The Somali bee-eater (Merops revoilii) is a species of bird in the family Meropidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Tanzania. This is a small bee-eater that prefers arid country and desert areas where it may be locally common.
The Somali bee-eater (Merops revoilii) is a species of bird in the family Meropidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Tanzania.
This is a small bee-eater that prefers arid country and desert areas where it may be locally common. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern", postulating that clearing of woodland and forest is creating new suitable habitat for the bird and that its population trend may therefore be rising.
Video
Seven consecutive days during the growth and first bloom of a Lithops flower bud.
See the flower in full bloom:
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The opening/closing of the flower seems to be sunshine-activated. Since after the first two openings there was really bad weather for days, I had to stop the time lapse because the flower did not open again and I did not want to wear out my DSLR with 144 photos a day while nothing happening in front of the lens.
10 minutes per frame, 1034 frames total, 30 frames per second in the video. Taken with a Pentax K200D in aperture priority mode (f/32). Trigger: DIY 10-minute timer circuit connected to camera remote input. Camera power supply by wallplug adapter. Nighttime illumination by desktop lamp.
Software involved in production:
Easy Graphic Converter (www.etrusoft.com)
for batch rescaling the individual jpg frames to 1280x720
JPGAvi (www.ndrw.co.uk)
for making the 1280x720 AVI video
and k-lite codec pack (www.codecguide.com/)
for the used xvid mpeg-4 codec, set to highest quality.
Original video file size 118MB:
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Successful uploading this video to flickr was pain, since flickr always gives you a "Bonk!" message after you have uploaded the whole file without success, not telling whether the codec was wrong or resolution, framerate or whatever.Credit: yellowcloud · CC BY 2.0Source ↗
Sounds
Pronunciation of word "sobě" in Czech. Female voice. Speaker from Morava, Czech republic.Veronika Daňková, Vion Nicolas · CC BY 2.0 fr
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