Images Dated 25th June 2007

Pika - storing vegetation to be used as food in winter

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Pika - storing vegetation to be used as food in winter
Colorado, USA
Ochotona princeps
Inhabits talus slopes and rock slides usually near timberline and high mountains. Lives in colonies. Each pika has a territory within the colony at least in autumn. Related to rabbits. Feeds on grasses and herbs. Stores food in small piles of "hay" beneath boulders. Does not hibernate, spends the winter surviving on stored food often beneath a thick cover of snow. Makes a series of whistle-like calls.
John Cancalosi
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Red Kite - at nest with young

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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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