Reddit Animals
MAY 17, 2024
But the ants literally cover the forest floor right now. I’m located in Sweden for reference. I remember reading that vipers are pretty much defenseless vs forest ants. So where have the snakes gone to avoid them? Red forest ants (Formica rufa) and adders (Vipera berus) are the animals in question.
Critter News
OCTOBER 28, 2010
Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. Tags: europe activism huntingdon animal rights. The cost of the damage and increased security measures amounted to 12.6 million pounds, the court heard.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2024
What I didn’t notice until I downloaded my photographs ( above and below ) was the fact that she had been colour ringed, with a red ring on her right leg, and green ring above yellow on her left leg. (Males have noticeably shorter beaks.)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Oh to be enjoying birds by Kalmar Castle in Sweden right now… Happy Valentine’s Day! If you can’t be with the birds you love, love the birds you’re with. In fact, you should obsessively stalk them this weekend as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count !
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2020
The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia). Two years ago I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”,
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. It was feeding on mud flats in the harbour of Brancaster Staithe, on the North Norfolk coast. The information I received didn’t indicate the age of the bird.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2019
Two hundred yards further, the first Common Goldeneye and Smew started to appear and, while counting Smew and geese, a Great Bittern took flight from one stand of reeds to another, right in front of us. And this one chose to fly right in front of us. It is not an uncommon bird, but being so secretive, I see it only every other year.
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