GLORIFY THE NATURE!

Welcome, Bem-vindos, to Ecological Day!

1. Sonia2. Denise3. Luiz Ramos4. Max-e5. Luci Lacey6. Cláudia Kuser7. guild-rez8. Arboretto9. Pietro Brosio10. Elma Carneiro11. A Vision of Eden12. Paz's New York Minute13. Maria Augusta14. Eduardo15. Gepetto Pinocchio
16. Fernando Zanforlin17. JU Gioli18. noVÍ tá19. Marcos Santos20. Adelino21. Luma22. chicoelho23. Geraldine Sal24. Francine Esqueda25. Lizete Vicari26. mischief mari27. Cris - Brazil28. Rachel29. Gená F.30. Jim Otterstrom
31. Cláudia - Brazil32. Carlos A. Mascaro33. Chantal34. Lawstude35. Gená F.36. laura37. june38. Cuidado39. Salomao Rovedo40. joanne41. sonia novaes42. Lara43. silvia ellwanger44. Bram Antareja45.
You're next!

Ever since I have been living in Enseada Azul I have the nature all around me!

Ecology (from Greek: οίκος, oikos, "household"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interaction between organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as insolation (sunlight), climate, and geology, and biotic factors, which are other organisms that share its habitat. The word "ecology" is often used more loosely in such terms as social ecology and deep ecology and in common parlance as a synonym for the nature environment or environmentalism. Likewise "ecologic" or "ecological" is often taken in the sense of environmentally friendly.The term ecology or oekologie was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, when he defined it as "the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment.(Wikipedia)

A Ecologia é o estudo das interações dos seres vivos entre si e com o meio ambiente. A palavra Ecologia tem origem no grego “oikos", que significa casa, e "logos", estudo, reflexão. Logo, por extensão seria o estudo da casa, ou de forma mais genérica, do lugar onde se vive. Foi o cientista alemão Ernst Haeckel, em 1869 quem primeiro usou este termo para designar a parte da Biologia que estuda as relações entre os seres vivos e o ambiente em que vivem, além da distribuição e abundância dos seres vivos no planeta. Para os ecólogos, o meio ambiente inclui não só os fatores abióticos, como o clima e a geologia, mas também os seres vivos que habitam uma determinada comunidade ou biótopo. O meio ambiente afecta os seres vivos não só pelo espaço necessário à sua sobrevivência e reprodução - levando, por vezes, ao territorialismo - mas também às suas funções vitais, incluindo o seu comportamento (estudado pela etologia, que também analisa a evolução dos comportamentos), através do metabolismo. Por essa razão, o meio ambiente -- a sua qualidade -- determina o número de indivíduos e de espécies que podem viver no mesmo habitat. Por outro lado, os seres vivos também alteram permanentemente o meio ambiente em que vivem. (Wikipedia)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SOFIA, THESE FLOWERS ARE FOR YOU!

Photos taken by my husband and by myself

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WILD DUCKS GATHERING

I have not seen anything like it before, many wild ducks and some herons gathering on the edge of the Dam, near our house, last friday. Quickly we took thoses photos. It's been raining and cloudy here for the last few days, so these pictures are not so good, but it gives you all an idea of this amazing scene!

Photos by Sonia and Carlos Mascaro

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PS: You will see soon more photos of my friend's pets.

TOUCANS: FAVORITE PICTURES

TOUCANS IN MY GARDEN

Today I start posting some of my favorite pictures. Today will be about Toucans that had visited my garden in 2006.

The Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) is the best known and largest member of the toucan family. They live in South American rainforests and Cerrado savannah. Toucans get their name from ‘tucano’ given to them by the Tupi Indians of Brazil. The largest species, the Toco Toucan, is about 25 inches (64 cm) long.

Here you can hear their sound.

Photos by Carlos A. Mascaro

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WILD DUCKS

Photos and videos by Carlos A. Mascaro

PS: These videos are experimentals and technologically they are not so good, specifically at the end of them.

WALKING AROUND MY NEIGHBORHOOD

Atualização para participar do Ecological Day, hospedado pelo blog Caliandra do Cerrado

There is not much interesting going on these days. I just don't have much to post and nothing worth mentioning... So, today I post some photos from our everyday walking around. I hope I don't bore you all too much with those photos, because I guess you had been seeing those landscapes many times... I need so much alternative views and to see others horizons for a change....

A rest for some tired walker

Sometimes Flora likes to eat grass

You can see the roof of my house

I like this twisted branches

A view to the Dam

My neighbor's house

My house seeing from the cedar's fence

Heron's photos.

Photos taken by myself

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