Prairie Falcon

The Prairie Falcon is a medium-sized falcon of western North America.
It is about the size of a Peregrine Falcon or a crow, with
an average length of 40 cm , wingspan of 1 metre , and weight of 720 g (1.6 lb). As in all falcons, females are noticeably bigger than males.

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Mount Falcon

Walker ruins and Red Rocks form the summit of Mount Falcon

Looking west from the Eagle Eye Shelter

Eagle Eye Shelter near the summit of Mount Falcon

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CHILEAN FLAMINGO

location: South America
Habitat: Shallow, salty lakes and lagoons
Chilean flamingos stand four to five feet tall and can weigh anywhere from 13-16 pounds. They have a long neck and long, slender legs.
Their bill is bent downward in the middle.
Most of their body is coverd in pale pink feathers with darker pink and black wings.
Their legs are dull yellow or yellow-gray with dark pink bands at the joints and pink feet.
Flamingos will lock their “knees” (which are really their ankles) and stand on one leg. Standing in this manner helps them to conserve heat.
They typically will stand facing into the wind or rain so that
the water does not get into their feathers.
They have an excellent sense of hearing, but a very poor sense of smell.
These birds are social, usually living in flocks numbering in the thousands.
When in these large groups, they can be quite loud while making their deep, honking noises along with other vocalizations, such as grunting and howling.
They do everything in these groups including breeding, feeding and flying.
The large group is also their main defense.
Having so many individuals increases the possibility of predator sightings, but decreases the probability of an individual becoming prey.
Their main predators are humans and gulls, which eat their eggs.
Flamingos are filter feeders, eating aquatic invertebrates, seeds and algae from shallow water and mud.
They walk along the bottom of the lake kicking up the mud with their feet.
Water is sucked into their beak.
As their tongue pushes the water out, it is filtered through a row of spines, or lamellae, along the edge of the bill, which traps the food.
The pink coloration comes from pigments, called caretonoids, in the tiny animals they eat. In most captive populations, this pink color must be artificially added to the diet.
The courtship displays are quite elaborate.
The males and females will perform a number of head and wing movements which look similar to everyday preening, but are much more rigid.
Flamingos make their nests out of mud by piling the mud and forming it into a large mound about 15 inches in diameter and 1 ½ -2 feet tall.
The female makes an indentation on the top where she will lay her egg. Incubation lasts 27-31 days, and both the mother and father sit on the egg. When it hatches, the chick is covered with gray downy feathers.
Their beaks are straight at birth so that they can be fed by regurgitation from their parents. After a few months the beak curves.
They grow in their adult plumage after about two years.
They become sexually mature at 6 years of age. The typical lifespan in the wild is up to 50 years.
The Chilean Flamingo is listed on the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) Appendix II.
This appendix lists species that are in need of protection and are considered to be threatened, likely to become endangered, if trade is not regulated.
All flamingo populations could easily undergo a decline because they are found in such large numbers, which are necessary for proper breeding, and also because of their fragile wetland habitats.
Humans are the main threat for these birds due to either direct misuse of their home lands or from indirect damage such as changing characteristics
of the land such as water levels.

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Brown Bear

The brown bear, also known as a grizzly in North America
is like the bears in Brother Bear.
They are large and are usually a dark brown
but can be a creamy shade or black.
They have long claws on their front paws and have a hump on their shoulders.
Their weight depends on the food available and it is a fact that bears can weigh twice as much in the autumn than in the spring.
The male adults weigh 135 kilograms to 390 kilograms. Cubs at birth weigh 340 to 680 grams.
Brown bears occupy a wide range of places like in eastern and western Europe, Northern Asia, Japan, Northern America, western Canada, Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington in forest areas
and central plains in mountains and tundra.
Grizzly catching salmon in riverDiet
Brown bears eat mainly vegetation in spring but like
salmon in summer and autumn and would hibernate in winter.
The vegetation they eat is grass, sedge, bulbs and roots.
In some places they also hunt moose, caribou and elk.
Grizzly with cub
The cubs are born from January to March and remain with their mums for two and a half years. They can have one to four cubs, but twins are the most common

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Asiatic Black Bear - wallpaper

Asiatic Black Bear - wallpaper

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Polar Bear - wallpaper

Polar Bear - wallpaper

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Polar Bear

Polar bears are immediately recognisable because of their distinctive white colour of fur. They have a longer head and neck than all
the other bears but have quite small ears.
They have very big front paws, which are great for swimming.
Their feet have special skin underneath which helps them
walk on ice without slipping.
Polar bear walking across iceSize
Polar bears are the world’s biggest carnivore.
The adult males can grow to more
than 800 kilograms. Wow, that’s big! Females are about half the size
of the males and are 190 to 200 centimetres long.
The males are about 250 centimetres long.
Cubs weigh 600 to 700 grams when they are born
Polar bears live on the ice that floats on the sea in the Arctic Circle, although they can be found quite far south in Canada.
Polar bear with cubCubs
Polar bears usually give birth to two cubs (twins) in winter.
The babies stay with their mum for two and a half years.
They normally only give birth every three years
Polar bears like to eat seals, although in the summer time
some berries and grass. They are the most carnivorous of all the bears.
There used to be a polar bear at Belfast Zoo
but it was unhappy so they sent it to another zoo, where they thought
it would have a better life.

