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Oh my, but aren’t you fantastic, Mr. Fox!
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Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella)
Small, oddly attired seabird of Arctic waters with dark gray body. Head has a strange, smiling orange bill, quail-like crest, bright yellow-white eyes and white eye plumes. A group of auks has many collective nouns, including a “colony”, “loomery”, and “raft” of auks. It stores plankton in a pouch under its tongue to feed to the chick. The Crested Auklet rub a citrus-like scent, secreted in wick-like feathers on their backs, on each other during courtship, a behavior called alloanointing. It is well known among some mammals, such as peccaries, but until now was not documented among birds.
Turtle Frog (Myobatrachus gouldi)
The Turtle Frog is a fossorial (burrowing) species, and probably the most fossorial of all Australian frogs. They even call and mate underground, where the eggs are laid in the moist sand and develop directly into frogs.
Raven, taken by my dad near our house.
