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• タイリクイトカケマイマイ / TAIRIKU-ITOKAKE-MAIMAI (japanese name)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
(unranked):clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:Plectopyloidea
Family:Plectopylidae
Genus:Gudeodiscus
Species:G. pulvinaris
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Australian golden whistler
One of the bushes beautiful songbirds.
Scientific name: Pachycephala pectoralis
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Meanwhile the six (or, by some counts, seven) subspecies are known by a plethora of names throughout their range, which spans 22 countries from southern Alaska to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. ‘Puma’ is generally used to refer to Latin American cats, while ‘cougar’ is a North American term, but the distinction is unclear. So you might find yourself talking about mountain lions, cougars, pumas, Florida panthers, catamounts or even léons – but remember: they’re all the same cool cat.
The scientific name Puma concolor is also a little confusing as it isn’t quite accurate. Concolor means ‘of one colour’, but that’s not strictly true: young mountain lions are spotted, and adults are a mix of shades, with the overall hue ranging from grey to rust.
Anchusa officinalis, commonly known as the common bugloss or alkanet, is a plant species in the genus Anchusa. The plant provides a great deal of nectar for pollinators. Wikipedia
Higher classification: Anchusa
Scientific name: Anchusa officinalis
Family: Boraginaceae
Captured in Copenhagen
Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Suborder: Brachycera
Infraorder: Asilomorpha
Superfamily: Asiloidea
Family: Asilidae
Genus:Pogonosoma
Sparrowbush, NY. Minolta SRT-201 (wide angle rokkor lens w/ yellow filter). Kodak Tri-X 400 (expired). Xtol (1:1).
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Silvereye
Scientific Name: Zosterops lateralis
Description: The Silvereye is a small bird with a conspicuous ring of white feathers around the eye, and belongs to a group of birds known as white-eyes. The Silvereye shows interesting plumage variations across its range. The grey back and olive-green head and wings are found in birds through the east, while western birds have a uniformly olive-green back. Breeding birds of the east coast have yellow throats, pale buff flanks (side of the belly) and white on the undertail. Tasmanian birds have grey throats, chestnut flanks and yellow on the undertail. To complicate this, the birds in the east have regular migrations within Australia and may replace each other in their different areas for parts of the year. Birds in Western Australia have yellowish olive, rather than grey, backs.
Similar species: There is only one similar species found on Australia's mainland. The Yellow White-eye, Z. luteus, lives in Australia's north and north-west. It is more brightly coloured above, is lemon yellow below and has a smaller white eye-ring. The ranges of the two species do overlap slightly.
Distribution: Silvereyes are more common in the south-east of Australia, but their range extends from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, through the south and south-west to about Shark Bay, Western Australia. They are also found in Tasmania.
Habitat: Silvereyes may occur in almost any wooded habitat, especially commercial orchards and urban parks and gardens.
Seasonal movements: In the south of their range, Silvereyes move north each autumn, and move back south in late winter to breed. Although one of Australia's smallest birds, the Silvereye is capable of travelling great distances during migration, with Silvereyes from the most southerly regions of Tasmania travelling all the way up to Southern Queensland.
Feeding: Silvereyes feed on insect prey and large amounts of fruit and nectar, making them occasional pests of commercial orchards. Birds are seen alone, in pairs or small flocks during the breeding season, but form large flocks in the winter months.
Breeding: Silvereye pairs actively defend a small territory. The nest is a small, neatly woven cup of grasses, hair, and other fine vegetation, bound with spider web. It is placed in a horizontal tree fork up to 5m above the ground. The nest is constructed by both sexes, who both also incubate the bluish-green eggs. If conditions are suitable two to three clutches will be raised in a season.
Calls: The contact call, a thin "psip", is given persistently.
