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I had to see it and so do you

That fern's spores aren't really conventionally pretty

#I love it #Mickelopteris cordata #fern #plants #plantblr

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a drawing of a canada warbler since it's starting to feel like spring in saskatchewan

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windows open season. waking up to birdsong season. smelling the dewy grass season. twirling in a long skirt season. life feels worth living again season. taking all of my meals outside of possible season. reasoning how far I can get by bike ride and pedaling out anyway season.

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#reptile #reptiblr #gecko #geckoblr #aeluroscalabotes #Aeluroscalabotes felinus #malaysian cat gecko #cat gecko

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#reptile #reptiblr #gecko #crested gecko #correlophus ciliatus #geckoblr

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Hi

#reptiblr #gecko #reptile #crested gecko #correlophus ciliatus #geckoblr

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They're all flowering together 🥺

First time for the small 'Jurassic spider'!

#I'll try to cross pollinate them 🥺 #so far I seem to get like... 2-5 flowering evebts with them a year!???? #bound to aloe #oops typo #plant #aloe #succulents #plants #indoor plants #plantblr

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Like 7 years of owning succulents and I still manage to rot one. Damn.

#been there done that

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Still staring at plants

#afop #avatar frontiers of pandora #the top ones are definitely clematis and I'm 🤤

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Tie a string around your finger, so you won't forget...

The Carolina Parakeet was declared extinct in 1939.

Up until just the year before, people were still claiming to have sighted the yellow-headed parakeets in the wild—in the impenetrable depths of Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp; along the Santee River basin of South Carolina, where people still search for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker to this day—but evidence suggested only escaped, feral species of pet birds, tinged by wishful thinking.

The last definitively identified specimen of Conuropsis carolinensis, a male named Incas, had died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918. As it happens, his last home was the very same cage in which Martha, the endling Passenger Pigeon, had spent her final years. 2014, the hundredth anniversary of Martha's loss, brought the publication of a number of new books on the topic of the Passenger Pigeon and even a documentary; the centenary of Incas' death, by contrast, warranted only a handful of mentions of our lost native parrot.

Hardly a hundred years later, our parakeet has faded from common memory—like the fading text on the tags that twine around the feet of the study skins that fill museum specimen drawers, where they should have filled the sky, should have filled roosts in hollow trees, should have filled our backyards; should have filled their lungs with air, and our hearts and imaginations and eyes with the sight of their iridescent green feathers.

The title of this painting is Memory Knot. It is gouache on 18 x 13 inch paper, and is the 9th piece in my series on the extinct Carolina Parakeet. It is also the final piece in the series as originally conceived (though inspiration continues to strike, and this is not the last appearance the species will make in my art).

Please, remember that there was a bird called the Carolina Parakeet. Remember what happened to it. Remember that we are the only ones who can keep it from happening again.

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São Tomé Caecilian (Schistometopum thomense), family Dermophiidae, endemic to São Tomé and Ilhéu das Rolas (Africa)

photographs by m_burger

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Hoot hoot

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everybody give it up for this brand of green. round of applause for most under appreciated green

#the best greensssss

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a sequel to my planet zoo guest thoughts post