Christian Ziegler/Germany/Southern Cassowary, Australia - Nov. 16, 2012, Black Mountain Road, Australia. The endangered Southern Cassowary feeds on the fruit of the Blue Quandang tree. Cassowaries are a keystone species in northern Australian rainforests because of their ability to carry so many big seeds such long distances.# (via 2013 World Press Photo Contest Winners - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
Diving swans captured by Viktor Lyagushkin
It looks almost even more mysterious when you see it underwater.
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Down in one. A seagull slowly swallows a starfish at dusk on Wharf No. 2 in Monterey, California.
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Thousands of wading birds fly across the British coast to create a spectacular sight that can only be seen on three or four days a year. The image was captured by wildlife photographer Mark Smith, who travelled from London to the Snettisham RSPB nature reserve in Norfolk. He said: “It was like something you’d see on a David Attenborough programme. There’s a lot of background noise with thousands of birds roosting but as soon as they take off, you’re hit with a huge roar. As they swarm the roar fizzes in and out like a swarm of bees in a cartoon.” Picture: Mark G Smith/Solent News & Photo Agency
or at least the one that was chirping directly outside our window at 4:45 this morning was making us very angry.
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Flying with an Egyptian Vulture (by [Piuma + Charles])
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Flying with an Egyptian Vulture (by [Piuma + Charles])
If you’ve run out of things to do, you could always go Parahawking.
One of these things is not like the others.
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An ornithologist frees a long-eared owl in Hungary. The owl, which had been injured, was rescued and marked with an identification ring before it was returned to nature, ornithologists said (via The week in wildlife - in pictures | Environment | guardian.co.uk)
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Earlier today, a peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan and into the wilds of… the Upper East Side. Here, the fugitive bird is seen on a fifth-floor window ledge at 838 Fifth Avenue. It is not known if the bird flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
(Photo by Twitter user @jerruiz via the New York Daily News)
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