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A child beneath the wing of his golden eagle in the Altai region in western Mongolia. The Kazakh nomads still use the birds for hunting.

Today the Department of Awesome Natural Wonders treats us to an amazing look at the exquisitely beautiful structure of a luna moth wing viewed through a vintage microscope. These fascinating images were captured by Redditor Proteon using a 1951 American Optical Spencer microscope.

the zebra finch is a small passerine bird native to central australia and indonesia. the finches are very social, and live in large colonies. their diet consists mainly of grass seeds; they breed based on availability of water, as they feed their young ripening seeds, not dried seeds.