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To celebrate the millions of cat owners around the country that make good green choices for their cats, home and environment this summer, Yesterday’s News , a cat litter brand made with recycled paper products, is launching the “ Rethink Litter!
Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear in the oceans makes up around 10 percent of all marine litter. And the problem is getting worse as we continue overfishing the oceans. It's easy to overlook ocean issues when there are so many other things to think about. But the oceans are also an ecosystem with living beings.).
The third spinetail is a complete forest denizen and spends its time hopping through leaf litter, searching for arthropods. With a distinctive pot-bellied silhouette, it is rarely misidentified.
Woolly bears overwinter under leaf litter in a sort of hibernation. The wooly bear, known also as the woolly worm , fuzzy bear , banded woolly bear , and black-ended bear , is reputed to signal the severity of the coming winter to those who understand the riddle of its bands.
Prior to their release he arranged his basement with litter boxes, a bed, and places to hide. Peter, who lives in New York State, noticed two feral cats living near his house. He trapped them, provided veterinary care for them, and released them … into his basement.
Given the chance, I would gladly take the opportunity to berate the world in general for littering and for carelessly discarding cigarettes, but I must come clean and tell you the whole story. It was fascinated by something on the ground and suddenly dropped from its perch about 10 feet above the ground and plunged into the leaf litter.
Forest floor/leaf litter specialists, Golden-crowned Warblers often move in pairs. The Masked Yellowthroat is a denizen of wetland habitat across the island of Trinidad. Males love to sing from chosen vantage points while females tend to remain hidden most of the time.
All terrain vehicle enthusiasts ripped swathes through the wild flowers and fireraisers left the burnt out shuck of a car, so there will almost certainly be work parties to clear the litter and debris. There will probably be environmental studies and enhancements to encourage wildlife.
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Driving slowly along the entrance road to the lodge we came upon a lone Marail Guan dabbling in the leaf litter nearby. Walking through the forest we were smitten by the setting more than the creatures – it was invigorating to walk among giant trees, mossy vines, and soft leaf litter.
The trail was littered with discarded nuts and seeds and I often encountered this. She also has curly head feathers, but blends into the environment somewhat compared to the male bird. Female Gang-gang Cockatoo feeding. The dexterity with which the Gang-gang Cockatoos use with their feet is quite incredible to watch.
They have very powerful beaks and claws and it is not uncommon to see where they have been by the leaf litter below the large trees. Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos are a lot bigger than the Gang-gang Cockatoos that we encountered in Victoria. They are still destructive as they feed in the native trees.
Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds. The scimitar gave the name to a group of birds, the 17 species of scimitar babblers (claims that these birds were named after the Scottish naturalist Edgar Scimitar, 1755-1806, are plainly wrong).
Food for a fledgling thrush is abundant in June with everything from ripe cherries on the trees to loads of snails crawling through the leaf litter. It is a fledgling Song Thrush being attended by a parent outside of the wonderful Nomad Hotel in Hungary’s Bükk Hills.
I had just turned my lights on and it was a Common Pauraque that hopped from the road back into the leaf litter. At dusk a couple nights ago some movement caught my eye as I was driving. With some light still in the sky, I knew this was a golden opportunity to photograph this species with some semblance of natural light.
The birds were highlighted by my first of the year Chipping Sparrow , a gorgeous male Pine Warbler coming to the small platform feeder, and a very cooperative Hermit Thrush that foraged in the leaf litter two meters in front of me off and on for about fifteen minutes.
To make truly fine Scrub-Jay habitat, such as what you find at Cruickshank, the area needs to be burned regularly, and years of fire suppression have done as much to limit the jays to small pockets of suitable habitat as the subdivisions and strip malls that litter Florida’s east coast. But honestly, part of that is a peanuts.
As it waited for a parent to return with some food, it picked through the leaf litter to see if it could find something for itself. Now, more bold and partly self-sufficient, it was venturing out and exploring beneath the willow tree. In response to a high squeak, it hopped towards the grass where it was joined by another chick. Two chicks!
My desk is littered with general field guides, guides to specific families, books about bird behavior, and books about status and distribution of birds in New York while my browser is always opened to eBird and xeno-canto. And the references I use!
