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Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)
Adult Female
Family: Wood-Warblers
Three Pools (NO LONGER ACCESSIBLE)
Baltimore, MD
2014/05/11
This Common Opossum, Didelphis marsupialis, was photographed in Panama, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
The Common Loon is a specialist fish-eater, catching its prey underwater, diving as deep as 60 m (200 ft).[8] Freshwater diets consist of pike, perch, sunfish, trout, and bass; salt-water diets consist of rock fish, flounder, sea trout, and herring.
This Common Opossum, Didelphis marsupialis, was photographed in Panama, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
The Common Mormon (Papilio polytes) name is an allusion to the polygamy formerly practiced by members of the Mormon sect. According to Harish Gaonkar, of the Natural History Museum in London:
... the origins of giving common English names to organisms, particularly butterflies for tropical species started in India around the mid 19th century ... The naming of Mormons evolved slowly. I think the first to get such a name was the Common Mormon (Papilio polytes), because it had three different females, a fact that could only have been observed in the field, and this they did in India. The name obviously reflected the ... Mormon sect in America, which as we know, practiced polygamy.
The scientific name is constructed from the Latin word for butterfly, papilio, and the Greek word for many, poly.
Common eider drake, or male duck, sitting on the waterbed of Yukon Delta NWR
Photo credit: Yukon Delta NWR
© Jim Gilbert 2006 all rights reserved.
These are common indeed and I see many of them every day, but they are a royal pain to photograph. I rarely can get anywhere near close to one sitting still and when I do it's a tattered sort like this. Maybe they give up more easily. Of course as soon as I moved a few inches forward from my heavily leaf-camoflaged position it flew.
Lord Stirling EEC, Basking Ridge, NJ
Common Raven Playing © Steve Frye. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on July 11, 2020.
Common Merganser, St. Paul Island, AK. 05/22/13.
Difficult or impossible to tell if this is the old world Goosander, or the North American subspecies.
Common redshank - taken at Gibraltar Point nature reserve, Skegness, Lincolnshire on 9th September 2015
Common milkweed is blooming at Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa!
Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.
This image sums up the difficult time it's been for butterflies recently because of the rain we've had. This common blue was soaking wet today at Gaddon loch.
A lovely male Common Darter dragonfly obligingly sat on the rail of a wooden bridge at Woods Mill, so I was able to take a photo of him. I had to be patient because he flew up several times and turned to look - accusingly, I swear - at me. Eventually he must have decided I was harmless because he settled down again. I'd love to have taken a photo from the front, but he was on a bridge, so I'd have got a bit wet! :))
Common Pochard, Male (Aythya ferina)
Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae
A medium-sized migratory diving duck. Large numbers overwinter in Great Britain, after the birds retreat from Russia and Scandinavia. They're quite rare breeding birds in UK.
The adult male has a long dark bill with a grey band, a red head and neck, a black breast, red eyes and a grey back.
with Sigma 150-600mm F/5-6.3 DG HSM Contemporary Zoom Lens
Photographed at Eno River State Park, Durham Co., NC. A lucky shot, as the butterfly flicked its wings open for a second or two as it puddled.
Paid a visit to one of the local daytime gull roosts once again yesterday morning in the hopes that the recent stormy weather might have bought in some more unusual species for MK. I only managed to identify the usual types in the end but it was still a great morning for being there.
Most of them stayed on the field nearby resting but every now and then a lot of them would take to the skies, either fighting over food or heading to the nearby landfill, which was when I got this Common Gull flying past. I’ve got loads of shots of these in flight but this is the best I’ve managed of this species to date.
Blåkoll / Common self-heal – Prunella vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris (known as common self-heal or heal-all) is an herbaceous plant in the genus Prunella.
Self-heal is edible: the young leaves and stems can be eaten raw in salads; the whole plant can be boiled and eaten as a potherb; and the aerial parts of the plant can be powdered and brewed in a cold infusion to make a tasty beverage.
Medicinally, the whole plant is poulticed onto wounds to promote healing. A mouthwash made from an infusion of the whole plant can be used to treat sore throats, thrush and gum infections. Internally, a tea can be used to treat diarrhea and internal bleeding. (Source: Wikipedia)
Blåkoll (latin: Prunella vulgaris) er en flerårig plante av blåkollslekten (prunella) i Leppeblomstfamilien (Lamiaceae). Den vokser på eng, i solrike skogbryn, beitemark og i gressplener i bebygde strøk, og er teppedannende.
Blåkoll er 5-20 cm høy, og stilken er firkantet og tynt hårete, og kryper bortover. Den opprette delen har doble eggformede eller bredt lanseformede blader, som kan spises rå i salat.
Blomstene på 12-16 mm er blå eller blå-lilla, og står i en liten opprett klase som har gradvis mindre og litt mer rødaktige blomster oppover. Dekkbladene under kronbladene er mørkt rødlilla eller brunlilla. De utviklede kronbladene framstår likevel som utpreget og relativt utvetydig dypt blå eller blålilla.
Blåkoll vokser over hele den nordlige halvkule i tempererte strøk, og er dessuten innført til Australia og Kina. I Norge vokser den nord til Troms, og går relativt høyt oppover i fjellet. (Kilde: Wikipedia)
© Aslak Tronrud 2013
Common Tan Wave (Pleuroprucha insulsaria). Hetch Hetchy Valley. Yosemite National Park. Tuolumne Co., Calif.
An unexpected treat to find at Fort Desoto in Pinellas County, Florida. Notice the black carpal bars that distinguish them from Forester's Terns. Photo by Connor Langan. The checklist on eBirds can be reviewed here: ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S22410099