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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 4h

Also cache acorns, up to 4 km from source tree. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 4h

Compared to tight co-evolution between a plant and an animal species, which does exist but is rarer. carnegiemnh.org/a-match-made...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 5h

Plants and birds have a strong co-evolutionary mutualism in berry producing plant species, thrushes are a good example. During migratory flights, frugivorous birds can disperse seeds over tens to hundreds of kilometres. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 5h

Outside of the range of Pinus cembra, Hazel is the main tree seed which Thick-billed Nutcrackers cache, and depend upon for winter survival and nutrition during the early stages of nesting. panel.iop.krakow.pl/uploads/wyda...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 5h

In heavy mast years of Norway Spruce Picea abies seeding Nutcrackers will feed on this species. www.conifers.org/pi/Picea_abi...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 6h

Owing to its slow growth, P. cembra is a weak competitor compared with other trees. However, it is better adapted to the harsh upper subalpine climate conditions than any other European tree species.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 6h

Pinus cembra grows only in the subalpine zone, at elevations of (1,200-)1,500-2,200(-2,300) m in the Alps and portions of the Carpathian Mountains, forming mixed and pure stands. www.waldwissen.net/en/forest-ec...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 6h

Thick-billed Nutcracker also has a mutualistic relationship with Pinus cembra which is found in the Alps and Carpathians. www.conifers.org/pi/Pinus_cem...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 6h

Map of Eurasian nutcracker species and subspecies distribution, and a paper exploring speciation and population divergence. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 6h

Pinus sibirica distribution (introduced in Finland and to a lesser degree Sweden). agroatlas.ru/en/content/r...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 6h

Pinus sibirica www.conifers.org/pi/Pinus_sib...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 9h

diversify the nestling diet and adults summer diet. Sublingual pouch in related Clark's Nutcracker, stone pine seeds are smaller than acorns.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 9h

Northern winters are harsh this stored food is vital, some species such as Nutcracker are especially dependent on their stored seeds. Nutcrackers breed early (March) female pre breeding condition depends on stored nuts as does early nestling diet, later invertebrates and a few small vertebrates

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 9h

Rooks also cache acorns, they fly further into open country than Jays do so disperse oaks to a greater distance. While many nuts are eaten some grow into trees, this bird assisted seed dispersal is important for plants with heavy large seeds such as these.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 9h

Caching seeds by corvids, Jay with an acorn, Nutcracker with a hazelnut. To remember the location of thousands of buried seeds requires a superb spatial memory.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 27/10/2026

Siberian Pine distribution map. agroatlas.ru/en/content/r...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 26/10/2026

Lakenvelder cows Dutch, imported into England and Scotland bringing belted genetics into Galloways and Somerset cattle (latter extinct). www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/slow-food...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

Holderness Cow 1801, George Garrad

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

Longhorn cattle spread and became popular in Dorset and other southern counties, where later dairy shorthorn dominated. With Ayrshire brought by Scots taking land after 1870 agricultural depression. gwern.net/doc/genetics...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

Alderney cattle from the 1600s Jersey and Guernsey cattle were imported into England, departing from Alderney this became a generic name for cattle from the Channel Islands. They were landed in Weymouth and Southampton. www.statesassembly.je/getmedia/b95...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

Dairy shorthorn eventually replaced Welsh Blacks. Before Frisian a dairy shorthorn domination with Ayrshire cows in places.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

The last British malaria outbreak Isle of Sheppey, Kent pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Images; GB War Office, anti-malaria detachment, Sandwich

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

Eurasian steppe www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/237...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

1790 RUSSELL, J.C. - Map of the Steppe between the Lower Volga and the Don, where the Caspian Sea was formerly united with that of Azof

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

Where was the horse domesticated, probably in steppe between the Don and Volga rivers. The Manych Depression depression formed a connection between the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Azov (Black Sea) 14000 years ago. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

Long-horn or Lancashire breed by Thomas Bewick, 1790, A General History of Quadrupeds

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

1807 copperplate engraving titled "Quadrupeds. Bos Taurus. Oxen." by natural history illustrator Sydenham Edwards

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

Shippons were close to or alongside houses, or part of a house with a seperate door and partinioning, arranged so that liquid waste could drain (solid waste and straw dunged out).

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

This is a superb Devon longhouse (Dartmoor region) an affluent and prosperous farm, other shared human and cattle houses were much less so, cattle helped keep humans warm, in the Little Ice Age this would have been even more valuable especially if firewood or peat limited.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

To the north the Gloster cow, double and single Gloster cheese.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

Sheeted Somerset was the main Cheddar cheese dairy cow in Somerset in the 1800s.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

I was not aware of 'sheeted somerset' dairy shorthorn, or northern shorthorn. I'm not sure about the pied cattle, but perhaps some dairy short horn involved thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?th...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Commercial Motor Archive Juggernaut

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

In the course of the debate in response to antisocial parking overnight Howell uses juggernaut.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

In a lottery win scenario with trips out into desert I'd rather like to see what a Toyota Land Cruiser or G-wagon are like, but my ideal would be a Unimog conversion. No idea what they are like to drive, but always liked the look of them.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

In 1381 Flemings were a target of the Peasant's revolt, with rebels using the cross of St George as a symbol. www.1381.online

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

SAINT GEORGE, THE DRAGON SLAYER: SACRALIZED VIOLENCE AND THE ALLEGORICAL UNION OF SACRED AND SECULAR POWER ojs.zdjp.si/index.php/ah...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

St. George's Guild in Bruges. Saint George, patron saint of crossbowmen, is depicted on horseback. With his lance, he pierces a dragon in a landscape. Guild cross on a monument.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius, 1654

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Muhammad Ali, a thread touching on his conquest of Sudan, and his continuing influence on land law (and much else) in Egypt, with modifications by Nasser and later politicians. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhamma...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

A given subspecies may be the starting stage of speciation, or not, Yellow Wagtails have historic morphological subspecies which are in conflict with genetics. bou.org.uk/blog-alstroe...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Examples of Linneus usage of varities.

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