Nature

Eye-Catching Panoramic Viewpoint Saar Loop at Mettlach

The natural beautiful Saar Loop River rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine, in France, then the river flows northward through western Germany to...

The Natural Smoking Hills of Canada

The smoking Hills of Canada are one of the most wonderful natural events on planet Earth. In the...

Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus)

Family: A banded stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) belongs to the family of recurvirostridae, which consists of stilts and avocets. Habitat:...

American Goldfinch Song

American Goldfinch Sounds Birds have their own language, as any bird lover can attest. The melodious American Goldfinch song...

Cloud Cisticola (Cisticola textrix)

The Cloud Cisticola or tink-tink cisticola is near-endemic to southern Africa and occurs in South Africa, Angola, Mozambique,...

Cosmos Flower: Ideal Plant For The Back of Your Garden

The most common varieties are hybrids of Cosmos bipinnatus, a half-hardy annual with daisy-like flowers sometimes as large as four inches across, and beautiful...

Pachysandra Terminalis: An Excellent Plant Around Tree Trunks

Pachysandra Terminalis Few ground covers make such a thick, dense evergreen bed as Pachysandra Terminalis. It doesn’t do its job overnight, but wait, for as...

Azure Kingfisher: Nature’s Living Jewel in Magnificent Detail

The Azure Kingfisher (Ceyx azureus) can be found alone or sometimes in dispersed pairs. From its perch on a low branch, rarely higher than...

Grey Francolin Sound

Grey Francolin Sound Grey Francolin Sound is loud and high-pitched. It is normally found in open cultivated lands, scrub forests, and wild bush vegetation. In...

Nuttall’s Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii)

The size of Nuttall's Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii) is about 18–19cm in length. The woodpecker food and foraging is usually a solitary forager that probes...

Snapdragon – Perennials Grown Half Hardy Annuals

Snapdragon (Antirrhinum Majus) are perennials grown as half-hardy annuals. Flowers grow on spikes of varying heights, from six inches to four feet. Rocket varieties...

The Ladder-backed woodpecker

The size of the ladder-backed woodpecker (Picoides scalaris) is about 17–18 cm in length. The diet of ladder-backed woodpeckers consists of foraging insects and...

The Record Breaking Snowfall Buried America

The East Coast of the United States was getting ready to dig its way out of record-breaking snowfall after a historic storm Jonas dumps...

The Evolution of Butterflies

The Evolution of Butterflies - The story of butterfly evolution is incomplete; butterflies are inherently so delicate that their remains are very rarely preserved...

What is Drought?

Drought is the prolonged absence of rain in a location that usually receives a significant amount of rainfall. If a desert typically receives only...