#ardea

[herpsandbirds]

Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, and a Checkered Keelback (Fowlea piscator), family Colubridae, struggle over a fish in Telangana, India

photograph by Sunny Inaganti

[birdblues]

Grey Heron

[alonglistofbirds]

[2527/11080] Cocoi heron - Ardea cocoi

Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Ardeidae (herons) Subfamily: Ardeinae (day herons, night herons and egrets)

Photo credit: Karmela Moneta via Macaulay Library

[mistfallengw2]

I was writing, but then I ended up sketching how the Dragon warband looked in their early years (after they left the fahrar at ~16yo), right before the mission that led Kouran to retire from active duty in 1308 AE. After that, they decided to rename the warband to Wing, and continued their streak of successful missions (or "creative interpretation of orders").

I really want to finish this headshot lineup, but I gotta determine some design elements first (and fix those things that aren't supposed to be there yet oops). Maybe I'll even do a 12 years later pic.

Some fun facts in the meantime:

- Odhran and Obsius are non-identical twins, which is obvious given that the first is albino while the rest of their family has dark fur. What they lack in strength and bulk, they make up for in craftiness and trickery. - Ardea and Sidonia are half-sisters, with the first being almost a year younger. Their mother was a Flame Legion refugee and the only one of her family to reach safety when she was just a cub, and taught them not to be ashamed of their powerful fire magic. - Aurelia and Ardea are fahrar sweethearts. Gross and cute at the same time, I know. - Aurelia and Obsius became friends the day she arrived the fahrar. Specifically, she saw Obsius being picked on for being scrawny, decided she'd protect him, and then proceeded go to pick him up in spite of him being a few months older than her. - Kouran and Reeva were a thing for a few years in the fahrar, now they're insufferable besties. - Kouran is the designated group mom. - Lupita and Rorick were thought to be a couple, but they've always been just close friends. She was non-verbal cub and he liked hanging out with her because she didn't mock his furless face (result of a spell gone wrong) and liked his stories. - Aurelia is the tallest, Sidonia is the buffest, Obsius and Odhran are the smallest (Obsius is lither).

[wildtokyo-jp]

The satoyama of Machida city, Tokyo is my home ground, where I spent several years before entering grad school in ecology, going there every week to learn the attitude of facing living things. I often visited there as a place for nature guiding after I went to the grad school, but it was hard to find the time to go there to immerse myself in my own nature observations. With a local female naturalist whom I respect so much, I took a precious trip to recall my origins while walking through the spring in Machida for the first time in seven years. The woman was over 70 years old and climbed up a steep slope faster than me without losing her breath. She is a person who knows all about the flora and fauna in the satoyama. What fun it was to follow her back and observe the creatures. In my study of ecology over the past several years, I have been conscious of the perspective of "analyzing" living organisms, but this was a moment that made me question once again the meaning of "loving" living organisms. The photo is a Great egret, Ardea alba.

生態学の大学院に入る前の数年間、毎週欠かさず通って生物に向き合う態度を学んだ町田の里山は、私のホームグラウンド。ネイチャーガイドの場としては進学後もよく訪れていましたが、自分の観察のために没頭しに行く時間はなかなか取れず。 尊敬する地元の女性ナチュラリストの方と、7年ぶりに町田の春をじっくり歩いた一日は、自分の原点を思い起こす小さな旅になりました。70歳を超えながら急坂を私より速く息も切らさず登っていく、里山中の動植物を知り尽くす人の背中を追いつつ生物の足跡を辿る時間の、なんと楽しいことでしょう。 ここ数年、生態学を学ぶ中で生物を「分析」する視点を意識してきましたが、生物を「愛でる」ことの意味を、改めて胸に問いかけるひと時でもありました。 写真は��イサギ。

Tokyo Met. 東京都 2024-03-17

[johbeil]

Road Bandit

Nameplate "Bandito". Parked in Ardea, Lazio, Italy. Konica C35 on Foma 100 B&W film.

