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01-04-2018, 04:42 AM   #6271
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for those who don't know what can happen when " foreign " species are introduced

The Rabbit Proof Fence of Australia | Amusing Planet

https://www.environmentalscience.org/invasive-species

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw365

I remember in New Zealand, being questioned and inspected, including soles of my shoes, and going past beagles, before being allowed to disembark from a cruise ship which had been to Australia first

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Kiwis don't want any more imports from across the ditch.
Blue whale going down for something to eat.
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Magnificent Addo Lion - cold chilly stare
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Nice! That looks like an "I'm about to make a meal of you" stare to me.

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Buffalo and birds.
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we were discussing badgers on another thread
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Puffin thinking about heading out to sea to gather a few fish.

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Join you with some Avian wildlife
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Some more African avians.
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Some more African avians.
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QuoteOriginally posted by WPRESTO Quote
These look like idle eider, but I think they are all sitting on eggs. BTW in case you do not know: Eider down is collected from the nests in limited amounts only to insure that all the hatchlings survive.
Males ducks don't incubate eggs or do any other kind of parental behaviour, so each of these drakes is probably guarding his mate until he fertilizes all of her eggs. Then they bugger off to big bachelor parties where they undergo a complete moult and are temporarily flightless. They start to get interested in females again during following winter.
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QuoteOriginally posted by pete-tarmigan Quote
Males ducks don't incubate eggs or do any other kind of parental behaviour, so each of these drakes is probably guarding his mate until he fertilizes all of her eggs. Then they bugger off to big bachelor parties where they undergo a complete moult and are temporarily flightless. They start to get interested in females again during following winter.
So they are idle eiders.
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this guy wasn't idle

he was dancing the night ( well, twilight ) away
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I guess I may as well put these here too, cross posted from post your photos.

10 Wildlife images from 2017. all posted before, but a year end compilation.

1. K-3 and DA*200 2.8 with HD DA 1.4 TC (280mm/ƒ4)
Red Fox on frozen wetland.


2. K-3 and Tamron 300 2.8 and F 1.7x AF Adapter
N.A. River Otter


3. K-1 and DA-60-250 @250mm
Moose


4. K-3 and DA*200 2.8 with HD DA 1.4 TC (280mm/ƒ4)
White Tailed deer



5. K-3 and DA*200 2.8 with HD DA 1.4 TC (280mm/ƒ4)
Beaver



6. K-3 and Tamron 300 2.8 and HD DA 1.4 TC
Red Squirrel


7. K-3 and Tamron 300 2.8 and F 1.7x AF Adapter
Chipmunk


8. K-1 and DA*60-250 @135mm
Garter Snake


9. K-1 DA*60-250
Fox with dinner.


10. K-1 and Tamron 300 2.8 and HD DA 1.4 TC
Pine Marten
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