ラケットヨタカさん
Racket-winged Nightjar

standard-winged nightjar (Caprimulgus longipennis)

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no.290. Yesterday's wasp had no mandibles, today's has a head that's about half mandibles. An alysiine braconid, Ilatha pulchripennis. Alysiine mandibles are specialised for emerging from Diptera puparia.

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Pinguinus impennis

【世界ペンギンの日再掲】オオウミガラス

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Happy
Today commemorates the of the (Pinguinus impennis), a large flightless in the family that lived in the North Atlantic and was hunted to extinction in 1844. Let's and our extant seabirds!

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Pinguinus impennis, great auk. Plate 46 from John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873) hand coloured lithograph. View the book for free via https://t.co/y8qLypIQRv

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Pinguinus impennis, great auk. Plate 341 from John James Audubon's Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (and Son), London.

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pennisetum ペンニセツウム、道端などでよく見かけるチカラシバの一種。イネ科の植物だけれど、食べることも出来ず、引き抜くにはかなりの力を要することからチカラシバの名前がつく。子どもの頃は、穂先をちぎり取り「毛虫」などと呼んで遊んだことが誰にもあるんじゃないだろうか。

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Delivering to exhibition 31st July -9th August :)

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