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A lesser violet-ear (Colibri cyanotus cabanidis) and a fiery-throated hummingbird (Panterpe insignis insignis) from the wild near San José, Costa Rica. The lesser violet-ear is in the back and the fiery-throated hummingbird in front.

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A female volcano hummingbird (Selasphorus flammula torridus) from the wild near San José, Costa Rica.

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A fiery-throated hummingbird (Panterpe insignis insignis) from the wild near San Jose, Costa Rica.

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A fiery-throated hummingbird (Panterpe insignis insignis) from the wild near San Jose, Costa Rica.

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A female Talamanca hummingbird (Eugenes spectabilis) from the wild near San José, Costa Rica.

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A lesser violet-ear (Colibri cyanotus cabanidis) from the wild near San José, Costa Rica.

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The critically-endangered orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) at the Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary. This is one of the rarest birds in the world with fewer than 50 left in the wild.

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Little free-tailed bats (Chaerephon pumilus) from Chitengo Camp in Gorongosa National Park.

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Cactus parakeet, Eupsittula cactorum, at Loro Parque Fundacion.

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A bird flies over a crowd at Le Parc des Oiseaux, a bird park in the town of Villars Les Dombes, France.

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A crowd of people watch a black vulture, Coragyps atratus, fly overhead at Le Parc des Oiseaux, a bird park in the town of Villars Les Dombes, France.

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A crowd of people watch a black vulture, Coragyps atratus, fly overhead at Le Parc des Oiseaux, a bird park in the town of Villars Les Dombes, France.

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Millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) roost on the Chincua Mountain near Angangueo, Mexico. This is one of five wintering roosts for monarchs, where the cool mountain climate slows their metabolism enough for them to overwinter before migrating back northward in the spring. Logging threatens this spectacle–Already one of the five sites is no longer used by the butterflies due to the forest being cleared.

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A hawk soars overhead at Parque Jaime Duque in Colombia.

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A juvenile Mississippi kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) at the WildCare Foundation.

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A Western Bluebill (Spermophaga haematina) at the Houston Zoo.

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A white-tailed hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus colonus) at the National Aviary of Colombia.

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A Pallas’s long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) at the Houston Zoo.

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A cave with thousands of Egyptian fruit bats in the Maramagambo Forest in Africa.

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A white-naped jacobin hummingbird (Florisuga mellivora mellivora) from the wild in Gamboa, Panama.

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A white-naped jacobin hummingbird (Florisuga mellivora mellivora) from the wild in Gamboa, Panama.

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A female Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) in Florida.

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A lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) at the Lubee Bat Conservancy in Gainesville, Florida.

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A teenage boy takes a student flight in a single engine aircraft in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Banded gold tips (Teracolus eris ssp. eris), African capers (Belenois creona), and false dotted border butterflies (Belenois thysa) turn elephant dung into something special on the road into Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda.

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A brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, on San Cristobal Island in the Galapagos.

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Tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) at Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska.

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A long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) flies overhead in the Nebraska Sandhills.

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Wildlife fly over water on a ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills.

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A pair of white-crowned robin-chats (Cossypha albicapillus albicapillus) at the Columbus Zoo.

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Gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) on a farm near Raymond, NE.

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