John (bird whisperer)

red-lipstick: Katarzyna Bajerowicz aka Kasia/Kasi (Poland) - Illustration done for book Krabat by Otfried Preussler, 2011 - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

llewmejia: The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that inhabited the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. When foreign sailors came to the island they fed on the Dodo as well as their domestic animals that they brought with them, this is one of many reasons the bird went extinct. Dodos oddly enough are related to Pigeons... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

annaharo: Golden moment by Thuyhn on Flickr. - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

Analeptura lineola mating on Flickr. - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

I think this is Podabrus tomentosus http://flic.kr/p/ePCnT3

lyssahumana: New York 2008, Coney Island (photo by me) - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

Plagiodera versicolora, the willow leaf beetle http://flic.kr/p/ePyBXJ

So that was a torrential sun downpour.

Analeptura lineola mating http://flic.kr/p/ePndG8

Magical Forest “One day before new moon I took this picture in a calm and starry night. A passing car illuminated the forest but did not spoil the reflections on the lake surface.” — Helmut R. Kahr - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

rorschachx: Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) | image by JJ Harrison - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

Bird of the Week, June 5, 2013: Araripe Manakin The discovery of the striking red, white, and black Araripe Manakin in 1996 stunned bird enthusiasts all over the world. The bird’s habitat is humid riverbank “gallery” forest watered by streams arising from springs at the base of the Araripe Plateau. These streams continue into arid caatinga (dry... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

ecowatchorg: Climate Change Fails to Make G8 Agenda, Report Finds 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels Need to Stay in the Ground It was only two years ago that the country’s Climate Commission released its first major report, The Critical Decade. And although we are only a quarter of the way through the decade, the Commission says that its original... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

rpgmaker: thatbatterisaspy: hairandbeardkommando: punks not dead Heosemys spinosa is an endangered species. punks almost dead - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

Four-lined Plant Bug in a prickly situation http://flic.kr/p/ePq2A1

Brand-name drugs accounted for 18 percent of the total prescriptions written by doctors in 2011 but 73 percent of consumer spending, IMS reported. When a generic version of a brand-name drug comes onto the market, the F.T.C. said, it costs about 15 percent of the original, causing the brand-name drug maker to quickly lose about 90 percent of its... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

Federal regulators can sue drug companies for antitrust violations when brand-name drug makers pay generic competitors to keep cheaper, rival copies of a drug off the market, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In a decision that shifts the balance of power in the drug business, manufacturers will now have to defend the agreements against charges... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

rhamphotheca: Competitive Exclusion Principle In ecology, the competitive exclusion principle, sometimes referred to as Gause’s law of competitive exclusion or just Gause’s law, is a proposition which states that two species competing for the same resources cannot coexist if other ecological factors are constant. When one species has even the... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

lisaofthenorth: Hugging a tree - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

Vlichada beach in Santorini (by Matthias Schindler) - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

Lady’s-slipper orchids A clump of our native species, Cypripedium calceolus, featured on the Hardy Plant Society stand in the floral marquee, highly appropriate as the display was a work of the West Yorkshire group of the society, the only county where the plant still grows as a true native. Cypripediums elicit strong feelings among gardeners:... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

hellenismo: Ἕκτη Φθίνοντος/ Ἕκτη μετ’εἰκάδας, XXV day From today’s sunset: twenty-fifth day of Thargelion. Plynteria: “he (Alcibiades) had put into harbor on the very day when the Plynteria of the Goddess Athena were being celebrated. The Praxiergidae celebrate these rites on the twenty-fifth day of Thargelion in strict secrecy, removing the robes... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

Photo of the Week - Wood Duck (NJ) by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region on Flickr. Photo of the Week - 6/3/13 Wood Ducks, including this beautiful male, have been a somewhat common sighting as of late along the Songbird Trail at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. Credit Tiffany Kersten/USFWS - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

inneroptics: Sally Mann - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...

It's National Pollinator Week! http://wp.me/p35aO-2W4 via @bug_girl