Minimum Size: 10cm
Maximum Size: 12cm
Average size: 11cm
Average weight: 11g
Breeding season: August to February; later in the north
Clutch Size: 2 to 3, rarely 4
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Odonata
Family:Aeshnidae
Genus:Anax
Species:A. imperator
Binomial name
Anax imperator
Synonyms . . Blue Emperor
Identification
When they first emerge, both sexes appear pale green with brown markings. The legs are brown with a yellow like base. Wings are born black but grow yellow-brown with age. Males have a sky blue abdomen marked with a diagnostic black dorsal stripe and an apple green thorax. The thorax and head of a male is green and their prominent eyes are blue. Females have similar markings but they are mainly green
Identification
Length: 7.8cm
Wingspan: 10.6cm
Males have a light, sky blue abdomen with a black line running down the centre of the dorsal side and greenish-blue eyes. Females have a yellow abdomen with similar markings and browner eyes. Black stripe on abdomen. Costa is bright yellow and pterostigma is brown on both. Both have an apple-green thorax.
Females resemble males but have a green rather than blue abdomen.
Adult habitat & habits
Very active dragonflies, they catch and eat their prey whilst in the air. Actively hunts over medium to large bodies of water and rarely settles.
Habitat
Found in areas with high volumes of pondweed, and other aquatic plants. Rarely seen far from aquatic habitats. Found in slow-moving/still water bodies e.g. lakes, ponds, canals, rivers, ditches etc.
Flight period
May to September (occasionally April, October and/or November)
They frequently fly high up into the sky in search of prey, which includes butterflies, other Odonata and tadpoles; small prey is eaten while flying. They breed in a variety of aquatic habitats from large ponds to dikes, but they require a plentiful supply of vegetation in the water. The females lay the eggs into plants such as pondweed, and always lay alone. The larvae are very aggressive and are likely to influence the native species composition of colonized freshwater ecosystems. The adult male is highly territorial, and difficult to approach. In the summer months emperor dragonflies are frequent visitors to gardens,
Scientific name: Columbina passerina
Trinomial name: Columbina passerina insularis
Ssp name: C. p. insularis
Common name: Common ground-dove
Nombre: Rolita, Tortolita azul, Columbita común, Cococha.
Family: Columbidae
Lugar de la captura: Republica Dominicana
What looks like a teleporter from science fiction being draped over NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, is actually a "clean tent." The clean tent protects Webb from dust and dirt when engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland transport the next generation space telescope out of the relatively dust-free cleanroom and into the shirtsleeve environment of the vibration and acoustics testing areas. In two years, a rocket will be the transporter that carries the Webb into space so it can orbit one million miles from Earth and peer back over 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe.
For more information about the Webb telescope, visit: www.jwst.nasa.gov or www.nasa.gov/webb.
Photo Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Gunn
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Female Red Bellied Woodpecker. Scientific name: Melanerpes carolinus
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The red-bellied woodpecker is a medium-sized woodpecker. It breeds mainly in the eastern United States, ranging as far south as Florida and as far north as Canada. Wikipedia
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Not truly migratory, it winters throughout its range. Some wander north in fall and remain through winter. Performs local movements, concentrating in areas of good food supply outside the breeding season.
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Splendid Fairy-wren
Scientific Name: Malurus splendens
Description: The breeding plumage of the male is predominantly blue, varying from cobalt-blue in the east of its range to violet-blue in the west.It has black bands at the base of the tail (absent in the violet-blue birds), across the breast and from the beak, through the eyes to join a band across the back of its neck. Its crown and cheek patches are paler blue. Wings and long tail are brown with a blue wash. His beak is black and his legs and feet are brown-grey. In non-breeding plumage, called eclipse, he is very similar to the female, being pale brown above and buff to white underneath although he retains the blue wash on wings and tail. The female does not have the blue wash on her wings, but does have a reddish-tan line from beak to eye that extends into a ring around her eye. Her beak is reddish-tan.
Similar species: The male in breeding plumage is quite distinct but in eclipse he is similar to the males of other fairy-wrens in eclipse. A faint wash of blue on male wings during eclipse distinguishes this species from others. The female is similar to females of other fairy-wren species, but has a bluer tail than most.
Distribution: These birds are widely distributed across Australia in two areas. One area is from about Shark Bay south through WA, through SA except the coast to about the Flinders Ranges and the southern and central parts of NT. The eastern area include SA from the Flinders Ranges, the far north-western tip of Vic, NSW east to about Moree and Balranald and south central Qld.
