African Fish Eagle

  

The Life of Animals | African Fish Eagle | African Fish Eagle is a species placed in genus Haliaeetus (sea eagles). The African Fish Eagle closest relative appears to be critically endangered Madagascar Fish Eagle (H. vociferoides). As the pairs of sea eagles of all species, is composed of a white-headed species (African Fish Eagle) and a tan head. The scientific name is derived from Haliaeetus, New Latin for "sea eagle" (from ancient greek haliaetos), and vocifer genus name is derived from the original, so called by the French naturalist François Levaillant, which he called "the pure." African Fish Eagle is a large bird, and the female, 3.2-3.6 kg (7-8 lb) is larger than the males, at 2-2.5 kg (4.4 to 5.5 kg). Males have a wingspan of about 2 meters (6 feet), while females have a wingspan of 2.4 meters (8 feet).

Adults are very distinctive in appearance, with a mostly brown body and large, powerful, black wings. The eyes are dark brown. The feet have rough soles and are equipped with powerful claws to allow the eagle to grasp the slippery aquatic prey. Although this species subsists primarily on fish and  opportunistic and can take a wider variety of prey, waterfowl. The call, when more acute given by men, is a WEEE Hyo-Hyo-ah-ah-or HEEE heeah heeah. As the name suggests, African fish eagles are indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging over most of continental Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

African Fish Eagle is assumed to occur in many places around the Lake Victoria and other lakes that are located in central Africa, particularly in the Rift Valley lakes. African Fish Eagle is a generalist species, which requires only the open water with prey and a fairly good pole. African Fish Eagle is absent arid with little surface water. breeding season of African fish eagles is during the dry season, when water level is low. African fish eagles are believed to be monogamous Incubation lasts 42-45 days before hatching chicks.

African Fish Eagle feeds mainly on fish, which, to locate potential prey from a perch in a tree, will be descending on its prey and breaking of the waters, with its large claws claws. The eagle will then fly to his perch to eat the fish. Like other sea eagles, African Fish Eagle has structures called tiptoed spiricules to capture fish and other slippery prey. If the African fish eagle catching a fish over 1.8 kg (4 pounds), it will be too heavy to allow the eagle to get a lift, so that the fish rather than slipping on the surface of the water to reach the shore.  African Fish Eagle is known to steal other bird species (such as Goliath herons) capture. From time to time may also remove mammalian prey as badgers and monkeys.

White Bellied Sea Eagle

 

  

The Life of Animals | White Bellied Sea Eagle | White-belly sea eagle with white head, back and bottom, and a dark back, or gray-blue wings. In flight, the black feathers on the wings, as is easily seen when the bird is seen from below. The large, hooked beak leaden gray-blue with a darker tip, and the iris dark brown. Legs yellow or gray, with long claws blacks (claws). In contrast to the type of Aquila eagles, feathered legs. Females are slightly larger, 80-90 cm (32-36 inches) and 2.5-4.5 kg (5.5 to 10 kg). A 2004 study of 37 birds from Australia and Papua New Guinea (3 ° C to 50 ° C) found that birds can be sexed reliably by size, and birds from more southern latitudes was greater by north. There is no seasonal change in plumage. White-belly sea eagle model changes are poorly understood.

 

For the active flight, white belly sea eagle alternates strong deep wing beats with short planning period. Young white belly sea eagle in the first year, mostly brown, with shades of cream streaked feathers on the head area, neck, nape and rump. This species breeds from all over the six years. Australian naturalist David Fleay said that the challenge is one of the most famous calls and distant transport of Australian birds, in sharp contrast to the relatively peaceful applications of wedge-tailed eagle. Adult white belly sea eagles are evident and are unlikely to be confused with any other bird. Immature birds may be confused with a wedge-tailed eagle.

