Nature

Groom Lake – The Dry Salt Lake of Nevada

Groom Lake is a dry Salt Lake in Nevada. It is used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site Airport Part of the Area 51 USAF installation. The...

Cherry Blossom Stones – Natural Geological Wonder

Cherry Blossom Stones - Natural Geological Wonder  An intriguing geological peculiarity has been found in the Japanese city of...

Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker Call

Call/Voice/Drumming The Three-toed Woodpecker call (Picoides tridactylus) is not very vocal. The bird has a short but rather soft...

The Short-Tailed Shrew (shrews)

Most species are primarily vermivorous and insectivorous, but some also eat small birds and mammals. The northern short-tailed shrew...

Crested Bellbird (Oreoica gutturalis)

Habitat: One aboriginal name for the Crested Bellbird (Oreoica gutturalis) was 'panpanpalala', an alliterative imitation of its song....

Blue-ringed Octopus – World’s Most Venomous Marine Animals

Blue-ringed Octopus Species There are at least ten species of the tiny blue-ringed octopus, which, ironically for their size, are the deadliest of all cephalopods,...

The African violet (Saintpaulia Hybrids)

African violet has a great range of colors and forms. It is very easy to grow and they will flower continuously over a long...

Savi’s warbler (Locustella luscinioides)

Savi's warbler belongs to the grass warbler genus Locustella. It measures 13–14 cm long. Europe and the western Palearctic are its breeding grounds. A...

Albert’s Lyrebird (Menura alberti)

Albert's Lyrebird (Menura alberti) is smaller and more russet than the Superb Lyrebird. The Albert's Lyrebird also has a much smaller distribution, inhabiting the...

Pudu: The Smallest Deer in the World

The pudu is the smallest deer in the world. It is similar in appearance to the northern Pudu (Pudu Mephistopheles), but a little smaller....

Rufous Scrubbird (Atrichornis rufescens)

The Rufous Scrubbird (Atrichornis rufescens) lives only in Australia, making it a very distinctive species of bird. Under the cover of dense vegetation, they...

Hooded Pitohui – The First Documented Poisonous Bird

The hooded pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) is a pitohui of New Guinea and is one of few recognized poisonous birds in the world. Both males...

What Makes Owls So Wonderful

What Makes Owls So Wonderful As creatures of the night, owls can seem mysterious and kind of spooky. Some people think of them as bad...

The Eastern Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)

Notophthalmus, the genus comprising the eastern newts, inhabits eastern North America. A different genus, Taricha, comprises the western newts along the Pacific coast of...

Aconite Eranthis Hyemalis Flower

The Aconite Eranthis Hyemalis flower bulb sends up three to eight-inch stems in the late winter or very early spring. With flowers that are...