Habitat: These birds live in arid to semi-arid areas, in mostly dense shrublands or woodlands of acacia, and mallee eucalypt with dense shrubs.
Seasonal movements: These birds are mostly sedentary, defending a territory all year, but the younger females may disperse to another territory. In some areas they are semi-nomadic, depending on local conditions.
Feeding: Like most of the fairy-wrens, Splendid Fairy-wrens eat mostly insects and forage on both the ground and in shrubs. They live in groups which forage together.
Breeding: The Splendid Fairy-wren female builds an oval domed nest of dry grass, strips of bark and rootlets, with an entrance two thirds of the way up one side. The female is the only member of the group to incubate the eggs, but all members of the group feed the chicks.
Calls: A rapid series of slightly metallic, high-pitched pips that blend into an "undulating" call.
Minimum Size: 12cm
Maximum Size: 14cm
Average size: 13cm
Average weight: 9g
Breeding season: mostly September-December, but can extend from August to April
Clutch Size: 2 to 4, mostly 3
Incubation: 15 days
Nestling Period: 11 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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NOMBRE CIENTÍFICO / SCIENTIFIC NAME: Brotogeris Jugularis
NOMBRE COMÚN: Periquito Bronceado
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pycnodontiformes
Family: Pycnodontidae
Genus: Proscinetes
6653 MuzPriRij Proscinetes sp., fosilna riba iz porodice PYCNODONTIDAE Starost: gornja kreda (gornji cenoman, prije približno 95 mil. g.)
Finding (Nalazište): Rojnići, Istra. Croatia
Inv. br.: G05-194 Hrvatska Museum Croatia Rijeka Natural History Prirodoslovni muzej Rijeka
Jupiter showing its Great Red Spot rotating out of view to the right. The moons Callisto, Europa and Io are on the upper left and the moon Ganymede is on the lower right. Taken with a ZWO 1120MC planetary camera through an Explore Scientific 102ED refracting telescope using a 2x barlow lens.
A view of the Yaletown, Vancouver skyline -- at the left -- and the "Telus Sphere" or "Science World" sphere -- toward the right -- from Granville Island.
Scientific name: Pionites leucogaster
Location: Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso State, Brazil
Name: Brown wood owl
Scientific: Strix leptogrammica
Malay: Burung Hantu Punggur / Burung Hantu Rimba / Hantu Punggor
Family: Strigidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
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Scientific name - Anemone hepatica, hepatica nobilis
EN - Liverwort, kidney wort, common hepatica
FI - Sinivuokko
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Dorsal Elbow Crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacea
Class:Malacostraca
Order:Decapoda
Infraorder:Brachyura
Section:Eubrachyura
Subsection:Heterotremata
Superfamily:Parthenopoidea
Family:Parthenopidae
Genus:Cryptopodia
Species:C. dorsalis
Bohol, Philippines
Male specimens
Female specimens: flic.kr/p/WF12Ps
Along the Monsal Trail, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. (1.5x Zoom) Yes, the zoom is impressive and so are the views :)
image: 6258 x 6144
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Scientific :Oenanthe oenanthe leucorhoa
This is a new bird for me- and i am full of excitement. The female one to follow :)
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SCIENTIFIC NAME
Malurus splendens
CONSERVATION STATUS
Not Evaluated
BODY LENGTH
11.5–13.5 cm
CLASS
Bird
INCUBATION
13–16 days
NUMBER OF EGGS
2–4
DISTRIBUTION
South-western, central and inland eastern Australia
HABITAT
Heathy woodland, mulga and mallee forests
REGION
Australia
Name: White-necked babbler
Scientific: Stachyris leucotis
Malay: Kekicau Leher Putih / Rimba Rembang
Family: Timaliidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Near Threatened
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Scientific name: Pycnonotus leucotis
Status: Imported and can breed locally
Type: Bulbul
Color: Grey,White
Habitat: Cities,Fields
1- Scientific name = Leucaena leucocephala
2- English name = White leadtree
3- Family = Fabaceae
4- Arabic name = ليوسينا
The first two photos are from two successive days and slightly different distances, and the last photo is a bit of fungi at the end of the same log. If anyone ever wants to comment and id my fungi, please do. I love them but have no idea about the correct names. We just call this 'the orange stuff'. 12/28/2017-Edit: After a little research, I think 'Dacrymyces ovisporus' is the scientific name of 'the orange stuff'.
