Images Dated 25th June 2007

Atlantic Puffin - with sand eels

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Atlantic Puffin - with sand eels
UK
Fratercula arctica
Breeds in great numbers on British Isles. Nests in burrows on grassy slopes often in large colonies. Feeds on fish. Pelagic in winter. After breeding season loses outer parts of bill and has smaller yellow and grey bill. In winter face becomes dark grey.
John Cancalosi
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Red Kite - at nest with young

CAN-2953
Red Kite - at nest with young
Wales, UK
Milvus milvus
Protected in the UK and increasing its range. Mainly found in Wales. Found in western Europe and extreme northern Africa. Lives in open wooded land and varied country including forests or woods mixed with farmland, pasture or heathland. Historically occurred in cities and still quite closely associated with man visiting rich feeding areas on edges of towns e.g. rubbish dumps. Essentially eats carrion and small or medium-sized mammals and birds. Nests in trees. Mainly migratory in north and central Europe
John Cancalosi
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Great PlainsToads - mating

CAN-2995
Great PlainsToads - mating
Arizona, USA
Bufo cognatus
Inhabits prairies or desert often breeding after heavy rains in summer in shallow temporary pools or quiet water or streams, marshes, irrigation ditches and flooded fields. Primarily a grassland species but frequests creosote bush desert mesquite woodland and sagebrush plains in the West
John Cancalosi
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