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Website technical problems & questions / Re: Arillas Forum new look and...

Last post by Sandy x - Today at 12:43:33 PM

It's great! Thank you Dimitri

[YELLOW SUNSET]

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Photo Gallery Board / Re: A to Z - Photographs of Ar...

Last post by kevin-beverly - Today at 10:43:46 AM

HI

Y FOR   YELLOW SUNSET

KEV AUG 2023

#3

Arillas general information / Re: Arillas 2024 News,

Last post by dimitris - Yesterday at 03:15:19 PM

I forgot to mention ... Akrotiri  caffe  is open since last Friday!!  Inas Cafe is open too as well as Anasa beach bar.
I have been serving some repeating solo visitors from Marvel-hotel.
Nikos Apartments is opening on Monday.


The  Arillas bakery is not open yet, they are struggling also with the new cash and card registry sof The Place next tot the bakery is  Kallogiannis Super market is now closed ... no sign of opening this year.


RAINBOW is open too!!

[HABITAT]

#4

Walking in Arillas and north west Corfu / Re: Walking around corfu

Last post by kevin-beverly - Yesterday at 12:18:27 PM

HI
I remember that Vivian posted a photo of Bee eaters so i done a bit of a investigating

European Bee Eaters

Merops apiaster

containing three genera and thirty species. Most species are found in Africa and Asia, with a few in southern Europe, Australia, and New Guinea. They are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies, and usually elongated central tail feathers. All have long down-turned bills and medium to long wings, which may be pointed or round. Male and female plumages are usually similar.
Most bee-eaters are gregarious. They form colonies, nesting in burrows tunnelled into vertical sandy banks, often at the side of a river or in flat ground. As they mostly live in colonies, large numbers of nest holes may be seen together. The eggs are white, with typically five to the clutch. Most species are monogamous, and both parents care for their young, sometimes with assistance from related birds in the colony.

Bee-eaters may be killed by raptors; their nests are raided by rodents, weasels, martens and snakes, and they can carry various parasites. Some species are adversely affected by human activity or habitat loss, but none meet the International Union for Conservation of Nature's vulnerability criteria, and all are therefore evaluated as "least concern". Their conspicuous appearance means that they have been mentioned by ancient writers and incorporated into mythology.As their name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat flying insects, especially bees and wasps, which are caught on the wing from an open perch. The insect's stinger is removed by repeatedly hitting and rubbing the insect on a hard surface. During this process, pressure is applied to the insect's body, thereby discharging most of the venom.

Domain:    Eukaryota
Kingdom:    Animalia
Phylum:    Chordata
Class:    Aves
Order:    Coraciiformes
Family:    Meropidae
Rafinesque, 1815
Genera
Nyctyornis
Meropogon
Merops

The bee-eaters are morphologically a fairly uniform group. They share many features with related Coraciiformes such as the kingfishers and rollers, being large-headed (although less so than their relatives), short-necked, brightly plumaged and short-legged. Their wings may be rounded or pointed, with the wing shape closely correlated with the species' preferred foraging habitat and migratory tendencies. Shorter, rounder wings are found on species that are sedentary and make typically short foraging flights in denser forests and reed-beds. Those with more elongated wings are more migratory. All the bee-eaters are highly aerial; they take off strongly from perches, fly directly without undulations, and are able to change direction quickly, although they rarely hover.

HABITAT
 typically nest alongside rivers in the countryside, woodlands, meadows, and even on farmland. In Africa, they can be found in the savannah, forest, shrubland, and grasslands. European bee-eaters often live in arid or semi-arid environments.

SUBCONTINENTS
China, Spain, Portugal, France, Finland, United Kingdom, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Czech Republic, Macedonia

HISTORY

The European bee-eater was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under its current binomial name Merops apiaster. The genus name Merops is Ancient Greek for "bee-eater", and apiaster is Latin, also meaning "bee-eater", from apis, "bee".
In Greek mythology, the Theban Botres was fatally struck by his father when he desecrated a ritual sacrifice of a ram to the god Apollo by tasting the victim's brains. The god took pity on him, turning him into a bee-eater.
The Ancient Egyptians believed that bee-eaters had medical properties, prescribing the application of bee-eater fat to deter biting flies, and treating the eyes with the smoke from charred bee-eater legs to cure an unspecified female complaint


Bee-eaters of both sexes alternate between being breeders and helpers in their clan. Each bird lives in an extended family with members of four overlapping generations. They appear to recognize parents, siblings, offspring, friends, and nesting neighbors, likely from voice recognition.

These birds have been found to live up to 4.6 years

Population number
According to the IUCN Red List, the total population size of the European bee-eater is around 14,000,000-25,250,000 mature individuals. In Europe, the breeding population consists of 2,800,000-5,050,000 pairs, which equates to 5,600,000-10,100,000 mature individuals. Currently, this species is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List and its numbers today are stable.



https://waldridgenaturalist.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-waldridge-naturalist-in-corfu-last.html

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Arillas general information / Re: Arillas 2024 News,

Last post by dimitris - Yesterday at 09:15:35 AM

Happy May-day to all,
Today, Grazella and Mirage are opening for the season! Kaloudis Village is open and I can see people coming out of there.
A nice family came to have dinner at my place!!!
Kostas on the beach after beeing open for the whole winter season is closing for two weeks fo their ''maintenance time of the year''
The New parking space next to Portofino is taking shape and new look , I can see flowers and and a palmtree planted on it's front!

The beach on the south is in a really good size.
The North beach still needs some push from the nature.... let's wait and see.! it seems to be getting better everyday.

Still no sunbeds on the beach! the burocracy of sunbeds can be a pain for those who take care of them!

[ΧΕΙΜΩΝΑΣ [CHEIMONAS]]

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Photo Gallery Board / Re: A to Z - Photographs of Ar...

Last post by kevin-beverly - Yesterday at 08:53:05 AM

HI

X FOR  ΧΕΙΜΩΝΑΣ [CHEIMONAS] WINTER

KEV

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Photo Gallery Board / Re: A to Z - Photographs of Ar...

Last post by Truth - April 30, 2024, 04:38:37 PM

HI

V FOR   VICTORY FOR ME    Not Orangutan but the next best thing

KEV

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Photo Gallery Board / Re: A to Z - Photographs of Ar...

Last post by kevin-beverly - April 30, 2024, 08:41:15 AM

HI

W FOR WARNING SIGN

KEV AUG 2023

#9

Website technical problems & questions / Re: Arillas Forum new look and...

Last post by Laura - April 30, 2024, 12:05:13 AM

The new layout is fantastic and very easy to use! Thank you for keeping it going!

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Website technical problems & questions / Re: Arillas Forum new look and...

Last post by dimitris - April 29, 2024, 11:29:23 PM

Hello, liking the new layout but I can't find the webcam?
Is it still working?

Karen

You can still find it here www.arillas.com/webcam

I'll have to create the top menu again!! 
The new layout does not offer it.