This octopus filmed in the Red Sea near Egypt, uses chromatophores, pigment sacs in their skin, to obtain near- instantaneous color change for camouflage.
It also deploys papillae to raise or flatten skin enabling 3D texture.
Nature's plays hide and seek!
Three Chough chicks have fledged from a sea cave at The Range RSPB, marking the first successful breeding record on this section of the Anglesey coastline for 14 years: https://t.co/j3jHWGVwJs
Shiphay, Torquay, S Devon. 19.30. Making dinner 🍽️ and I glance up to see this migrant #Nightjar sat on top of the covered washing line! Stayed for a good ten minutes. Amazingly, the second record for our back garden! #UKBirding
What a brilliant day at Middleton Lakes we had today. 68 species in total. Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, Garden Warbler and so much more. We got a bit wet but we didn’t care. A wonderful day.
What a brilliant trip to St Aidan’s today. 100+ Swifts feeding above the water. Bittern, Spoonbill, Cattle Egret, Hobby, Little Owl plus so much more. 63 species in total.
Your random reminder that breeding curlew are now gone from Exmoor. Failures to tackle drivers for declines have rendered it locally extinct. An iconic upland bird, it's haunting, evocative call, lost to silence. Never mind ... forget that and look at these instead.
Same water. Same tank. But the one on the right has oysters.
A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay once filtered the entire Bay, 19 trillion gallons, in under a week. Today, with less than 1% of the original oyster population remaining, it takes over a year.
We ate them. We dredged their reefs. We dumped nitrogen into their water until the algae blooms choked what was left.
The Billion Oyster Project is working to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor. Restored reefs in Maryland's Harris Creek can now filter the entire creek in under 10 days and remove nitrogen equivalent to 20,000 bags of fertilizer every year.
Nature had this figured out. We just have to restore the oysters and get out of the way.
Great news! @BBCFOUR4 will be marking Bill Oddie's unique wildlife TV career on the evening of Sunday 16th August: starting at 7pm with The Best of Bill Oddie Goes Wild, followed by Birding with Bill Oddie: Bill’s Beginnings, and finally Bill Oddie’s Top Ten Birds. Please RT!
This is the reality of where the vast majority of our food comes from – far from the fairytale depiction served up by Clarkson and Amazon .
@FarmersWeekly@FarmersGuardian@AnimalAid
The British Naturalists' Association is deeply saddened by the loss at 85 of Bill Oddie, who was given our highest recognition, the Peter Scott Award at our Centennial Conference in 2005 from then President David Bellamy, & Hon Fellowship in 2013 in HonFBNA robes. RIP Bill
🚨 BREAKING:
U.S. world-famous author Stephen King:
“Trump is a tumor in America’s veins. A tyrant who does not hesitate to set a country on fire for his narcissistic ego. No horror story I’ve written could be as terrifying as this man.”
The British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee has approved a revised definition of Category E of the British list, providing greater clarity on how non-natural arrivals are classified; https://t.co/yU592miMFb