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Sloth Bear - photo

Sloth Bear - photo

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Sloth Bear

Sloth bears are quite small with long shaggy fur, which is usually black.
Their nose is much lighter in colour and their nostrils can be closed or open.
They have a distinctive chest patch, which is white or yellow fur in a U or Y shape.
Adults are around 150 to 190 centimetres long.
Males are bigger than the females and they weigh 80 to 140 kilograms but females only weigh 55 to 95 kilograms Wow!
Sloth bears are mostly found in India and Sri Lanka, but can be found in Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.
They live in forests and grassland.
They don’t like to live in wet places.
Sloth bears love eating termites.
They have a special gap in their teeth to suck them up.
They can stick out their lips to make a straw and you can hear the noise from over 100 metres awaySloth bear with cubs
They have their babies in winter.
One or two are born in a special den and their mums stay in
there with them for two or three months

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Sun Bear

The sun bear is the smallest member of the bear family.
Adults are round about 120 too 150 centimetres tall
and they weigh 27 to 65 kilograms.
Sun bears are easy to spot with their short sleek black fur
and unusual crescent shaped patch of yellow or white fur on their chest.
Their paws are large with long curved pointed claws
which are good for climbing trees.
Sun bears are found in lowland tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia.
Experts think they sleep in trees (Not the experts silly the bears!)
Sun bear at Belfast zooTheir diet is termites
small mammals, birds, growing tips of palm trees and nests of wild bees.
This means sun bears are omnivores.
Sun bear cub in a treeThe mother bears give birth to one or two cubs.
They each weigh about 325 grams.
They probably stay with their mother until they are fully grown.

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panda wallpaper

panda wallpaper

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Giant Panda

The Latin name for Giant Panda is Ailuropoda Melaneuca.
The second word means “black and white” in Latin.
The pandas are one of the most recognisable mammals alive
because of their black and white fur. Adult Giant Pandas grow to sizes of 160 to 190 centimetres
and the adults weigh from 70 to 125 kilograms.
The babies would only weigh about 85 to 140 grams.
Giant Pandas live in mountain forests of southwest China.
This is where bamboo grows.
Giant pandas usually live on their own except when producing babies.
This is called a litter of cubs and they give birth to one two or sometimes even three but usually only one survives.
The cub will stay with mum for up to 48 months.
Baby pandas usually live in their mums tummy for three to five months.
The mother panda gives birth in a den she has made in a cave or a hollow tree.
The baby panda is tiny compared with its mum.
It is only 15 centimetres long and weighs only one thousandth the weight of an adult panda.
This panda cub is only one day old and its eyes are still closed.
They will not open until it is 6 weeks old.
Pandas use up to 14 hours a day eating food.
That would take a while but because the bamboo is not so filling it will also eat branches, leaves and small mammals.
They used to be carnivorous, but are now omnivorous, eating meat and plants
I know only two bamboo names, they are the Cold arrow and Walking stick.
Did you also know that pandas unlike us just sleep when they feel like it.
Giant pandas numbers are decreasing rapidly and soon there will not be enough in the world Just to picture how it
looks there are 1,000 giant pandas and more than 6 billion human beings in the world – that means that for every 6 million people on earth just one panda bear!People have found more ways to use bamboo too I hope there is enough to go around. The bamboo is being cut down faster than ever before.
Panda distribution in 1800 and today
This map shows where pandas used to live 200 years ago and where they live now.
One of the biggest threats to pandas is humans because of traditional beliefs that all the skin has magical powers and that their habitat is going as well as their food
because of us thinking it a useful plant too.

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Types of Bears

There are eight different types of bear.
They are:-
Giant Panda
Sun Bear
Spectacled Bear
Sloth bear
Polar Bear
Asiatic Black Bear
American Black Bear
Brown Bear

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What is the weight of black bear?

Between 350-500 lbs
Most wild male black bears weigh between 125 and 500 pounds, while females generally weigh between 90 and 300 pounds.
Their weight depends upon their age, the season of the year, and how much food is available.
The heaviest wild male black bear known weighed 880 pounds
and the heaviest known female weighed 520 pounds. Black bears in captivity may exceed these records.
The world record weight for an American black bear is 880 pounds.
This was the recorded weight of a 10.75 year-old male bear shot in North Carolina in November 1998.
A black bear was hit and killed by a car near Winnipeg Canada, in 2001.
The official recorded weight was 856.5 pounds, but it is estimated that
the live weight of this large male was more than 886 pounds.
The driver was not injured and there appeared to be little damage to the Mazda.
An 805-pound male American black bear was shot in Manitoba Canada, and in Pennsylvania males fairly consistently reach the record weight of 800+ pounds.
Dear who ever, how much dose an average black bear weigh
a black bear weighs approximately 129.4kg to 159.6kg.

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black bear

Their fur can be many colors from tan to brown to black.
Male black bears weigh about 300 pounds.
Females weigh about 150 pounds.
The largest black bears reach up to 600 pounds.

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