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Love them and want to be their friends. Really gorgeous birds.
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 I've been digging in my back yard and keep coming across these little grubs, beetle larvae I think. Amazes me how resilient they are, I'm whaling away at the hard dry ground with my adze and these guys just pop out unscathed in the loose dirt after. They don't seem to have legs and they are somewhat mobile, at least they try to squirm but I'm not sure how successful they'd be at getting anywhere. I've been putting them back on the dirt out of the way, if they are lawn pests I don't care because lawns are a pox on the land and I'm not growing any. I always feel bad for uncovering them, they're like little tiny nude babies of some critter and I don't mean them any harm.
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Recent critters, great and small. One of my strawberries arrived with a mass of hexagonal eggs on it, so I held onto them to see what would happen. A bunch of tiny beetles emerged, clung together in a ball, and died in fairly short order. I assume they weren't from around here and didn't care for the climate or food options.  Black bear in Waterton National Park.   Bison also in Waterton.  Porcupine on my morning run.  Some kind of shield bug in my yard. Someone keeps digging up the flicker that I buried earlier this year.
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cheetah7071 posted:I think your eyes glazed over the legs AAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH JESUS CHRIST
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There was a really fat sparrow at my feeder yesterday but I couldn't get a good picture of him.blight rhino posted:AAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH lmao
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Stoca Zola posted:
I think you're right about them being beetle larva, but I don't know what type. They may not have legs if they're pupating, but again I'm not sure. Cool little guys though. I think you're doing the right thing putting them back, pretty sure some larva need to overwinter and then emerge in spring. It's been awhile since I went though my field guides.
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Oct 20, 2021 07:22
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This guy rules. In my head I hear him say 'DON'T LOOK AT ME. IM NOT HERE' made me giggle.
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Oct 20, 2021 07:29
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North Topsail Beach, NC. I believe it's a Rough Tailed Stingray, but not sure. He was unbelievably large.  
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Oct 20, 2021 22:19
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  Dekay’s Brownsnake, I think.
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Oct 21, 2021 00:26
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Wow! You rarely see a brownsnake outside of its usual porcelain habitat.
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Oct 21, 2021 00:53
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 This guy was hanging out in front of school this morning.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:51
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sullat posted:
The owl, of course, is amazing. But also this picture is just really nice.
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Oct 22, 2021 18:49
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Spotted in my back yard in central NC this morning. Noticeably larger than our local hawks, sorry for the unclear picture but I'm thinking maybe an eagle, golden or juvenile bald?
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Scarodactyl posted:Spotted in my back yard in central NC this morning. Noticeably larger than our local hawks, sorry for the unclear picture but I'm thinking maybe an eagle, golden or juvenile bald? I don't think either eagle has that kind of banding on the tail. I'd vote young red-tailed hawk with the thin tail banding and all the white on the back.
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Oct 22, 2021 21:15
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sullat posted:
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Oct 22, 2021 21:38
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BetterLekNextTime posted:I don't think either eagle has that kind of banding on the tail. I'd vote young red-tailed hawk with the thin tail banding and all the white on the back.
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Literally A Ghost posted:The owl, of course, is amazing. But also this picture is just really nice. Why thank you. I should say most of the credit goes to the tree for deciding to go with a very bold red/green combo of leaf color.
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Oct 23, 2021 05:27
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Help What beetle First instinct was a devil horse beetle, second was some sort of giant oil beetle. It was almost two inches long. I'm in upstate new york.  Further away, less phone lovely focus, more iridescence 
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Oct 24, 2021 04:48
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It's definitely an oil beetle, but it's tough to get a species ID. Based on the location and time of year it's probably either Meloe impressus or Meloe campanicollis.
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Oct 24, 2021 05:31
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Saw this red and black bush cricket today on my deck. Very odd-looking, never seen one before.
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Oct 25, 2021 00:54
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What the hell kind of birb is this? Found it resting on my parents' porch https://i.imgur.com/chIGs9gl.jpg
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I'm not good at identifying bellies but maybe a brown thrasher? I'm not 100% confident because the neck doesn't look quite right. Where do your parents live?
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Oct 25, 2021 12:38
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Yeah looks close, but this is central europe so probably not since after googling them it seems like an NA species only
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Oct 25, 2021 18:39
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Maybe a fieldfare? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldfare I love that your parents have granted him a very sweet burial.
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Oct 25, 2021 18:53
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Probably a song thrush, Turdus philomelos.
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Thank you! Looks like could be either one of these, they look really similar. I'd try to look at it more closely.
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Oct 25, 2021 22:29
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Help what sort of event are you at? it seems an interesting background
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blight rhino posted:what sort of event are you at? lol it was an outdoor vintage and antiques fair that my BIL had a booth at
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Oct 26, 2021 02:48
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McGavin posted:Probably a song thrush, Turdus philomelos. Turdus 
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the yeti posted:Turdus The Tibetan Blackbird is a thrush, and a large one. Which is it's called Turdus maximus.
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The American Robin is Turdus migratorius, the migrating turd, but the Black-billed Thrush is Turdus ignobilis, the ignoble turd.
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Oct 28, 2021 04:03
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I loving love these birds and I loving love this thread. Turdus.
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Oct 28, 2021 05:24
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I have a soft spot for the wren, Troglodytes troglodytes
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Oct 28, 2021 15:42
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I feel sorry for the Eurasian Eagle-owl, Bubo bubo.
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Oct 28, 2021 15:44
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I also feel kinda bad for the wattled crane, Bugeranus carunculatus
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Oct 28, 2021 15:58
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The great grey owl probably has the coolest Latin name though: Strix nebulosa.
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Oct 28, 2021 16:06
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The wedge-tailed eagle gets Aquila Audax, which sounds pretty rad. (Meanwhile the beautiful, musical and intelligent australian magpie gets a name meaning "naked-nostril flute-blower.")
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Oct 28, 2021 16:20
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joat mon posted:The Tibetan Blackbird is a thrush, and a large one. Poop in Latin and a yeast disorder in English 
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Oct 28, 2021 16:53
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The clouded leopard is Neofelis Nebulosa, which I just think is lovely.
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my cat is norris posted:I loving love these birds and I loving love this thread. Turdus. 
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