Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 February 2022

DESKTOP 3116 - DOGS

By the creek on a Summer's day.

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Saturday, 4 December 2021

DESKTOP 3047 - ECLECTUS PARROT

The eclectus parrot (Eclectus roratus) is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, Sumba, New Guinea and nearby islands, northeastern Australia, and the Maluku Islands (Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot family for its extreme sexual dimorphism of the colours of the plumage; the male (below) having a mostly bright emerald green plumage and the female a mostly bright red and purple/blue plumage. Joseph Forshaw, in his book Parrots of the World, noted that the first European ornithologists to see eclectus parrots thought they were of two distinct species.

Large populations of this parrot remain, and they are sometimes considered pests for eating fruit off trees. Some populations restricted to relatively small islands are comparably rare. Their bright feathers are also used by native tribespeople in New Guinea as decorations.

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Saturday, 16 October 2021

CATS

A couple of cats observing the world through the safety of a flywire screen.

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Saturday, 12 June 2021

DESKTOP 2872 - CAT

A neighbour's cat having an afternoon snooze, but ever watchful and alert...

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