by Rich Leighton | Dec 13, 2020 | Herps, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, New Mexico, Reptiles
Collared lizards are capable of bipedal locomotion. This means they can run on their rear two legs at speeds up to 15 miles per hour! If you see a collared lizard with red splotches on its body, you can tell it is a gravid female (carrying eggs) and these red markings...
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 22, 2020 | Florida Nature Photography, Insects, Interesting Nature Facts, Invertebrates, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
These ferocious little relatives of dragonflies have been gorging on mosquitoes and other small flying insects for at least 300 million years. While they are often seen clinging to rocks, reeds and other structures near water, they cannot walk at all. Their legs are...
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 12, 2020 | Insects, Interesting Nature Facts, Invertebrates, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
While bees are the current darlings of the invertebrate world, drone flies deserve a lot of credit as well. Not only do these cousins to mosquitoes, houseflies and horseflies live in almost complete obscurity in the public eye, these bee-mimicking insects play an...
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...
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