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@hingehead,

Got tired running in circles.

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Hey gang, There are some spectacular pix here--and a few that might cause me to plotz (very messy). Thanks for them all.

(Did I ever mention that I had a royal battle with my mother because I wanted a baby elephant and she said no. Maybe if she had seen the baby elephant vonny posted, she mighta said yes. Granted, we lived in a tenement in the Bronx. But I didn't want to be bothered with details.)

I think this is an otter. What's he praying for? How the hell should I know. I had no idea they were religious.

http://imgfave-chat-herokuapp-com.global.ssl.fastly.net/image_cache/1337283499756157.jpg

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@Roberta,

^Probably praying for clam chowder from Legal Seafood in Boston.

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In an English forest - a bellowing stag.

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/935/cache/stag-call-ferns_93547_990x742.jpg

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@vonny,

I tell ya, vonny. Everybody's got an opinion.

Does anybody know what kind of birds these are? I like the picture:

http://www.wildlifephotographycourse.com/Images/digi.jpg

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@Roberta,

kookaburra?
http://photobucket.com/images/kookaburra

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@Roberta,

Not a kookaburra, they're mostly brown, beige and grey. Might be some sort of kingfisher though. Hunting.

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@hingehead,

Apparently, the Kingfisher and Kookaburra are related. In Australia, there are some that are known as the Laughing Kookaburra:
"However, the familiar Australian kingfisher known as the laughing kookaburra ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingfisher
"The plumage of most kingfishers is bright, with green and blue being the most common colors. "

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@Roberta,

I'm going with 'Little Bee Eater'

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFXBz2arCPWG1w7zlDlq4Xz9yovImtaBiYE4Yfnl0CpDjblVOGNg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_bee-eater

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@Ragman,

Absolutely, but the Kooka is a lot bigger.

They aren't scientifically or colloquially known as the 'laughing kookaburra' because all kookaburra's laugh.

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@hingehead,

I'll have to retract that - I've known kookaburra's from Canberra to Cairns and never seen any but the ones Wikipedia refers to as 'laughing'.

Oh - because the other three types don't live in Australia.

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@hingehead,

I could get off on a technicality. 'Kookaburra' is a Wiradjuri word- and they only lived in New South Wales and would never have seen the New Guinea species. It was westerners who used that word to apply to the PNG cousins.

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@Roberta,

Roberta wrote:

Does anybody know what kind of birds these are? I like the picture:

They look like Little Bee Eaters. I think Hinghead already identified them as well.

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Yep they're bee eaters. Catch their prey in flight. As for the kooka, they get most of their food on land.

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Swans take a rest on a snowy field in the Oderbruch region near Reitwein, northeastern Germany.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03542/POTD_Swans__3542664k.jpg

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@vonny,

A really fine example of mimicry by a buff-tip moth. From a pinterest shot by R Thompson

http://www.mothscount.org/images/sub/Buff-tipRobertThompson_1.jpg

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@hingehead,

Thanks for the info, you guys. Looks like a bee eater to me. What a stunning group of boids they is.

vonny, Thanks for the beautiful swan pic.

fm, It took me a while, but I found the moth. Not bad in the mimicry department.

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Hey, leave something for the giraffes!

http://webneel.com/daily/sites/default/files/images/daily/05-2013/2-best-wildlife-photography.jpg

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@Roberta,

I don't understand it and know I should..

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@ossobuco,

osso, Giraffes are the ones that eat leaves that high up. This elephant is encroaching on giraffe territory. Of course, I could be wrong about who eats what where. It wouldn't be the first time.

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