The Red-capped Plover is a small plover native to Australia. Adult males have a rufous crown and hind neck. Adult females (shown here in breeding plumage) have a paler rufous and grey brown crown and hind neck, with pale Loral stripe Non-breeding plumage is duller and lacks the black margins at the nape.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Nazca Booby
Nazca Booby is a booby found primarily on the Galápagos Islands. It is known for practicing obligate siblicide. The female lays two eggs, several days apart. If both eggs hatch, the elder chick will push its sibling out of the nest area. The parent booby will not intervene and the younger chick will inevitably die.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Warty Crab
The Warty Crab is a species of crab found in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean from Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores. It lives among stones and seaweeds in shallow water along rocky coastlines up to a depth of 15 meters.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Blue-winged Parrot
The Blue-winged Parrot is a small parrot found in Tasmania and southeast Australia. Males are mainly olive green with a blue frontal band reaching from forehead to eye, blue wing coverts, black primaries, and a yellow belly. Females are slightly duller with more green on the wings.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sea Foam
Sea Foam is a type of foam created by the agitation of seawater, particularly when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter. These compounds can act as surfactants or foaming agents. As the seawater is churned by breaking waves in the surf zone adjacent to the shore, the compounds trap air, forming bubbles which stick to each other through surface tension.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Living Fossil
The Long-tail Tadpole Shrimp is a freshwater crustacean resembling a miniature horseshoe crab. It is one of the oldest animal species still in existence. The Long-tail Tadpole Shrimp is considered a living fossil because its basic prehistoric morphology has changed little in the last 70 million years, exactly matching ancient fossils.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Black Rhinoceros
The Black Rhinoceros is a species of Rhinoceros. It is actually more of a dark grey color than black, and is really only distinguishable from the White Rhinoceros by the shape of its upper lip. It is classified as critically endangered, and one subspecies, the western Black Rhinoceros, was declared extinct by the IUCN in 2011.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Black-headed Honeyeater
The Black-headed Honeyeater is a species of honeyeater endemic to Tasmania. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. Despite the name, insects form the bulk of its diet. The Black-headed Honeyeater specializes in foraging among the foliage of trees, unlike the related Strong-billed Honeyeater (the other honeyeater species endemic to Tasmania), which probes the trunks for prey.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Monday, November 12, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Door to Hell
The Door to Hell is a natural gas field in Derweze (also spelled Darvaza, meaning "gate"), Ahal Province, Turkmenistan. The Door to Hell is noted for its natural gas firing which has been burning continuously since 1971, fed by the rich natural gas deposits in the area. The pungent smell of burning sulfur pervades the area for some distance.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Muhammad Yousuf
Thirty-nine centuries have been scored by Mohammad Yousuf during his career in international cricket. Yousuf made his Test debut in 1998 against South Africa at the Kings mead Cricket Ground, Durban. His first Test century came the same year against Zimbabwe at the Stadium, Lahore. He holds the world record for the most number of runs in Test cricket during a calendar year, scoring 1,788 runs in 11 Tests during 2006. He scored nine international centuries in 2006, also a world record for a calendar year. Starting his One Day International (ODI) career in October 1998 against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club, Yousuf's first ODI century came against Australia in the same year at the Gaddafi Stadium. As of 2012, he is tenth in the list of century-makers in international cricket, all formats of the game combined.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Sooty Oystercatcher
The Sooty Oystercatcher is a wading bird endemic to Australia and commonly found on its coastline. It prefers rocky coastlines, but will occasionally live in estuaries. All of its feathers are black and it has a red eye, eye ring and bill, and pink legs. The heaviest of all oystercatchers, it weighs up to 980 g, averaging around 819 g, with females being slightly heavier than males
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Bernard Bosanquet : The Googly Inventor
Bernard Bosanquet (1877–1936) was an English cricketer best known for inventing the googly, a delivery designed to deceive the batsman. He played first-class cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and appeared in seven Test matches for England as an all-rounder. While playing a tabletop game, Bosanquet devised a new technique for delivering a ball, later named the "googly", which he practised while attending Oriel College, Oxford. He first used it in cricket matches around 1900, but it was not until 1903, when he had a successful season as a bowler, that his new delivery began to attract attention. He was selected in 1903–04 to tour Australia with England and made his Test debut. Although his batting was unsuccessful, he performed well as a bowler and troubled all the opposing batsmen. His career with the ball peaked when he bowled England to victory in the first Test against Australia in 1905, but he remained an inconsistent performer. In subsequent years, he bowled infrequently and played little first-class cricket
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Hooded Plover
The Hooded Plover is a species of bird endemic to southern Australia and Tasmania. It is medium in size for a plover, stocky, and pale in color. Its length is 190–230 mm and its wing-span 230–440 mm. Males and females are similar in appearance. With a population of about 7,000 individuals, it is classified as vulnerable.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
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