In India, the Egyptian vulture has white plumage, but smaller and whiter than the back and wings. White belly white-tailed sea eagle in flight, distinguishes it from other species of large eagles. In the Philippines, may be confused with the eagle of the Philippines, which is distinguished by its crest, immature white belly sea eagles resemble immature fish eagle gray, but can be identified by their lower parts more completely dark brown and the feathers of wings and wedge-shaped tail.

White-bellied Sea Eagle is out of Mumbai on a regular basis (sometimes in the north of Gujarat, in the past, Lakshadweep) east to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in South Asia, across the coast south-east Asia, including Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Indochina, and the main coastal islands of the Philippines and southern China, including Hong Kong, Hainan and Fuzhou, east through New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, and Australia. Similarly, in South Australia, is the most common on the north coast of Kangaroo Island. White-bellied Sea Eagle is generally sedentary and territorial, although it can travel long distances. They have been recorded traveling along the river to hunt flying foxes (Pteropus).

White-bellied sea eagles are territorial, and some birds form permanent pairs that inhabit territories throughout the year, while others are nomadic. The species are monogamous, with a couple stays together until one bird dies, the surviving birds and then quickly look for a new partner. A child growing up in Cowell, South Australia has reported 3,000 km (1,800 miles) on Fraser Island in Queensland. Small groups of white-bellied sea eagles are sometimes collected if there is an abundant source of food, such as cage or fish offal on board. Much of the behavior of white belly Sea Eagle, particularly agriculture, is still poorly understood. The breeding season varies depending on where it was recorded in the dry season in the Trans-Fly region and the central province of Papua New Guinea, and from June to August in Australia. A pair of white-bellied sea eagle is a display capable of flight before copulation: diving, sliding, and chasing each other while talking aloud.

This behavior has been recorded as an aggressive display with a wedge-tailed eagle. White-bellied Sea Eagle is usually selects large trees or stands for artificial nests in a pair were recorded using a tower cable Tin Wan in Hong Kong. Each year, leading to repair in the nests to get progressively larger. Nests are usually located in the forks of large trees overlooking the water. Old nests of Wedge-tailed Eagle or Whistling kites were repaired and used. The rocks are also suitable nesting sites and nest on the islands are sometimes built on the ground. Breeding pairs, the male most active, from three to six weeks of construction or reconstruction of the nest to lay their eggs usually taken two opaque white, oval eggs.

Initially, the male brings food and feeding the chicks females, but the parents feed the chicks as they grow older. Although two eggs are laid, it is unusual for two young successfully reared tail (leaving the nest). An egg may be infertile, or the second chick could die in the nest. White-bellied Sea Eagle is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN. Field studies of Kangaroo Island in South Australia has shown that pairs nesting in areas with high levels of human intervention (as determined by the cancellation of high landscape and human activity) have lower rates of reproductive success.

In the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, nests have been released, as human activities encroach on the territories of other countries, the eagles, clearing of trees suitable for nesting was seen to disappear in large part on the field, such as removal Casuarina equisetifolia is located near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh in India.  Also, they nest on the island Netrani, where they are interested in, firing torpedoes carried by the Indian Navy. Nearly 100 nests were observed on this island.

Sea Eagle

  

The Life of Animals | Sea Eagle | The Sea Eagle (also known as white-tailed eagle and the Erne, especially for white-tailed eagle) is a bird of prey of the genus Haliaeetus in the bird of prey family Accipitridae. Eagles vary in size from a fish eagle Sanford average of 2 to 2.7 kg for the massive Steller's sea eagle weighing up to 9 kg. To 6.9 kg, white-tailed eagle is the largest in Europe. Eagles can weigh up to 6.3 kg, making it the largest eagle native to North America.  Three pairs of obvious species: white-tailed eagles, bald eagles and white-bellied sea Sanford and Africa and Madagascar fish eagle Each consists of a white and brown and kind of head and tail are white in all adult eagle, except for Sanford, white-bellied, and Pallas.

