IDENTIFYING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST PLANTS,TREES and FUNGI
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At least I believe this is the correct ID, waiting for iNaturalist to confirm. Identification confirmed (6/25).
IDENTIFICATION not a problem here, a awesome beauty, and this one was seen in the same area most days, and most days we clicked away, well it would be rude not to!! lol.
Habits dry open grassland and tracks with telegraph wires. Often solitary, attracted to bush fires, and sits up-right and motionless for long periods on a favored perch, from which it swoops on its prey, insects and termite mounds.
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I thought this was a red darter but after read up the eyes should be blue/grey below. As most of you guys should know by now I'm colour blind so would like some help with I.D if you can assist
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Juvenile males show a kaleidoscope of colours: Yellow-green as the females and blue tones as adult males.
Black-capped Tanagers are vividly-colored tropical birds that occur in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru. They often occur in pairs foraging in bushes and trees for insects and fruit.
It is one of the few species in the genus that shows obvious sexual dichromatism, with males primarily gray-blue in color with a distinctive black cap, and females yellow-green without a black cap.
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Art- Texture Dry Brush
Western tiger swallowtail
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Identification: Upperside of hindwing with upper-most marginal spot yellow or lacking. Underside of forewing with separate yellow spots forming marginal band. Hindwing has narrow marginal spots and no orange tint except for 2 spots near end of inner margin.
Wing Span: 2 3/4 - 4 inches (7 - 10 cm).
Life History: Males patrol canyons or hilltops for receptive females. Females lay eggs singly on surface of host plant leaves. Caterpillars feed on leaves and rest on silken mats in shelters of curled leaves. Chrysalids hibernate.
Flight: One flight from June-July.
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via earbuds. Listen...and move, I think its a track you listen while you walk on the streets and watch the faces of people around you.
The variety is so numerous that is difficult to do correct identification.
Even between of these two photos there are subtle differences.
My sunflowers have been growing by leaps and bounds. Fortunately one of the flowers are four feet tall....the perfect height for me to observe the center of the flower as it forms. Imagine my surprise as I noted a small white round item which appears to be an egg. I've tried, without success, to identify this single egg. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!...(Perhaps it is the cocoon of a silk worm?) ;)
I'm not sure about the identification on this one so I'm just calling it the pretty orange moth. Photographed in Maryland
With a mole (pigmented mark) on the top of his nose, this baby boy can be spotted without much difficulty and correctly identified even in a crowded place.
In this candid photo, taken in Subic, Zambales, Philippines, the boy is being carried by his grandmother, who takes care of him when his mother goes to town or is very busy doing some household chores.
During my trip to Prince Edward County during the spring migration, we had one morning that stood out, thanks to a huge influx of birds. As is often the case in this part of the world, a few species were predominant in the arrivals. Thanks to its cheery, loud and persistent call (perfectly captured in its French name) the Least Flycatchers were easily noticed. And that call quickly eliminated the challenges of Empidonax identification.
This bird, found/heard on the edge of Lake Ontario as the sun began to rise, was focused on mating and eating (perhaps not in that order) and as with other birds arriving after a long trip, it was pretty indifferent to a respectful birder/photographer.
During migration, this tiny insectivore will fly over fifty miles a day to get to its breeding grounds.
This should go fast for all you car buffs. Make and Year please.
There is a bonus if you get the one behind it, with only the top and back window showing!
Unknown tiny flower from the roadside, need assistance in identification of the plant. Any assistance will be appreciated.
High Brown Fritillary
(Argynnis adippe) .... i think i have the identification correct on this beautiful butterfly, but im open to correction :-))
maybe it's a
cinnamon webcap
Zimtbrauner Hautkopf
[Cortinarius cinnamomeus]
(about identification I'm not really sure)
(explored 15.11.2024)
His wings were beating all the time whilst taking the pollen
Thanks to Jeff Summerlin for the identification. An interesting little insect, I'd never heard of, I really thought it was another bee!
I sighted this duck on march 11 and knew I would have to google it for identification ! It will be heading north to the Arctic sometime soon
If you know the exact identification of any bird I've photographed don't be afraid to correct me if I'm wrong. I make it no secret that I don't know my birds well...at all. Thanks to all who view, fave, and comment. Chris
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"Take It To The Limit" (The Eagles) cover by yours truly www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm84Oow4p00
"Birding is a three-dimensional pastime. It’s superior to, say, mushrooming, where the quarry is never higher than your shoelaces. And, of course, misidentifying a bird won’t kill you. Now, while all the mushroomers get busy writing angry op-eds, let me explain.
