#polyborus

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In a like manner it might be fancied that a bird originally a buzzard, had been induced here to undertake the office of the carrion-feeding Polybori of the American continent.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

I’ve been spinning a smaller scale pokémon region based on Ecuador around in my brain for years, so please enjoy this member of the elite four and her caracara inspired electric/flying Pokémon.

[bobcatmoran]

In chapter 3.1.1 of Les Mis, the Christmas fair in Montfermeil has, among other highlights, "one of those horrible Brazilian vultures, a specimen of which our Royal Museum only obtained in 1845 and whose eye is a tricolored cockade. Naturalists call this bird, I believe, Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicidae and the family of the vultures."

As best as I can tell, this is the crested caracara (Caracara plancus, previously placed in the genus Polyborus). It's native to not only Brazil, but the entirety of South America and most of Central America as well.

And although the colors are out of order, it does indeed have a tricolor!

[wonderoseslife]

I Know You Will Make it On Your Own

I wish we saw these Birds more often. We used to, back before we picked up photography, but since they've become kind of rare...

Species: Southern [Crested] Caracara (Kuifcaracara) Latin Name: Caracara Plancus or Polyborus Plancus Originates from Central and southern South America. Current status: Least Concern

[dustedmagazine]

Shearwater — The Great Awakening (Polyborus)

Photo by Bryan Parker

The Great Awakening (2022) by Shearwater

Although it’s been six years since Shearwater’s last album, Jet Plane and Oxbow, Jonathan Meiburg has been busy in the interim. He formed an excellent new band called Loma with Emily Cross (Cross Record) and Dan Duszynski (Any Kind), who released their self-titled debut in 2018, and Don’t Shy Away in 2020. Meiburg also published a non-fiction book entitled A Most Remarkable Creature in 2021, which details his ornithological quest to study a unique bird of prey called the caracara. On the new Shearwater album, The Great Awakening, their ninth by my count, Meiburg brings all of these recent experiences to bear. It’s a lengthy, reflective and beautiful record that mostly steers away from the more rock-oriented sound of Shearwater’s last two releases.

Right from introductory salvo “Highgate,” it’s lovely to hear Meiburg’s voice again, close-miked and gentle, but with a touch of the sardonic in the album’s opening lines: “Here comes your heart attack / Starless and bible black / And here is the endgame.” What might have come across as hopeless instead promises a blank slate, a new beginning; perhaps the great awakening of the album’s title. An almighty peal of distorted guitar splits the song asunder, like thunder on a dark night, and Meiburg’s voice rises in ferocious defiance against the elements. It’s quite the opener. 

The lurching, low-slung bass of “No Reason” and “Laguna Seca” draws a throughline from Loma’s “Black Willow,” drummer Josh Halpern hanging behind the beat to create a feeling of the songs dragging their heavy limbs through a swamp. Field recordings from Meiburg’s travels are woven into the stunning piano-based “Aqaba,” and the ghostly, minimal “Milkweed,” which climaxes with the kind of panic-inducing orchestral rush found on The Beatles’ classic “A Day in the Life.”  

Co-producer Duszynski brings his formidable drumming prowess to “Empty Orchestra,” which injects a welcome burst of energy at the album’s mid-point. The song succeeds in being anthemic without succumbing to the bombast that dogged Jet Plane and Oxbow cuts like “Pale Kings.” The ride cymbal pattern that kicks off the lengthy “There Goes the Sun” brings to mind Talk Talk’s “After the Flood,” but the track proves to be one of the few moments on this nearly hour-long record where the music outstays its welcome.  

The influence of seminal Talk Talk albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock is writ large throughout, especially on the gorgeous “Xenarthran,” in which disparate wisps of instrumental texture are delicately woven into an airy musical fabric. Meiburg’s patient, contemplative and painterly exploration of space and repetition, and the subtle, haunting arrangements are undoubtedly indebted to Mark Hollis — and prove shiveringly effective.  

