If You find a Baby Songbird out of the Nest

Wonderful Rosemary Mosco at Bird and Moon Comics, and her Birding Dictionary.

Full Moons for 2023

 

Bzzzzz

 

A natureza à nossa porta

 Libélula perdida na praia de Carcavelos

Cogumelo na Quinta dos Sete Castelos

Happy Earth Day!

 

Madressilva

𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗮, flores de um branco-amarelado ou avermelhado.

Muito conhecidas pelo seu agradável cheiro que se alastra ao final do dia. Atraem borboletas, quer diurnas, quer noturnas, as quais, como “amigas” vão facilitando a sua polinização.
São tantas as suas propriedades medicinais… desde tempos remotos continua a ser frequente a sua aplicação em fitoterapia.

Nome Científico: 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘮 𝘓
Família: 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘢

Distribuição geográfica em Portugal:
Encontra-se praticamente em todo o país, no Parque Florestal de Monsanto cobre extensas zonas, especialmente em locais de maior disponibilidade hídrica como linhas de água e zonas de lençóis de água subterrâneos.

Porte: arbusto
Floração: maio a julho
Maturação dos frutos: a partir de Agosto

Feliz Dia da Terra 2020

Com esta obra belíssima da nossa Vanessa Barragão :)

Há Espiga :)

Winter Solstice

CRLI - Centro de Recuperação do Lobo Ibérico + LUSH

Os nossos lobinhos com dois Charity Pots:

CRLI

LUSH Portugal

Happy Earth Day 2017

Wolf!

How Clouds got their Names

Earth Day, so they say

and the Art and Science of wonderful Beatrice the Biologist :)

On Cloud Nine :)

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind... in Malawi

WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL (official trailer) from {group theory} on Vimeo.

Save the Trees

The Nature Connection Pyramid

Dr. Scott Sampson - Get outside, get into Nature

Paleontologist Scott Sampson, chief curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, is using his passion for Tyrannosaurus Rex and the gang to encourage America’s most indoor-oriented generation to get outside and explore nature.

Sampson—or "Dr. Scott," as he's known to millions of young fans around the world, hosts the Emmy-award-nominated PBS kids show Dinosaur Train. The show is two parts fun and one part science, blending vibrant animation and catchy tunes with a live-action educational segment hosted by Dr. Scott himself. 

“Dinosaur Train encourages kids to go outside and make their own discoveries," said Sampson, during an interview with The Trust for Public Land for the family issue of Land&People. "They’re getting out there and engaging with nature, looking for plants and bugs and birds because they’re encouraged to do so on the show.”  

So what are Dr. Scott's tips to get kids excited about the natural world?

1) "Start in the backyard or the park. Ask your child to pick one aspect of nature that they’re most interested in—it could be anything ... a cloud, a plant, or a bug. Then give them a piece of paper and a pencil and ask them to closely observe the item and draw it—or maybe write a couple of notes about it." 

2) "They’ll see structures they've never noticed before in a blade of grass, or veins in a leaf, the feel of bark on a tree, and they'll write down their observations. Just by doing that, they've started a nature journal. Encourage them to do this for five minutes a day, to sit and write about what they hear, what they see, what they feel." 

3) "Next, make a game out of this activity. How many different types of animals can you see in the next ten minutes? How many different plants can you find in the backyard?”

(found in The Trust for Public Land)

Baobab!

This is a Baobab tree. The genus is found throughout Africa, Madagascar, some parts of Asia and in Australia. They are often called "the tree of life". Their trunks often reach 7 to 11 m in diameter and the Glencoe baobab (usually considered the largest in existence) had a diameter of 15.9 m until it split into two parts a few years ago.

A single tree can hold up to 4,500 litres (1,189 gallons) of water.
From I f Love Science