David Berry
🇦🇺 Australia 🦘
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Noisy Miner & Holly-leafed Grevillea …
A spiky-leafed plant should make the perfect hiding place for little birds. Not so; when it's the assumed property of Australia's bullyboy honeyeater, always on the lookout for 'intruders'. This photo was taken where the range of the prickly pair, plant and animal, overlap.
Miners are honeyeaters and are not related to the mynas of Asia, even though the territories of Noisy Miners (Australian) and Common Mynas (Indian) overlap.
Despite its 'thorny' leaves—keep well clear!—Grevillea wickhamii takes its species name from a gentle seafarer, John Wickham, who was the commander of the survey vessel HMS Beagle during its voyages of exploration around Australia.
On a previous voyage, as second-in-command—a nobody in the eyes of the Beagle's then captain—Wickham had befriended the ship's unofficial naturalist, a 'gentle man as well as a gentleman' known to the officers as Philo (from 'natural philosopher'; read 'naturalist'), from whom he acquired his passion for 'botanising'. Wickham named the port, now capital city of the Northern Territory, after his naturalist friend (Charles Darwin) with whom he had shared five eventful years circling the globe. Wickham's reward was to have a prickly grevillea bear his name.
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Noisy Miner : Manorina melanocephala
plant : Grevillea wickhamii
camera—to—subject : 16 metres
Mamfrotto Tripod + Benro Folding Gimbal
PR3 ⇒ LrC ⇒ Psβ ⇒ Lum.Neo
plant : Grevillea wickhamii
camera—to—subject : 16 metres
Mamfrotto Tripod + Benro Folding Gimbal
PR3 ⇒ LrC ⇒ Psβ ⇒ Lum.Neo
A spiky-leafed plant should make the perfect hiding place for little birds. Not so; when it's the assumed property of Australia's bullyboy honeyeater, always on the lookout for 'intruders'. This photo was taken where the range of the prickly pair, plant and animal, overlap.
Miners are honeyeaters and are not related to the mynas of Asia, even though the territories of Noisy Miners (Australian) and Common Mynas (Indian) overlap.
Despite its 'thorny' leaves—keep well clear!—Grevillea wickhamii takes its species name from a gentle seafarer, John Wickham, who was the commander of the survey vessel HMS Beagle during its voyages of exploration around Australia.
On a previous voyage, as second-in-command—a nobody in the eyes of the Beagle's then captain—Wickham had befriended the ship's unofficial naturalist, a 'gentle man as well as a gentleman' known to the officers as Philo (from 'natural philosopher'; read 'naturalist'), from whom he acquired his passion for 'botanising'. Wickham named the port, now capital city of the Northern Territory, after his naturalist friend (Charles Darwin) with whom he had shared five eventful years circling the globe. Wickham's reward was to have a prickly grevillea bear his name.
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