#Nature & Wildlife

[alexmurison]

King of the Castle

[wingedjewels]

Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) by Richard Jack Via Flickr: Anna's hummingbird is a North American species of hummingbird. It was named after Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli. It is native to western coastal regions of North America. Surrey BC Canada

[klemannlee]

Guess who flew in with the cooler weather...

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Not sure if this is something you would know about but I’m currently writing a paper about how we visualise shorebird habitat loss in the western Americas specifically and part of this involves finding paintings, images, diagrams, that show what the habitat looked like before 1900 or so. It’s an art historical paper so it’s about visual culture and perception of habitat loss through time and I’m struggling to find any good images from before 1900 so I’m exhausting all resources. thank you x

Hi, @a-small-disgrace! That sounds like a really useful project for showing the long-term impact of human activity. If I were going to do that sort of thing on my little area of the coast, I would be contacting the local museum and historical society to see if they had any photos or art of specific locations, even if the landscape wasn't the main focus of the piece. Is this something you've already tried?

Also, if anyone else has any ideas, please chime in in the replies or reblogs.

[samimarkart]

silly thing for Valentine’s Day!

[hawkpartys]

this image came to me in a dream

[without-ado]

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[herpsandbirds]

All of my friends that work at wildlife rehab centers have had to untangle animals from this stuff, or had animals brought in that died in it. This is especially nasty for small owl species.

[alexmurison]

A delicate Hare's Foot Ink cap popping up in the meadow

[seabeck]

Barred owl

[babyanimalgifs]

Lion kneading/making biscuits

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[amnhnyc]

Behold the pocket-sized western pygmy possum! (Cercartetus concinnus). One of the world’s smallest possums, this species typically weighs just 0.5 oz (14 g)—the size of an AA battery. This dainty marsupial is a nectarivore, meaning that its diet consists primarily of plant nectar. It inhabits treetops in forests throughout parts of Australia, using its long prehensile tail like a fifth limb as it moves from branch to branch.

Photo: gilliank, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[justcatposts]

Yawning is so contagious

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[birds-and-the-birds]

scrolling through the birdbuddy feed and this shows up and makes me lose my fucking mind