Some cool animal rights images:
Get the Balance Right
Image by stu_spivack
Eric D Jonke
Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) on Morro Strand - UPDATE 4/2011 Now split as "Charadrius nivosus"
Image by mikebaird
"UPDATE: subspecies split, accepted 28 April 2009 by the American Ornithologists' Union, Snowy Plover, American subspecies, is now split off as "Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus" from the previous Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus, the Eurasian subspecies, per official acceptance of the split here:
www.worldbirdnames.org/n-shorebirds.html see also www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/biodiversity-lab/publications/kupp... "
add tags "taxonomy:binomial=Charadrius nivosus" , “Charadrius nivosus" -
Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus ) (bird) on Morro Strand State Beach, Morro Bay, CA, 08 April 2008 - photo by Michael "Mike" L. Baird, bairdphotos.com. Shot w/ a Canon 1D Mark III w/ 600 mm f/4.0 IS lens w/ 12mm extension tube (for closer focus), mounted on a panning groundpod just inches off the surface of the sand, and using a Canon Angle Finder C for Canon EOS SLR Cameras. Note banding: Left Leg Green over Green. Right Leg, Turquoise over Yellow. 09 April 2008 - Regena M. Orr, Associate Resource Ecologist, California State Parks, San Luis Obispo Coast District, says "I still track the banded plovers. This one was banded last year [2007] as a chick at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area."
17 Nov 2009 Creative Commons use note: PRBO Conservation Science has used an Elegant Terns photo and this [banded Western Snowy Plover] photo in publications for their members.
28 Dec 2010 Creative Commons use at about.com birding.about.com/od/birdconservation/a/Bird-Banding.htm
13 April 2011 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/40183553@N02/] Sciadopitys said:“Now split as Charadrius nivosus”
Thanks very much for bring this taxonomic scientific split to my attention and tagging my multiple samples! What a great Flickrite you are!
Puffin Looks Right, Grimsey Iceland
Image by ChrisGoldNY
