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📍Pacific Northwest 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

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📍Norway 🇳🇴

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whipped ricotta toast with lemon thyme honey

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Black-billed Mountain-Toucan (Andigena nigrirostris) returning to the nest, family Ramphastidae, order Piciformes, Colombia

photograph by marcello galleano

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American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), male, family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, found over a great deal of North America and South America

photograph by Steve Rose (@stevenrosephotography)

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Earless Monitor Lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis), family Lanthanotidae, endemic to Borneo

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Semi-aquatic.

Closely related to true monitor lizards in the family Varanidae.

The only member of its family.

They do have inner ears, and are capable of hearing, despite the lack of ear openings and tympanae.

photographs by Tom Williams

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Frog-legged Beetle (Sagra buqueti), family Chrysomelidae, SE Asia

photograph by @tania0378

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Blue Waxbill (Uraeginthus angolensis), courtship display, family Estrildidae, order Passeriformes, Dinokeng Game Reserve, South Africa

photographs by Thinus Van Staden

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Dracula Parrot aka Pesquet’s Parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, endemic to New Guinea

photographs by Peter Tan & Greg Hume 

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Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno), male, family Trogonidae, order Trogoniformes, Costa Rica

photograph by Edwin Martinez

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Violet-backed Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), male, family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, found in southwestern Africa

photograph by Nigel Voaden