Gopher Tortoises, Egmont Key NWR: 11-10-19

Deck

It’s a dog’s life

Incoming Coast Guard

Hudson

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Handsome Tufted Titmouse

Beluga Whales: Churchill, Manitoba

Africa Images: 2-19

Hippos kill more people in Africa every year than any other animal

Yellow-breasted Longclaw

Crowned Crane

Hammerkop

The hamerkop, is a medium-sized wading bird. It is the only living species in the genus Scopus and the family Scopidae. The species and family was long thought to sit with the Ciconiiformes but is now placed with the Pelecaniformes, and its closest relatives are thought to be the pelicans and shoebill. 

White-headed Buffalo Weaver

Appropriately-named Black-backed Jackal

Kudu

oth kudus are cover-dependent browsers that feed on more than 100 different trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, seedpods, and fruits, as well as a little new grass. Eating greens enables them to inhabit waterless country, yet greater kudus regularly drink at water holes. Both species depend on the green growth along watercourses in the dry season and disperse through deciduous woodlands in the rains. Home ranges may be as small as 55 hectares (136 acres) or as large as 600 hectares (1,500 acres), and bulls studied in South Africa covered 11 square km (4 square miles) in migrating between wet- and dry-season ranges. Both sexes of lesser kudu studied in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park had ranges averaging 230 hectares (570 acres), at an average density of only one kudu per square km (three kudus per square mile).

Snowy Egrets on Egmont Key NWR: 11-10-19

 

Bird Survey, Pinellas NWR: 11-14-19

Big Bird

White Ibis

 

Some of the “McMansions” we see along the way on our Bird Surveys

Roseate Spoonbill and a resting White Ibis

American White Pelicans and Double-crested Cormorants on Indian Key

Wappapello State Park, Missouri: 6-4-19

Female Brown-headed Cowbird

Flooding

Male Barn Swallow

Birb Mobile in the park