It is
commonly observed, when most of people booking the hotel, they pay most
attention to the location, swimming pool, food, and quality of restaurant? Now
what about bathrooms? Probably there’re very few hotels around the world that
are real worth booking for their bathroom amenities alone from an all glass
washroom overlooking a game reserve in Botswana to a Jacuzzi with 270-degree
panoramic views of the Hong Kong skyline. Therefore experiencing the most
luxurious bathrooms is having a different kind of joy. Such as magnificent
bathroom in Penthouse suite at the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris setting
guests back a staggering £15,229 per night (bedroom included). This is really
world's most jaw-dropping hotel bathrooms. Moreover the “star bath” allow
guests to relish an open-air bubble bath under the star, listening to bird
calls as they soak in style. In Hong Kong, even guests can wash away the day
the luxury of this oversized jacuzzi, or the shower with its rain forest shower
head and both of which enjoy remarkable views of the city skyline.
Monday, 13 October 2014
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
The Amazing Horned Sungem
This beautiful remarkable hummingbird
is mostly found in South America well worthy of such an evocative name and only
the males have the iridescent horns. The horned Sungem or Heliactin bilophus is
the only species, of the genus Heliactin. The experts name bilophus is
sometimes considered a nomen oblitum, which, if accepted results in Heliactin
cornutus being the correct name for this species. A wing-beat is one complete
up and down movement that means the horned Sungem moves its wing muscles at a
rate of more than 10,000 TPM (Times Per Minute).
It selects fairly dry open or
semi open habitats, like savanna and Cerrado. This bird normally avoids dense
humid forest. The Horned Sungem population trend appears to be growing, and
hence the species does not reach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the
population trend criterion and for some reasons the species is evaluated as
Least Concern. The global population size has not been quantified, but this
species is described as “uncommon”.
The females are mainly green
above with clean white under-parts, and long central rectrices, however males birds
are spectacularly adorned with a dark blue crown, black throat and upper
breast, and little red, blue and gold “horns”, as well as also possessing
elongated central tail feathers. In terms of its spreading, the species is
found really locally north of the Amazon, in southern Suriname, as well as in
the savannas of Amapa, in far northeast Brazil, therefore much more incessantly
across the Brazilian interior to eastern Bolivia.
It favors native Cerrado
vegetation and is found to at least 1000 m in elevation. Like numerous
hummingbirds, the Horned Sungem appears to make local movements, at least in
parts of its range, in response to flowering events, though somewhere else the
species populations are seemingly more sedentary.
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