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Sampling the snowy plover song

A snowy plover with a broken wing cheeped to her chicks at Monterey Bay Aquarium’s wild bird rehabilitation facility.

The tiny bird’s high-pitched, staccato trills gave Aimee Greenebaum, the Aquarium’s curator of aviculture, an idea. That night, her colleagues tiptoed into the plover’s room with a microphone and recorded her peeps…

Bulbophyllum sp.

“This intriguing species makes an umbel of five flowers surrounding a central capsule that develops directly from a bud without making a flower. We don’t know yet whether seed will develop in this capsule.“

Orchidaceae: Bulbophyllinae.

Paraphalaenopsis labukensis.

Orchidaceae: Aeridinae.

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