Birds fly. The sky’s the limit. One can’t go birding without looking up. The entire forest is stratified, from the treetop warblers to the ground foraging turkeys. And in the middle: thrushes.
Members of the thrush family spend much of their time on or near the ground. They forage on foot.
Males on territory might sing from a treetop, but they are often content to croon from a lower branch in the canopy. Birders sometimes complain about “warbler neck,” the pain that comes from looking high into the trees. Nobody complains about thrush neck.
Robins and bluebirds are thrushes. They’re easy to tell apart. The rest? Not so much. All the medium-sized thrushes are various shades of brown, with whitish, spotted breasts. So when walking in the woods, identification becomes easier if you start with a default bird: everything is a hermit thrush, unless it isn’t.
The hermit thrush is the most common and widespread thrush in Maine. It is comfortable in the understory of both hardwood and softwood trees. It forages through the leaf litter on the ground. When surprised, it may fly to a nearby branch where it can look you over and assess the threat, perhaps raising its tail or wiggling its wings. In other words, it’s easy. Its reddish tail contrasts with its brown body, confirming the identification at a glance. The whitish breast is lightly spotted.
Hermit thrushes don’t go far in winter. Most stay in the states. Some are even found on Christmas bird counts in Maine. They are the earliest of the brown thrushes to return, and start singing in late April.
Like their cousins, the song is an ethereal, flute-like melody, rising and falling. "
by Bob Duchesne (serves as vice president of Maine Audubon’s Penobscot Valley)
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Hopefully my identification is correct and this little inquisitive looking bird is a Bush Tit. There seemed to be a great number of them flitting around the higher reaches of a couple of fir trees in a garden in Mount Vernon. Alas they were very high up so the clarity isn't what I would have hoped for.
If I have miss-identified this bird please let me know.
Identification help, please. I recall the delicate pine siskin look in flight from living in Alaska, but I'm not so certain about the bird above--these don't seem to have breeding hues.
Crop only.
Thanks for your help!
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Aquila rapax
Identification rectified wth the courtesy of Johan van Rensburg: Thank you very much Johan, Highly appreciated! I apologise for previous incorrect id
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Beneath the cap of many mushrooms are the gills. This is the place where the spores are produced. Beyond their role in reproduction and identification, gills may be the most beautiful part of a mushroom. Some gills may run down the length of the stem, while others might not even touch it. If you follow the gill edge to the stem in this Cortinarius rotundisporus specimen you can see that the gills are smoothly notched before running briefly down the stem. This type of gill attachment is called 'sinuate'. Focus stacked image shot with flash and macro diffuser.
Relabelled as a common red soldier beetle in deference to advice from Ger Bosma. The character of the antennae swung the identification.
When I looked out the kitchen window and saw this hawk I thought it was one of the red-tails that periodically show up to hunt for varmints and I went outside to snap a couple of pics. However, when I looked at them on the computer I astutely noted this hawk didn’t have a red tail so perhaps it was not a Red-tailed Hawk.
Best I can figure out is this is a Broad-winged Hawk, but if any of you birders out there can confirm that identification, or put me on the right track, I would appreciate it.
Update: It seems that the consensus of a few commenters is that this is a juvenile Coopers hawk, so I’m going with that ID given that I am not a birder.
Williamson County, Tennessee, USA. December 06, 2020
Came across this little fellow while we both waited for the Coastal Fog to burn-off in Huntington Beach, California.
Need Help with Identification ;-)
Quite an interesting pose to take nectar.
If my guess about the identification is correct, it is a characteristic Acraea species having smoky brown forewings with diffused black spots at the end of the forewing cell, which are not well shown here.
Any suggestion about the ID is much appreciated.
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Identification subject to my confusion as I trolled through my dragonfly book. Similar to Blue Skimmer, but I thought this was a much smaller dragonfly. Another long lens macro.
We saw quite a few of these on Ogmore Beach, South Wales. From 2 to 4 inches in size.
Standhisround has suggested Moon Jelly remains