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NatureMontanaNorthern Flicker - Colaptes auratus
Eagle Bend - Bigfork, MT - May 18, 2025
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#Animalia #Craniata #Aves #Piciformes #Picidae #Colaptes #auratus
Red-naped Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus nuchalis
Eagle Bend - Bigfork, MT
May 18, 2025
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Magdalena[Archive – 20-03-2024]
My equipment tends to be rather ill-suited for bird photography, so it‘s fair to consider this a lucky shot of a Dendrocopos major.
Reviewing this season and comparing it to the past two years and the irregular trips all the way back to 2013 (and even to my early childhood years for Zone II), there has been a significant rise in the amount of species – both flora and fauna – at around 2020 when the pandemic kicked off and Zone I plus the FFH territories in my part of my district were left unmowed. My entire study area, with all zones combined, in fact is doing much better when areas are allowed to adapt to the partially-drastic changes between dry and wet seasons typically lasting for a few months up to a year, rather than forcing them to remain artificial dry meadows or artificially dry forests consisting of only a handful of different tree species. Recently I‘d even gone so far as to question the entire foundation of popular conservation projects, with all of them being based on some "science" by profit-oriented farmers from the 19th/early-20th century (from systematically misinterpreting Ellenberg's scale and ignoring his disclaimer to NOT use his classification as a cheap replacement for proper soil analysis to fully idealizing some 19th century state of things that never applied to certain regions in the first place that rather easily can be debunked by digging through the history of nearby villages and towns in local archives).
In plain terms: many conservation projects do more harm than good and the whole deal about "ecosystem services" and "collecting points for so-called ecoaccounts“ more often than not are scams.
#aves #piciformes #bird #greatspottedwoodpecker #germany #canoneos700d
My equipment tends to be rather ill-suited for bird photography, so it‘s fair to consider this a lucky shot of a Dendrocopos major.
Reviewing this season and comparing it to the past two years and the irregular trips all the way back to 2013 (and even to my early childhood years for Zone II), there has been a significant rise in the amount of species – both flora and fauna – at around 2020 when the pandemic kicked off and Zone I plus the FFH territories in my part of my district were left unmowed. My entire study area, with all zones combined, in fact is doing much better when areas are allowed to adapt to the partially-drastic changes between dry and wet seasons typically lasting for a few months up to a year, rather than forcing them to remain artificial dry meadows or artificially dry forests consisting of only a handful of different tree species. Recently I‘d even gone so far as to question the entire foundation of popular conservation projects, with all of them being based on some "science" by profit-oriented farmers from the 19th/early-20th century (from systematically misinterpreting Ellenberg's scale and ignoring his disclaimer to NOT use his classification as a cheap replacement for proper soil analysis to fully idealizing some 19th century state of things that never applied to certain regions in the first place that rather easily can be debunked by digging through the history of nearby villages and towns in local archives).
In plain terms: many conservation projects do more harm than good and the whole deal about "ecosystem services" and "collecting points for so-called ecoaccounts“ more often than not are scams.
#aves #piciformes #bird #greatspottedwoodpecker #germany #canoneos700d