underparts

Whether it is a world-wide church or a single yeshiva or synagogue or ashram, a football stadium or a computer design or a company that extracts primeval carbon from the planet's underparts, elevating abundance from part of the sacred whole to the Ultimate is one of the paths to self-destruction.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Football, Rape, Cash: Idolatry Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011

Whether it is a world-wide church or a single yeshiva or synagogue or ashram, a football stadium or a computer design or a company that extracts primeval carbon from the planet's underparts, elevating abundance from part of the sacred whole to the Ultimate is one of the paths to self-destruction.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Football, Rape, Cash: Idolatry Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011

The pattern of dark arrowhead dots shows bold on its pale underparts.

Country diary: South Uist 2011

Whether it is a world-wide church or a single yeshiva or synagogue or ashram, a football stadium or a computer design or a company that extracts primeval carbon from the planet's underparts, elevating abundance from part of the sacred whole to the Ultimate is one of the paths to self-destruction.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Football, Rape, Cash: Idolatry Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011

The ladder-backed woodpecker can be distinguished from several congeners: the range-restricted Nuttall's woodpecker, P. nuttallii, is noticeably darker; with narrower white stripes especially below its eyes, white feathers at the base of its upper mandible, whiter underparts, and outer tail feathers with spots.

Mystery bird: Ladder-backed woodpecker, Picoides scalaris | @GrrlScientist 2011

Superficially like a cross between a falcon and a magpie, it landed to reveal a wispy crest, dark grey upperparts spotted with white, pale underparts, and a creamy-yellow throat.

Birdwatch: Little bustard 2011

Held up to view in an unravelled ball of twine neatly arranged into a nest, sleeping on undisturbed, was a spectacularly attractive little creature – perhaps six inches long, its furry tail striped lengthwise and as long again, its coat silvery-grey above, creamy on the underparts; ears small and rounded; facial mask piebald and rather raccoon-like, accentuating large, luminous eyes that flickered open and met mine with no hint of alarm.

Country diary: Ariège, Pyrenees 2011

Scaly grey on its back and collar, with brilliant white underparts and pitch black legs and bill – stout and blunt for a wader.

Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk 2011

Through my binoculars I could see the long wings and tail, narrow white rump and, best of all, the deep orange shade of its underparts, glowing in the October sunshine.

Birdwatch: Pallid harrier 2011

The male has red only on the back of its head. the smaller downy woodpecker is black with a distinctive white patch in the middle of its back, white underparts, no white streaks on its crown, and its black malar and eye stripes don't merge.

Mystery bird: Ladder-backed woodpecker, Picoides scalaris | @GrrlScientist 2011