[imperatorcaesaraugustus]

My 12 Favorite Dinosaur Genera

no one asked. here it is anyway.

i have a bit of a bias towards therapods, but let's start with the non-therapod dinosaurs

Amargasaurus

By Fred Wierum - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116775169

not so big as many sauropods, but the neck spines help it stand out in a way that i find very charming

Stegosaurus

By Fred Wierum - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=118825287

all around solid dinosaur, what's not to love? r.i.p. Thag Simmons

Protoceratops

By PaleoNeolitic - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107854945

they're just a guy, and i love that for them

Parasaurolophus

By I, Steveoc 86, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1985435

the one with the big red horn. the pompadour. elvis. honk if you agree

now on to the next category: non-avian therapods

Velociraptor

By Fred Wierum - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63257512

absolute classic of the genre. 10/10 no notes

Therizinosaurus

By PaleoNeolitic - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90136941

Not Like Other Therapods. a great shaggy beast who does not give a fuck what you think

Spinosaurus

By PaleoGeekSquared - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114762240

a controversial figure to be sure, but one i simply can't get enough of. yes i loved Jurassic Park 3 as a kid, but i love the strange water creature we know today even more

Sinosauropteryx

By Fiann M. Smithwick, Robert Nicholls, Innes C. Cuthill, Jakob Vinther - http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31197-1, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63630808

fuzzy little ginger friend. if i were forced to pick one single favorite, it's probably them

and finally, we can't leave out our friends the birds

Titanis

By Dmitry Bogdanov - dmitrchel@mail.ru, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2991184

who said the Cenozoic had to be the age of mammals? bonus points for being a Florida local

Corvus

By Fernando Losada Rodríguez - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4841560

you can't go wrong with a good corvid. too clever by half, and i love them for it

Ardea

By JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13352774

stately. regal. stoic. a fine assortment of marvelous herons

Sagittarius

By Sankara Subramanian - https://www.flickr.com/photos/sankaracs/8014994289/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89450179

she's beauty, she's grace, she'll kick you in the face. the secretary bird is without equal

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Heron based on one of the photos I took last Sunday. I have over 70 heron photos and none of them are high-quality, had to look at some images online to see feather directions.

[vintagewildlife]

Greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) By: Ardea From: The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World 1980

[guudlobster]

some more photos from prague zoo. this time it's a purple heron - one of my favorite bird species ever!

[diabolus1exmachina]

Lancia Appia Zagato GTE

Introduced in 1953 as a replacement for the Ardea, Lancia built over 100,000 Appias in total. All used the ultra-compact 1090cc, 10-degree V4 engine which originally produced a mighty 38bhp (this one has 60!). Despite the numbers you’ll rarely encounter one these days and none as special as this.

In 1956 Lancia made a chassis available to coachbuilders. Allemano, Ghia, Vignale and Pinin Farina were among those who had a dabble, but it was Zagato, treading its own idiosyncratic path as usual, which really defined the sporting Appia.

The coupé was the first Zagato-bodied Lancia to go into limited series production and was the genesis of a fruitful collaboration for both companies. Zagato produced three basic versions over the next six years: GT (or GTS, or GTZ…), GTE and Sport.

At the Turin Show of 1958, the GTE (‘E’ for esportazione, or export) emerged, its longer front overhang accommodating recessed and faired-in headlights and for 1960, a power hike from 53 to 60bhp was celebrated by yet another headlight configuration (still recessed, but without fairings) plus the addition of front-wing indicator repeaters and side- window wind deflectors.

All the versions shared the same basic construction and engineering Under the aluminium outer skin lurks a strong steel structure, which is nonetheless quite light. The package is also highly efficient aerodynamically, Zagato successfully adhering to the usual Lancia recipe – ‘efficiency, precision and balance rather than brute-force horsepower’.

This is demonstrated well by the cars’ competition record. On his way to an 1100cc class win on the 14 Mille Miglia, Luciano Mantovani set some average speeds that all but matched far more powerful opponents from Maranello and Stuttgart; and Zagato Appias cleaned up in the 1100ce class of the Italian Championship from 1959 to ’61 – driven, that final year by Cesare Florio.

[herpsandbirds]

Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, Bharatpur Bird Sanctury, Rajasthan, India

photograph by Ravindra Kambli

[birdblues]

Great Blue Heron

[alonglistofbirds]

[1177/10977] Black-headed Heron - Ardea melanocephala

Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Ardeidae (herons) Subfamily: Ardeinae (day herons, night herons and egrets)

Photo credit: Bruce Ward-Smith via Macaulay Library

[mistfallengw2]

Bunch of Aurelia from 2021 + Aurelia with Obsius and Ardea fresh out of the fahrar (they made the centurion pretty mad indeed, but everything went so fine they weren't punished for it and making their own call became a pretty successful habit)

[snototter]

A white necked heron (Ardea pacifica) fishes in Lake Joondalup, Perth, Western Australia

by John Anderson