Decorated Darthfish by BigBlueFun

Decorated Darthfish (Nematelotris decora) – White head and front body gradating to purplish rear body; violet snout and stripe to dorsal fin, violet and red marked fins; long 1st doral fin. Solitary or in pairs; shelter in sandy burrows. Sand and rubble patches at base of reefs in 28-68m.

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Trees of Kabah by haimo2001

The Maya site of Kabah is to the south of Uxmal, and is connected to that city by a grand 18 km long raised pedestrian causeway 5 meters wide with monumental arches at each end. Kabah is the second largest ruin of the Puuc region after Uxmal.

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Camaleon by AlexBravoPhoto

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The Beautiful Lush Greenery of MacRitchie Reservoir by tangenghui

MacRitchie Reservoir, part of the Central Catchment Area in Singapore. It is a gorgeous and beautiful lush rainforest belt located in the Central area of Singapore.

This is accessed via Venus Drive, along a trail that leads you inside into different nature trails that connect to other areas such Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, MacRitchie Reservoir Park, HSBC TreeTop Walk.

The area around Venus Drive is under scrutiny because of the potential Cross Island train line that might go under the Central Catchment Area and this will harm the rainforest.

I hope that the Cross Island Line would divert and skirt around the Central Catchment area and we can keep the beautiful lush greenery of MacRitchie Reservoir and the Central Catchment Area.

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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone.. by as_photos

~ We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone..
Only through our love and friendship can we create
the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone ~

#Photography #Macro #Flora #Nature #Travel

Ashish Singh Photography

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golden-mantled ground squirrel, ut by hakoar

golden-mantled ground squirrel, ut, usa

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raven, island in the sky, ut by hakoar

raven, island in the sky, ut

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Fly , I can fly to the sky by kajornyot

The Oriental Darter or Indian Darter (Anhinga melanogaster ) is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It has a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed bill and like a cormorant, it hunts for fish while it hunts with its body submerged in water. It spears fish underwater, brings it to the surface and tosses it into the air before swallowing. The body remains submerged as it swims and the slender neck alone is visible above the water leading to its other name of snakebird. Like the cormorants, it has wettable feathers and it is often found perched on a rock or branch with its wings held open to dry. The Oriental Darter is like all other anhingas, a cormorant-like species that has a very long neck. The structure of the neck is as in other species of darter with strongly developed muscles about a kink in the neck at the 8th and 9th vertebrae that allows it to be flexed and darted forward with rapid force to stab fish underwater. The edges of the commisures of the mandible tips have minute inward pointing serrations that hold impaled fish.[5][6]

The adult plumage above is black and the wing coverts and tertials having silvery streaks along the shaft. The crown and neck are brown shading to black towards the back of the neck. The underparts are blackish brown. A pale line over the eye and throat and a line running along the sides of the neck gives it a striped appearance. The iris is white with a yellow ring around it. The tip of the upper mandible is dark while the base is pale brown bill while the lower mandible is yellowish. The legs and webbing on the foot are yellow in immatures and dark grey in older birds.[citation needed] The sexes are not easily distinguishable but males tend to have black speckles that coalesce on the white throat.Adult females have a shorter bill and tend to have the black at the base of neck and chest separated from the hind neck by a wide buff band that ends at the shoulder. This pattern however is also found in immatures whose neck is lighter and lack the long pointed scapulars In flight the slender and long neck, wide wing and wedge shaped tail make it distinctive.Young birds have a pale brown neck and appear whitish on the underside and lack the white streak along the side of the neck. The inner secondaries or tertials and the central tail feathers appear wavy or corrugated. The tail is long and made up of twelve stiff feathers which are dragged along the ground when the bird attempts to walk or hop on land.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Darter

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Трепещут #орки Сарумана перед потомком Ханумана. #thailand, #asia, #island, #phiphi, #animals, #monkey, #beach, #monkeybeach, #tropics, #trees, #wildlife, #warrior, #camouflage, #ape, #funny, #nice, #trip, #travel, #lategram, #flora, #fauna by beskozyrka

Трепещут #орки Сарумана перед потомком Ханумана. #thailand, #asia, #island, #phiphi, #animals, #monkey, #beach, #monkeybeach, #tropics, #trees, #wildlife, #warrior, #camouflage, #ape, #funny, #nice, #trip, #travel, #lategram, #flora, #fauna http://instagram.com/p/jN90WbFrYI/

Robin by Rosita_So

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