Most of the really blurry pictures were taken with camera binoculars, and they were the best I could do in the situation, so take it easy.

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  Lazuli Bunting, above Pilar, New Mexico
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  American Kestrel with snake, Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge. Ophiophagy needed a picture.
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  White-winged Dove, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
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  Neotropic Cormorants, Bosque del Apache
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  Sandhill Cranes, ditto
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  Proving the existence of Ross's Geese (as if there were any doubt), ditto
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  Canyon Towhee in its natural habitat next to a trailer, Santa Fe Community College, New Mexico
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  Plumbeous Vireo (Vireo plumbeus) from another trip to the same place near Pilar.
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  Pecos Mariposa Lily (Calochortus gunnisonii var. perpulchra—a variety found only in a small area of New Mexico), Hamilton Mesa, Santa Fe National Forest.
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  Corallorrhiza maculata, too bad there were already much better pictures.
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  Horned Lark, LVNWR again
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  Ross's Goose, Bosque del Apache again
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  Immature Ross's Goose (small at left) with Lesser Snow Geese, Bosque del Apache
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  Gray-headed Dark-eyed Junco, Northern New Mexico College, Española
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  Pilgrims at hilltop shrine between Nambé and Chimayó, Good Friday
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  Aid station for pilgrims
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  Pilgrims waiting to get into Santuario
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  Crowd of pilgrims, including man carrying cross
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  Oldies
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  A more modern, "import" lowrider
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  The Santa Cruz church
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  cars in Española
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  the Bond House in Española
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  Sign advertising panocha
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  Female Lesser Scaup, Rio Grande Nature Center, Albuquerque
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  Canada Geese courting, ditto
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  Cliff fendlerbush near Santa Cruz Lake
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  Silvery Lupin on the road to Borrego Mesa
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  Silky pasqueflower, closer to Borrego Mesa
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  ditto
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  Silvery Lupin right next to the other one, showing leaf texture for identification
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  Better Gray-headed Junco, Borrego Mesa
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  Bee fly of the genus Anthrax on my pants, Borrego Mesa
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  male Blue Grosbeak
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  Western Wood-Pewee
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  Better Plumbeous Vireo two years after the one above but at the same place
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  crop of previous picture
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  Better Cordilleran Flycatcher, Santa Fe Ski Basin
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  corn lily flowers, ditto
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  corn lily, ditto
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  Franciscan lungwort/bluebell, ditto
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  Santa Fe phlox (accept no other common names), Randall Davey Audubon Center, Santa Fe
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  flower of a different Santa Fe phlox plant, ditto
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  the rare white-flowered form, ditto
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  rare yellow-bracted form of the foothills paintbrush, Randall Davey Audubon Center. Thanks to Mark Eggers for ID.
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  ditto, thanks again
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  common, red-flowered form, ditto
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  bearberry honeysuckle in fruit, Santa Fe Ski Area
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  white marsh marigold, ditto
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  Purple Geranium
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  Another one
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  MacDougal's verbena, Black Canyon campground, Santa Fe National Forest
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  oshá leaves (accept no other common name), Winsor Trail, ditto
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  flowers and leaves ditto
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  common alpine, Santa Fe Ski Basin
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  Heart-leaved bittercress, ditto
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  Sickletop lousewort, ditto
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  hoary cress flowers with female sweat bee of the genus Lasioglossum, subgenus Dialictus. Thanks to Eric R. Eaton for ID at BugGuide.
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  Say's Phoebe nest, Española
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  A fledgeling Common Starling, Santa Cruz, New Mexico
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  closer crop
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  (Golden smoke) flowers, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo
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  plant ditto
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  Astragalus praelongus, U.S. 84/285 near Pojoaque, New Mexico
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  flowers of same. Thanks to Al Schneider for confirming ID.
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  Rush milkvetch (Astragalus lonchocarpus) flowers, Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe
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  pods of same
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  Sage Sparrow, El Rito, New Mexico. Too bad he blinked.
