Lauren J.
@LJ521
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Cats & crows, backyard birds & trail cams with the night animals
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Joined July 2009
Make & female coyote have been coming around. On home cameras I can see the male is darker/bigger.
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Remember big Larry? I found him wandering the streets in Thailand. He was skinny, exhausted and confused. It took me months to build him up. He’d only eat rotisserie chicken hand fed to him. We did every test in the book to see what was wrong but everything was perfect. Big
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Big up to @Sanzisart for sharing this amazing photo of Jamaica’s Northern Potoo 🇯🇲🌿 with #RoostersWorldJA. Many people believe that it is an owl but it’s actually not one. The Northern Potoo is a night bird that feeds mostly on flying insects and uses incredible camouflage to
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I’ve started deploying the AudioMoths that were recently donated to help monitor wildlife after Hurricane Melissa. One unit is recording bats at night, while another is monitoring frogs, birds, and insects. These small acoustic recorders help us understand how wildlife is
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As it goes, there are many reasons why dung is so important to dung beetles - including all of the above! See how and why their lives centre around this smelly substance in this week’s Surprising Science! 🪲
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I stood in the rain this morning to capture this tender moment between two ravens nesting at a famous uptown Manhattan cathedral. The female has been on the nest for days and was calling loudly for her mate before he flew in. #birdcpp
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There is so much to learn about nature. Most people think bats just fly around at night. But a research paper on the carnivorous bat Vampyrum spectrum (not found in Jamaica) shows that some bats actually cooperate and have strong social bonds 🦇 Yes… bats work together. And here
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Coyote & Coyote hopping the fence ( must readjust to get a better shot of fence hopping) :
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Astoria the Wild Turkey has safely weathered the night. This clever Queen knows exactly where find shelter in the blizzard—snugly beneath the long park benches.🦃💕❄️ The Battery, NYC #birdcpp, #Astoria, #wildturkey, #urbanwildlife
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