Save for the wintry deserts at Earth’s poles; this stretch of northern Chile is the driest place on Earth. Hemmed between the magical snowcapped Andes and the Pacific Ocean,...
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Call
When birders hear the blue-cheeked bee-eater call, they know summer is in full swing. They typically migrate to warmer climates during the...
An endemic species of Australian wren, the striated grasswren (Amytornis striatus) is a small, cryptically colored bird in the Maluridae family. It lives mainly...
Family: The chestnut-rumped thornbill (Acanthiza uropygialis) is a small passerine bird of the Acanthizidae family, native to Australia.
Habitat: Versatility describes the feeding strategy of the...
Slender-billed thornbill (Acanthiza iredalei) habitats are treeless expanses of shrub fields, whether samphire and blue-bush around salt lakes or meter-high heath on sandplains. The...
Polaskia is named after Charles Polaski, an amateur American. In 1905, Robert Roland-Gosselin described two large cacti that grow in the dry, cactus-rich area...
The American basswood tree is native to eastern North America. The species is found from southeast Manitoba to New Brunswick, south to south Carolina,...