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  Red-whiskered clammyweed (family Cleomaceae), lower part of F. R. 144
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  Calypso orchids, Winsor Trail near Santa Fe Ski Basin
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  Parry's or bog primrose, with snow, ditto, a couple miles farther up
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  Flower ditto
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  Nambé Lake to illustrate cliché
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  Western Tiger Swallowtail on peony, Agua Fria Nursery, Santa Fe, same purpose
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  Sweet sand verbena, U.S. 84 near Medanales
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  flowers of same
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  Vaccinium myrtillus among quaking aspen, Santa Fe National Forest
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  Texas croton or doveweed, La Puebla
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  flower of same plant (male)
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  flower of female plant
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  Cota (accept no other common names), Thelesperma megapotamicum, ditto.
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  flower of same species
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  alpine bitterweed, Tetraneuris brandegeei, near Tesuque Peak
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  flower of same species
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  better Sage Sparrow, same place as the one above
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  same individual as previous
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  juvenile Sage Sparrow, probably the offspring of the previous bird
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  Male variegated meadowhawk, still near El Rito
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  A bee assassin, Apiomerus montanus, Pecos National Historical Park. Thanks to V. Belov and D. R. Swanny at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Brook saxifrage, Santa Fe Ski Basin
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  Closer view of bearberry honeysuckle berries, Santa Fe Ski Basin
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  Felwort, Gentianella amarella, ditto
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  Gray Vireo, Sandoval County
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  Orange sneezeweed, near Santa Fe Ski Basin
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  ditto
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  Police-car moth, on orange sneezeweed, same meadow
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  ditto, showing hindwings
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  White Checkermallow, still the same meadow
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  ditto
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  Pinedrops, Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve
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  ditto, flowers
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  ditto, fruit
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  Mormon fritillary, Speyeria mormonia. Thanks to David J. Ferguson at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Male (front) and female Purplish Coppers, near the Santa Fe Ski Basin. Thanks to David J. Ferguson at BugGuide.net for ID confirmation.
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  Female from previous picture
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  Coulter's horseweed, Laennecia coulteri, Apache Springs Trail, Bandelier
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  Narrow goldenrod, ditto
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  Bahia, ditto
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  Undescribed bee fly of the genus Exoprosopa, Walnut Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns NP. Thanks to Andy Calderwood at BugGuide.net for this information.
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  Red-winged Grasshopper, Arphia pseudonietana, subfamily Oedipodinae, Rattlesnake Springs, Carlsbad Caverns NP. Thanks to Eric Eaton at BugGuide.net for confirming ID.
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  Male Ebony Grasshoppper, Boopedon nubilum, subfamily Gomphocerinae, Rattlesnake Springs
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  Same grasshopper
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  Little-Leaf Sumac, ditto
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  Catclaw Acacia, same national park, five months later. Thanks to Wynn Anderson for correcting my ID.
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  Three-seed Phlox, still Carlsbad Caverns NP
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  Feather Dalea, ditto
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  Oblique-lined Tiger Beetle, Cicindela tranquebarica, bottom of White Rock Canyon
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  King's Lupin, Santa Fe Botanical Gardens Ortiz Mountain Preserve
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  ditto
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  Macauley's Alpine Buttercup, near Tesuque Peak
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  Podistera eastwoodiae, ditto. Thanks to John Bregar and Patrick Alexander for ID.
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  Mayfly, Siphlonurus occidentalis, Aspen Vista Trail, Santa Fe National Forest. Thanks to Roger Rohrbeck at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Better Common Alpine, Santa Fe Ski Basin
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  ditto
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  King's Crown, near Santa Fe Ski Basin
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  Parry's Lousewort, ditto
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  same plant
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  Inflated Penstemon, Borrego Mesa. Thanks to Bob Sivinski for ID.
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  Ditto.
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  Pecos Baldy and Santa Fe Baldy
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  Scarlet Gilia, Aspen Vista Trail
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  Dotted Saxifrage near Lake Peak
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  Dandelion Butterwort near Lake Peak
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  finally got a decent Purple Geranium, near Rio Mora campground, Santa Fe National Forest
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  Yellow Owl's-Clover, east of Grass Mountain, Pecos Wilderness
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  Gaura coccinea at night, Santa Cruz.