Scientific name: Adelpha fessonia
Wetenschappelijk: Adelpha fessonia
Band-celled Sister
Adelpha fessonia (Hewitson, 1847)
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Limenitidinae
Identification: Upperside is dark brown with an orange forewing apex. White median band across both wings reaches the forewing leading edge.
Wing Span: 2 3/16 - 2 3/4 inches (5.6 - 7 cm).
Life History: Males perch in light gaps, along forest edges, or in the canopy. Females lay eggs singly on leaves of host plants in light gaps and forest edges.
Flight: March-April and July-December in Texas, March-November in Mexico and Central America, perhaps all year in Costa Rica.
Caterpillar Hosts: Hackberry Celtis lindheimeri in Texas.
Adult Food: Nectar from flowers such as Cordia, Croton, and Baccharis; decaying fruit.
Habitat: Forest edges and trails near streams.
Range: Panama north through Central America to Mexico. A periodic resident in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
Scientific name: Libellula pulchella
Length: 52 – 57 mm
Description: male and female with three black spots on each wing, white patches between these spots in mature male, male with light grey abdomen as it matures, continuous pale stripes along sides of brownish abdomen in female
Gananoque, Conservation Area
'Axis deer' 'Cheetal' 'Spotted deer'
'Ciervo axis' 'Chital' 'Ciervo moteado'
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:Cervidae
Subfamily:Cervinae
Genus:Axis
Species:A. axis
Parque Lecocq, Montevideo, Uruguay
Taxon Group: Lagomorpha
Common Name:
Brown hare
Scientific Name:
Lepus europaeus
Description:
Very long black-tipped ears; large, long, powerful hind legs. Much redder than the mountain hare, and with a black-topped tail. Yellow flecking to the fur, more so than grey-brown rabbits. Larger than rabbits.
Size:
52-59cm; tail: 8-12cm
Weight:
Average 3-4kg
Diet:
Tender grass shoots, including cereal crops, are their main foods.
Lifespan:
Adult hares normally live to 3 or 4 years but very rarely can they live much longer.
Origin & Distribution:
Brown hares were introduced in Iron Age times, from the other side of the North Sea. They are widespread on low ground throughout England, Wales and Scotland. Although they have been more recently introduced to Northern Ireland, they have not spread far. They have also been introduced to the Isle of Man and Mainland Orkney. In Scotland brown hares are found on farmland and rough grazing to the far north of the mainland, but are absent from parts of the North West. Brown hares are replaced by mountain hares in upland areas of Scotland and central England.
Habitat:
Grassland, Arable land
Behaviour:
Brown hares live in very exposed habitats, and they rely on acute senses and running at speeds of up to 70kph (45mph) to evade predators. Hares do not use burrows, but make a small depression in the ground among long grass - this is known as a form. They spend most of the day on or near the form, moving out to feed in the open at night. Though generally solitary, hares sometimes band into loose groups when feeding.
Breeding:
Breeding takes place between February and September and a female can rear three or four litters a year, each of two to four young. The young, known as leverets, are born fully furred with their eyes open and are left by the female in forms a few metres from their birth place. Once a day for the first four weeks of their lives, the leverets gather at sunset to be fed by the female, but otherwise they receive no parental care. This avoids attracting predators to the young at a stage when they are most vulnerable. Foxes are important predators of young hares and where foxes are common there are likely to be few hares.
Conservation Status:
Brown hares have little legal protection, as they are game animals managed by farmers and landowners. Numbers declined substantially since the beginning of this century, though they are still common animals in many parts of the country. Today's modern farms are intensive and specialised, either growing crops like wheat and oilseed rape, or raising livestock for meat and dairy produce. A hundred years ago most farms were mixed enterprises, with a patchwork quilt of fields which provide year-round grazing for hares as well as long crops for them to hide in. Modern cereal farms provide little or no food for hares in late summer and autumn, and livestock farms have few crops for them the hide in. Modern farm machinery and pesticides also kill many hares.
