Tag Archives: Wildlife

Endangered Species Day: Protecting Biodiversity

▲ ▲ ▲ Endangered Species Day: Friday, May 17, 2013 Celebrate Endangered Species Day! Endangered Species Day is an opportunity for people young and old to learn about the importance of protecting endangered species and everyday actions that people can … Continue reading

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Earth Hour Is March 23: Switch Off Your Lights

▲ ▲ ▲ Indonesian actress Pevita Pearce will sleep without air conditioning for one month AND plant 100 trees IF 10,000 of her Instagram and Twitter followers share their action for the planet using the hash-tag #dukungAKSIpevita ! ‘Ini Aksiku! … Continue reading

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Hummingbirds Begin Spring Migration!

▲ ▲ ▲ Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) Hummingbirds Begin North America Spring Migration! Those miniature marvels of nature, the hummingbirds, have already begun landing on the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida! The hummers have wintered in Central American and … Continue reading

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Last of the Curlews: A Lost Bird’s Life

▲ ▲ ▲ Eskimo Curlew, Courlis esquimau (Numenius borealis) March, 1962 on Galveston Island, Texas Photo by: Don Bleitz, Copyright held by Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, CA The Eskimo Curlew is a “modern extinction” along with the Passenger Pigeon, … Continue reading

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Dogs Help Endangered Species: Animals Assist Animals

▲ ▲ ▲ Frehley the Border Collie is on a mission and living, yep, a dog’s life. He was on death row in an animal shelter, but biologists rescued Frehley to work in the forests of the Jemez Mountains. Frehley, … Continue reading

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World Animal Day!

▲ ▲ ▲ World Animal Day; October 4, 2012 World Animal Day was started in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence as a way of highlighting the plight of endangered species. October 4 was chosen as World Animal … Continue reading

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Tracking Giant Anacondas in Brazil!

▲ ▲ ▲ Common or Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) No matter that Titanoboa the Great (Titanoboa cerrejonensis) is the biggest, baddest, greatest snake that ever lived. Titanoboa is extinct. The anaconda is alive and well in South America, even though … Continue reading

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Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma: The Grey Snow Eagle House

▲ ▲ ▲ Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) The eagles are “non-releasable” and/or in rehabilitation due to injuries to be released at a later date. Feathers dropped by the eagles are kept by the tribe for distribution to Iowa Tribe members … Continue reading

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Giant Killer Bees Nest Destroyed in Texas

▲ ▲ ▲ Africanized honey bees, known colloquially as “killer bees,” are some hybrid varieties of the Western honey bee species, (Apis mellifera), produced originally by cross-breeding of the African honey bee (A. m. scutellata), with various European honey bees … Continue reading

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Maui’s Dolphin: Incredibly rare, sighted near New Zealand coast!

▲ ▲ ▲ Maui’s Dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui) Maui’s dolphin or popoto is the world’s rarest and smallest known subspecies of dolphin. They are a sub-species of the Hector’s dolphin. Maui’s dolphins are only found off the west coast of … Continue reading

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New Bird Species Discovered in Colombia: Antioquia Wren

▲ ▲ ▲ Antioquia Wren (Thryophilus sernai) Photo by: Carlos Esteban Lara Antioquia Wren (Thryophilus sernai) This is the first video of Thryophilus sernai taken by Juan D. Ramirez. More information about this species is available in The Auk: Lara … Continue reading

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