The white-tailed tropicbird

　　
　　The white-tailed tropicbird found in the road near Colebrook reservoir.
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FALLS VILLAGE—Most of us have wondered at the ability of birds to travel thousands of miles between northern climes and their South American winter homes but recently this region had an unusual visitor who made the trip unwillingly, blown in on the winds of Hurricane Irene.
Wildlife rehabilitator Linda Bowen of Falls Village was host on Sept. 10 to a white-tailed tropicbird—Phaethon lepturus for those who like their birds with Latin names—that had been picked up sitting in the middle of the road near the Colebrook reservoir. These birds, natives of Caribbean, are rarely seen in North America—in fact, they are so rare that none of the people who came in contact with the visitor had any idea what he was.
The bird’s original rescuer called the rehabilitator saying he believed he had a tern, but, as few people can recognize terns, Ms. Bowen was skeptical and believed he had a sea gull.
“When the rescuer arrived and opened the box, I was surprised to see that the bird had a single, very long—perhaps 14-inch—tail feather,” she said. “The rescuer asked me what it was. I said, quite frankly, ‘I have no idea!’”
Subsequent consultation of field guides proved the bird’s southern origins. This began the saga of the first recorded sighting and rehabilitation of a White-tailed Tropicbird in Connecticut.
The bird, buffeted by the hurricane winds and swept more than a thousand miles from home, appeared to be slightly dehydrated, but had no visible signs of trauma. Ms. Bowen noticed that his legs were positions fairly far back on his body, which explained the rescuer’s report that the bird didn’t walk much.
“These birds spend almost all their time in air,” reported Ms. Bowen. “They even sleep in the air, riding on thermals. They will dive into the water, maybe 10 or 20 feet deep, catch a fish and gobble it down on the way back to the surface. Then they take off again. They don’t loll around on the surface like a sea gull.”
Ms. Bowen quickly gathered information about the bird as she attempted to stabilize him so that he could be returned to his natural environment. The rescuer revealed that he had the bird for at least a week and had been feeding it thawed smelt, which the bird readily accepted. He also bought it chopped octopus, apparently a treat for the refugee.
Without any knowledge of the species, the rescuer had hit close to home for the bird’s diet, which naturally consists of fish and squid. The docile bird dined on chopped clams for his first night at the rehabilitator’s. She also sought to rehydrate him by offering him water from a long curved-tip syringe. “When he bit at the tip of the syringe, I was able to push the tip beyond the glottis and he swallowed several times,” she reported.
Housing the bird required some ingenuity. Ms. Bowen set the bird up in a large crate to accommodate his very long, single feather, sometimes referred to as a “streamer,” arranging sheets under him to protect his keel, an extension of the sternum. With the bird fed and comfortable, she pondered her next step.

The new fanshion ad video by New York

NEW YORK, NY, Oct. 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cotton Incorporated is taking its "The Fabric of Our Lives®" celebrity campaign to Main Street. Along with media partner MTV.com, the company is launching a Cotton Style Search, an opportunity for 24 lucky cottonistas to strut their cotton styles on the runway of an industry first --- Cotton’s 24 Hour Runway Show.

From October 14^th - 26^th, fashion-minded cotton fans from around the nation will be able to log onto cotton24hours.mtv.com and upload images showing off cotton as the fabric of their lives. Twenty-four individuals will be selected to join professional models on a runway showcasing 1,440 looks; a cotton look a minute, from Noon to Noon,
The 24 selected Style Icons--- individuals who combine fashion sense with a cotton sensibility --- will be announced once a day beginning at 12:00 Noon on October 26^th; 24 days ahead of the big event; Cotton’s 24 Hour Runway Show. The looks culled from around the nation will be available for viewing in a fashion lookbook hosted on cotton24hours.mtv.com, and the 24 Style Icons will be highlighted and profiled on the site.

MTV is the world’s premier youth entertainment brand.   With a global reach of more than a half-billion households, MTV is the cultural home of the millennial generation, music fans and artists, and a pioneer in creating innovative programming for young people.  MTV reflects and creates pop culture with its Emmy®, Grammy® and Peabody® award-winning content built around compelling storytelling, music discovery and activism across TV, online and mobile.  MTV’s sibling networks MTV2 and mtvU each deliver unparalleled customized content for young males, music fans and college students, and its online hub MTV.com is a leading destination for music, news and pop culture.  MTV, a unit of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), one of the world’s leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. 


As the day for Cotton’s 24 Hour Runway Show approaches, the 24 Style Icons will be flown to South Beach and prepped to join Elite models and local celebrities on a fashion runway featuring 1,440 looks --- a cotton look a minute --- for 24 hours. Each of the 24 hours will present themed categories of cotton apparel, such as "Pajama Party" and "Urban Chic." Streamed live on MTV.com, this unprecedented fashion event will show viewers and attendees cotton clothing for every style, occasion, and budget during a continuous 24-hour period.


"The runway show illustrates in a significant way the breadth of cotton fashion possibilities," says Hendee. "No matter who you are, there is a cotton look that fits your lifestyle, 24-hours a day."
In addition to walking the catwalk, the 24 selected Style Icons will receive a three night stay in South Beach, and a $350 American Express Gift Cheque to put together a cotton ensemble.
November 19^th and 20^th in South Beach, Miami.

