Titel: Little Egrets, Black-headed Heron, Great Egret
Beskrivelse: Left to right: Little Egret (Egretta garzetta, Silkehejre)(white and black morph), Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala, Sorthovedet Hejre), Great Egret (Ardea alba, Sølvhejre)
Beskrivelse: Det er endnu et eksempel på en nu tam pelikan, der kommer fyvende til for at få en fisk. Flere kender vist allerede den krøltoppede fra øen Lesbos i Grækenland.
Uploadet 2010-02-05
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2010-02-05Pelecanus onocrotalusGreat White Pelican
Jeg var nok lidt hurtig da jeg sendte billedet her. Jeg er i tvivl om bestemmelsen. Jeg har kun en bog her (Stevenson og Fanshawe). Den er vist for lille. Det er vist en Rosapelikan (Pink-backed Pelican, Pelecanus rufescens).
Det ligner en Hvid Pelikan. Til gengæld er Pelikanen på Lesbos vist ikke en Krøltoppet (som nævnt under billede info), men en Hvid Pelikan (http://images.google.dk/images?hl=da&q=pelican%20lesbos&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi).
Pelikaner er nødvendigvis tamme, fordi de kommer flyvende for at få fisk. I Østafrika har jeg oplevet vilde pelikaner - både hvide og rosapelikaner - der er kommet flyvende til lokale fiskere for at få fisk.
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Søren
Det er naturligvis svært at vurderer når den er alene, men at den virkede lille kunne godt tyde på en Pink-backed Pelican. At den samtidig er alene synes jeg også taler for denne art (ved ikke helt om dette holder). Mht. udseendet så er det svært at vurdere ud fra dette billede alene – begge arter kan vist godt se sådan ud. Men søgte lidt på nettet og her fladt jeg over flere billeder af Pink-backed, der udviste samme hoved profil (opsvulmet pande). Dette har jeg ikke set på Hvid, så måske man kan bruge denne karakter?
/Jens
Hej
Mener det er en Hvid Pelikan pga. af den smalle og tilspidsede fjerrække der løber henover "knolden", det skulle ikke passe på rosapelikan.
mvh
Henrik Knudsen
Jeg stemmer på Hvid Pelikan. Det tre-farvede ansigt og ikke mindst blå indslag på næbbet peger på Hvid, hvor Rosa er mere afdæmpet og har færre kontraster (mere to-farvet ansigt).
Fra den nye bog "Birds of the Horn of Africa" (om Hvid Pelikan): Bill yellow with pinkish tip and both sexes gain an orange knob where bill joins forehead.
I yngledragt får begge arter en kort filtret "teenage-frisure" bagtil. Hannen af Hvid får et blåligt/purpur indslag i ansigtshuden, mens hunnen tillægger sig et gul/orange parti, så dette peger mod en hun i yngledragt.
Nu skrev jeg godt nok "det ligner en Hvid Pelikan". Jeg burde måske nok have skevet "Det er en Hvid Pelikan".
Hvis man "billed-googler" Pink-backed Pelican vil man finde en anseelig mængde Hvide Pelikaner placeret under denne art, hvilket kan være forvirrende, når en pelikan-art skal bestemmes.
Pink-backed Pelican er dog reelt meget nem at bestemme på øjenhuden (som ofte fremstår som en decideret hvidlig øjenring) samt den lille mørke plet mellem øje og næb (diagnostisk for Pink-backed).
De to arter kan ses side by side her:
http://images.google.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mongabay.com/images/uganda/600/ug5_5596.JPG&imgrefurl=http://travel.mongabay.com/uganda/images/ug5_5596.html&usg=__X8ZHgtJPbJ_cNiFD9CPJpOlRL7k=&h=392&w=600&sz=93&hl=da&start=5&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=FM2X7XB6dBmGQM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpink-backed%2Bpelican%26hl%3Dda%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
Adult Pink-backed kan ses her (bemærk den grålige fjerdragt, som man normalt ville forbinde med yngre pelikaner, men som er typisk for Pink-backed Pelican):
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Tanzania/Selous/PinkBackedPelican.jpg
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Med tydeligt Gult næb er det ikke nominaten, vores
egen europæiske delart.
Er det så Yellow-billed aegyptius eller parasiticus ?
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ENGLISH
Aegyptius or parasiticus?
Rgds ........... C.
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Beskrivelse: The kids got them in with some fish on the hook.
Then they chop thier wings off.
They needed the wings for some decoration in some way.
All things for the money.
Agree - not pleasant to see this activity.
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But pls. note that the DANISH LAW still permits
hunting/ SHOOTING of flying Ducks and Geese one
hour before and after sunset!!!
It includes 'hunting' in pitch DARKness in Nov/Dec:
- You cannot see/identify species in a flock
- You cannot aim and hit precisely
- You cannot see and find birds falling a bit away*.
This is done as an Amusement or hobby!
*)
Some will die later (may be found by birders).
The kids' Terns in Senegal probably avoid slow death.
Kindly ASSIST in abolishing the incredible
DANISH 'hunting in the dark'!
Many thx for the photo, ROBERT!
Bästa Hälsn. ............. C.
PS :
EUropean fishing fleets decimate fish populations
and destroy the Africans' small-scale fishing at
the coasts of West Africa - and in the Indian Ocean
off Somalia.
Compared to this industrial destruction of oceanic
wildlife (and of sustainability of fishermen families),
the boys' catch is infinitesimal!
BR ............... C.
Thanks for comments my bird friends.
Amusement or hobby in Denmark.
Hunters,if you wanna have the hunting feeling.
Buy a camera and then begin photo birds. Same.
Instead of blood and guts and mess to cary around.
Look on screen and see what a good picture you did.
Shoot them one time with a rifle or many times with a cam.
Hunter can feel good and also the object.Perfect.
Carsten you said:
The kids' Terns in Senegal probably avoid slow death
I can say from my eyes, no.
To see the Terns lying on the baech without wings move to left and right in pain was not easy to see.
Some was in pain on beach long , others not.
But some Tern got alittle help from friends from above.
In the air hang the Kites ready to go down and make the pain stop.
Kids got wings and money and Kites get food.
I would rather say.
The Kites'Terns in Senegal probably avoid slow death.
Yes Robert - its such a MESS...
And I agree 100% in the others oppinion. Its always a pro et contra; these boys probably are poor and just try to earn some money.. but at the same time they should have a BIG WORD of being so careless and CRUEL. They obviously think different or rather - not at all...
I wouldnt be able to shut up.
I have seen almost the same in Issyk-Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan. Every summer local fishermen (not solely boys) catch juvenile terns in similar matter. At least they break their neck immediately. But its disgusting. I tried to act and talk, but were met with stupidity and completly zero understanding... The terns are in the eyes of the fishermen competitors.
Its very sad.
Im sure every hunter - hobby or not - hate such pictures too. In this case I wouldnt blame the hunters I know; at least they try to kill the animal as fast possible.
And yes - here is a case where we can act together.
And...
Something should be done about this!!!
To stop it!
What can we do? How to help the terns... and to increase the boys understanding and change their behaviour?
Michael
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