Blogs about Natural world
18 blogs about Natural world.
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APHA Science Blog
News and updates from the Animal and Plant Health Agency on science.
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Diagnostic excellence in action: APHA’s response to high pathogenicity avian influenza threats in cattle The emergence of a bird flu infection in cattle in the United States (US) in March 2024 was unprecedented. Until the US event, mass infection of herbivorous mammals with avian influenza had never been described, …
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The Apiarist - Blog
Weekly posts on the science and practice of beekeeping. Bees, honey, swarms, bad backs, stings and just about everything else as well.
By David Evans. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The Apiarist in 2024 The annual review of the year on The Apiarist.What's popular, what's not ... and what does this tell us about the beekeeping year?Strangely, although I didn't write a review of the beekeeping season in December …
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The Birdist
Birds and Birding.
By Nick Lund. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Cats and Birds LTE from 1923 Cats are known to be the leading predator of birds in the U.S.A, killing somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds per year. It's a major problem.And there's a sense that it's a new one. …
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Carnivorous Plants - Botanical Photography - aldrovanda.com
Field reports about carnivorous plants and botanical oddities in their native habitats. Photos of wild specimines of Drosera, Pinguicula, and Darlingtonia.
By Forbes Conrad. 🇲🇽 More infoUpdated
Stylidium debile in Cultivation Léelo en español Years ago, I grew Stylidium debile in California. After a long period of not growing any carnivorous plants, a friend gave me this division, which just began to flower. Yes, yes, this …
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David Bradley
Science Communication since 1989.
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Mistle Thrush on the Mistletoe For years our ailing rowan tree had a clump of male mistletoe, the neighbour’s much healthier tree was host to a berry-laden female that attracted a Mistle Thrush. The bird has a cackling call unlike …
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Fossil Huntress
Musings in natural history meant to captivate, educate & inspire. Deepen your world.
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CHARLES DARWIN: A TASTE FOR STUDIES Chelonia. Schildkröten by Ernst Haeckel, 1904Care for some tarantula with that walrus? No? how about some Woolly mammoth?While eating study specimens is not de rigueur today, it was once common practice for researchers in the …
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Goat-O-Rama
Put some color in your herd!
By Nan Hassey, Phil Hassey. 🇺🇸 More info -
The Hazel Tree
by Jo Woolf.
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Orkney: the Ring of Brodgar Scotland's largest Neolithic stone circle, which stands on the Ness of Brodgar
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Julian Hoffman
Notes from Near and Far.
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The Theory and Practice of Rivers This past spring, I was asked by the Society for the Protection of Prespa if I would be interested in photographing the rivers, streams and waterside forests of Prespa as part of a project called …
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Natural History Journal
Notes from a California Naturalist.
By Siera Nystrom. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Light of the World As those of us in the northern hemisphere enter into the season marked by the longest nights and shortest days of the year, I can't help but reflect on the pervasiveness of light in our …
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The Panda’s Thumb
By Matt Young. More infoUpdated
Merry Kitzmas! 2025 is the 20th anniversary of Kitzmiller v. Dover and the 100th of the Scopes Trial Nick Matzke at the Dayton County Courthouse where the Scopes Trial was held in 1925. (photo from ~2014) Merry Kitzmas to all! Today is the 19th anniversary of the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District …
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Ramblings of a Naturalist
As an ecologist and biodiversity researcher and recorder, the author visits a wide range of rural and urban habitats mainly close to his home in Sedlescombe near Hastings, East Sussex, UK.
By Patrick Roper. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
A trip to Glen More, 1954 My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My …
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Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week | SV-POW!
All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access.
By Michael P. Taylor, Mathew J. Wedel, Darren Naish. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Interesting paper alert: Harris (2024) on nuchal ligaments Check out the new paper by Jerry Harris, “What exactly is a nuchal ligament and who exactly has one?” This is one of those papers that fires on lots of cylinders for me: it’s interesting, …
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Scientist Sees Squirrel
Seldom original. Often wrong. Occasionally interesting.
By Stephen Heard. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
What would you like to see in a 3rd edition of ‘The Scientist’s Guide to Writing’? The second edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing isn’t quite three years old, but I’ve been talking with the publisher about a third edition. And I want your help with it. I have to …
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Southern Rockies Nature Blog
Where Nature Meets Culture—Plus Wildfire, Dogs, Environmental News, and Writing with a Southern Rockies Perspective.
By Chas S. Clifton. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
How the Swiss Army Knife Will Hypnotise You A few months ago, a veteran upland bird-hunter on Facebook asked people to list their favorite pocket knives. I have owned a few since I started carrying one at age 11 or whenever. Most popular …
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Springwatch - BBC Blogs
Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch Blog. A place to talk UK Nature.
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Discover toads and how you can help them Written by Cathy Robinson, nature and travel writer, for Naturehood at Earthwatch Europe Have you been lucky enough to spot a pair of copper-coloured eyes peeping out from a hidey hole this spring? If you …
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Stephen Bodio
Notes from Tiger Country.
By Stephen Bodio, Libby Frishman-Bodio, John Burchard, Reid Farmer, Sea Run. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Winter is here. Erik Johansson Photography – Expecting Winter. When I saw it I thought Painting or Digital? Johansson is a talented photo manipulator it seems. The image struck a nerve. Winter makes me edgy now. Anshelm Schultzberg …
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Tetrapod Zoology
Discussion of all things tetrapod and vertebrate palaeontology, and many things not.
By Darren Naish. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
My Weird 2000 Paper on Tree-Climbing Dinosaurs Every now and again – speaking here as someone who’s published some number of articles, books and technical papers – I find it worthwhile to look back at the completed works of the past. For …