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Hanging out by the feeder. They're definitely plentiful around Fairbanks in the winter. This year I've seen a lot more redpolls than chickadees and pine grosbeaks. Usually the chickadees dominate around home.

Common Blue by Adam Walters

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Its my first sighting of one so im pleased to get a shot :).

I wont be on for a little while as im starting back in work, but ill try and keep up with your photostreams.

common grass yellow by praveen pandian

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common grass yellow

Common Plume moth indoors. by David Pashley

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Common Myna Bird by Per@vicbcca

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This Common Myna bird stole a piece of my breakfast sweet bread and came back for more....

Common moorhen - 0990 by Miguel Angel Larrea

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Butterfly in "Jardin des Papillons" 1 by Martien Uiterweerd

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The Common Lime Butterfly or Lemon Butterfly (Papilio demoleus) is a common and widespread Swallowtail butterfly. It gets its name from its host plants which are usually citrus species such as the cultivated lime. Unlike most swallowtail butterflies it does not have a prominent tail.

The Common Lime Butterfly is found in Southeast Asia, across most of the Oriental region from India and Sri Lanka to Vietnam and the Philippines. It's range continues south through peninsular Malaysia to Indonesia and Australia. The species has also been introduced to Central America and the Caribbean, where it is a pest of Citrus. The widespread range of the Common Lime Butterfly indicates the butterfly's tolerance and adaptation to diverse habitats. It is to be found in savannahs, fallow lands, gardens, evergreen and semi-evergreen forests and shows a preference for stream and riverbeds.

The butterfly is tailless and has a wingspan 80–100 mm. Above, the background colour is black.

A broad, irregular yellow band is found on the wings above, which is broken in the case of the forewing. Besides this the butterfly has a large number of irregular spots on the wing. The upper hindwing has a red tornal spot with blue edging around it.

The butterfly bears a remarkable resemblance (a morphologically similar species) to the African Citrus Swallowtail (Papilio demodocus), but the two species are not as closely related as their appearance would seem to indicate.

This picture is taken in the indoor butterfly garden "Jardins des Papillons” in Hunawihr, Alsace, France.

De limoen- of citroenvlinder (Papilio demoleus) is een dagvlinder uit de familie Papilionidae, de grote pages. De vlinder komt algemeen voor in het Oriëntaals en Australaziatisch gebied van India en Sri Lanka tot Vietnam en de Filippijnen, en via het schiereiland van Maleisië tot in Indonesië en noord Australië. De soort is ingevoerd in Midden-Amerika en het Caribisch gebied waar de rupsen op de plantages voor een ware plaag kunnen zorgen.

De meeste pages hebben een staart, maar deze is staartloos en heeft een spanwijdte 80-100 mm.

De vlinder heeft een opmerkelijke gelijkenis met de Afrikaanse citrusmisvlinder (Papilio demodocus), echter de twee soorten zijn minder verwant an elkaar als hun uiterlijk doet vermoeden.

De foto is genomen in de overdekte vlindertuin "Jardins des Papillons” in Hunawihr, Elzas, Frankrijk.

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Common Kingfisher by Daniel Pettersson

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Södermanland, Sweden - January 2016

Common Blue by Barry Forbes

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Its been a good day for butterflies. This is one of several common blues i saw today at Gaddon loch.

Common Tern by Alexis LOURS

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A common tern (Sterna hirundo) flying.

Common Tern chaos by Wildlife-Landscapes-Macro to Pano

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There's never a shortage of action when the Common Terns are in town, here a juvenile gets vocal when an adult returns with a fish.

Common snipe by Thomas Landgren

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Enkelbeckasin, Common snipe, Gallinago gallinago, Getterön Naturereserve, Halland, Sweden, 2007-08-07

Common Raven - haughty by keithricflick

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Belmont neighbourhood Common Raven (Corvus corax)

"Did you bring pizza?"

From www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Raven/overview :

"The intriguing Common Raven has accompanied people around the Northern Hemisphere for centuries, following their wagons, sleds, sleighs, and hunting parties in hopes of a quick meal. Ravens are among the smartest of all birds, gaining a reputation for solving ever more complicated problems invented by ever more creative scientists. These big, sooty birds thrive among humans and in the back of beyond, stretching across the sky on easy, flowing wingbeats and filling the empty spaces with an echoing croak.

Cool Facts:
• The Common Raven is an acrobatic flier, often doing rolls and somersaults in the air. One bird was seen flying upside down for more than a half-mile. Young birds are fond of playing games with sticks, repeatedly dropping them, then diving to catch them in midair.

• Breeding pairs of Common Ravens hold territories and try to exclude all other ravens throughout the year. In winter, young ravens finding a carcass will call other ravens to the prize. They apparently do this to overwhelm the local territory owners by force of numbers to gain access to the food.

• Common Ravens are smart, which makes them dangerous predators. They sometimes work in pairs to raid seabird colonies, with one bird distracting an incubating adult and the other waiting to grab an egg or chick as soon as it’s uncovered. They’ve been seen waiting in trees as ewes give birth, then attacking the newborn lambs.

• They also use their intellect to put together cause and effect. A study in Wyoming discovered that during hunting season, the sound of a gunshot draws ravens in to investigate a presumed carcass, whereas the birds ignore sounds that are just as loud but harmless, such as an airhorn or a car door slamming.

• People the world over sense a certain kind of personality in ravens. Edgar Allan Poe clearly found them a little creepy. The captive ravens at the Tower of London are beloved and perhaps a little feared: legend has it that if they ever leave the tower, the British Empire will crumble. Native people of the Pacific Northwest regard the raven as an incurable trickster, bringing fire to people by stealing it from the sun, and stealing salmon only to drop them in rivers all over the world.

• Increasing raven populations threaten some vulnerable species including desert tortoises, Marbled Murrelets, and Least Terns. Ravens can cause trouble for people too. They’ve been implicated in causing power outages by contaminating insulators on power lines, fouling satellite dishes at the Goldstone Deep Space Site, peeling radar absorbent material off buildings at the Chinal Lake Naval Weapons center, pecking holes in airplane wings, stealing golf balls, opening campers’ tents, and raiding cars left open at parks.

• Common Ravens can mimic the calls of other bird species. When raised in captivity, they can even imitate human words; one Common Raven raised from birth was taught to mimic the word “nevermore.”

• The oldest known wild Common Raven was at least 22 years, 7 months old. It was banded and found in Nova Scotia.

Common Redpoll 8684 by Jeff Brough

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Common Redpolls stuff themselves full of birch catkins on a chilly winter afternoon.

Common Goldeneye by Stoil Ivanov

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Common Goldeneye ( Bucephala clangula ) male 12-11-2014 Montrose Harbor Lake Michigan

Common Merganser by scott wedell

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As the ice thaws, diving ducks busy themselves searching for fish before returning north.

Common Snipe by Charlie Hastings

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