North America

Brine Pool – An Under Water Lake in Ocean Basin

Brine Pool is a big area of brine in the ocean basin. Their pools are bodies of water that have salinity 3 to 5 times greater than the surrounding...

Violet-capped hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps)

Description: The violet-capped hummingbird (Goldmania violiceps) is rather similar to the Pirre Hummingbird in general appearance and closely related...

Black-faced cuckooshrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Family: Black-faced cuckooshrike (Coracina novaehollandiae) belongs to the family Campephagidae in the order Passeriformes. Habitat: Cuckoo shrikes so named...

Speckled Warbler (Sericornis sagittatus)

Family: The speckled warbler (Pyrrholaemus sagittatus) belongs to the family Acanthizidae. In 1801, English physician and ornithologist John...

Small Black Warblers Fly without Landing for Three Days

Small black Warblers that weigh (12 grams) about as much as a stack of 12 business cards fly thousands...

The Mysterious Crooked Bush of Saskatchewan

The Crooked Bush of Saskatchewan, Crooked Trees, or Twisted Trees, and the Crooked Trees of Alticane are a grove of deformed trembling aspen trees...

Torngat Mountains National Park Canada

The breathtaking wilderness of Torngait means “place of spirits." The Torngat Mountains National Park has been home to the Inuit and their predecessors for...

Hoh Rainforest – World’s Most Spectacular Temperate Rainforests

Hoh Rainforest is one of the largest temperate rainforests in the United States. This area does not have sweeping vistas of peaks or the...

The Boardman Tree Farm, Orgeon

The Boardman Tree Farm is situated in Morrow, county Oregon, along Interstate 84, about 5 miles west of the I-82 junction. The Boardman Tree...

Bloody Mountain: A Prominent Peak in Eastern California

Bloody Mountain is a prominent peak in eastern California, located in the Sierra Nevada, just one mile south east of Mammoth Lakes (Mono County)...

Lava Butte – A Cinder Cone That Volcanoes Can Cause

There is a 500 feet tall Cinder Cone Lave Butte in central Oregon between the towns of Bend Oregon and Sunriver Oregon. Lava Butte...

Strawberry Crater: An Amazing Reddish Cone Resemble a Giant Strawberry

Strawberry Crater is a cinder cone volcano, more than 1,000 feet high, in the San Francisco volcanic field. It is about 20 miles north...

Paint Mines Interpretive Park Calhan Colorado

El Paso County is high into the Rockies, so you can see some of Colorado’s most gorgeous sites for any hiker. There is a...

Adak National Forest – The Smallest Forest in America

Adak National Forest – The Smallest Forest in America. If you see it from some distance, you will sense it is a big bush....

Skylight Cave – The Incredible Natural Wonder in Oregon

There is a lava tube known as Skylight Cave in Deschutes County, Oregon. Because of its unique skylight feature, this is one of the...