The genus is present in the Middle Miocene (12-16 Ma) with confidence Its closest relatives are the eagles fishing in Ichthyophaga kind, very similar to a tropical Haliaeetus species. The origin of the eagles and eagles fishing, probably in the general area in the Bay of Bengal. During the Eocene / Oligocene, as the Indian subcontinent collided with Eurasia, slowly, this vast expanse of relatively shallow ocean, the initial divergence of March eagle seems to have resulted in four tropical (and subtropical Southern Hemisphere) species across the Indian Ocean today.

In 2005, studies have shown that the molecular paraphyletic genus and summarizes Ichthyophaga, different species in a group of temperate and tropical.

Lizard Sailfin

 

  

The Life of Animals | Lizard SailFin | Malaysian Sail finned Lizards grow 0.9144m (3 feet) in length. These lizards have a small head with a long snout and nose oval near the tip of the snout. In the head and the muzzle is usually a top of some large scales and small scales. Fingers and toes have lobes of skin. The Sail finned Lizards characteristic is only the tail, which is twice the length of the head and body together.

The flattening of the tail helps the lizard swim. They are stocky lizards that are dark green-brown with black spots. These lizards are found in Indonesia, New Guinea, Philippines. Young people can be found in ditches and around people. The lizard males are combative and competitive against other males when trying to court the females.

Browse fins Lizards feed mostly on plants, but also are known for insects, rodents and millipedes eat, people eat prey is worth 60% and 40% of the plants. Amboinensis lives Hydrosaurus 15 years or more.

White Rhinoceros

Beauty Of Animal | White Rhinoceros | The white or square-lipped rhinoceros rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of five species of rhinoceros that still exist. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhino includes two subspecies: the southern white rhino, with an estimated 17,460 wild-living animals at the end of 2007 (IUCN 2008), and

Osprey

 

The Life of Animals | Osprey | The Osprey was one of the many types of Carl Linnaeus in his Century 18, Systema Naturae described and shown as Falco Haliaeetus. The genus, Pandion is the only member of the family Pandionidae, and contains the only species Osprey (P. haliaetus). The Pandion genus was described by the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809, and is taken from a greek mythical king Pandion. The Osprey differs in several respects from other raptors. To date, there have been two extinct species known from fossils. Pandion was homalopteron by Stuart L. Warter fossils found in 1976 appointed by the Middle Miocene, Barstovian age, in the marine deposits in the southern U.S. state of California.

Been recovered, a number of fossil claw from the sediments of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in Florida and South Carolina, USA. The earliest fossils recognized Pandionidae family were from the Oligocene Jebel Qatrani training, were recovered from the Fayum, Egypt. The subspecies are close enough in size to the nominate subspecies average 1.53 kg (3.4 lbs), carolinensis average pH of 1.7 kg (3.7 lb) and PH cristatus average of 1.25 kg (2 , £ 8). The upperparts are a deep, glossy brown, while the chest is white, sometimes streaked with brown, and underparts are pure white. The beak is black with a blue cere, and feet are white with blacks claws. A short tail and long, narrow wings with four long finger-like feathers, and a shorter fifth, give him a very special

The sexes look quite similar, but the adult male is distinguished from the female by its slimmer body and narrower wings. It is easy to determine the sex in a breeding pair, but harder with individual birds. The Osprey can be juvenile feathers of upperparts fringed buff, a fan of clay on the bottom strips are identified and feathers on the head. In flight, Ospreys have arched wings and drooping "hands", giving a seagull like appearance. The call is a series of whistling, as Cheep, Cheep or yewk described yewk. In North America you play from Alaska and Newfoundland south to the Gulf Coast and Florida, wintering further south, from the southern United States to Argentina.

