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The Keartons photographing a bird's nest, 1890s. Cherry is on Richard's shoulders. Richard Kearton FZS, FRPS (2 January 1862 – 8 February 1928) and Cherry Kearton (8 July 1871 – 27 September 1940), brothers, were a pair of British naturalists and some of the world's earliest wildlife photographers. They developed innovative methods to ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... the bird's nest spleenwort, wild birdnest ... Linnaeus was the first to describe American bird's-nest fern with the binomial ...
The birds are best known for building massive nest mounds of decaying vegetation, which the male attends, adding or removing litter to regulate the internal heat while the eggs develop. However, some bury their eggs in other ways; there are burrow-nesters which use geothermal heat, and others which simply rely on the heat of the sun warming the ...
For a lone potoo, or a brooding adult with a potential predator close to the nest, the bird attempts to avoid detection by remaining motionless and relying on camouflage. If ineffective, the potoo breaks cover and attempts to intimidate the predator by opening its beak and eyes wide open while vocalizing or simply flies out of reach.
More significant than direct hunting is the loss of many birds, up to 14,000 a year, in Egypt, where migrating birds are captured in nets set for the quail with which they often migrate. [12] Although this may account for 0.5–2.7% of the European population, the losses to this form of hunting are less than when the targeted species were more ...
Asplenium antiquum is a fern of the family Aspleniaceae, commonly known as bird's-nest ferns (also called spleenworts). In Japanese , it is known by ō-tani-watari and tani-watari . [ 1 ] It grows on cliffs, logs and rocks, near waterfalls, in damp forests, and on tree trunks in China , Japan , Korea , and Taiwan . [ 2 ]
Indian roller Indian roller, Gujarat Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Coraciiformes Family: Coraciidae Genus: Coracias Species: C. benghalensis Binomial name Coracias benghalensis (Linnaeus, 1758) breeding range non-breeding range Synonyms Corvus benghalensis Linnaeus, 1758 The Indian ...
An audio recording of a house sparrow. The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. It is a small bird that has a typical length of 16 cm (6.3 in) and a mass of 24–39.5 g (0.85–1.39 oz).