#Minden Pictures

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A red fox snacking on a plum.

FREDERIC DESMETTE / BIOSPHOTO / MINDEN PICTURES

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California sea lion in a giant kelp forest, Baja California, Mexico

© Claudio Contreras

Minden Pictures

If you ever walk around a harbor somewhere between Costa Rica and Alaska, you're bound to come across the playful barking of sea lions. These friendly animals, pictured today, can be seen sunning themselves on rocks off the west coast of North America. Although they resemble seals, the key to telling them apart is their ears: sea lions have visible ears, seals don't.

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Scientists Made a List of Lost Birds and Now They Want Us to Find Them. (New York Times)

Clockwise from top left: Santa Marta sabrewing; Golden-fronted bowerbird; Reichenow’s firefinch; Hook-billed kite; Edwards’s pheasant; Bronze parotia.Credit...Carole Turek; Tim Laman; Simon Colenutt; Karine Aigner; Ernie James; Tim Laman/Nature Picture Library, via Minden Pictures

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

In 2022, an ornithologist high in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains of northern Colombia spotted the shimmering emerald green and cobalt blue feathers of the Santa Marta sabrewing. A large hummingbird, it had only been documented twice since 1879. As the bird sat on a branch the ornithologist, Yurgen Vega, captured images.

Once lost to science, it now was found.

The bird was on the American Bird Conservancy’s 10 most wanted list, which sits atop a longer register of “lost birds,” which are formally defined as not having been documented by photographic, audio or genetic evidence in at least a decade.

A major goal of the list is to persuade bird watchers and others to look for these birds as they go out into the field, and to bring back evidence the birds have not gone extinct.

People have searched for lost birds for decades. But the process was formalized in 2020 by the conservancy, in partnership with two other groups, Re:wild and BirdLife International, as the Search for Lost Birds project.

Researchers from the groups published a paper in June with a definitive list of birds that need finding. They scoured tens of millions of photos, videos and audio recordings in birding databases such as iNaturalist and xeno-canto. The study concluded that there are 144 species of bird lost to the scientific world but that may still exist.

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Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) female eating leaves, Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia © Cyril Ruoso/Minden Pictures

Today on Bing- May 19, 2023 Sumatran rhinoceros, Way Kambas National Park, Indonesia

How can we help at-risk animals? | EN-CA, EN-CN, EN-GB

On the edge of extinction | EN-US

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(from Bat Conservation International's twitter; their photo credits are: J. Scott Altenbach, Michael Durham/Minden Pictures)

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Sculptural - Gannets (Fou de Bassan)

The northern gannet (Morus bassanus) is a seabird, the largest species of the gannet family, Sulidae. It is native to the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, breeding in Western Europe and Northeastern North America. It is the largest seabird in the northern Atlantic.

Gannet, Photo by Dean Eades.

Photos - Fou de bassan - Northern Gannet - Michel Lamarche.

Northern gannets on the Saltee Islands, Ireland © Bart Breet/Minden Pictures

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Scott Grant, Northern Gannet Tight Portrait. Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve.

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Double Arch seen through Cove Arch, Arches National Park, Utah (© Jeff Foott/Minden Pictures)

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Orangutan moms spend up to eight years teaching their young how to survive on the Asian islands of Borneo and Sumatra—including how to find yummy snacks. Photograph by Suzi Eszterhas, MINDEN PICTURES

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ma lenne 52 éves az egyik legzseniálisabb értelmiségi, a kenyai Binyavanga Wainaina. négy éve halt meg. a How to Write About Africa minden évben az egyetlen dolog, amit az Afrika Antropológiája kurzusom első órájára el kell olvasni

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. If you must include an African, make sure you get one in Masai or Zulu or Dogon dress.

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An emperor tamarin is seen in the Brazilian Amazon. The Dallas Zoo's two emperor tamarins, Bella and Finn, were stolen and later recovered.

PHOTOGRAPH BY CLAUS MEYER, MINDEN PICTURES

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Arch of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia

© Gary Bell

Minden Pictures

Welcome to Tasmanian National Park, a gem on the island of Tasmania, Australia. This park, which extends over 106 square kilometers, is home to a rich biodiversity: native flowers, Australian seals and small penguins that find refuge in this unique environment.

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Some scenes from chasing this weekend. Top right is a tornado that touched down about 20 miles West of the metro. This is the same system that spawned the Lincoln and Minden tornados. Bottom is Saturday, which didn't yield much except for the picture on the right, which was a funnel that crossed the road i front of us but didn't touch down.

Middle picture is EF2 damage in Afton.

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Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild.

Return of takahē – large, flightless bird – to alpine slopes of the South Island marks a conservation victory in New Zealand.

Tess McClure. Auckland. The Guardian Newspaper. Picture : Takahē had been formally declared extinct in 1898. Photograph: Minden Pictures/Alamy #prehistoric #bird

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African elephants in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya © Neil Bowman/Minden Pictures

Featured on Bing- October 5, 2024 Tsavo East National Park, Kenya

Follow the teacher! | EN-CA, EN-CN, EN-GB, EN-US, ROW

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I decided that after today I will not post my love poems for a while. Writing them definitely helps me but I think that posting them may cause more harm than good at this point in time. For me and for Them too.

For this final such post I collected some of the poems from the last few months into a thematic bundle.

This might explain why I got to this decision. I write in English and in Hungarian (my mother tongue).

[If I write anything that is not connected to this love and this breakup I will surely post it here in the future. In the meantime I will try to post about my other creative endeavours at least weekly. With pictures. Because I want to.]

7 stages/ 7 szakasz

Shock/ Sokk

Veszteség 2

Hányingerem van.

A veszteség jéghártya

Egész belsőmben.

2024.01.26

Denial/ Tagadás

Denial

I am not a child.

They Were Not My Everything.

We are not done yet.

2024.01.31-02.02.

Anger/ Harag

Kiáltás

Hányszor szakítsunk

Hogy el tudjuk végre már

Engedni egymást?!

2024.01.24.

Bargaining/ Alkudozás

Paths

Hard to reconcile

That the only road to you

Now leads me away.

2024.01.17.

Depression/ Depresszió

Mélypont 2

Minden nap olvaslak.

Minden nap írok neked.

Minden nap elsiratlak.

Utoljára akkor sírtam ennyit és így, amikor először kellett óvodába menni.

Akkor a gyerekkoromat sirattam el.

Most annak a meggyőződésnek az utolsó morzsáit, hogy nekem is

Érdemes szeretni.

24.01.02.

Testing/ Kísérletezés

Summary

Sea of emotions.

My shrink says it’s still stage one,

All just denial.

2024.02.03.

Acceptance/ Elfogadás

Elengedés

Viharkék szemed

Egy szebb jövőbe tekint

Szakad a finn hó.

2023.10.31.