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09/03/2024

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09/03/2024

It is time to VOTE! Help us select the finalists for the upcoming Gone But Not Forgotten enamel pin series.

TO CAST YOUR VOTE - Pick your TOP 3 from the extinct animals in this group and post them in the comments.

Please share with others and encourage them to vote as well.

This is Voting Block A. Voting Block B will be shared later this week. You can vote in that block as well. All the votes will be tallied after a couple and will help us select the finalists for series 1.

We appreciate your vote!

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09/02/2024

While you're relaxing on the couch this Labor Day weekend visit The Leather Elves and save a bundle with our Labor Day Sale. Enter code Labor at checkout for 40% off your entire order. We'll work while you relax! Happy Labor Day! Link in comments.

09/01/2024

09/01/2024

White-hot bird alert!
BirdCast forecasts super high levels of bird migration tonight and tomorrow night over Wisconsin. That's good news and bad news for bird lovers!

🎉The good news: good birdwatching ahead. Songbirds migrate at night and land in early morning to rest and fuel up so you're likely to see more of them.

The bad news: many of these tired birds will fly into windows and die. Glass is invisible to birds. A 2024 study shows far more birds die from window collisions than previously thought -- about 3.5 billion birds every year in the U.S.

Nearly half of those occur at our homes. If you have a problem window, find simple and effective ways on our website to prevent this problem and help on songbirds fly south safely!
https://www.sossaveoursongbirds.org/reduce-window-threats

08/31/2024

It's headed your way!

08/31/2024

08/31/2024

WHAT’S THAT!? If you’re spending time out on a river or lake this weekend, you might find a gelatinous mass like this along the water’s edge. Many people would assume it’s an egg mass from a fish or frog. They would be wrong, though. Rather, this is a colony of thousands of freshwater invertebrate animals! It’s a colony of bryozoans, often called moss animals (Bryo- means “moss” and Zoa- refers to “animal” in Greek). In the eastern United States you can find the Magnificent Bryozoan (Pectinatella magnifica) in the shallow waters of freshwater ponds, lakes, wetlands, and rivers. The colonies can be anywhere from baseball to beach ball in size and they’re often attached to sticks, logs, rocks, or docks. I recently found this colony along the edge of a riverbank.

Have you ever seen a bryozoan colony?

08/31/2024

08/31/2024

🌀 Hurricanes may wreak havoc on land, but what's their impact out at sea?

It turns out, hurricanes play an important ecological role as natural mixers of the ocean. Get the facts this hurricane season: go.whoi.edu/oceanhurricane

📸 by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

08/31/2024

This inquisitive duo is a pair of Arabian bustards I met while visiting the National Avian Research Center in Abu Dhabi, UAE. They are part of a captive breeding program which hopes to increase their numbers in the wild. Found across the Sahel region of Africa and southwestern Arabia, these birds prefer to live alone or in very small family flocks. During the breeding season, females are responsible for incubating their eggs and raising their young, as well as protecting the nest from outside threats. If she senses danger, the female will engage in several diversionary behaviors to draw potential predators away from her chicks.

08/31/2024

08/31/2024

On the northern foothills of Nyandarua Mountains (also known as Aberdare Ranges) lies a small, high-altitude and one of Kenya’s highly threatened wetlands, Lake Ol’ Bolossat. The lake has a… Continue reading Kenya’s oldest known wild Grey Crowned Crane

08/31/2024

Monarch migration kicks off in mid-August and runs to mid-November. These butterflies only travel during the day, so what do they do at night? Groups of butterflies ranging from a handful to hundreds will roost in trees along the way!

📷 Mike Budd/USFWS

08/31/2024

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again - you can help protect countless marine species by eliminating the use of chemicals on your lawn. That's right, the pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers from your lawn all eventually end up in freshwater streams, then rivers, then in the world's oceans, and water pollution caused by runoff is a main threat to animals that live in the sea, including the Pfeffer’s flamboyant cuttlefish. Tiny yet brave, this species remains very still and flashes its hypnotic color scheme while pulsing its fins. But unless you’re visiting an aquarium like The Dallas World Aquarium where this photo was taken, you’ll probably have to look quite hard to spot this species in the wild as it is often found walking along the seafloor on arms and fins — a rare form of transportation for an underwater sea creature!

08/31/2024

Prehensile - Solomon Island Prehensile-Tailed Skink (Corucia zebrata)
A prehensile tail is very helpful when you live the arboreal life. The Solomon Island Prehensile-Tailed Skink uses its tail for grasping branches and climbing trees.

Happy Year of the Lizard!
Peppermint Narwhal has declared 2024 the Year of the Lizard. Stay connected with us all year round for lizard species spotlights and interesting educational tidbits related to these awesome reptiles.

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