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Ribeiroia ondatraeObserver
patrickhoffmanDescription
The first photo is the cercaria stage shed from a planorbid snail collected from a pond at Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park. The second photo shows an infected Pseudacris sierra from the same pond.
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Common Black × Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus × Buteo lineatus)Observer
wild-by-nature-dbDescription
This is a Common Black Hawk x California Red-shouldered Hawk. Not sure how to get this as the ID.
Known offspring of the Common Blackhawk that lived here for 15 years.
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Andricus murtfeldtaeObserver
okbirdmanDescription
On Quercus stellata. Not positive gall wasp but best place to start
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California Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus)Observer
damontigheDescription
Leucistic? The pigment in the ocular orbitals is making me hesitate on saying albino
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Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)Observer
greglasleyDescription
Red-winged Blackbird
near Stewardson, Illinois
1 June 1989
I'm posting this record just for the general interest of a Red-winged Blackbird with one white wing. Whether a partial albino, or a partial leucistic bird, I'm not sure. A local farmer told my wife and me that this bird had been on his farm for three summers. The bird left in the fall with the other Red-wingeds and came back in the spring. I watched it for about 30 minutes. It vocalized like any other Red-winged BB and interacted with other Red-wingeds normally. It was pretty flashy to see in flight, however. Three shots posted. These images scanned from old color slides.
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Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias)Observer
sharkstewardDescription
Picture Gary Emich
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Nicsara trigonalisObserver
simonoDescription
In the peak of the top end dry season. A mantis crashed into the spotlight of my parked vehicle and fell on the ground, stunned. The katydid immediately arrived and began eating it. This is a dried up creek bed and the nearby vegetation is extremely dry - perhaps the katydid desperately needed the moisture. Bowerbird.org.au sighting being moved to iNaturalist as the former website is shutting down.
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American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)Observer
wingnutDescription
With mantis as prey!
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Tufted × Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor × atricristatus)Observer
lukearmstrong
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Western Atlantic Temperate Basses (Genus Morone)Observer
okbirdmanDescription
I'm pretty sure a hybrid but I'm not positive which two. I believe all four are now in this waterway. I was thinking M. chrysops x americana or M. chrysops x mississippiensis but I haven't been able to find any photos of these crosses for comparison.