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  Say's Phoebe on nest, Orilla Verde
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  Leafhopper nymph of the genus Idiocerus, my arm, San Cristobal Canyon, Taos County, New Mexico. Thanks to Andy Hamilton at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Caterpillars of the genus Gnophaela, San Cristobal Canyon. Thanks to John and Jane Balaban at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Exoprosopa caliptera, ditto.
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  Purple Nama, La Puebla
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  Ditto
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  Flower longhorn beetle, Trachysida aspera, on oshá flowers, Northside at Taos Ski Valley. Thanks to V. Belov and I. P. Swift at BugGuide.net for identification.
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  Golden crownbeard, Rabbit Road, Santa Fe
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  Many-flowered Blazing Star, Rabbit Road

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  Cane Cholla in March snow next to my yard
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  Cane Cholla flowers and fruit
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  Ladder-backed Woodpecker in the cholla already pictured
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  The quest continues!
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  Blue Flax in my garden
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  Silverleaf nightshade ditto
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  May 2006
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  ditto
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  ditto
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  Fendler's hedgehog (Echinocereus fendleri) ditto
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  "cane" or dried stem of Cane Cholla, collected at El Dorado, New Mexico, photographed at my house.
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  Rocky Mountain penstemon
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  ditto
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  Thyme-leaf Spurge in my garden
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  upper tangent arc
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  Mountain Chickadee on that same cholla
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  On a sunflower seedhead this time
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  Pink-sided Dark-eyed Junco, first success in a six-week-long quest
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  If that's the second success, it came one minute after the first.
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  Sandhill Cranes, and are those geese at right?
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  Iris bucharica flower
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  the whole plant
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  Tulipa clusiana var. chrysantha flower, fully open in the sun
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  a whole plant
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  House Finch nest and eggs
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  Scarlet globemallow
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  Yellow salsify seedhead
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  Crab spider on Allium sphaerocephalon
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  ditto
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  male Black Witch on my porch
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  Fledgeling Black-headed Grosbeak that J. R., Robin, and Alexis rescued from a cat
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  Ammophila digger wasp with caterpillar
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  ditto, thanks to John Ascher for ID at BugGuide
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  Moss rose showing somatic mutation
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  Female Protandrena mexicanorum, mining bee of the subfamily Panurginae, on a silverleaf nightshade flower, thanks to John Ascher for ID at BugGuide
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  Solanum exomalopsis (Exomalopsis solani), bee of the tribe Exomalopsini, on Solanum elaeagnifolium flower, thanks to John Ascher for ID at BugGuide
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  spotted spreadwing (damselfly), Lestes congener, thanks to Kaylee Skylyn and Nick Block at BugGuide for ID
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  a kind of moon carrot, Seseli gummiferum
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  flowers of plant in previous picture
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  Tylosis maculatus, spotted tylosis or red and black longhorn beetle
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  devil's-claw (Proboscidea parviflora) flower
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  fruits of same
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  seeds of same
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  male Hairy Woodpecker to show tongue
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  same bird, sharper
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  We didn't have a picture of a robin in snow.
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  mat daisy (Anacyclus pyrethrum var. depressus)
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  same plant, flower detail
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  same variety, flowers closed
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  Tulipa bakeri cv "Lilac Wonder"
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  Tulipa batalinii cv "Bright Gem"
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  digger wasp, apparently Prionyx atratus or subatratus, family Sphecidae, on mat daisy
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  same wasp, thanks to John Ascher at BugGuide for ID
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  Bitterbrush flowers
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  Echinocereus fendleri, Fendler's hedgehog
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  Female Prionyx parkeri, thanks to Eric Eaton and John Ascher at Bugguide.net for ID
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  Same wasp
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  Bee fly of the genus Dipalta
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  ditto
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  Female mining bee, Protandrena mexicanorum. Thanks to John Asher at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Wasp of the genus Tachytes (family Crabronidae). Thanks to Edward Trammel at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Male bee of the genus Dieunomia, subgenus Epinomia, probably D. nevadensis, probably subspecies arizonensis. Thanks to John Ascher at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Another one.
