Scientists have described a previously unknown species of dead-leaf toad in the Peruvian Andes. The species, which is a master of camouflage, is named Rhinella yunga after the Yungas, the montane forest ecoregion it inhabits. It lives in leaf litter, where it blends in with its cryptic coloration and leaf-like body shape. Until its description […]
Category: Wildlife
Birds’ migration secrets to be revealed by space tracker
Small birds, butterflies, bees and fruitbats will be fitted with tiny radio transmitters and tracked throughout their lifetimes from space when a dedicated wildlife radio receiver is fitted to the International Space Station next year. The ability to follow the movements of very small organisms hour by hour from space will revolutionise our understanding of […]
Garcita azulada, Striated Heron, Butorides striatus
Esta Garcita azulada juvenil la fotografié en la Reserva Itá el 10 de Enero gracias a Graciela Lopez Torres que me avisó; ya había recorrido varios lugares de la reserva cuando llego a la oficina y Graciela me mostró la foto y me indicó el lugar en el que estaba la garza. Caminé hacia la […]
More than 1,000 rhinos killed in South Africa in 2013
More than 1,000 rhinos were killed in South Africa last year at a record-breaking rate that marked a jump of 50% on the year before. The environment ministry said 1,004 animals were killed in 2013, up from 668 in 2012 and just 13 in 2007, as the poaching crisis escalated. Most of the killing was […]
Garcita blanca, Snowy egret, Egretta thula
Transcurrió mucho tiempo desde la última vez que compartí fotografías de la Garcita blanca en el blog, dese el año 2012 mas precisamente, hoy comparto esta serie de fotografías obtenidas por Willy en Torres / Río grande do Sul / Brasil durante sus vacaciones; allí pudo fotografiarla alimentándose de peces en los charcos dejados luego […]
iPhone app allows Americans to identify backyard birds
A new iPhone app enables North Americans to identify bird species by asking just five simple questions. The free app, released this week by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, uses data from a citizen-science project called eBird that helps rapidly narrow down a bird species based on the location and time of year. “We named […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Week 25 Jan 2014
During the last week our members have again entered some outstanding top-ranking wildlife images for the “Best Photo of the Week” competition. Click on the first image and then page through the slideshow. Please select the three images you like best of all and VOTE for them at the bottom of this page (to ensure […]
Over 75 percent of large predators declining
The world’s top carnivores are in big trouble: this is the take-away message from a new review paper published today in Science. Looking at 31 large-bodied carnivore species (i.e those over 15 kilograms or 33 pounds), the researchers found that 77 percent are in decline and more than half have seen their historical ranges decline […]