You understand, in my posts, I do the weave. You understand what the weave is? I’ll speak about like two various things, like, Donald Trump and kingfishers, and so they come again brilliantly in combination, and it’s like, buddies of mine which can be, like, waste managers, they are saying, “It’s probably the most sensible factor I’ve ever noticed.”
A couple of months in the past, fellow 10,000 Birds creator Paul Lewis wrote “All he [Kai] has to do to get a hold of a treasured submit is to tug out of few of the ones pictures [his bird photos], upload a couple of snarky feedback, and he’s excellent to head”.
I feel this could be this type of posts, possibly even with out too many snarky feedback (even though I will not but guarantee you of that, and naturally, the primary paragraph additionally might be regarded as snarky). For the kingfishers of Vietnam are somewhat impressive and in a position to wearing a submit with out a lot enter from the creator.
The primary kingfisher I noticed at the go back and forth used to be at the first day, and in Ho Chi Minh Town – the quite common Collared Kingfisher.
The Straits Instances, a Singapore newspaper, has a lovely and in part unhappy article on seeking to save the lifetime of a Collared Kingfisher suffering from an oil spill – whole with footage of the chicken being dried in towels like I do it with kittens discovered at the streets of Shanghai.
Whilst this species is commonplace in Singapore, it kind of feels to be uncommon in Goa – a Goan paper states that “The Collared Kingfisher of Goa in conjunction with a couple of different birds which can practice within the coming weeks is sort of a star within the birding scene of India.”
One (in my view reasonably unconvincing) learn about of the vitamin of the White-throated Kingfisher makes use of footage of the chicken with prey posted on social media as its knowledge supply. Of greater than 1200 footage posted, most effective 89 confirmed a chicken with prey – and of those, 27% had been arthropods (i.e., bugs and equivalent animals), 19% fish, 14% amphibians, 20% reptiles and seven% different birds (in conjunction with one mammal and a number of other unknown prey pieces).
Why unconvincing? Neatly, if I had a large number of footage of the kingfisher with other prey, would I reasonably submit the only with a pleasing giant fish or with some small weird-looking insect? So, the collection of posted footage isn’t prone to be consultant in any respect.
The decision of this kingfisher it seems that masked the presence of a small new frog species for a very long time, because the frog’s name sounds similar to the well known one of the vital kingfisher (supply). A fascinating twist of fate.
How do White-breasted Kingfishers move their time? Consistent with one paper, they spent a median of 54% in their time scanning, 23% feeding, 13% flying, 6% preening, and four% resting – even though I’m wondering how transparent the honor between resting and scanning is.
The Black-backed Dwarf Kingfisher is indexed as Close to Threatened on Wikipedia and eBird whilst Cornell is vacillating, declaring inside the similar paragraph that the conservation standing is Close to Threatened and that the species isn’t globally threatened and indexed as Least Worry. I every so often suppose Cornell will not be as all for birds as the opposite two resources.
eBird admiringly calls it a “brilliantly coloured, tiny woodland kingfisher with a coral-red dagger invoice”. It’s certainly one of the vital smallest kingfishers on the earth.
The clinical identify Ceyx erithaca (that means “red-breasted”) turns out to signify that the chicken used to be named primarily based most effective on black-and-white footage.
However the absolute famous person of the display – and for me, of the entire go back and forth – used to be the Banded Kingfisher, in particular, the male.
Cornell justifiably calls it a “quite small however impressive kingfisher endowed with hanging sexual dimorphism” – certainly there’s a massive distinction between the male …
… and the feminine, even if each practice the similar fundamental design concepts.
A fascinating function is the best way the chicken slowly raises and lowers its crest (video 1, video 2).
You idea I copied the similar photograph two times? No, those two footage don’t seem to be the similar. Take a look at the crest.
The clinical identify Lacedo pulchella (pulchella manner small and really lovely) suits neatly.
This photograph is like this type of Eastern woodcuts – younger girl below parasol
The genus identify Lacedo additionally justifies some clarification – it’s an anagram of Alcedo, the Latin phrase for kingfisher (supply).
Ultimate self-check: How did I do with reference to snarky feedback? I suppose I didn’t solely do with out them, with a researcher considering that the use of Fb as a supply is a good suggestion, and Cornell getting some flack … nonetheless, now not too unhealthy. Perhaps “Altersmilde” (getting mild-mannered with previous age) is regularly environment in.
Although it’s laborious to finish this submit with out declaring that the birds of Springfield, Ohio all make stronger Kamala Harris at the moment.