Silver Bush Lupine (Lupinus albifrons) signals pollinators with a color shift: the white banner spot turns purple as the flower ages—faster after pollination—guiding insects to fresher blooms while still drawing them in from afar.
Rosie's Pan, Balule Nature Reserve, South Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItdXaWUVF48
Gus & Ollie have been working hard on fighting off the intruders invading all the buildings. Then I accidentally screwed up a big case!
https://www.catdetectivecases.com/year8-casefile46/
#cats #writers #wildlife
Emaciated Cat Kept Purring For More Cuddles | The Dodo https://www.moepets.com/992367/ #AnimalRescue #AnimalVideo #animals #AnimalsTheDodo #cat #CuteAnimals #dodo #neko #PetVideos #PETS #RescuingAnimals #TheDodo #TheDodoAnimals #wildlife #WildlifeVideos #ボンベイ
Illegal #wildlife #crime is rampant in #Indonesia, from #birds to #orangutans, to coral. Trafficking online is worth $852.6mil USD per year. Indonesia is falling short on its response. Story via @360info_global #Boycott4Wildlife #extinction @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-78G
Still working hard on perfecting my bird butt photography skills.
Also the perfect photo to say goodbye to the week.
Here is a Yellow Bellied Slider (Turtle) that lives in a large pond/small lake at my local nature reserve.
One more photo of Lopa in the garden. https://www.permuted.org.uk/photography/fox-of-the-day/ #fox #nature #wildlife #photography
Balbuzard pêcheur
Lanaudière, Qc
#oiseaux #oiseauxduquebec #rapace #aigle #nature #naturesauvage #wildlife
Ein Kiebitz mobbt eine Rohrweihe. Irgendwie war er nicht so begeistert wie ich eine Rohrweihe aus der Nähe zu sehen
Das Kiebitzmännchen hat die Aufgabe Krähen, Raubvögel, Kühe, Menschen, ... vom Nest und dem Weibchen fern zu halten, welches in einer flachen Mulde im Boden brütet.
Die Männchen sind da sehr gewissenhaft und lautstark.
Letztes Jahr bin ich versehentlich einem Nest zu Nahe gekommen, da ist dann das Männchen Kreise um mich geflogen und hat mich geschimpft. Ich habs zuerst echt nicht verstanden und hatte mich noch gefreut, dass es ein tolles, relativ nahes Fotomotiv ist. Erst als er gelandet ist und mir den "Vogel mit kaputtem Flügel" vorgespielt hat, hab ich es verstanden. Ich hab mich dann von ihm vom Nest "weglocken" lassen und bin dann einen anderen Weg zurückgegangen
A lapwing mobs a marsh harrier. Somehow, he wasn't as excited as I was to see a marsh harrier up close.
The male lapwing's job is to keep crows, birds of prey, cows, humans, etc. away from the nest and the female, which breeds in a shallow scrape in the ground.
The males are very conscientious and vocal.
Last year, I accidentally got too close to a nest, and the male flew circles around me and scolded me. At first, I really didn't get it and was happy that it was a great, relatively close photo subject. Only when he landed and gave me the "bird with a broken wing" display did I understand. I let him "lure" me away from the nest and then took a different route back.
Bighorn sheep at the National Elk Refuge, Wyoming. November, 2023.
Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR
420 mm – 1/500″ – f/8 – ISO 400
#BighornSheep #Photography #Wildlife
Grizzly, Grand Teton National Park. May, 2020.
https://www.allencompassingtrip.com/3488/grizzly
Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR
400 mm – 1/400″ – f/8 – ISO 12800
Shout out to the #Mollusk community's representation of Centaurus: Tylomelania centaurus!
For more Centaurus in "pop culture" check out: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-pop-culture-superstar/
:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylomelania_centaurus#/media/File:Tylomelania_centaurus_shell.png
Maltese Falcon Poachers: European hunters endanger Egypt’s birds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/maltese-falcon-poachers-european-hunters-endanger-egypts-birds/