Boldt Castle Power House in Alexandria Bay, New York, USA

Oh. My. Gawd. Honey, is that the Whitefeathers nesting next to us again? I really don't think I can stand them for another season.

Least Tern (Sternula antillarum)

North America & Caribbean, winters in South America

Status: Endangered (USA interior and California populations)

Threats: human disturbance, predators, extreme weather

Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis canadensis

Observed by jtelford, CC BY

"Elk Centaur" by Francois Lelong

Stevens Point Sculpture Park, Wisconsin, USA

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) albino, family Trochilidae, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

photograph by ryany1117

Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus), in white winter coat, family Leporidae, Alaska

photograph by Loren Merrill

Utah Arches / USA (by Daniel Fowler).

Lake Huron Sunrise (x,x) August 13, 2022, Michigan, USA

by Marie Barns Green

Lucky Find

A Tyrannosaurus finds the recently deceased body of an Edmontosaurus slumped into a creek in the forest. Around them are a softshell turtle, a salamander, a dragonfly, an enantiornithine bird and two small arboreal mammals fighting each other.

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New York City - New York - USA (by Diana Robinson)

Collared peccary Dicotyles tajacu

Observed by rob21, CC BY

BREAKING: New Jaguar Just Dropped!

A Center for Biological Diversity analysis of a trail camera detection by wildlife enthusiast Jason Miller confirms we have a new jaguar in Arizona, making it the 8th jaguar documented in the U.S. Southwest in the past 3 decades. The rosette pattern on each jaguar is unique, like a human fingerprint, and it enables identification of specific animals. The pattern shows this jaguar is not Sombra or El Jefe, two jaguars who have roamed Arizona in recent years. Jaguars once lived throughout the American Southwest, with historical records on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, the mountains of Southern California and as far east as Louisiana. But they virtually disappeared from this part of their range over the past 150 years, primarily due to habitat loss and historic government predator control programs intended to protect the livestock industry.

Read more: https://biodiv.us/3RORtQp