Awan Beauty of Nature

A macro photo of an ant's face up close. Photo: Andrea Hallgass

One of the rarest and most endangered mushroom species on this planet.

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It's the elusive wrinkled peach mushroom (Rhodotus palmatus).

With the decline of ash wood and elm trees throughout Europe and Britain, these majestic mushrooms are increasingly becoming rarer and more endangered.

If you're wondering, the red sap-like substance is called "guttation", which is basically the mushroom's way of purging excess water as it grows.

This beauty is a digitalis campanulata (foxglove). The Latin word digitalis means finger and the blossoms of this flower fit the human finger almost perfectly. But the flowers and leaves are highly toxic, and this plant should not be grown in areas frequented by children.........Please support us by following our page, Thanks.........

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Seen yesterday - an Olive-sided Flycatcher with a freshly-caught Cicada about to be swallowed.

Indian Pitta portrait
July 2022. Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Golden-tailed Sapphire.

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I think this is my all time favorite photo that I have taken. This is a hairy frogfish in the waters of Lembeh, Indonesia, taken with a snoot at night. I was lucky to find this beautiful animal and go back on a night dive to get this shot. He/she was sitting at a depth of 70 feet, with a slight current that helped lift the hairs the way they are shown.⁣
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⁣Shot on my 1DX Mark ii with 100mm lens.

The California brown pelican
is a permanent resident of the coastal marine environment on the Pacific Coast and the range extends from British Columbia, Canada, south to Nayarit, Mexico. The bulk of the California brown pelican population (estimated to be about 90%) nests in Mexico.

📷 & 📝 by bugDreamer.com // Porcupinefishes have the ability to inflate and blow up to a greater proportion by swallowing large quantities of either water or air. This allows the fish to grow to almost three times their normal size, thereby making it impossible for many predators to hunt them. They also have long spines which radiate outwards when they are inflated. Apart from these two defenses, a lot of the porcupinefishes are also poisonous. Thus, owing to these factors they do not have too many predators!

Photos by Marcelo Johan Ogata
Location: Red Sea, 2012.

This great Blue Heron worked on this writhing eel for some time before it felt comfortable in swallowing it, but even when it did, I could see it wriggling as it went down the long neck.

~ Green-billed toucan (Ramphastos dicolorus
~ Photo by 👉 Naun Amable silva
~ The green-billed toucan), or red-breasted toucan, is a near-passerine bird in the family Ramphastidae found in southern and eastern Brazil, Pantanal of Bolivia, eastern Paraguay and far north-eastern Argentina.

A memory of FB
Anatra sposa-Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)

King Bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius) in Indonesia 🐦
by Dustin Chen.

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚. 🌓⛵🧡

📸 Perfect shot by - dmodobasic

SPECKLED

Speckled Tanager, Costa Rica, by Twan Leenders
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Brown throated Sunbird

Brown Hooded Parrot

Flamingo Bird

I saw this Anna's Hummingbird yesterday. It is crazy how early in the year they start breeding - February! They lay up to three clutches per season. This photo doesn't really get across just how tiny the nest is.

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. 🌝

📌️ Utah, USA

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SAW WHET OWL

The northern saw-whet owl is one of the smallest owl species in North America.

Photo by Mike Williams, Montana
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Painted Spurfowl (Galloperdix lunulata), Hampi, Karnataka, India by Naresh Vadrevu