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An Eastern Gray Squirrel, native to the eastern North America, takes a leap.
Eastern Gray Squirrel are scatter-hoarder and hoards food mostly seeds in numerous small catches for later recovery. When that happens, the seed may sprout. Meaning, more trees, more food 🙂 Scientists in Pennsylvania consider Eastern Gray Squirrels as a model organism for studying the close evolutionary interaction between plants and animals. One such research findings show how Oak trees and Squirrels have evolved to help each other!
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In winter, the trees are bare, the snow is crusted, the marshes are frozen and brown leaves on the ground, clumps of dead grass, and little silvers of ice clinging to the edges of brooks. It might look like a gray world, but the Great Swamp teems with multitudinous forms of life.
As author Brooks Atkinson puts it in the 1967 article published in the New York Times magazine, “Great Swamp is good for nothing – But Life, Knowledge, Peace and Hope
The Great Swamp here in New Jersey is considered unique because it is home to both northern and southern species of trees and a refuge to millions of land and water birds migrating twice a year through the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge, which is part of the Great Atlantic Flyway – a major North-South flyway for migratory birds in North America.
The Great Swamp is also home to 42 species of reptiles and amphibians, 39 species of mammals, and home to more than 244 species of birds.
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The Bald Eagle has been the national emblem of the United States since 1782. They were once endangered by hunting and pesticides. In 1940 the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act was passed to protect Bald and Golden Eagle. The federal law prohibits the possession, sale, purchase, barter, offer to sell, transport, export or import, of any bald or golden eagle, alive or dead, including their feathers and parts, nests, nest trees, and winter/nighttime roosts, unless allowed by permit.
The bird is considered sacred by the American Indians and the eagles play an important role in their religious ceremonies. Each year the National Eagle Repository in Colorado bags more than 2,000 dead birds and freezes the animals before delivering them to waiting Native American Indian tribes to use in religious rituals.
Swipe left for a classic portrait of the bald eagle.
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The Chinese Tea House on the seaside cliff at the Marble House mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. The tea house is modeled on the 12th century Song Dynasty temples.
This social and architectural landmark was also used to host rallies for women’s right to vote in the USA.
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The Chinese Tea House on the seaside cliff at the Marble House mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. The tea house is modeled on the 12th century Song Dynasty temples.
This social and architectural landmark was also used to host rallies for women’s right to vote in the USA.
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It’s summertime! And here in the east coast of the United States, the long days of warm weather provides perfect time for outdoor fun with the whole family, including dogs!
We all have our own ways of expressions, but this Snowy Owl certainly has the best!
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Snowy Owls are one of the largest and most powerful and yet strikingly beautiful of all North American owls. They are relatively long-lived, thought to usually live more than 10 years of age in the wild. There are records of captive birds reaching 28 years old.
Sadly, due to habitat loss and other threats there are now less than 30,000 individuals estimated to be in the wild. They are now categorized as vulnerable by the IUCN red listed of threatened species.
While these birds breed in North America in Alaska and across northern Canada, they are also spotted in states like New Jersey during the winter when move here in search of prey.
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