Amazon canopy bridges enable 15,000 #wildlife crossings without a single roadkill news.mongabay.com/short-articl…

"Roads through #Brazil’s #forests divide primate habitat and sometimes force #animals onto the ground. Researchers in the #Amazon are testing rope bridges that allow them to cross above traffic... The bridges contain several layers of rope for species with different forms of movement. Some walk across them, while others swing by their arms or use their prehensile tails."

Brown Pelican Glide

This brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) had just completed a plunge dive when I snapped this image. Here, the bird is beginning its ascent, wings lifting as it shakes off the ocean’s surface. I followed it with my camera as it climbed higher and higher, gaining altitude with that steady, powerful rhythm pelicans have. A moment later it rose to a good height, banked slightly, and plunged again into the Gulf of Mexico.

Step into a world where even the smallest moments—like the glint in a bird's eye—tell their own story.

swede1952-photographs.pixels.c…

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #pelicans #brownpelican

I Got a Peanut

A bright-eyed, red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) is perched on a tree limb with a peanut in its beak, showcasing its striking patterned plumage against a vivid blue sky. The bird's sharp beak and claws are prominently displayed as it grips the textured bark, ready to enjoy its find.

Explore more chic woodpecker photos by visiting my photo gallery.

swede1952-photographs.pixels.c…

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #woodpeckers #redbelliedwoodpecker

North America River Otter 🦦

Well here's a new one, didn't even know we had these here. I was out taking some photos yesterday morning and had called it quits. As I drove home I saw an eagle fly over a lake so I decided to stop. Some eagles and hawks were very upset up in the trees but no good views. I did a short hike to get down by the water where I did spot a Bald Eagle across from me. I took some photos and scanned the tree tops until I heard some grunting. To my left were two otters sitting on this log who had seen me first. One quick photo and they jumped in the water. I hiked further around the shore and back but never saw them again.

#otter #riverotter #lake #mammals #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animals #chilling #washington #pnw #statepark

A closer look

#birds #wildlife #nature #photography #naturephotography

Greater Yellowlegs with a Earthworm

See it bigger here: jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/g…

#WildlifePhotography #Photography #NaturePhotography #fotografie #Arte #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #FediGiftShop #PhotographyIsArt #Fotografia #birdsofmastodon #Birdwatching #Birding #Birds #Vogel #Wildlife #Art #Artwork #Nature #Natuur #mastoart #Fediart #GiveArt #Giftidea #Artist #Flying #Reflection

Humpback whales bubble net feeding near Wrangell Alaska.

buff.ly/YmwwKyk #whales #humpback #feeding #bubblenet #bubblenetfeeding #alaska #ocean #forest #pod #baleen #nature #reflections #wildlife #wildlifephotography #FAArtist #buyart #HomeDecor #wallart #artforsale #artstore #travel #travelphotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #wallartforsale #giftideas @joancarroll

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🦑 At the American Museum of Natural History, a glass-free sperm #whale and giant squid #diorama mimics the dark deep #ocean.

Maintenance specialist Janet Spiller spends hours cleaning it with a backpack vacuum and fiber pole attachments. The #exhibit draws on real evidence like sucker marks on whale skin and #squid beaks to depict a dramatic #predator-prey battle.

👉 popsci.com/science/sperm-whale…

#spermwhale #giantsquid #amnh #museum #ocean #marine #science #nature #work #job #animals #conservation #biology #marinebiology #wildlife

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.

These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu…

#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

Birds were a bit too far away today so here's a Humming-bird Hawk-moth nectaring on Buddleia.
South Walney

#birds #BirdsOfMastodon #nature #wildlife #darktable

All of a sudden there is a bunch of young Robins exploring the garden and what these birdbaths are all about 😊.
Didn't take them long.

#birds #garden #wildlife

'Erfrischung' #FotoVorschlag

Svalbard, Sommer 2023

#photography #wildlife #arcticwildlife

The grumpiest barn swallow

#nature #naturephotography #birds #swallow #wildlife #wildlifephotography #rain #drizzle

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦅🐟 #Wildlife photographer Mark Smith captured #slowmotion #video of an osprey battling a thrashing #ladyfish.

To overcome the slippery #slime thrown by the #fish, the bird uses microscopic foot scales called spicules and flexible rotating #talons to maintain a secure four-clawed grip.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/an-osprey-batt…

#photography #florida #raptors #predators #zoology #biology #animals #birds #flying #foodchain #hunting #nature #ocean #ospreys #water #tksst

Eclipse ocular

Ave sagrada de Atenea, a la que hace honor en su nombre científico. Representa la sabiduría y el conocimiento que sin duda percibían en su mirada.

También podemos ver una demostración de la utilidad de las cejas.

Mochuelo europeo - Little owl
Athene noctua

#nature #naturaleza #birding #birds #aves #wildlife #fauna #owl #mochuelo #fedipajareo

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.

These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu…

#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐻🏔️ #Wildlife photographer Robert Martinez captured 7 months of motion-triggered camera trap footage in #Angeles National #Forest.

