#nature wildlife

[klemannlee]

Guess who flew in with the cooler weather...

[alexmurison]

A delicate Hare's Foot Ink cap popping up in the meadow

[dendro80]

A forest walk during Jungfru Marie bebådelsedag. Spring weather and the birds where singing. Lost track of time wich was nice. ❤️✨☀️

March 2024

Brovallsskogen, Avesta, Dalarna, Sweden

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Not sure if this is something you would know about but I’m currently writing a paper about how we visualise shorebird habitat loss in the western Americas specifically and part of this involves finding paintings, images, diagrams, that show what the habitat looked like before 1900 or so. It’s an art historical paper so it’s about visual culture and perception of habitat loss through time and I’m struggling to find any good images from before 1900 so I’m exhausting all resources. thank you x

Hi, @a-small-disgrace! That sounds like a really useful project for showing the long-term impact of human activity. If I were going to do that sort of thing on my little area of the coast, I would be contacting the local museum and historical society to see if they had any photos or art of specific locations, even if the landscape wasn't the main focus of the piece. Is this something you've already tried?

Also, if anyone else has any ideas, please chime in in the replies or reblogs.

[crabsandbeer]

Ponies on Chincoteague Island. by Kevin B. Moore

[without-ado]

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[abby-30]

dark academia 🍂🌙

[campodefiori9]

Black-capped Chickadee at Tupelo meadow ,Ramble ,Central park.

[tygerland]

[maureen2musings]

jennilsphotography

[lionfloss]

Lymantriine Moths by itchydogimages

[raccoon-central]

[dendro80]

Adventure Time. Found a wooden tower in the middle of the forest, of course couldn't leave without climbing up and enjoying the view. What would life be without a little adventure... 😅

March 2024

Tillfället-Skuggbo, Avesta, Dalarna, Sweden

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A red fox snacking on a plum.

FREDERIC DESMETTE / BIOSPHOTO / MINDEN PICTURES

[typhlonectes]

Leave Your Front and Back Doors WIDE Open All Night Day

via: Nicholas Conigliaro

[considernature]

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That's right! It's International Bat Appreciation Day! We share our planet with over 1400 species of bat, making the second most abundant mammal order, and they perform a wide variety of ecological roles, from dispersing seeds to pollinating flowers to eating thousands of insects in a single night! Over 200 bat species are listed as Threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature--that is over 14 percent of all bats!

YOU can help endangered bats today by donating to Pennsylvania Bat Rescue at this link. This PA-based organization rehabilitates sick or injured bats and helps educate people like you and me in how we can create more bat-friendly environments.

If you want to learn about particularly-cool bat species native to New Zealand, check out this Consider Nature article on the Pekapeka, the bat that walks:

For the rest of the day, Consider Nature will be bat-bombing Tumblr with some of our favorite bat species to share them with the world!

Alt text: a small brown bat stretching its wings with the kind of fabulous flourish that would impress Ryan Evans.