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Nearbynature photo contest: I live in Peru and took this photo of a large macaw clay lick in the Amazon rainforest. Every morning hundreds of macaws and parrots come to the clay lick to eat clay which helps neutralize their bodies of toxins that they may have ingested from eating other plants and also gives them th...
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Macaws eat a variety of foods including fruits, palm fruits, nuts, seeds, leaves, flowers, and stems. Wild species may forage widely, over 100 km (62 mi) for some of the larger species such as Ara araurana (blue & yellow macaw) and Ara ambigua (great green macaw), in...-
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Where are the bee hives???? These bees were unloaded off of a truck the day before this Gigapan was taken. The bees were transported here on that truck from North Dakota. We set the Gigapan up on the side of a hill and then drove down to the bees to work. You can tell what time of day it was because of the he...
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a rare shot of Nathan Rice of the USDA Beltsville, MD Bee Research Lab recording notes rather then working the hives. Congratulations Nathan, it feels good to sit on that cooler doesn't it? Since we started working in the upper left hand corner of the panorama, the camera caught us just as we were going into our fi...
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Cierva Cove is on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, nestled in the north of Hughs Bay. Base Primavera is an Argentine research station on Cierva Point. The base is open only in the summer, and we were fortunate enough to arrive on a brilliant day just before the station closed for 2008. The ice-strewn cove prov...
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What's in your water? Dillon Reservoir provides drinking water for the Denver Metro Area. Braving a lake 55 meters deep, researchers from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) take to the ice to test water quality and assist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in gathering sam...
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The South Shetland Islands are in the Southern Ocean just west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Half Moon Island is well-placed in the opening of Moon Bay on the east side of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. This rocky island is only 2 kilometers across. Half Moon Island is the home of the Argentine nav...
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Hangar One is one of the most visible buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area. Built in the 1930's to house air ships, it is one of the largest freestanding buildings in the world. It sits on Moffit Field, now part of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangar_One_
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The 2-mile long Stanford Linear Accelerator pushes electrons very close to the speed of light. Here we are outside the "klystron gallery" on the south side of the building about 1/2 way down the 2-mile length. This is the longest and straightest building in the world. Behind the building you can see Stanford's Primate ...
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This is Base Esperanza, an Argentine research station on Hope Bay at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic bases are unique places to work. Researchers here experience isolation, cold and months of prolonged darkness. This base, in those respects, is like most of the others. Base Esparenza is very unusual...
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