Tim Clarke

[kikkofindaeas]

Poliboro

Or Caracara ...

traslate thanks traslate.google.com :

“ s. m. [lat. scientist Polyborus, which is from Gr. πολύβορος «very voracious», comp. of πολυ- «poly-» and a theme related to βιβρώσκω «to eat»]. – Genus of falconid birds with a single living species (Polyborus plancus), which lives in Central-South America: it has an elongated beak, high tarsi, and feeds mainly on carrion; another species (Polyborus lutosus), typical of the island of Guadeloupe, became extinct in the sec. 19th, exterminated by cattle breeders. “

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The northern crested caracara (Caracara cheriway), also called the northern caracara and crested caracara,[3] is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the southern caracara (C. plancus) and the extinct Guadalupe caracara (C. lutosa) as the "crested caracara". It has also been known as Audubon's caracara. As with its relatives, the northern caracara was formerly placed in the genus Polyborus. Unlike the Falco falcons in the same family, the caracaras are not fast-flying aerial hunters, but are rather sluggish and often scavengers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_crested_caracara The southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus), also known as the southern caracara or carancho, is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae. As presently defined, the southern crested caracara is restricted to central and southern South America. It formerly included the northern crested caracara (C. cheriway) of the southern United States, Mexico, Central America and northern South America, and the extinct Guadalupe caracara (C. lutosa) as subspecies. As its relatives, it was formerly placed in the genus Polyborus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_crested_caracara

[lalen-lafken]

Lautaro

Voz mapudungun Significado Traru desplumado. Descripción El traru o traro es un ave de rapiña (Polyborus tratuz), por lo que Lautaro es una palabra compuesta. Bibliografía Plath, Oreste. (1983). Geografía del mito y la leyenda chilenos. Segunda Edición. Nacimiento. Santiago:Chile. p42

[dangalf3]

“Polyborus plancus” 🇦🇷 #patagonia #caracara #bird #nature #southamerica #argentina #argentina🇦🇷 #explore #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdswatching #travelphotography #travel #igersargentina #instaargentina #daniloatzori #birdofprey #animals (presso Patagonia Argentina) https://www.instagram.com/p/COEKHWtFdFG/?igshid=nip0m9hksmuv

[coffeenuts]

Polyborus Plancus III by blizzard2006

[alberto-solis-photography]

Par de caracara siendo intimidados por un centzontle. . Caracara Quebrantahuesos | Crested Caracara | Polyborus plancus. Centzontle tropical | Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus. . Locación: Telchac, Yucatán. Vida libre. . #canonistas #canonista #canonmexicana #canonmexico #canon80d #visityucatan #yucatanturismo #yucatan #nuestromexico #ig_mexico #ig_americas #yodescubriyucatan #mexico_tour #mexico_great_shots #trip_in_mexico #mexico #PasionxMexico #yodescubriyucatan #igyucatan #yucatanhermoso #igersyucatan #kooxyucatan #yucatán #yucatan #sigma150600 #cmfn #bird_brilliance (en Telchac Puerto)

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At times the Carrancha is noisy, but is not generally so: its cry is loud, very harsh and peculiar, and may be likened to the sound of the Spanish gutteral g, followed by a rough double r r; when uttering this cry it elevates its head higher and higher, till at last, with its beak wide open, the crown almost touches the lower part of the back.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

[dengusmaximus]

_everybird_ @ June 13, 2017 at 10:42AM

BIRD #4,955 Crested Caracara (Polyborus plancus) http://pic.twitter.com/zW4GV9Zhse

— everybird (@_everybird_) June 13, 2017

from http://twitter.com/_everybird_ via IFTTT

[curacaoimages]

#Curaçao bird of prey locally called #warawara . Also commonly know as Northern Crested #Caracara . It often hunts on foot for lizards and rodents. #travel #travelgram #islandbirds #caribbean #raptor #Polyborus #cheriway #scavenger #inflight #birdsofprey #birdsonflight #birdsofinstagram #nikonphotography #nature #freedom #wildlife http://ift.tt/2rv9YPP

[artscult]

scleroderma citrinum, tuber cibarium, clavaria flava, verpa digitaliformis, helvella esculanta, morchella esculenta, polyborus umbellatus, boletus bulbosus, cantharellus cibarius - high resolution image from old book.