Another reason is that there now appears to be many more foxes in the countryside than there were a hundred years ago. Hare shooting still occurs in areas where hares are common and where farms want to reduce crop damage. Hare hunting with beagles and harriers used to occur throughout Britain, and hare coursing events were run by several coursing clubs, but these are now illegal (since Hunting Act 2002) in the UK; hare coursing, though controlled, is still legal in Ireland. Hares are very often poached, particularly with lurchers cross-bred from collies and greyhounds.
Scientific name: Malurus lamberti
Family: Maluridae
Order: Passeriformes
The breeding male Variegated Fairy-wren is brightly coloured. The crown and sides of the head are blue, and the shoulder patch is a rich chestnut. The depth and variety of colours in the male varies among the four subspecies, distributed across the Australian mainland. Non-breeding males, females and young birds are brownish grey. Females in the Northern Territory and Western Australian populations have a blue-grey (rather than brown-grey) plumage.
Several other species of fairy-wren are found in Australia. The males of each species are quite distinct, but the females and young birds are often difficult to separate. The female Variegated Fairy-wren has a dull grey-blue wash, while female and immature Superb Fairy-wrens, Malurus cyaneus, are mostly brown, with adult females having a pale greenish gloss on the otherwise brown tail. The Variegated Fairy-wren is slightly larger in size and has a longer tail either the Superb or the White-winged Fairy-wrens.
The Variegated Fairy-wren is the most widespread of the nine species of fairy-wrens found in Australia. It is found throughout Australia, being absent only from Cape York Peninsula, Tasmania and the extreme south-west corner of Western Australia.
The Variegated Fairy-wren is found in forest, woodland and shrub land habitats.
The Variegated Fairy-wren feeds on insects and a small amount of seeds. The birds feed around the base of small shrubs, and seldom stray into the open. Some food may be found among the bark and foliage of short trees and grasses.
The male Variegated Fairy-wren is often mistakenly believed to have a harem of females. The small groups actually consist of an adult female with younger or non-breeding birds. As they have a wide range, Variegated Fairy-wrens have been recorded breeding in almost every month of the year. The nest is an oval-shaped dome, constructed of grasses, and placed in a low shrub. The female alone constructs the nest and incubates the eggs, but is assisted by other group members in feeding the chicks.
Healesville Sanctuary, Healesville, Victoria, Australia
Scientific name: Pyronia tithonus
Orange and brown, with black eyespot on forewing tip. Eyespots have two white pupils, not one, as in the Meadow Brown.
As its English names suggest, the Gatekeeper (also known as the Hedge Brown) is often encountered where clumps of flowers grow in gateways and along hedgerows and field edges. It is often seen together with the Meadow Brown and Ringlet, from which it is easily distinguished when basking or nectaring with open wings.
The colour and patterning of the wings are very variable and about a dozen aberrations have been named. Favourite nectar sources include Wild Marjoram, Common Fleabane, ragwort’s, and Bramble.
It is widespread in southern Britain and its range has extended northwards in recent years. Its range is far more localized in southern Ireland.
Seen at Monkton nature reserve.
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Name: Blue-headed pitta (male)
Scientific: Hydrornis baudii
Malay: Pacat kepala biru
Family: Pittidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2017): Vulnerable
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Scientific name: Aythya ferina
Bird family: Ducks, geese and swans
UK conservation status: Red
In winter and spring, male pochards are very distinctive. They have a bright reddish-brown head, a black breast and tail and a pale grey body. Females are more easily confused with other species; they are brown with a greyish body and pale cheeks. However, during the 'eclipse' - when ducks grow new feathers - the males look very similar to the females. They become more camouflaged so that they don't draw the attention of predators.
What they eat: Plants and seeds, snails, small fish and insects.
Measurements:
Length: 46cm
Wingspan: 77cm
Weight: 930g
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