Set up along a creek bed near #LosAngeles, his camera recorded black #bears, #mountainlions, mule #deer, and #ringtails passing through their natural #habitat.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/angeles-nation…

#animalcam #animals #babies #bobcats #california #conservation #creeks #nature #water #woods #tksst #video

Hang Tight 🦗 for #fotovorschlag "Detailfotografie" / "Detail photography"

#photography #amateurphotography #greenery #blooms #summer #grasshopper #egyptiangrasshopper #insectsaturday #insektensamstag #closeup #detail #locust #wildlife #wildlifephotography #closeup #macro #macrophotography #insect #insekten #insectsofthefediverse #urban #urbannature #meadow #italia #italy #bologna #canon #canonphotography

Moth survey in full swing.
It's the third done here

So interesting.

#moths
#wildlife
#interestingfriends

An empty exoskeleton for #spookySaturday

#nature #naturephotography #spider #spiders #arachnids #wildlife #wildlifephotography

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦅🐟 #Wildlife photographer Mark Smith captured #slowmotion #video of an osprey battling a thrashing #ladyfish.

To overcome the slippery #slime thrown by the #fish, the bird uses microscopic foot scales called spicules and flexible rotating #talons to maintain a secure four-clawed grip.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/an-osprey-batt…

#photography #florida #raptors #predators #zoology #biology #animals #birds #flying #foodchain #hunting #nature #ocean #ospreys #water #tksst

Today's good-news story is lovely 😊
The forgotten craft saving gardens craft-folk.com/pages/bee-treas…

#Bees #BeeHotel #BugHotel #crafts #Wildlife #GoodNews

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.

These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu…

#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐻🏔️ #Wildlife photographer Robert Martinez captured 7 months of motion-triggered camera trap footage in #Angeles National #Forest.

Set up along a creek bed near #LosAngeles, his camera recorded black #bears, #mountainlions, mule #deer, and #ringtails passing through their natural #habitat.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/angeles-nation…

#animalcam #animals #babies #bobcats #california #conservation #creeks #nature #water #woods #tksst #video

Dramatic drying of feathers

#nature #naturephotography #birds #wagtail #wildlife #wildlifephotography

BBC: The world's largest wildlife crossing
The Documentary Podcast

California is about to open the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, the largest wildlife crossing in the world. Will it be enough to save the state's mountain lion population?

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0p3rl1v

#LosAngeles #AgouraHills #wildlife

Guten Morgen und einen relaxten Samstag! 😀 👋

Zum #Insektensamstag heute ein schöner Admiral (Vanessa atalanta). Der auffällige Schmetterling aus der Familie der Edelfalter sitzt auf einer Blüte des Schmetterlingsflieders (Sommerflieder).

#insekten #insectphotography #insects #falter #schmetterling #butterfly #tiere #animals #fotografie #photography #Photographie #foto #animalphotography #biology #natur #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #flower #flowerphotography

LOL

EuroNews: Wild boar roam Portuguese streets: Video shows animals using pedestrian crossing at night

euronews.com/2026/08/13/wild-b…

#animals #wildlife

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.

These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu…

#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds | Whales

Spanish officials have launched an investigation after the matriarch of an orca pod known for jostling and ramming…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Science
newsbeep.com/us/813605/

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐙🚫 #Spain’s largest fisheries company shelved the world’s first industrial #octopus farm after years of controversy.

Marine biologists explain that octopus #larvae are fragile, feed costs exceed market value, and the #animals refuse sameness. Scientists and activists weigh the practical failures of #farming against the ethical question of whether this intelligent, solitary wild creature should be imprisoned in the #sea at all.

👉 theguardian.com/environment/20…

#marinebiology #biology #intelligence #sentience #ocean #wildlife #sustainability #conservation #science #nature #food #ethics #cephalopod

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦋📡 Scientists strapped #solar-powered #radio transmitters onto monarch #butterflies in #California to track their #winter habitat use.

They attached the tiny backpacks with eyelash glue after weighing each insect to confirm it could carry the gear. Chilly pre-dawn temperatures kept the cold-blooded butterflies still enough to handle safely.

👉 popsci.com/environment/monarch…

#monarchbutterfly #science #news #wildlife #conservation #insects #nature #pollinators #migration #endangered

Weideschaduwwants
Lygus pratensis

#insect #insects #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #darktable #shinestacker

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦑🌊 About 15 years ago, Japanese researchers on a #research vessel photographed a shoal of roughly 100 neon flying #squid gliding in formation above the #Pacific #Ocean, about 600 km from #Tokyo.

The species uses a funnel-like organ called the hyponome to jet #water, propelling itself through both #air and #sea. Scientists remain unsure why the squid fly in unison, suggesting they may be evading a #predator like a #shark.

👉 theguardian.com/environment/20…

#marinebiology #marine #biology #cephalopod #animals #behavior #science #nature #invertebrates #wildlife #adaptation #aliens #neon

Found a Viceroy (Limenitis archippus) today. They mimic Monarchs, and are equally distasteful to predators. Their caterpillars feed on willow and keep the Salicylic acid (think Aspirin) in their body, making them taste bitter.