[dustedmagazine]

Dusted Midyear Round-Up: Part 3 The Lists

Cate Le  Bon

After two days worth of record trading, Dusted writers retreat to their various obsessions and share lists of their favorite records of early 2022.  If you missed our two-part midyear exchange coverage, check out Part 1 and Part 2.  

Jennifer Kelly

Winged Wheel — No Island (12XU)

Destroyer — Labyrinthitis (Merge)

Oneida  —  Success (Joyful Noise)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Drag City)

Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia (Partisan)

Jake Xerxes Fussell — Good and Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors)

Reds, Pinks and Purples — Summer at Land’s End (Slumberland)

Yard Act — The Overload (Rough Trade)

Superchunk — Wild Loneliness (Merge)

Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)

Jonathan Shaw’s horrendous half-dozen:

Black Fucking Cancer — Procreate Inverse (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Cosmic Putrefaction — Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones (Caligari Records)

Kostnateni — Ohen Hori Tam, Kde Padl (Mystiskaos)

Merihem — Incendiary Darkness (I, Voidhanger)

Mizmor and Thou — Myopia (Gilead Media)

Mutilatred — Determined to Rot (Redefining Darkness) 

Tim Clarke

The Smile — A Light for Attracting Attention (XL)

Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD)

Black Country, New Road — Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune)

Aldous Harding — Warm Chris (4AD)

Shearwater — The Great Awakening (Polyborus)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Mexican Summer)

Daniel Rossen — You Belong There (Warp)

Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin — Ghosted (Drag City)

Robert Stillman — What Does it Mean to be American? (Orindal)

Claire Rousay — Everything Perfect is Already Here (Shelter Press)

Ray Garraty

Bandgang Lonnie Bands x ShredGang Mone — Shottas (TF Distribution)

Wayne616 — Grease Files (Still Grinding)

Young Bleed — Dare Iza God (Trap Door Entertainment)

Z Money — Back 2 The Blender (4EverPaidRecords)

Boldy James & Real Bad Man — Killing Nothing (Real Bad Man)

Andrew Forell

billy woods - Aethiopes (Blackwoodz Studioz)

Kids On A Crime Spree - Fall in Love, Not In Line (Slumberland)

700 Bliss - Nothing To Declare (Hyperdub)

Brainwaltzera - ITSAME (Film Recordings)

Artsick - Fingers Crossed (Slumberland)

Blackhaine - Armour II (Fixed Abode)

Bill Meyer

Sophie Agnel / John Butcher, La Pierre Tachée (Ni Vu Ni Connu)

Rhodri Davies, For Simon H. Fell (Amgen)

Jake Xerxes Fussell, Good And Green Again (Paradise of Bachelors)

Mary Halvorson, Amaryllis & Belladonna (Nonesuch)

Haptic, Ladder of Shadows (901 Editions)

Glenn Jones, Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey)

Shane Parish, Viscera Eternae (Ramble)

Dave Rempis / Elizabeth Harnik / Michael Zerang, Astragaloi (Aerophonic)

Masayuki Takayanagi, Eclipse (Black Editions)

Reinier van Houdt, Drift Nowhere Past / The Adventure Of Sleep (Elsewhere)

Bryon Hayes 

Pan•American — The Patience Fader (Kranky)

Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci — Winds Bells Falls (Telegraph Harp)

Ayal Senior — Az Yashir (Medusa Editions)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Mexican Summer)

Winged Wheel — No Island (12XU)

Julia Reidy — World in World (Black Truffle)

Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)

Tilth — Rock Music (Round Bale Recordings)

p2p — Impossible Burger (Rat-Drifting)

Modern Lamps — Lucid Cartography (Hooker Vision) 

Patrick Masterson

Yard Act — The Overload (Rough Trade)

