Beautiful Animals

Rhinoceros hornbill:

http://www.timlaman.com/content/photos/718357.jpg

Highland calf:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3016/2284663950_ece71df01c.jpg

@Roberta,

That's thoughtful of that hornbill to be giving that mouse a ride to the grocery and the video rental store to help him run some errands. Very Happy

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@Roberta,

Are sure that's not a hybrid cow/teddy bear?

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tsar, Dem hornbills is good folks. As for the fuzzy wuzzy, ask the mother. How would I know?

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@Roberta,

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Rhinoceros hornbill:

And...lest we forget...Boris the Beetle...who died to make this photo possible.

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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/4/9/1270811014377/This-reed-warbler-was-for-009.jpg

This reed warbler was forced to give up its nest to a cuckoo egg - but then fed the chick and raised it as its own. Despite being dwarfed by the young intruder, the tiny mother delivered a steady stream of worms to its large mouth. Female cuckoos lay their eggs in another bird's nest and then leave them to hatch and be bought up by smaller birds.
Photograph: David Kjaer/Solent News

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@msolga,

I identified strongly with that bird, having 5 kids and no help.
Worms, hey....I should try that...are they cheap ?

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I googled "animal camouflage" just to see what would come up. I like these--frogmouths:

http://www.shearyadi.com/myworld/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/21062008_frogmouth.jpg

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@Ionus,

http://WormsRus.com Have them on sale if you buy them in bulk 50 gallon barrels.

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@Roberta,

Those owls are classy in their tree bark duds. I surprised to see them being photographed so easily during the daytime. Would have figured they'd be sleeping in a tree den or something as I supposed that owls are mostly nocturnal hunters.

I wonder why these are called frogmouths. Their diet is frogs? Or do they're hooting sound like frog croaking?

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@tsarstepan,

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I wonder why these are called frogmouths?

This help?

http://www.oceanwideimages.com/images/12872/large/50T5225-01-tawny-frogmouth.jpg

Our tawny frogmouth isn't an owl....I don't know if your weird upside down ones are?

Tawnies:

http://ruthwaterhouse.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/merlin-tawny-frogmouth.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3094/3104351638_be4db41899.jpg

Just looked...they are not owls...they are related to nightjars.

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@dlowan,

Nightjars:

This is an Australian owled nightjar.

I don't know if this means her mummy and daddy done somethin' wrong...likely not.

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/files/2009/01/img_3713.jpg

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@dlowan,

Night ... jar???

http://www.uberreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/sun%20jar.jpg

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Deb, Frogmouths and nightjars don't exist in the hemisphere in which I reside. So we don't got "weird upside down ones."

Hey, tsar, If you wanna show pictures of inanimate objects, start your own steenkin' thread.

Blue-gray tanager:

http://www.birdfinders.co.uk/images/blue-gray-tanager-peru-2005.jpg

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@Roberta,

Roberta,
I'm not a particularly big fan of baby blue but this birdie wears it perfectly. Very Happy

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2010/0416/15/7744114-1-eng-US/15_full_600.jpg

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2010/Photos-of-the-Day-04-16/(photo)/15

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Veterinarian Dr. Rob Conner checks out an injured eagle chick on Firday at his office in Mountain Home, Ark. The chick was found under a nest with a broken wing. The Little Rock Zoo has agreed to adopt the chick.

Kevin Pieper/The Baxter Bulletin/AP

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@tsarstepan,

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2010/0416/01/7743876-1-eng-US/01_full_600.jpg

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2010/Photos-of-the-Day-04-16

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Two baby meerkats stand in the sun at their enclosure at the Chester Zoo in Chester, England, on Friday. The 3-week-old babies had their first public appearance after spending their first weeks underground in their burrow.

Phil Noble/Reuters

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tsar, That eagle is one big baby. Glad it found a home. And dem meerkats is too cute. Love dem. Used to watch Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet. Amazing, smart, cute, animals. Also tres tough.

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@Roberta,

I wonder if meerkats have a special problem with static cling in a whole as a species....

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@tsarstepan,

tsar, Meerkats might have a problem with static cling. But you gotta wonder what they cling to. It's a puzzlement.

Red skimmer:

http://www.insects.org/entophiles/odonata/odon_l004.jpg

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