Great #photography of small & larger wildlife living in The #Netherlands, posted at Dutch platform for flora & fauna identification Waarneming.nl Thanks #contributors! #outdoor #nature Observation.org

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European Glass Lizard - Pseudopus apodus 2011-05-09 Greece - Lesbos - Ipsilou Monastery observation.org/waarneming/vie… via Observation.org

Word of the day: "entomology" - the study of insects, in all their staggering diversity. Entomology's etymology is from the Greek ἔντομος, "cut up" (in reference to insect bodies' division into segments). There are more than 200 million insects for every human presently alive.

Join our Belgian partner Natagora as they organise 'crossing guard' support to biodiversity as our amphibian friends migrate from forest to pond. if you can spare an evening, it’s a small help for biodiversity, and great fun. bit.ly/2UcxJHD

Catching my eye this morning. The Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae) a striking black-and-red #moth that also flies during the day. As a result of this it is often mistaken for a #butterfly. #Hertfordshire #insect #pollinators Team4Nature Butterfly Conservation 🦋 NatureUK

Successful EuroBirdPortal meeting👌 Huge thnxs to Gabriel and ICOcells team. Great progress in bird portal collaboration BirdTrack eBird #artportalen Sovon Vogelonderzoek Nederland Observation.org and Ornitho family. Good seabirding thanks to stormy conditions in Barcelona Live swallow arrival map

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2nd for Poland AUDOUIN'S GULL, Ichthyaetus audouinii, subadult today in Hel, Baltic Coast by Paweł Malczyk, Zbigniew Kajzer and Wojciech Janecki. Tarsiger

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Great news - From now on Observation.org observations can also be found on GBIF! Nearly 40 million sightings with more than 5 million photos, collected and checked by many volunteers: gbif.org/dataset/8a8630… GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif #CitizenScience

We just finished our video! It's a perfect introduction to our online nature platform Observation International. We share observational data about global biodiversity, past and present, as a source of knowledge for the future. youtu.be/fx759iLDqM0.

Yesterday we imported 142.450 bird sightings from Suriname. A nice expension of observations in a country full of nature. Did you know that more than 700 bird species have been identified in Suriname? Source: surinamebirds.nl Picture: Spotted Puffbird, Wim Rubers.

White’s Thrush trapped and ringed at Helgoland photo Jochen Dierschke - 9th record for Germany since 1977

The (Dutch Ringed) White Stork taken yesterday in the New Forest. Showed well.