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Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra): This 17cm (6.7in) American songbird was originally considered a Tanager but has since been classified as a member of the Cardinal family. Breeding is normally in open wooded habitat in the southern US. Neat photo taken by Mark Watts in Alabama, USA. #tanager #wildlife

December 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM

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Sean Marier

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🐘

SOLO
Maasai Mara National Reserve
Kenya

#photography #travel #art #interiordecor #elephants #safari #wildlife #wildlifephotography #africa

July 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM

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Ava Laugh… 🤭

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The shoebill stork looks like a dinosaur.. 🦖
Such a beautiful looking bird… 🐦

July 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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USA

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#Dogs #GoldenRetrievers #🐕

July 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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Shiola

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so much unnecessary
noise in the world;
less noise enables
us to ‘hear’ more,
to hear deeper

to listen

the spaces in between,
the universe speaking
the earth’s breathing

our own thoughts clarified,
other sounds usually rarified
to hear each other more clearly
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#vss165 #poetical #noise

July 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷

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If you gotta molt - own it!

Steller's Jay #birds #becurious

July 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Ele Willoughby

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The thoroughness of this bee was something to watch. Getting every grain of pollen possible from this cone flower.

Bumblebee (common eastern or brown belted I think) on a purple coneflower

July 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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Best Wildlife Photos

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Can we just take a moment for this little stunner?
Daniel Riddle captures this vibrant beauty with such heart and clarity, proving that even the tiniest birds can steal the whole spotlight. 💛☺️

#nature #birdlovers #wildlifephotography

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July 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM

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Mike Melton

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Male Snowcap #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social

#birds #nature #costarica

A small hummingbird perched on a branch, with deep burgundy plumage and a striking white cap on its head. The background is a smooth, vibrant green, creating a vivid contrast with the bird’s colors.

July 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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Nicole Adams 🇺🇦 ❌👑🐸

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#ColorADay #RedWed

This was last year. My first, sort of, close encounter with this handsome fellow.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #birdphotography #birds #Cardinals

A male northern cardinal sits atop a tree branch and ever so slightly looking down at me. The background is a blue cloudless sky

July 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM

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Mike Melton

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The Rosy-thrush Tanager isn't any of those things. Well, it's rosy. But it's not a thrush or a tanager, but its own family Rhodinocichlidae.

These are not common birds and can be difficult to find in the thick forest they inhabit.

Salitre #CostaRica #birds #nature

A brightly colored bird with vivid red underparts and face, contrasted by dark wings, back, and a black mask around the eyes. It is perched on a mossy, curved branch in a forested area with soft green foliage in the background.

July 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM

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Kristin Wyatt

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American Copper
Host plant: Sheep Sorrel and Curled Dock

So I have been fighting with invasive sheep sorrel in my native flower beds for a couple of years. This weekend I see this butterfly I have never seen on the sorrel. Turns out this tiny native butterfly hosts on this invasive sorrel!?