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🌳 Steal the Look: Mourning Warbler We’re staying on trail… but only until we find 2 perfectly spaced trees. Then stop! It's hammock time. 🟡 With a setup like this, we will be avoiding warbler neck this season. Learn more: abcbirds.info/4tkjiRo
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Did you know? The Arctic fox is a seasonal fashionista. During winter, it sports a dense coat of white fur that helps insulate it from the cold, and it can withstand temperatures of up to −90°F (-67.8°C)!
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Son of a nutcracker! Clark’s nutcrackers use their dagger-like bills to rip into pinecones and pull out large seeds, which they stash in a pouch under their tongue before flying off to bury them for winter. Photo by Anindita Sarkar
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Look how much I learned on Duolingo in 2025! How did you do? #Duolingo365
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The contrasting colors of the yellow cottonwoods and red sandstone canyons at Canyon de Chelly National Monument are especially striking during fall, made even more dramatic by an early snowfall. Photo by Nina Mayer Ritchie
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Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!
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Welcome back to “Moms Who Build Tiny Homes and Kidnap Caterpillars.” Today’s episode: the fraternal potter wasp. This architectural icon crafts miniature mud pots using just soil and spit. Once the pot is complete, she lays a single egg inside.
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Friday fun fact. An average catch for a puffin is around 10 fish. According to the Audubon, the record catch is held by an Atlantic puffin in Britain -- 62 fish! British puffins are built different. Photo of a tufted puffin by Robin Corcoran/USFWS
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We heard you liked furry bee butts - is it true? The northern amber bumble bee can be found from Montana to Maine. Watch for them visiting a variety of plants, including milkvetches, thistles, goldenrods & clovers. This one was enjoying common milkweed! 📷 Courtney Celley/USFWS
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You might describe the slow loris as adorable—but did you know these primates also have a venomous bite? A gland under the loris’s arm produces a chemical that turns deadly when mixed with loris saliva. Bites can induce anaphylactic shock, extreme pain, infection, & more.
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One of Singapore's rarest resident birds, the Little Grebe brings life to our freshwater habitats. Spot their dark brown bodies and rufous cheeks in breeding season, or paler browns otherwise. While common globally, it's critically endangered in Singapore. 🦆
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Meet Tianjiao, who assesses the environmental impact of developments. She also contributes to the conservation efforts for our native biodiversity, like the elusive Sunda Slow Loris! 🌳 More at: go.gov.sg/natureconservation…
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You know T. rex, but what about B. rex? 🦖 That would be the Shoebill Stork (Balaeniceps rex). Standing as much as 5 ft (1.5 m) tall, this bird uses its massive beak to ambush lungfish, baby crocs, & other small animals—often decapitating prey before they’re swallowed whole.
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Pikas are built differently. These alpine fluffballs don’t mess around. While other animals hibernate, pikas spend summer racing to stash wildflowers and grasses into “haypiles” to survive the winter. Photo by Heather Plotkin
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