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  Bee fly of the genus Systoechus. Thanks to Joel Kits at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Ditto.
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  Fly of the genus Poecilanthrax, really. Thanks to Andy Calderwood at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Ditto.
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  Bug of the genus Narnia, family Coreidae
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  Same individual. Thanks to Brad Barnd at BugGuide.Net for ID.
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  Female Eupeodes volucris on Tulipa turkestanica. Thanks to Ron Hemberger at BugGuide.Net for ID.
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  Ditto.
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  Tulip alba caerulea occulata or whatever you call it
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  Bug of the genus Harmostes, family Rhopalidae
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  Ditto, showing beak
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  Peleteria again. Thanks to Norm Woodley at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Same fly
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  House Finch nestlings
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  Spider wasp, Allochares azureus, in my house. Thanks to Nick Fensler at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Digrammia irrorata moth on my outside wall. Thanks to Maury J. Heiman at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Wooly Dalea, La Puebla. Thanks to Chick Keller for confirming ID.
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  Bristle Flax, ditto. Thanks to Bob Sivinski for ID.
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  Isodontia elegans, a grass-carrying wasp of the family Sphecidae. Thanks to John Ascher at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Female ichneumon wasp of the genus Anomalon, subfamily Anomaloninae, on Penstemon strictus. Thanks to Ken Wolgemuth and Bob Carlson at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Flower of long-flowered four-o'clock
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  Male subimago of the mayfly Baetis tricaudatus, my arm. Thanks to Roger Rohrbeck at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Male imago, my porch screen. Thanks again to Roger Rohrbeck at BugGuide.net.
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  Tachinid fly of the genus Oestrophasia, same screen. Thanks to Norm Woodley at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  same fly
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  Las Conchas Fire
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  ditto
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  ditto
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  Tachinid fly of the genus Zelia, my porch. Thanks to Norm Woodley at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Female Mountain Digger Bee. Thanks to John Ascher at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Bee fly of the genus Lepidanthrax. Thanks to Joel Kits at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Tachinid fly of the genus Juriniopsis on my porch. Thanks to Norm Woodley at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Ditto
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  Ditto
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  Dwarf Chamisa, garden plant
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  "Dirt-colored seed bug" of the species Uhleriola floralis
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  Hover fly of the species Copestylum haagei. Thanks to Martin Hauser at BugGuide.net] for ID.
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  Treehopper of the genus Micrutalis on my finger. Thanks to Andy Hamilton at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Female clearwing moth of the species Zenodoxus canescens. Thanks to William H. Taft at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Ditto

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  Cordilleran Flycatcher, Upper Crossing Trail, Bandelier
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  Plumbeous Vireo nest, ditto
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  New Mexico locust flowers, ditto
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  ditto
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  mountain ninebark, Forest Road 144
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  bark ditto
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  waxflower, Forest Road 144
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  ditto
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  Silver-spotted skipper that just laid an egg on my sock, Forest Road 144
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  Ceanothus fendleri, ditto
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  Inflorescence of above, Upper Crossing Trail, Bandelier
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  detail of previous photo
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  Ash-throated Flycatcher, back to F. R. 144
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  Rock spirea or mountain spray, ditto
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  Penstemon virgatus, ditto
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  just the flowers
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  Weidemeyer's Admiral on waxflower, F. R. 144
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  male Warbling Vireo, ditto
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  Western Wood-Pewee nest with young, Cerro Grande Trail, Bandelier National Monument
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  tachinid fly of the genus Peleteria, Cerro Grande, Bandelier
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  same fly
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  same fly, different focus
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  Monument plant, Frasera speciosa, or whatever you call it, Cerro Grande
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  Flies of the genus Tachina mating, Cerro Grande. Thanks to Norm Woodley at BugGuide.net for ID.
