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Across The Sky by `gilad:icongilad:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Birds

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©2006-2009 `gilad
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60 cm, wingspan 95 cm.

Habitat.
Lakes, swamps, lagoons, sewage ponds, rivers wet meadows and irrigated cultivation.
Roosting sites in large trees often far from water.
In this case near Maayan Tzvi. Nests in freshwater or brackish wetlands, usually in tall dense trees or in low trees or bushes over or near water.

Food and Feeding.
Insects: grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, locusts and small reptiles, frogs and fish.
Usually feeds in small flocks by "walks slowly" and probes bill into mud and shallow water, or takes prey from surface sometimes runs after prey.
Breeding.

Movements.
Migratory and dispersive, post-breeding dispersal of adults and young birds in all directions. In Europe migrates in autumn mostly to Africa. In Africaa, some birds sedentary and some disperse after breeding. In Australia birds breeding in winter.

Status and Conservation.
Not globally threatened. Marked contraction of range in Palearctic during 20th centuty.

Israel.
In Israel the subspecies Plegadis falcinellus Common passage migrant, uncommon to common in summer and uncommon local breeder.

In Hebrew It's called "Maglan"

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~Tentation Sep 3, 2006, 10:01:54 PM
excellent shot

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~mollim000 Sep 3, 2006, 10:02:26 PM
Stunning work, the tones and composition are especially great.
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~Adept- Sep 3, 2006, 10:02:26 PM
Beautiful, I love the silhouette style.

Cropping is also perfect and I love how there is more than just 1 bird. Nice job!

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- Adept
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~aambience Sep 3, 2006, 10:03:45 PM
Pretty....

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~xenrianume Sep 3, 2006, 10:04:04 PM
awesome, it looks so peaceful. kinda want to be there...

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~ln-dark Sep 3, 2006, 10:04:45 PM
nice picture, the blurry sky have great colors and the birds are really sharp.
you stole my title, not for the same subject, but you did it ;)

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This is my camera, there are many like it, but this one is mine !

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~sakana1840 Sep 3, 2006, 10:08:26 PM
you are such an amazing photographer

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~2k-rammerizkool Sep 3, 2006, 10:09:01 PM
the sky looks incredible. the perfect mixture of the best shades of blue and green, and a sort of letterbox of clouds! really awesome.

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The below statement is true.

The above statement is false.
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~Angelkitteh Sep 3, 2006, 10:10:42 PM
Oohhh, I love it. I'm a sucker for the blue-black color scheme.
Beautiful shot, as always.

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Of course I'm out of my mind. It's dark and scary in there.
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~PoeticallyPure Sep 3, 2006, 10:11:04 PM
Ah! It's been quite a while since I was able to reach a computer outside of college life but m'dear you STILL never fail to amaze me. I love how you capture every day things with a simple camera and make it look real but so unreal at the same time. I look forward to every piece of work you dish out :D Lovely

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NIKON CORPORATION
NIKON D70
1/2500 second
F/7.1
400 mm
320
Sep 1, 2006, 7:53:20 AM

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