by Rich Leighton | Dec 8, 2020 | Birds, Florida Nature Photography, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
When you think of birds feeding their babies in the nest, we immediately think of hungry little chicks gobbling up insects dutifully foraged in the surrounding environment. House finches do things a little bit differently, and feed their chicks a nearly 100%...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 17, 2020 | Bird of Prey, Birds, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
Prairie falcons may look very similar peregrine falcons and do share a common extinct ancestor, but live in very different habitats and rarely come in contact with each other. The prairie falcon prefers nesting in the hot dry deserts and scrublands and ca sometimes be...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 7, 2020 | Birds, Florida Nature Photography, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
The Eastern kingbird mostly eats flying insects during the summer in North America and maintains a breeding territory that it defends vigorously against all other kingbirds. In the winter along the Amazon, however, it has a completely different lifestyle: it travels...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 10, 2020 | Birds, Florida Nature Photography, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
The smallest woodpecker in North America? That would be the downy woodpecker, which barely weighs over one ounce, and can be found in every state and province of the continental United States and Canada. Interesting note: this tiny woodpecker has special feathers...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 2, 2020 | Birds, Florida, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
Sandhill Crane! Welcome to the next installment of a new series of nature photos that will be short & sweet, and all about the native and naturalized wildlife that is all around us with just one or two interesting nature facts that you might not know about. If you...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 18, 2020 | Birds, Florida Nature Photography, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
When baby white ibises hatch their bills are straight. Ibis bills don’t start to curve downward until they are 14 days old. MORE PHOTOS OF BIRDS MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS Interesting Nature Facts is a series about the flora, fauna and places that make North...
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