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Watch and listen for the birds as they rustle through the leaf litter. Not needed and with hidden wasp nests and five species of highly camouflaged vipers somewhere out there in the leaf litter and blending in with low vegetation…not the best of ideas. The easiest of the wood-quails in Costa Rica is the Spotted Wood-Quail.
I applaud responsibility, but please don’t litter.) The former provided itself readily enough — it was a day of unfolding leaves and butterflies, emerging flowers, basking turtles, and just to ensure that I remained on-topic, jewel-colored Trojan wrappers left beside the path. (C’mon, C’mon, guys.
A marsh littered with garbage will still provide refuge for a bittern, considering in many places most wetlands simply don’t exist any more. A golf course in the desert can be an oasis of food and shade to a hungry migrant that has been flying all night. I think you get my point.
Stopping and walking produced most of the expected species, birds like Talamanca Hummingbird, Fiery-throated Hummingbirds, Large-footed Finches scratching the leaf litter and Yellow-thighed Finches rummaging in the vines. However, given the flocks of Barred Parakeets and many other birds that live in forests, you really should be birding.
So intent had I been on my footing, that I missed my handing, leaned back against fresh air and joined the leaf-litter with an earthy slump.The real miracle of the day was that the owl was still there when I had stopped sliding and it stayed while I clambered back up.
We were constantly listening for any leaf litter movement and soon saw Orange-footed Scrubfowl turning over piles of leaves. We then heard a sound in the leaf litter and both said at exactly the same time “snake” We have never seen a snake move so fast.
Alas, nothing showed until there was a brief break in the shower and a Golden-crowned Warbler materialized in the leaf litter just in front of me. Belligerent as always I stayed out, binoculars in the branches, hoping for something – anything really. Golden-crowned Warbler.
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Upon arrival we were given strict and non-flexible rules: never go even one inch off the ice paths, never allow the tiniest piece of litter to escape, never interact in any way with the wildlife, and cause absolutely no environmental damage.
I’m not saying that it is ever necessary to litter a post with expletives, but I’ve never seen a reason to pretend they don’t exist. Don’t be self-conscious. When you start your blog, no one but your closest friends are going to be paying attention anyways.
Nothing could move around in the leaf litter without full attention from this Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. I remained with my eyes peeled, and sure enough, within a few short minutes I spotted the quivering black and white under-tail of a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. I spent the rest of the day with this bird.
When the leaf litter is damp you won’t hear any leaf rustling, so you are entirely dependent on a little bit of colourful movement. If you get a chance to go birding in Singapore you need to keep an eye out in the forests for the odd flash of blue among the leaf litter! You may get a chance to observe a Blue-winged Pitta !
At 6am it was still dark in the (relatively) high elevation rainforest where Golden-crowned Warblers fluttered just above the leaf litter, Collared Trogons and Hepatic Tanagers gathered to feed on the bounty of moths still on offer. I expected to learn a thing or two and possibly see some birds I had never seen before.
The scenery is top-notch, the trails are well-maintained, and there was not a speck of litter anywhere in the preserve. There are trails that can be easily handled by even an eighteen-month-old and other trails that are a bit more challenging, but nothing, so far as I know, that would tax a serious hiker. … a.
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A Spectacled Thrush foraged among the leaf litter. A pair of Yellow Warblers hunted insects in the canopy, and a Northern Waterthrush did the same just over the surface of the water. This endearing and very familiar species grabbed the attention of all present, including the official event photographer from the THA!
For example, around here, we have to watch our step for vipers wonderfully camouflaged in the leaf litter. However, the lack of cold doesn’t mean that we don’t have our own set of birding challenges in Costa Rica.
Once you have been made aware of their presence it is quite enjoyable to just watch them move through the leaf litter. White-winged Choughs in the trees White-winged Choughs are similar in some ways to Apostlebirds , which also move around in large groups and also make mud nests. There is a lot of leaf throwing!
There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales.
Gray-necked Picathartes foraging in leaf-litter on the forest floor in Korup National Park, Cameroon. Here local people consider these birds the sacred guardians of their nesting rock formations (which are believed to house ancestral spirits), and have protected their colonies for generations.
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Oriental Greenfinches used the wires to perch and a Plain Laughingthrush picked through the leaf litter on this cold November morning. Eurasian Magpies and Large-billed Crows were common flyovers and the wooded slopes either side of the wall were alive with birdsong.
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