MsLiz

Love NZ + all that's bright & colourful. Current events. #southland #otago @Nigel_Cowburn/@Growplan_NZ #NZ #NewZealand
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[Jenny Parsons @JennyPaPB]

African Jacana posing in the long grass of the hippo wetland. Showing off the distinctive rusty plumage and the blue bill and frontal shield. A stunning water bird

#sabie2025 #birding #jacana #nature #birdwatching #colour #birdphotography #africa #waterbird #pringlebaybirding

[Robert Thompson (he/him) @Rgt71Robert]

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” Henry Ward Beecher

Really great to have a tour of Swiss Cottage Library. It is housed in Basil Spence’s architectural gem of a building (1963-64). It s a great space which @CamdenLabour have significantly improved to make fit for the present generation of residents.

This is part of our prioritising of long-term investment in libraries, including decarbonisation and initiatives like the @libraryofthings to meet residents' evolving needs. West Hampstead Library has just been overhauled. #Kilburn Library is up next. ♥️🌹📖📚

[Emma Roberts @QuakerEmma]

Quakers are kicking ourselves we didn’t think of this joke. Bravo to Private Eye. LOL
“Right to remain silent”

[Jenny Parsons @JennyPaPB]

Magnificent Kudu’s of Kruger. Bull sporting a beautiful set of long spiral horns while a female inquisitively kept an eye on our movements. These antelope are browsers who prefer thick bush & woodland areas

#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #africa #beautifulsouthafrica

[🌿Helen Brown @Littleashgarden]

Tulipa 'Little Beauty' sparkling in the sunshine.

[Dr. Sajad Alipour @SajadAlipour98]

Dionysia janthina
Primulaceae
Yazd, Iran
April 2200m
#primulacea #botany #ecology

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

One of the most spectacular flowers I ever saw was gigantic Rafflesia banaoana, spanning a half-metre. Seen by just a handful of people, it grows only in an inaccessible forest in the Philippines, reached with the help of a tribe, the Banao Indigenous Community. Seeing it in 2022 was life-changing for me.

[Canberra Things @ThingsCanberra]

A bird & its shadow

[Stephen Ryan @StephenGRyan]

Romneya trichocalyx. The other one! #asatours #cornus #acanthus #abcradio #mtmacedon #3cr#stephenryan #rareplants #osmanthus #dicksoniarareplants #tugurium #planttrust. #thehorticulturalists

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

I'm so excited! I was just documenting a population of desert hyacinth (Cistanche phelypaea) when a striped hawkmoth appeared and began pollinating! This was an encounter I'll never forget.

[Danté Fenolio, Ph.D. @DanteFenolio]

Two very convincing leaf mimicing katydids from the Peruvian Amazon: The "Peacock Katydid" (Pterochroza ocellata) to the left and a yellow leaf mimic (Cycloptera sp.) to the right.

[Marco @marcorasi1960]

Night at City Park, New Orleans

(More New Orleans photos at marcorasi1960 on Instagram)

[Peter Carrell ن @petercarrell]

I compliment @rnz_news on finding our Diocesan website and my message on it!

https://t.co/wrqIU9or9p

[Stuart Williams @StuartWilliams_]

xChitalpa tashkentensis, a large shrub or small tree that is an intergeneric hybrid of North American Chilopsis linearis and a Catalpa species. It was bred by the Botanic Garden of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences in 1964.

#RBGMelbourne #Bignoniaceae

[Sandy Horne @SandyHorne61]

Best of 2024:
Sitting pretty.
Like an ornament on a Christmas tree, a black-shouldered kite perched atop a Norfolk Island pine at the Goolwa Barrage.
I was so pleased that this photo was a finalist in this year's BirdLife Australia Photography Awards.

[Stuart Williams @StuartWilliams_]

Feather-heads (Ptilotus macrocephalus) from south-eastern Australia. Two new species were split from this species in 2019

#RBGMelbourne #Amaranthaceae #ozplants

[Dr. Sajad Alipour @SajadAlipour98]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my friends.
Although the Persian New Year (Nowruz) coincides with the first day of spring.

[Marco @marcorasi1960]

Merry Christmas from New Orleans

[Stuart Williams @StuartWilliams_]

Kennedia lateritia (Augusta kennedia), a vigorous climber from the south-west of Western Australia [= Kennedia macrophylla (Meisn.) Benth. nom. illeg.] #Fabaceae #ozplants