We're now into the early days of summer and everywhere you look around the Parry Sound area, roadsides, ditches and meadows are filled with a beautiful collage of wildflowers. Pollinators are busy collecting nectar, songbirds are singing the joys of warm days and new life, and the living is indeed easy, and a feast for …
Can Jaguar Conservation be Profitable? — The Jaguar
When one thinks of wildlife conservation, it’s tempting to think of non-profit organizations and government agencies. After all, that’s who does much of the front-lines conservation work. Biologist Ron Pulliam is trying something different: a for-profit company. via Can Jaguar Conservation be Profitable? — The Jaguar
Cuteness Overload
#Cute Babies, #Baby Animals, #Kiss via Cuteness Overload — Sweet Animal Pictures
ACTION ALERT: Comment by July 1st to save the Twin Peaks HMA’s wild horses & burros — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
by Debbie Coffey, V.P. & Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation A Bureau of Land Management (BLM) “News” Release, claims there are about 3,500 wild horses and 600 wild burros in the Twin Peaks Herd Management Area (HMA). This HMA includes 656,173 acres of BLM administered lands in Lassen County, Calif., and […] …
The importance of insects — Scottish pollinators
Insects and other invertebrates dominate virtually every ecosystem in the world. They represent about 80% of Earth’s biodiversity, and insects alone comprise over a million species. But this figure is just for the described species: their total number has been estimated to lie between 3 million and as many as 80 million. Scotland is the […] …
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Chorlitejo Piquigrueso/Wilson’s Plover/Charadrius wilsonia — Birds Colombia: 823 especies hoy
Nombre en español: Chorlitejo Piquigrueso Nombre en ingles: Wilson’s Plover Nombre científico: Charadrius wilsonia Familia: Charadriidae Foto: Nick Athanas Canto: Andrew Spencer El títere playero, frailecillo de Wilson, chorlo de pico grueso, chichicuilote, chorlito gritón, turillo o chorlitejo picudo (Charadrius wilsonia) es una especie de ave Charadriiforme de la familia Charadriidae de las costas americanas …
Be A Flamingo In A Flock Of Pigeons! — Through Open Lens
F/7.1, 1/160, ISO 320. American Flamingo Why don’t basketball players go away for summer vacation? They’re afraid they might get called for traveling Interesting Fact: The American Flamingo is the most widespread species of the flamingo family. It is the state bird of Gujarat, India. ( http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/940/overview/American_Flamingo.aspx ) via Be A Flamingo In A Flock Of …
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Talking with a Pale-billed Woodpecker | Cornell Lab of Ornithology — SANTA MONICA BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY BLOG
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ajVQ0orAGyY?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Magnificent and elusive, the Campephilus woodpeckers include the Ivory-billed and Imperial woodpeckers, which may be extinct, and the Pale-billed Woodpecker, which still haunt the forests of Costa Rica today. Join the experience as scientists Martjan Lammertink and Chris Saker search for this little-known species in a tropical forest, using a wooden “double-knocker” as their …
Red Dog — Wilder Alaska
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When Time Flies — Life on Tiree
Our visiting friends arrived on Tuesday’s ferry. It is hard to think that it is Saturday already! This week the days have just flown by. And today we said our goodbyes. Tuesday’s ferry is a later crossing arriving at Tiree at 18:50. By the time we ate and conversed the evening had gone. There was […] …
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