797-11568 - Canada, Alberta, Lethbridge, Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus, fledged chick with catchlight in eye about to leave nest in old gnarled Elm tree for the first time.
1174-1971 - Autumn in Dixie National Forest. White branches and tree trunks of aspen trees, with yellow brown foliage. Dark green pine trees, Dixie National Forest, Utah, USA
1174-2302 - A controlled forest burn, a deliberate fire set to create a healthier and more sustainable forest ecosystem. The prescribed burn of forest creates the right condition for regrowth, Whitman County, Washington, USA
1174-842 - Maple and aspen trees in the national forest of the Wasatch mountains. White bark and slender tree trunks, Wasatch National Forest, Utah, USA
832-268360 - Fungus on a dead spruce infested by bark beetles on Mt Lusen in the Bavarian Forest National Park near Spiegelau, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
832-75100 - Dead spruce (Picea), caused by bark beetles (Scolytinae) on Mt Belchen, 1414m, Breisgau region, Upper Black Forest region, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
764-3639 - Male Williamson's sapsucker (Sphyrapicus thyroideus) at its nest hole, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America, North America
764-3641 - Female Williamson's sapsucker (Sphyrapicus thyroideus) at its nest hole, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America, North America
764-3597 - Female Williamson's sapsucker (Sphyrapicus thyroideus) on a feeding tree, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America, North America
1196-227 - Wearing tree bark cloth masks and skirts, dancers representing fish spirits are invited during the season of the peach palm harvest to drink the juice. it is a feast and ritual exchange: the host group offers the spirits large quantities of peach palm juice, smoked meat and fish, and shaman-blessed coca and snuff. the visitors are the costumed dancers impersonating animal spirits. people eat the meat and fish, animal spirits receive the fruits of peach palm, which are cultivated, harvested, and processed by humans. this exchange expresses the idea that people and animals depend on each other for survival and reproduction. vaupes basin, eastern colombia amazon, population: 600