Overmono — Cash Romantic EP (XL)

Oneida — Success (Joyful Noise)

Angel Olsen — Big Time (Jagjaguwar)

Yung Kayo — DFTK (Young Stoner Life)

HAAi — Baby, We're Ascending (Mute)

Cloakroom — Dissolution Wave (Relapse)

Saba — Few Good Things (The Orchard)

Heavenly Bodies — Universal Resurrection (Petty Bunco)

Axel Boman — Luz / Quest for Fire (Studio Barnhus)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Mexican Summer)

Sauce Walka — AI Rage Walka (Sauce Familia)

Christian Carey

Destroyer — Labyrinthitis (Merge)

Oneida — Success (Joyful Noise)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Drag City)

Superchunk — Wild Loneliness (Merge)

Jenny Hvall — Classic Objects (4AD)

Steve Reich — Reich/Richter (Nonesuch)

Ches Smith — Interpret it Well (Pyroclastic)

Steven Schick — A Hard Rain (Islandia)

Mark Turner — Return from the Stars (ECM)

Walter Zimmermann — Voces (Mode)

Derek Taylor

Andrew Cyrille/William Parker/Enrico Rava — 2 Blues for Cecil (TUM)

Michael Bisio Quartet — MBefore (Tao Forms)

Ingrid Laubrock/Brandon Lopez/Tom Rainey — No Es La Playa (Intakt)

Survival Unit III — The Art of Flight/For Alvin Fielder (Astral Spirits/Instigation)

Ches Smith — Interpret it Well (Pyroclastic)

Chris Byars — Rhythm and Blues of the 20s (Steeplechase)

Cecil Taylor — The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at the Town Hall, NYC, November 4, 1973 (Oblivion)

Albert Ayler — Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings (Resonance)

Peter Brötzmann/ William Parker/ Milford Graves — Historic Music Past Tense Future (Black Editions)

Sam Rivers — Caldera (No Business)

Virgil Gonsalves — Jazz in the Bay Area 1954-1959 (Fresh Sound)

Toots Thielemans & Rob Franken — The Studio Sessions 1973-1983 (Dutch Jazz Archive)

Michael Rosenstein

A baker’s dozen of releases that have caught my ear in the first half of the year:

John Butcher — 5 LP set from ausland (Ni Vu Ni Connu)

Zhao Cong — REW (Eminent Observer)

Anne-F Jacques, Chemiefaserwerk, Zhu Wenbo — La Cinta Flotante (Bolinga Everest Records)

Rie Nakajima/Takahiro Kawaguchi — Utsuho (tsss tapes)

Oùat — Elastic Bricks (Umlaut Records)

Manja Ristić — the concrescence (Self Released)

Vanessa Rossetto / Lionel Marchetti — The Tower (The City) (Erstwhile Records)

Li Song — Two Snare Drums (Infant Tree)

Staubitz and Waterhouse — Common Metals (music is the worst)

Tarab — Rooms (Ferns recordings)

Bardo Todol — La Siembra Eterna (Never Anything Records)

Yu Yiyi — Hypnos (self-released)

Sun Yizhou, Zheng Hao — Another Time (bluescreen)

Ian Mathers

15 in personal chronological order:

Cloakroom — Dissolution Wave (Relapse)

Pan•American — The Patience Fader (Kranky)

Aoife O'Donovan — Age of Apathy (Yep Roc)

Broadcast — Maida Vale Sessions (Warp)

Nadja — Nalepa (Broken Spine)

Sasami — Squeeze (Domino)

Picastro — I’ve Never Met a Stranger (3490032 Records DK)

Michael Beharie — Promise (Clandestine)

Chelsea Jade — Soft Spot (Carpark)

Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum)

Diatom Deli — Time​~​Lapse Nature (RVNG Intl.)

loscil — The Sails p.1/p.2 (self-release)

Z Money — Back 2 the Blender (4EVERPAID)

Oneida — Success (Joyful Noise)

Billow Observatory — Stareside (Felte)