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Hola and Hello! Just a quick note to let you know that ALL contents of this site, along with that of all my other sites, will soon be relocated to a single, secure new site that encompasses far more subjects than just Spanish. At that time, all visitors here will be directed to the new site and ALL PAID MEMBERS will have access to ALL printable materials there, not just the Spanish alone.

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Upland Chorus Frog

The Early Frog catches the worm! (more…)

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Natural Lands

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1969 Chevy... Nomad?

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Loess Hills of Iowa

Loess Hills of Iowa

Loess (LUSS) = “loose” in German (more…)

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I think these wildflowers look like little dancing angels! What do you think?

These are two pics I snapped in Thor’s Woods in the bluffs of western Iowa, about a month ago — May 21st, 2018. The video I made about this particular columbine species is below, near the end of this post. 🙂

  Columbines can be recognized by their spurred petals, like a colorful group of skinny plant-elbows reaching up backwards to form a little star — above a miniature petticoat skirt. 🙂 The scientific name of this group of sixty-plus wildflower species means “eagle” in Latin, but its common name means “dove” because some people thought they looked like a cluster of five little doves. Columbines are a favorite food source of another bird, however — hummingbirds!

  I think columbine flowers are unusually cool because they have two very distinct “faces” — they look beautiful from the side or above, where you can see their recurved petals forming the “doves heads”… but they also look lovely and intriguing from the front — actually the underside — where each petal forms a tiny little cup at the base of delicate stamens and pistil.

Check out this collection of columbine photos. What variety and beauty! [click any pic to enter a slideshow and look for the X to come back to this page]

  It looks like there is only a single native species in my part of the world (USA) — Aquilegia canadensis — but there is also a light blue or lavender European native that has escaped cultivation and can sometimes be found in the wild here. There are also several cultivated varieties, as can be seen in the photos above.

More about Columbines: Wikipedia   | EOL USDA Plants Database Fine Gardening: Columbines Two “wild” species — MI Flora A. canadensis 1 A. canadensis 2 A. canadensis 3 A. canadensis seeds

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  Wild Columbines I think these wildflowers look like little dancing angels!

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Troy Vids

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Hey, Sexy Man! 😉 Here’s a page for you to visit from your phone, when you don’t have YouTube — in case you can’t download them from my emails.

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Azul Animation

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They may swim together, but coots are rails, not ducks.

Most people probably see a group of birds swimming along together and absent-mindedly label them all “ducks“. If you take a closer look, you often see several geese or even swans among them. In many parts of the USA, you may also see the unrelated American coot as well, which looks a lot like a dark duck with a contrasting white bill. If you get close enough, you may even spot its bright red eye!

Can you pick out the birds you think MIGHT be coots, in the pics above and below? Look for a very dark bird with a white beak or bill.

  Coots are not actually waterfowl, since they are not a part of the Anseriformes order of birds, which include all the ducks, geese, and swans. Instead, coots are found in the order Gruiformes, or crane-like birds — and the family Rallidae, or rails. [The seagulls in the pics are in the order Charadriiformes.]

  Instead of waterfowl’s triangular webbed feet and short legs, coots and other rails have knobby looking toes and longer legs, like in this pic:

  With those longer legs, coots are better at walking and running than any of the waterfowl — but they are not as good at flying! In fact, their wings are shorter and more rounded than ducks and geese.   Almost all coot species are black in color, and they all have a featherless “shield” on their foreheads. In the 1400s people even used the phrase “as bald as a coot”, LOL.

  There are about ten different species of coot, all in the genus Fulica. The American coot is found throughout the United States and Mexico, as well as southern Canada and all of Central America. The Eurasian or common coot lives in a band extending all the way from Morocco and western Europe, all the way across to Japan in the far east, and down into parts of India and even Australia!  

  Coots eat mostly plant material, but also some eggs, fish, and small animals. Newly hatched coots are quite strange looking, as you can see in the pics below. Their parents feed them insects, but many starve to death in the first week of life. Baby coots are a rarity in nature because so many are born and so few survive — not due to being eaten like most species, but because of parental neglect and abuse! Is it just a coicidence that they are so ugly, and treated so badly?  

Take a look at the collection of coot pics below, and see if you can spot:

newly hatched coots with reddish heads

older, fluffier coot chicks that obviously survived

bulby-looking coot feet

characteristic coot dark body and white bill

  More about coots: Wikipedia Common Coot (videos!) Mystery Bird: Common Coot American Coot Info

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  Coots are not Ducks They may swim together, but coots are rails

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Fruit Terminology

Scientific FRUIT –vs– what we call FRUIT (more…)

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Listen to the songs of over 80 insect species on this fun site for bug lovers!

Songs of Insects is a fun site to visit if you like bugs or if you want to figure out what that noise is you keep hearing, whether it is a rattle, a buzz, or a chirp. Visit the Thumbnail Guide to Species to hear each insect song while looking at its picture, then find out some cool facts in the Biology of Insect Song area.

  Here are some screenshots from the Thumbnail Guide page:

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  Songs of Insects Listen to the songs of over 80 insect species

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Meißendorf Lakes

Meißendorf Lakes and Bannetze Moor in northern Germany (more…)