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Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis), “colts”, family Gruidae, order Gruiformes, Sarasota, FL, USA

Crane chicks are referred to as “colts”.

Sandhill Cranes breed in the far north of North America, and overwinter in the southern US and northern Mexico.

There are small separate southerly breeding populations in Mississippi, Florida, and Cuba.

the one I was looking for originally also has a summer variant. (artist is Frederick Charles Herrick: 'it is warmer below' is from 1927, 'it is cooler below' is 1926)

fruit stimboard series (4/32): tomato!

So there's this currently undescribed Globular Springtail(genus Katianna specifically) species that I regularly photograph that's been informally classified by springtail identifiers on iNaturalist and it's important to me that you all know that they've apparently nicknamed it "mountain dew"

Would've had four, but ruined one for myself by observing 9 more of them :P

Ditropinotus aureoviridis

Ptecticus matsumurae

Aeolothrips aureus

commission of @truemooo-reblogs ‘s oc as a lovely cuckoo bee!!