A big bright vivid orange bird sporting a black bib and a pair of stunning bright blue spectacles. Meet the Orange Troupial The orange-backed troupial (Icterus croconotus), is a species of bird in the Icteridae family. This is a bright orange apart from a black, face, wings, bib, and tail. There is a small white patch on the secondary …
Wild members of this species possess brilliant blue rumps and leaf green bodies, but domestic types can be mostly blue or even yellow. MEET THE ROSY-FACED LOVEBIRD The rosy-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis), also known as the rosy-collared or peach-faced lovebird. A small parrot, the average adult Peachface measures 15cm long. Since this bird is so …
We have different reactions toward the same thing. It is understandable as each person has their own point of view. This also happens in the world of animals, guys. While a baby elephant couldn’t be more excited to chase after and dance with a flock of birds, this baby rhino is obsessed with the feathered …
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A very rare bird somewhat resembling a Christmas angel with flames spilling from beneath its robes. Meet the Silver Diamond Firetail This bird is a variety of diamond firetail (Stagonopleura guttata), that only the most experienced breeders can reliably produce by selecting parents carrying the recessive genes which give rise to this almost pearl white plumage. The diamond …
Call ‘em birds, or birbs, or orbs. Give ‘em names. But no one can take that smolness and birbness away. Yep, move over, doggos and cattos, funny pics of feathered creatures are a new internet craze that we can’t get enough of. Get your cuteness birdometer ready, ‘cause these cutie pies will make you go: …
Kandovan is an extraordinary ancient village in the province of East Azarbaijan, near the city of Tabriz, Iran. With its at least 800 years existence, this remarkable place is inhabited by 670 people and offers scenic beauty for its travelers. With homes carved inside rocks, some of them 700 years old, the Kandovan village is …
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La Casa en el Aire (literally ‘The House in the Air’ in Spanish) is a unique hostel perched on a cliff face, about 30 meters above ground, in the Colombian mountains. Built primarily out of wood and featuring a tin roof, Casa en el Aire is attached to Cerro San Vicente, a monumental rock formation …
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Developed during the 1980’s in Soviet Russia, the futuristic looking MD-160 Lun-class ekranoplan had been sitting unused at a Russian naval base since the late 1990’s, but has now been beached on the shores of the Caspian Sea, as part of a plan to turn it into an ocean-side tourist attraction. Known as the Caspian …
Monster of the Caspian Sea – A Legendary Plane Rusting Away on a Beach Read More »
Legend says that they are footprints of the gods, others believe that they are UFO landing sights, and scientists have their own theories, but the truth is that no one really knows how the fairy circles dotting the Namib coastal desert came to be. Fairy circles are uniformly distributed round gaps in arid grassland across …
The Mysterious ‘Fairy Circles’ of Namibia Baffle Scientists for 70 Years Read More »
Every year, at the end of October, tens of thousands of people flock to a Buddhist temple in China to see a majestic gingko biloba tree shed its foliage and turn the temple compound from green to gold. The Gu Guanyin Buddhist temple in the Zhongnan Mountains of China’s Shaanxi Province is home to a …
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