Birding from my porch
Male Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) on my front steps
Nov. 16, 2018
Southeastern Pennsylvania
The statue known as Angel of the Waters stands atop the Bethesda Fountain, one of Central Park’s most recognizable sights. Designed by Emma Stebbins in 1868 and unveiled in 1873, the statue was the first public work of art that New York City commissioned a woman to create. The angel, with a lily in her left hand, blesses the water with her right, a reference to the Gospel of John in which an angel is said to have brought healing powers to Jerusalem’s Pool of Bethesda. The work commemorates the opening of the Croton Aqueduct, which brought fresh water to the city in 1842.
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Robert L. Bracklow. Bethesda Fountain in winter, Central Park. circa 1896-1905. glass negatives. New-York Historical Society.
Mergus albellus [ミコアイサ,Smew]
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Dinosaur Tracks
Coelophysis kayentakatae & Dilophosaurus wetherilli
Moenkopi, ArizonaPhotographed these tracks at Moenkopi, within the Navajo Nation. The tracks at this site belong to Coelophysis and Dilophosaurus. Due to the weird way that dinosaur footprints are catalogued, they may also be known as Grallator (Coelophysis) and Eubrontes (Dilophosaur).
There are tons of footprints at this site, which is well worth the stop. If you visit, make sure to tip the Navajo tour guides there.
Blue Jay #bluejay #falmouth #capecod #capecodlife #capecodinsta #capecodimages #udog_feathers #bns_birds #birdsofinstagram #your_best_birds #kings_birds #feather_perfection #nuts_about_birds #rsa_nature_birds #birds_illife #birds_adored #naturehippys_ #snap_wildlife (at Falmouth, Massachusetts)
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BONNETHEAD IS AN OMNIVORE SHARK, RESEARCHERS FOUND
What an animal consumes and what an animal digests and assimilates for energetic demands are not always synonymous. Sharks, accepted as carnivores, have guts that are presumed to be well suited for a high-protein diet. However, the bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo), an abundant shark commonly found in seagrass habitats, has been previously shown to consume copious amounts of seagrass, flowering marine plant that forms subsea meadows in some coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, as in other parts of the world. And now, is considered the first known plant-eating shark. The finding were published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society.
The bonnethead shark is an abundant shark species in shallow waters of the Eastern Pacific, the Western Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico, where they feed on seagrass and small crustaceans, snails and other fishes, and according to researchers, in natural conditions, up to 62.1% of gut content mass is seagrass. Because a large percentage of the diet is seagrass, conserving seagrass beds is vital to the hammerhead shark family and other marine life.
- Photo: bonnethead shark in Bahia State, Brazil, by José Amorim Reis-Filho.
- Reference (Open Access): Leigh et al., 2018. Seagrass digestion by a notorious ‘carnivore’. Proc. R. Soc. B.
This is so cool! This is really exciting news and I am going to read the paper as soon as I can because omg this is amazing! Reblogging to keep track of the link and to also spread this really amazing and cool information to people! I am sorry I am so excited over this. This is kind of what I want to do in my future and these things really excite me
^^^ THAT’S LOVELY!!! i felt the same!
We’ve had snow, so hardly anyone’s out at the park, and the birds were in places I’ve never seen them.
