely packed, and noisy colonies. They lay two to three speckled eggs in nests composed of vegetation. The young are precocial, being born with dark mottled down, and mobile from hatching.Gulls—the larger species in particular—are resourceful, inquisitive and intelligent birds, demonstrating complex methods of communication and a highly developed social structure; for example, many gull colonies display mobbing behaviour, attacking and harassing would-be predators and other intruders. In addition, certain species (e.g. the Herring Gull) have exhibited tool use behaviour, using pieces of bread as bait with which to catch goldfish, for example. Many species of gull have learned to coexist successfully with humans and have thrived in human habitats. Others rely on kleptoparasitism to get their food. Gulls have been observed preying on live whales, landing on the whale as it surfaces to peck out pieces of flesh.

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Take a letter…

Image by law_keven
Secretary Bird – Eagle Heights – Wildlife Park, Kent, England – Sunday February 24th 2008.

The Secretary Bird, (Sagittarius serpentarius), is a large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey. Endemic to Africa, it is usually found in the open grasslands and savannas of the sub-Sahara. Although a member of the order Falconiformes, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, buzzards, vultures, and harriers, it is so distinctive that it was given its own family, Sagittariidae.

It enjoys a certain fame in Africa, specifically Sudan and South Africa, serving as a prominent emblem on both

The Secretary Bird is instantly recognizable as having an eagle-like body on crane-like legs which increases the bird’s height to around 1.3 m (4 ft) tall. This 140 cm (4.5 ft) long bird has an eagle-like head with a hooked bill, but has rounded wings. Body weight averages at about 3.3 kg (7.3 lbs) and the wingspan is over 2 m (6.6 ft).

From a distance or in flight it resembles a crane more than a bird of prey. The tail has two elongated central feathers that extend beyond the feet during flight, as well as long flat plumage creating a posterior crest. Secretary Bird flight feathers and thighs are black, while most of the coverts are grey with some being white. Sexes look similar to one another as the species exhibits very little sexual dimorphism, although the male has longer head plumes and tail feathers. Adults have a featherless red face as opposed to the yellow facial skin of the young.

Habitat
Secretary Birds are endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa and are non-migratory (although they may follow food sources). Their range is from Senegal to Somalia and south to the Cape of Good Hope. These birds are also found at a variety of elevations, from the coastal plains to the highlands. Secretary Birds prefer open grasslands and savannas rather than forests and dense shrubbery which may impede their cursorial existence. While the birds roost on the local Acacia trees at night, they spend much of the day on the ground, returning to roosting sites just before dark.

Threats
Young are predated by crows and kites as they are vulnerable in Acacia tree tops. As a population, the Secretary Bird is mainly threatened by loss of habitat and deforestation. In 1968 the species became protected under the Africa Convention on the Conservation of tNature and Natural Resources.

Diet
The Secretary Bird is largely terrestrial, hunting its prey on foot, and other than the caracara (such as Polyborus plancus), is the only bird of prey to do so habitually. Adults hunt in pairs and sometimes as loose familial flocks, stalking through the habitat with long strides. Prey consists of insects, small mammals, lizards, snakes, young birds, bird eggs, and sometimes dead animals killed in brush fires. Larger herbivores are not hunted, although there are some reports of Secretary Birds killing young gazelles.

Young are fed liquified and regurgitated insects directly by the male or female parent and are eventually weaned to small mammals and reptile fragments regurgitated onto the nest itself. The above foodstuffs are originally stored in the crop of the adults.

Secretary Birds have two distinct feeding strategies that are both executed on land. They can either catch prey by chasing it and striking with the bill, or stamping on prey until it is rendered stunned or unconscious enough to swallow. Studies of this latter strategy have helped construct the possible feeding mechanisms employed by dinosaur-like ‘terror birds’ that once walked the earth five million years ago.

half a moon and one whole bird

Image by Grant MacDonald
Highest Explore position: 75 on Friday, March 27, 2009