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The Brown Creeper - Lithographic Artists Proof - Medical Relief Fund

16 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments kennbmondo $0.00

Brown Creeper: Small, tree-clinging bird with brown-streaked upperparts and white underparts. White line over eye and long, decurved bill are conspicuous. Legs and feet are pink-buff. Feeds on insects, larvae, nuts and seeds. Strong direct flights o...

Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)

16 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments AF3LMike $0.00

I photographed this Black Tern in Cape May, New Jersey, U.S.A. This Black Tern was found mixed in with a bunch of different type of Gulls on the beach at Cape May. This Black Tern is a juvenile. The juveniles have a dark gray-brown back and wings wit...

Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)

14 Apr 2019 2 minute read 0 comments AF3LMike $0.01

Song Sparrows are one of the most familiar sparrows in North America. They can be found just about anywhere. Song Sparrows often like to come around bird feeders and eat the seed that other birds spill onto the ground. The Song Sparrow is one of my f...

Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)

10 Apr 2019 1 minute read 1 comment AF3LMike $0.01

Found this Solitary Sandpiper in a wet lands along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Solitary Sandpipers are commonly seen along banks of ponds and streams as they migrate through Pennsylvania north to their breeding grounds. This bird wa...

Chukar (Alectoris chukar)

8 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments AF3LMike $0.01

I usually go to a place called "Carbon County Environmental Education Center" in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania and use their bird blind to photograph waterfowl on the lake. One day while hiking down to the bird blind on the lake, A Chukar came out of the...

(Female) Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus)

6 Apr 2019 2 minute read 0 comments AF3LMike $0.01

Today I went hiking with a friend looking for migrating spring birds coming back north. We were visiting Nescopeck State Park in Drums, Pennsylvania and saw they had bird feeders out behind the visitor's center. We decided to stop at the bird feeders...

Endangered animals: Polar Bear

6 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Nature Lover $0.02

The largest carnivore on the land is Polar bear.  Polar bears are excellent swimmers. They hunt seals, walruses, and beluga whales. Around 80% of the world´s polar bears populations live in northern Canada. The rest live in Russia, Norway, Greenland...

Endangered animals: Black-Footed Ferret

5 Apr 2019 1 minute read 4 comments Nature Lover $0.02

Ferrets sleep up to 21 hours per day. Their survival is almost dependent on the hunting of prairie dogs at night. These animals live alone. Females give birth to one to six kits in May and June. In Northen America are these ferrets native species bu...

Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica)

3 Apr 2019 1 minute read 1 comment AF3LMike $0.01

The Purple Gallinule is a common bird found in the extreme southeastern United States, Caribbean and Central America. Purple Gallinules are mostly found in freshwater wetlands that have both emergent and submerged vegetation such as water lilies, lot...

Endangered animals: African Elephant

3 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Nature Lover $0.00

Elephants are the largest living land animal. Are intelligent animals like apes, dolphins, and magpies. They need 70 000 calories every day (50 gallons of water and 220 pounds of food). Their tusks are large teeth and can length 6 feet and weight 50...