La verdad que hacía mucho tiempo que no compartía fotografías del Tangará común en el blog, por ello aprovecho y publico estas que obtuvo el nuevo integrante de la bandada de aves del Nea en el Arroyo Itá en Posadas durante la jornada del día 21 de Junio Pasado. […]
POLL: Should the Faroe Islands’ whale slaughter be banned?
Faroese villagers have slaughtered about 250 pilot whales in the past 24 hours according to Sea Shepherd activists monitoring the traditional summer hunts in the north Atlantic islands. The whale pods, which migrate past the islands in July and August, were herded by flotillas of small boats on to two beaches where villagers waded into […]
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
It used to be that when I went to Merritt Island NWR, my sole destination was Blackpoint Wildlife Dr. It is by far the most popular part of the refuge, especially for visitors from out of town. But the refuge actually has many wonderful locations. Some are wildlife drives, and some allow you to get […]
Video: Behold the iridescent glory of hummingbird feathers!
The gorget (pronouced “gor-git”) is a shimmering patch of feathers found on the throats of males in many hummingbird species. The brilliant, shifting colours arise not from pigments in the feathers, but rather from their microscopic structure. Audubon explains: The term comes from days of old, when a knight-in-armor wore a metallic collar – or […]
A Bubbling Bee
A while ago I wrote a blog about the fly pictured above.I’d caught it in the unlikely act of blowing a bubble. Although no one knows why flies blow bubbles, theories range from concentrating liquid food by evaporation, to aerating to reduce some kinds of microbial activity, to fly sickness, cleaning the mouthparts, cooling off […]
POLL: Should there be a ban on importing lion trophies?
Conservationists and politicians have called on the EU to ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies from African countries that cannot prove their lion populations are sustainable. The slaughter of a radio-tagged lion called Cecil in Hwange national park by the American dentist, Walter Palmer, was described as a tragedy […]
Naranjero (Blue-and-yellow Tanager) Pipraeidea bonariensis
Durante los últimos días he visto en la red social Facebook distintos perfiles de personas que se dedican al tráfico ilegal de aves silvestres, son tan cortos de cerebro que fotografían y publican el material que disponen como ser jaulas trampa para la captura de las aves, inclusive publican sus trofeos, lugares de captura, cuentan […]
Photos Show Sad Plight for African Elephants Lifted to China
New, secretly obtained photos show that elephants snatched from the wild in Zimbabwe months ago and airlifted recently to China are malnourished, sunken-looking, and scarred by wounds. “These calves look really horrible,” says Joyce Poole, co-founder of ElephantVoices, a Kenya-based research and advocacy organization. Poole reviewed the photos, which were sent exclusively to National Geographic. […]