There is a distance of 1000 km, in accordance with the coast of the Nullarbor Plain, between its breeding site in South Australia and western breeding area closest to the West in Western Australia. The Osprey breeds by freshwater lakes and coastal waters often brackish. The nest is a large pile of sticks, driftwood and seaweed in the forks of trees, rocks, light poles, platforms or artificial islands built off-shore Generally, Ospreys reach sexual maturity and reproduction begins around the age of three or four years, although some regions with high Osprey densities, such as Chesapeake Bay in the United States, can not start breeding as young as five to seven years, and may be a lack of adequate facilities to be great. If there are no nesting sites available, young Ospreys May forced to delay breeding. To alleviate this problem, the costs are sometimes built to provide more suitable sites for nesting.

The breeding season varies with latitude, spring (September-October) in southern Australia, from April to July in northern Australia in winter (June-August) in southern Queensland. The newly hatched chicks weigh only 50-60 grams (2 ounces), but Fledge within 8-10 weeks. A study on Kangaroo Iceland, South Australia had an average time between hatching and fledging of 69 days. The same study found an average of 0.66 young fledged per year and the occupied territories, and 0.92 years for young fledged per nest on. Approximately 22% of young survivors remained on the island, or back at the end of the term, to connect the breeding population.

 

The oldest European wild fish eagle on record lived to be over 30 years. In North America Bubo owls and bald eagles (eagles and possibly of similar size) are the only major predators of both nests and sub adults. However, kleptoparasitism of bald eagles, where the higher the raptor steals Osprey capture more prevalent than predation. Endoparasitic trematode (Scaphanocephalus expansus and Neodiplostomum spp.) They took into wild Ospreys

The Osprey has a wide scope, covering 9,670,000 km2 (3.7 million square miles) in just Africa and America, and has a large global population estimated at 460,000 individuals. In the late 19 and early 20 century were the main threats to Osprey populations of egg collectors and hunting of adults along with other raptors, but Osprey populations declined drastically in many areas in the years 1950 and 1960, this seemed to be partly due to the toxic effects of insecticides such as DDT playback. The pesticide interfere with calcium metabolism of the bird, which resulted in a thin shell, easily broken or unfertilized eggs. Nesting sites in South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Iceland are not vulnerable to unmanaged coastal recreation and Urban Development to intervene. The Osprey is the capital of the province of birds, both Nova Scotia, Canada and Södermanland, Sweden

Spectacled Bear

 

  
The Life of Animals | Spectacled Bear | The spectacled bear is a species of medium size bear native in South America has black fur with a distinctive tan markings around the face and upper chest, although not all Andean bears have "spectacle" markings. Males can weigh 100-200 kg (220 - 440 pounds) and 35 women -82 kg (77-181 lbs). Spectacled bears are the only species of bear native to South America survived, and the only surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae.

 

Like other bears, mothers are protective of their young and attacked the poachers. Bears herbivores glasses are more than most other bears, generally about 5-7% of their diet is meat. The most common foods for these bears are cacti, palm nuts, bulbs, orchids, fruit fallen on the forest floor and palm leaves closed. Prey is usually very small, but these bears can front-grown deer, llamas and domestic cattle and horses.

Probably, some bears have become accustomed to eating animals, but bears are actually more likely to eat carrion and livestock farmers as some may accidentally take the spectacled bear killed. Because of fear of loss of inventory, the bears can be shot on sight The population bear glasses is at risk of a number of reasons. Bears are hunted by the locals because of a belief that eating animals (bears with glasses, even if they do not eat large quantities of meat). The gallbladder of spectacled bears are valued in traditional Chinese medicine and can fetch a higher price in international market.

As food sources of bears are disappearing, is based on food crops. For this reason, farmers see the bears, such as competition and hunt them. The law against hunting bears exist, but is rarely applied. In the documentary Paddington Bear: The Early Years, British actor Stephen Fry is a spectacled bear named Yogi, which was held in a small cage by Andean villagers (see also Paddington Bear).

Fry took an interest in bears to accompany the documentary, Stephen Fry and spectacled bears, and he also wrote and published their experiences to save the Spectacled Bear: A Peruvian daily. The BBC documentary "Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest" Bear looks at some of the research was conducted in Peru and Ecuador, and that researchers are discovering.