#butterflies #wildlife #nature

"Can Florida’s ‘coastal corridor’ project safeguard wildlife and boost economy?"

#US #USA #America #Florida #Wildlife

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐗🐇 On #Okunoshima, #Japan’s #bunny island, tourist feeding has pushed the #ecosystem past its limits.

Visitors bring roughly 27 tons of #food in peak seasons, far beyond the roughly 3.4 tons the #island can sustain, thinning #vegetation and driving #rabbits to toxic #plants. Wild #boars now hunt rabbits, but the real issue is the feeding system itself.

👉 zmescience.com/ecology/animals…

#ecology #wildlife #tourism #ecosystem #conservation #overpopulation #nature #science #animals

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦊🐋 #Indohyus was a #fox-sized, semi-aquatic mammal that lived in and around the coast of an island #India 49 to 45 million years ago.

#Fossil evidence, including a #skull accidentally broken in the lab in 2007, showed whale-like inner-ear #bones that placed it as the closest non-whale relative of all modern #whales. It gave rise to #Pakicetus and a chain of increasingly aquatic ancestors leading to today’s toothed and #baleen whales.

👉 discoverwildlife.com/prehistor…

#evolution #paleontology #cetaceans #eocene #marine #biology #animals #wildlife #mammals #hippos #bluewhales #dogs #pigs

#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered fungus from #china for #FungiFriday:

Hymenochaete zhashuiensis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/138FEDB…
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.138.2…
#MycoKeys #HymenochaeteZhashuiensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology

Some of this week's best wildlife photos, featuring a stuck raccoon, a hardy mouse and a camouflaged wildcat. #wildlife

theguardian.com/environment/ga…

Painted Lady butterfly at WWT Castle Espie Wetland Centre.

#nature #wildlife #invertebrates #insects #lepidoptera #butterflies #butterfly #paintedlady #WWT #WWTCastleEspie #northernireiand @wwtworldwide

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌡️🌋 #Yellowstone spans roughly 24 km (15 mi) of #boardwalks around its scalding #hydrothermal features, all built by hand.

Park geologists use thermal #cameras to map the hottest zones and route around them, while botanists flag rare #plants and archaeologists check for buried #artifacts before any path is laid. The process keeps millions of visitors safe without disturbing the area’s fragile #ecosystem or #history.

👉 popsci.com/environment/yellows…

#geyser #nationalpark #engineering #science #geology #conservation #nature #architecture #wildlife #outdoors

The Great Horned Owls that we have here provide a lovely hoo-hooo hoot soundtrack in the night... except when it's summer hoo-hooo hoot and one is perched in a nearby tree hoo-hooo hoot and you sleep with the window open hoo-hooo hoot and they do their hoo-hooo hoot in irregular intervals hoo-hooo hoot and it's 3:30 a.m. and it's hoo-hooo hoot and it penetrates your earplugs hoo-hooo hoot and there's another hoo-hooo hoot please fly away to a different tree hoo-hooo hoot I just want to SLEEP. 🫩

Hoo-hooo hoot.

#WildlifeWednesday #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #SanDiego #Owl #Wildlife #Birds #GreatHornedOwl

SNEK!!! for #WildlifeWednesday! 😱😍🐍

We were playing cards on the patio Sunday afternoon when suddenly, the chickens next to us made their !danger! bork. I looked and saw something moving in the grass. It was a grass #snake! The first I ever saw in real life!! 🥹 It was so beautiful and quite large (almost a metre)? It wiggled along the house, hiding in the gravel strip and then diving under the gravel like a badass.

I had no idea they lived here! (We have a lake 150 metres from here as the crow flies but the gardens in the neighbourhood are all quite new and, you know, "perfect lawn and a few flowers and shrubs" kind of gardens.) I'm concerned about the toads, lizards, and newts I spotted in our #garden over time, but it was such a cool creature to see. Oh, and I guess this fits #TongueOutTuesday too! 😌

#Schlange #Ringelnatter #grassSnake #NatrixNatrix #snek #reptile #reptiles #Reptil #Reptilien #Schlangen #Garten #wildlife

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦅🐟 #Wildlife photographer Mark Smith captured #slowmotion #video of an osprey battling a thrashing #ladyfish.

To overcome the slippery #slime thrown by the #fish, the bird uses microscopic foot scales called spicules and flexible rotating #talons to maintain a secure four-clawed grip.

👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/an-osprey-batt…

#photography #florida #raptors #predators #zoology #biology #animals #birds #flying #foodchain #hunting #nature #ocean #ospreys #water #tksst

Hoy el Cormorán Moñudo / Corb marí emplomallat / Corvo mariño cristado / Ubarroi mottoduna / European Shag (Gulosus aristotelis)
23 Nov 2023
Penyal d'Ifac, Alicante, España

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulosus_…

#BirdsPhotography #birds #aves #bird #birding #pajarear #nature #naturaleza #NaturePhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #photography #txoria #paxaro #fedipajareo #birdsOfMastodon

A Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) pretends to have a broken wing to lure potential predators away from its chicks. This diversion tactic is common.

#photography #birds #wildlife #VancouverIslandWildlife #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia