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Hyloscirtus antioquia (Rivera & Faivovich, 2013)
Rana Chocolate Antioqueña
Santa Rosa de Osos - Antioquia

There were two batches!

Well…this happened

A surprise evening visitor!

axanthic individual, AOR

Called two times and after a good search we found it up in a tree

Finally got my first after years of failing. What an awesome snake

Burnaby Lake Regional Park, BC, Canada

Likely the best bird I’ll ever find in my life…1st for Ontario, Canada and eastern North America.

https://ebird.org/checklist/S108548109

Enjoyed by 300+ May 1

Flight shots by Matt Parsons

SouthWild Wolf Cliff Camp, Parnaiba Headwaters National Park, Piaui, Brazil

Possibly Turquoise-browed... I always struggle with the difference

Can see in the pictures how it changes it colours.

Defense posturing and calling. Consider the audio, yes it is actual audio, a try not to laugh challenge.

Seven singing males present - two of seven captured on the audio. Reportable species on Ontario Bird Record Committee's Central Review List - report to follow.

Biggest softshell I’ve ever seen, 50.0 cm carapace length

Nest with eggs.

Bosque denso

Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii) - Jozani Chwaka Bay NP, Unguja (Zanzibar)

Data aproximada

ebird checklist http://ebird.org/ebird/canada/view/checklist/S17699484

Found under a rock while we were looking for salamanders. It seems like this is the southernmost record in Canada on iNaturalist.

I was told this is most likely a Hybrid Coot x Gallinule

Blue-footed adult, Brown booby on right, large chick which may be a hybrd

Over 100 Northern Pearly-eyes sipping secretions on a distressed American Elm, largely defoliated by Gypsy Moth caterpillars.