See video from Cotton Inc. at: http://inr.synapticdigital.com/CottonInc/24HOURRUNWAY/
The well-known "The Fabric of Our Lives" television campaign has demonstrated how cotton fits into the lives and lifestyles of such celebrity icons as Miranda Lambert, Zooey Deschanel and most recently Kate Bosworth. Through its 24-hour fashion show and associated style search, the company aims to give fashion-minded citizens their time in the spotlight.


"Cotton is the everyman fabric," says Ric Hendee, Cotton Incorporated Senior Vice President of Consumer Marketing. "Its many permutations and comfort fit into everyone’s lifestyle, whether you are a red carpet celebrity or an as-yet-unsung fashion innovator."


About Cotton Incorporated
Cotton Incorporated, funded by U.S. growers of upland cotton and importers of cotton and cotton textile products, is the research and marketing company representing upland cotton. The Program is designed and operated to improve the demand for and profitability of cotton.
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Cute little bird

　　American Goldfinch and Lesser Goldfinch both eat seeds at my backyard feeders. They are year round residents here in northern California.
American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) and Lesser Goldfinch (Carduelis psaltria) are members of the family Fringillidae and the genus Carduelis.
Finches are small, colorful birds with conical bills adapted to seed cracking. They nest in late summer, after most birds have fledged their young. They build finely woven cup nests in trees and shrubs, lining them with thistle and milkweed down. Females usually do the nest building and incubation, while males contribute food to them and their young. Their food preferences are thistle seed, sunflower seed, and sunflower hearts.

Last week a female Lesser Goldfinch collected nesting materials from one of my hanging flower baskets while the male Lesser Goldfinch perched atop a stake nearby. I was able to get photos of the male but the female flitted around too much and I could not get a clear picture.　　

Lovely Birds

　　This is a delightful way to spend an afternoon. The gardens are lovely and contain a number of sizeable waterfalls. Our guide let us climb out onto the rocks for some of them.
After the garden/waterfall tour, you go into an aviary. There they put in generous amounts of birdseed in your hands so that the numerous colorful birds flock to you. It was a lot of fun.

The bird habitat

　　
　　Getting pictures of birds both perched and in flight appears to require an unusual amount of patience and dexterity with a camera. The web site titled Birds I View Photos has some beautiful pictures of birds. These footage may be purchased on the entrance of notice cards. They would be a fantastic gift.
Go to the page that claims photographs and scroll all the way down to view the entire group of fascinating picture shots the photographer, Mark Shaw, took on his travels around the western United States. This collection contains the Bald Eagle, Merlin, Tough-Legged Hawk, Ferruginous Hawk, Alder Flycatcher, Mew Gull, Geese, Lesser Yellowlegs, White-Topped Sparrow, Western Kingbird, American Goldfinch, American Avocets, Killdeer, Black-Topped Night time Herron, Mallard Duck, Variety Pack of Birds of Prey and a Variety Pack of Water Birds.

　　The picture of a Tough-Legged Hawk in flight at the Denali Nationwide Park, Alaska and the American Goldfinch in flight within the San Joaquin Valley, California are two wonderful shouts that have been timed perfectly.
Mark Shaw has a love and a expertise for exploring and observing a gorgeous factor of nature. The birds view to this point offers the viewer a close feeling of what the photographer felt as he was taking these pictures. Mark Shaw grew up round Fresno, California positioned in the San Joaquin Valley. He lives near the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Central California Coast the place lots of the birds photographed are found.

A lovely canary birds

　　


Canary birds, also known as hibiscus, hibiscus, white, white bird, jade bird, Pak Yin, is the bird head Branch Bird food grains. Origin of the northwest coast of Africa, the Canary, Madi take, Aisulizi other islands, is excellent both in plumage color and the chirping of caged pet birds. There are 24 varieties, both at home and abroad is listed as one of the noble captive pet birds. Although China has since the 1840s since the introduction from abroad, but did not pay attention to maintain a variety of strains, now more than pure. Relatively stable genetic canary are the following: (1) vibrato Canary: also known as German Luona canary, made by the German training. Male bird sounds like rattles, feathers, yellow-green close to the original species. (2) orange vibrato Canary: Canary mutated from the tremolo, because only the pursuit of plumage color, sounds slightly less than the canary trills. (3) Red Canary: the United States with orange canary bird with its own hybrid culture Fei made the body red. (4) Curly Canary: bred by the Japanese. Curly plumage, sounds quite beautiful. (5) Crescent Canary: British bred. Body was slender crescent-shaped. (6) Shandong Canary: from China Shandong, Yangzhou and other places bred. Chunky body, feather light yellow-green, loud song. (7) White Canary: Canary variation may be made by the Shandong Province, Shandong Canary similar size. Plumage white, pay attention to red-billed, red feet, red eyes. Mainly by the domestic canary, "Shandong species", "Yangzhou species" and German "Lorna kind of" three varieties. Shanghai to support "Lorna kind of" main body of this slender birds, plumage color is much more varied, from yellow, orange, bronze, silver and other colors. Surrounded by the feathers to the head and neck valgus crested, the wings from the feathers of different color, symmetrical on both sides of the flower, song length and tactfully, light and soft tones, singing up and down when the beak is closed, open, call and explain if impure varieties .