[thememedaddy]

[michaelnordeman]

Red Fox/Vulpes vulpes/rödräv. Värmland, Sweden (1 July 2026).

[photogdenography]

Rock Conference

Common Murre - Haystack Rock, OR

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Herring thieves, Nanaimo, BC

Taken March 2026

[hope-for-the-planet]

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered

These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction.

Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.

After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.

For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.

Just because something isn't fixed right away doesn't mean it won't ever be fixed. Just because the work is slow doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.

[pnwander]

stealth mode.

[redarmyscreaming]

Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine. This Dash-Mounted Coffee Maker Is Likely the Rarest Volkswagen Accessory.

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Getting into a KarAkciddent and splashing 3 cups of FükkenScälden all over myself

[herpsandbirds]

Ovenbird girl once again submitting bird banding pics. This is a male American Redstart caught and banded at Itasca State Park, MN. We caught many of these guys but he was the First One and had a special white marking on the back of his neck, I’m guessing a bit of piebaldism or a similar mutation. It was my 23rd birthday and I was given the privilege of holding and releasing my first bird. I saw him the next day hanging out at the boat dock with a few other AMREs. I hope he had a successful migration and breeding season up north 🖤🧡

(Obligatory disclaimer: no birds were harmed in these photos, everything was done for scientific purposes and under professional supervision with the appropriate permits)

[michaelnordeman]

Mountain hare/Lepus timidus/skogshare. Värmland, Sweden (29 July 2021).

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian treecreeper/Certhia familiaris/trädkrypare. Värmland, Sweden (29 July 2021).

[michaelnordeman]

Grass snake/Natrix natrix/snok. Värmland, Sweden (29 July 2016).

[mayabishopgold]

Carina & Andrew DeLuca | Grey's Anatomy - 14x02 "Get Off on the Pain" [DeLuca Family]

[herpsandbirds]

Little Guys for @akceramics

Taiwan Firecrest aka Flamecrest (Regulus goodfellowi), male, family Regulidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to the mountains of Taiwan

photograph by @joinus12345

Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa), family Regulidae, order Passeriformes, western Canada

photograph by Mike Ashbee

Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula), family Regulidae, order Passeriformes, North TX, USA

photograph by Howard Wu

Rifleman aka Titipounamu (Acanthisitta chloris), male, family Acanthisittidae, order Passeriformes, New Zealand

photograph by Mike Ashbee (@mikullashbee)

American Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus), family Aegithalidae, order Passeriformes, found in the Western US and Canada

photograph by Colin Franks

Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata), family Paradoxornithidae, order Passeriformes, Western US

photograph by Matt Davis

White-browed Tit-warbler (Leptopoecile sophiae), male, family Aegithalidae, order Passeriformes, Qinghai, China

photograph by David Irving

Crested Tit-Warbler (Leptopoecile elegans), male, family Aegithalidae, order Passeriformes, Gansu, China

photograph by Lin hillside

[photogdenography]

Oysters Rock a Feller

Black Oystercatcher - Haystack Rock, OR

[herpsandbirds]

Western Gull (Larus occidentalis), parent and chick, family Laridae, order Charadriiformes, CA, USA

photograph by Alex Chen

[kylebonallo]

Pittenweem by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

[amnhnyc]

🦈 Open wide! It’s Shark Week. Growing up to 40 ft (12 m) long, the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second largest fish on Earth. This shark’s name nods to the way it feeds, “basking” at the surface of the ocean, with its dorsal fin poking out of the water. This giant feeds passively on plankton, which it catches with highly developed bristle-like gill rakers that extend between the gill arches visible inside its gaping mouth. Photo: Greg Skomal / NOAA Fisheries Service, Wikimedia Commons