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Also, this shows how little these monkeys are. They are adorable and cheeky little buggers. Easily my favorite monkeys in Central America...though I'm also fond of howlers.

WILD Squirrel Money outside an enclosure
Rescate/Zooave, Costa Rica

Wildlife commonly find a safe haven/home inside wildlife sanctuaries. Rescate, isn't rural, but it's big with wild areas, so native animals have moved in and are successfully living their best lives. #rescue #photography #wildlife

Pin-pleated Vietnamese Traditional skirt
Sapa Region, Vietnam

#fashion #design #detail #tradition #photography #travel #stillworninthisregion

Peninsular Pronghorn
(Antilocapra americana peninsularis)

Peninsular pronghorn, the world’s 2nd-fastest land mammal after cheetahs, able to run at speeds up to 60 mph! Critically endangered, with ~500 left in their Baja California, Mexico habitat. #wildlife #photography #portrait #BajaCalifornia

Ocellated Turkey
Tikal, Guatemala

Endemic to the Yucatan Peninsula. Blue skin, colorful feathers, wonderful weirdo turkey behavior intact! Who cares about ruins, when these guys are passing through? Actually, Tikal's pretty spectacular, go visit! #tikal #turkey #birds #aves #photography #ruins

Crested Quail Dove
(Geotrygon versicolor)

Didn't see a crest. Endemic to Jamaica, Quail-dove" for its features of both quail + doves. Geotrygon, combines the Greek words "geo-" (ground) and "trygon" (turtledove), further highlighting its ground-dwelling dove-like nature. #birds #aves #photography

Summer Storm
on the Drangsnes Peninsula, Iceland

Drangsnes is a small town in western Iceland, at the mouth of Steingrímsfjörður and near Hólmavík. It has only has 67 inhabitants but has great hot pots (hot tubs of various temps) to soak in, right in the water! #iceland #storm #nature #photography

Chrysanthemum in Bloom
Piedmont, California

#photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #mono #bnw #b&w #kindness

Black-bellied WhistlingDuck
(Dendrocygna autumnalis)

At night flocks of Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks feed on waste grain in agricultural fields. Their high-pitched whistles can be heard as they travel from the fields to roosting sites. #ducks #birds #aves #photography #USA #CentralAmerica #common

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Gorgeous white-tailed Tropicbird (koa'e kea), Also, an excellent shot!

Groove-billed Ani
(Crotophaga sulcirostris)

It's got a big honking beak. These all-black cuckoos (who have a blue cast) have curiously tall, flattened bills marked with narrow grooves, which they use to catch large insects and small lizards. #birds #aves #wildlife #belize #ani #photography

At Day's End - Fishing Nets
Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily
Though a seemingly sleepy fishing village, Castellammare del Golfo is the birthplace of several key figures in the American Mafia. Who knew?! #mafia #pattern #nets #fishing #sicily #photography #italy

Cliffside Nopales Cactus
Pacifica, California
#nature #photography #oceanside #california
#clouds #cacti

American Crocodile
(Crocodylus acutus)

The Tarcoles River is full of these BIG crocs - 15-20 feet long (6-7m). Though a shy breed, they have been chummed with chicken for many years to show off for tourists (illegal), so they are not exactly shy #photography #crocodile #reptile #travel #BIG #yikes

Ruby-spotted Swallowtail (Papilio anchisiades) and
Banded Peacock (Anartia fatima)

I thought that the Swallowtail would be the #butterfly on the right, Nope that's a banded Peacock, the swallowtail is on the left. Not much resemblance to our Western swallowtail #wildlife #photography #insect

Ring Road Hölmavik to Reykjavik
Iceland

#nature #iceland #ringroad #photography #beautiful #view

Beautiful 'abomination' - cross-bred macaw
Scarlet + Blue/Gold + Green

In Costa Rica, hybridization of macaws is illegal due to concerns about genetic biodiversity loss + fouling efforts to repopulate native Scarlet (Pacific) & Green (Caribbean) macaws in the wild #macaws #photography #hybrids

Solitude
Lone House in Alaska

#nature #rapeseed #alaska #travel #solitude #photography

Imbabura Volcano
Otavalo, Ecuador

I just love this view from the wood-fire heated hot tub at Casa Mojanda. If you have the opportunity to visit the highlands in Ecuador, it's well worth the effort. #photography #mountains #volcano #ecuador #beautiful

Black Neck Swan
(Cygnus melancoryphus)
A saying about waterfowl - the longer the neck, the bigger the asshole. Seems true. Swans have a triumph ceremony — after attacking a rival suitor, the male returns to his mate to perform an elaborate ceremony of posturing and calling. #photography #wildlife

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Columbine, pretty in yellow.

Such a pretty bird. I guess now they are concerned about inbreeding and lack of genetic diversity. Ugh!

Interesting. Growing up we often found mourning dove eggs on the ground, having fallen from a nest constructed from few criss-crossed pine needles. I often wondered how the species survived? Are Mauritius pink doves as awful nest builders in the wild? Is this a pigeon/done attribute?

Sonoran Tarantula
Aphonopelma chalcodes

All born female-ish. After many years, may develop male traits. Males develop palpal bulbs to store sperm. Females abdominal pouches to receive sperm. Females lay eggs IN the sperm to provide nutrients for their ~600 offspring. Yikes. #photography #tarantula

Mourning Dove
(Zenaida macroura)

These common birds get a bad rap! They build stupidly poor nests usually somewhere inconvenient, but hunted for food/sport they maintain a US population of 20-70 million birds, due to prolific breeding. Maybe nest building skills not mandatory. #birds #photography

Baby Mountain Bongo
(Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci)

A new life is a very good thing as the Bongo is the largest and most endangered of the forest antelopes, with less than 100 left in the wild, so each new birth is extremely important. #bongo #photography #wildlife #SSP #beautiful

Tomistoma schlegelii
Tomistoma derived from tomos (Greek for “sharp”) +stoma (Greek for “mouth”), refers to its slender jaws. It doesn't attack humans but will feed on corpses set afloat in Ganges funeral ceremonies. Diet is primarily fish. Has an evil side-eye. #wildlife #photography #herp #reptile

Violateous Turaco
Musophaga violacea

I asked AI for fun facts about this bird - this was the best they came up with "They drop a lot of food while eating, which helps distribute seeds throughout their environment" Hmm, okay.
#turaco #birds #photography #westafrican #colorful