White tern in flight Rarotonga, Cook Islands (2024)

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🐛 Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Six-spotted Zigzag Ladybird)

📅 Observed on 2025-06-06

👤 By: ruthgo

📌 Location: C, Pachacamac 15823, Perú

🔗 iNaturalist link: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/351874053

📷 Photo credits: no rights reserved

🔎 Learn more about the taxon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheilomenes_sexmaculata

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A Snowy Egret chick reaches up for a meal, all wild feathers and hungry energy in the rookery nest. 🪶

📍 Houston Audubon Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island, TX
📸 Canon EOS R50 + RF100-400mm + RF1.4x

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“Egret and Chick, Evening” — Great egret and chick in evening light.

Near the end of October last year, while returning from a fall color visit to the Western Sierra Nevada, I decided to make a stop at a Central Valley location where I have photographed migratory birds in the past. I wasn’t expecting to find the winter birds that I usually see there, but I was surprised to find large numbers of other birds that usually diminish at this spot later in the season. Among them were large groups of great egrets…more: https://gdanmitchell.com/2026/06/08/egret-and-chick-evening/

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"Omg flowers!"

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