Interesting to see how it stands on water as if being supported by the tail and with the feet underwater, catches an Oligosarcus jenynsii and takes off. After all the effort it loses the prey.
Interesting to see how it stands on water as if being supported by the tail and with the feet underwater, catches an Oligosarcus jenynsii and takes off. After all the effort it loses the prey.
Interesting to see how it stands on water as if being supported by the tail and with the feet underwater, catches an Oligosarcus jenynsii and takes off. After all the effort it loses the prey.
Interesting to see how it stands on water as if being supported by the tail and with the feet underwater, catches an Oligosarcus jenynsii and takes off. After all the effort it loses the prey.
Interesting to see how it stands on water as if being supported by the tail and with the feet underwater, catches an Oligosarcus jenynsii and takes off. After all the effort it loses the prey.
With yellow-billed teals
The breeding season comes and we note that birds are more active. They seem to wake up.There are chases, displays, increase in vocalizations, etc. and there are also changes in their appearance, many of which pass unnoticed to the untrained eye. But the nuptial or alternate plumage leaps to the eye. This gull’s nuptial or alternate plumage is a brown hood which covers its head, which is practically white in its basic (also called winter) plumage. <br />These changes are due to the preparation of the reproductive system for a new breeding cycle. Environmental factors such as day length, light intensity, temperature, etc regulate the activity of the pituitary gland which segregates the hormones which stimulate these changes. Late in the reproductive season these hormones are inhibited by others which curb all this efervescence till the next cycle