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Colêmbolo // Springtail (Seira dollfusi)
Image by Valter Jacinto | Portugal
Location: Europe > Portugal > Algarve
Date Photo Taken: January 15, 2011
Size: about 3 mm
Info: It's a NEW species for Portugal!
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European Starling on Piling
Image by Mr. T in DC
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), an introduced species that has displaced countless indigenous North American birds, on a piling in Belle Haven Marina, Alexandria, Virginia.
Ours HDR
Image by ld_germain
The American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) is the most common bear species native to North America. It lives throughout much of the continent, from northern Canada and Alaska south into Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This includes 41 of the 50 U.S. states and all Canadian provinces except Prince Edward Island. Populations in the east-central and southern United States remain in the protected mountains and woodlands of parks and preserves, though bears will occasionally wander outside the parks' boundaries and have set up new territories, in some cases on the margins of urban environments in recent years as their populations increase. Although there were probably once as many as two million black bears in North America long before European colonization, the population declined to a low of 200,000 as a result of habitat destruction and unrestricted hunting. By current estimates, more than 800,000 are living today on the continent.
