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BOTD: Blue-winged Teal

Photo: Laura Gooch

Teal are small ducks, fast in flight, flocks twisting and turning in unison. Seemingly a warm-weather duck, the Blue-winged Teal is largely absent from most of North America in the cold months, and winters more extensively in South America than any of our other dabblers. Small groups of Blue-wings often are seen standing on stumps or rocks at the water's edge.

- Audubon Field Guide

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Denham's Bustards or Stanley's Bustards (Neotis denhami), family Otididae, order Otidiformes, Uganda

photograph by Mark Watts

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a typical example of a juvenile turkey vulture perched next to a leucistic adult turkey vulture. leucism is a lack of pigmentation in feathers; it can be throughout the full body, or distributed in patches, like in this bird.

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Grand Cayman Blue Iguana (Cyclura lewisi), family Iguanidae, Grand Cayman Island (endemic)

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Cayle Pearson 

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one of my favorite cenozoic animals

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Siamese Red-Necked Keelback (Rhabdophis siamensis), family Colubridae, Viet Nam

Mildly to moderately venomous.

Venom is excreted into the saliva, and enters the prey through the bite wound. Keelbacks do not have fangs.

This species is also poisonous! They sequester toxins from the toads they prey on.

photograph by Diệp Tùng

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See you later, alligator! In a while, crocodile. Thanks for stayin’, Cuvier’s dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus)! This unique reptile is the smallest living crocodilian, growing about 4.9 ft (1.5 m) long and weighing in around 15.4 lbs (7 kg). It’s native to parts of South America including Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela, where it might be spotted basking in the Sun along the shores of the Amazon or Orinoco rivers. It munches on small fish, crabs, birds, and small mammals, typically going on the hunt at night.

Photo: Javier Caicedo Moncada, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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A Jaeger's ground snake (Erythrolamprus jaegeri) in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

by Arthur Anker

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Darmanitan is in full zen mode! This was a Patreon drawing request I finished recently. 

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To this day I'm in love with the fact that this is a "marine crow" in Portuguese.

Kormoran (great cormorant) am Bärensee, Stuttgart-West.

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Dahl's Whip Snake (Platyceps najadum), family Colubridae, Bulgaria

Photograph by Peter Newt

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I can finally post what I made for the @fairysteelzine! I was given Hatterene and Scizor to work with, so I wound up doing this little fairytale scene.

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