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  Mexican cloudywing, F. R. 144
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  Gunnison's mariposa lily and Fendler's sandwort, ridge west of Chicoma Mountain
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  crop of previous
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  Same species
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  Little-leaf alumroot, Chicoma
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  Parry's lousewort, ditto
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  monument plant, ditto
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  King's crown, Rhodiola integrifolia
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  Slide butterweed or tall blacktip ragwort, trail from F. R. 144 to Chicoma
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  ditto
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  Milbert's tortoiseshell, F. R. 144
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  Trumpet gooseberry with berries, Apache Springs Trail
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  Pinesap, ditto
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  another one
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  Wild bergamot, ditto.
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  Trumpet gooseberry, ditto.
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  Flower of Fendler's sandwort, Arenaria fendleri
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  Whole plant
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  better Weidemeyer's admiral
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  Sulfur paintbrush, San Pedro Parks Wilderness
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  Ditto
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  Rocky Mountain Hemlock-Parsley, San Pedro Parks
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  Ditto
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  Ditto
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  Towering Jacob's Ladder or Leafy Sky Pilot, San Pedro Parks
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  Fendler's ragwort, San Pedro Parks
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  Ditto
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  Ditto
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  Small-leaf Angelica, San Pedro Parks
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  Ditto

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  Black Vultures
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  Crimson-collared Tanager
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  Brown Jay
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  Grayish Saltator. Thanks to Jimfbleak and Sabine's Sunbird for ID discussion.
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  the cave where the earliest known corn was found
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  teosintes said to be the parents of corn, Oaxaca, Oaxaca
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  tree-fern frond
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  escaped Crocosmia
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  unidentified lupine

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  Black-headed Heron
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  male Hartlaub's Bustard (thanks to JMK for id)
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  Gabar Goshawk (thanks to JMK for id)
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  Blacksmith Plover
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  Same bird temporarily abandoning egg
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  White-bellied Bustard (Eupodotis senegalensis canicollis)
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  African Pipit—don't bother clicking
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  Red-eyed Dove
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  adult male African Stonechat
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  Red-billed Teal
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  Olive Thrush or Mountain Thrush
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  Hildebrandt's Starling (thanks to JMK for id)
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  Fork-tailed or Common Drongo
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  Northern Black Flycatcher (thanks to JMK for id)
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  Black Crake
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  chick of the bird in the previous picture
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  Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling
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  Brubru
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  All this time I had a better Brubru.
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  Grey-headed Social Weaver
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  Brimstone Canary
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  Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
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  Bar-tailed Trogon
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  Yellow-throated Longclaw
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  Wattled Starling on an African Buffalo
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  Emerald-spotted Wood Dove with emerald spots
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  a sharper one
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  Northern White-crowned Shrikes
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  Crowned Hornbill
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  Taita Fiscal
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  Kittlitz's Plover
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  White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
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  African Buffaloes
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  Yellow-billed Oxpecker on a Grevy's Zebra
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  Tropical Boubou
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  Striped Kingfisher
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  Black-lored Babbler
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  Common Fiscal
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  Sooty Chat
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  Cheetah to illustrate kleptoparasitism
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  Spotted Hyena ditto
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  Hyenas and vultures ditto
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  African Pygmy Falcons. Not my best picture of them, but it shows the eyespots.
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  Swahili Sparrow—see below for a better one
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  Baglafecht Weavers (black and yellow) and female Village Weaver
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  African Grey Flycatcher (thanks to JMK and Brian Finch of www.mathewssafaris.com for confirming the id)
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  Rufous-naped Lark (thanks to JMK for slightly tentative id)
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  Tawny Eagle
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  female Southern Ground Hornbill tossing a grasshopper into her throat
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  Lesser Flamingos
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  Red-necked Francolin
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  Speckled Mousebird
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  Lappet-faced Vultures (left) and a White-backed Vulture
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  White-bellied Go-away-bird
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  Better picture of a Swahili Sparrow
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  female Purple Grenadier
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  Pack of Banded Mongooses—not very good, but it shows their social behavior
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  Partial view of a Hammerkop nest
• File:==Other places==
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  Golden Mariposa Lily, Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona
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  Tall Mountain Larkspur, ditto