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Mergus crumbs are ducks with a narrow elongated beak that feed not on plant food, but on fish - this is evidenced by the sharp teeth on the hooked curved beak with which the birds hold slippery prey.
The weight of these birds ranges from 1 to 2 kg, the most active weight gain occurs in autumn. Crumbs are migratory birds. In winter, they prefer to move to countries with a warm climate. However, they are often spotted in Kamchatka, Primorye and on the shores of the Sea of Azov in winter.
A distinctive feature of the crochal is a narrow and long beak, curved at the end, and on its sides there are small teeth that help the bird to hold the fish.
All kinds of these ducks are painted in very unusual color combinations. So, a large crumb is painted in black, dark gray, white and pink colors. The scaly species is colored brown-olive, red or ash-blue.
Unlike other ducks, crumbs are rarely eaten - their meat can be infected with a tapeworm and has an unpleasant smell. Well, what do you say - lucky people!
Fulgoridae lamplighters belong to cicadas, but now we will talk about their larvae, which have developed the ability to cover their entire body with wax threads and resemble crawling lumps of white fluff.
The importance of such protection is obvious – not many people like wax, and it is not easy for parasites to get to the delicate body of larvae through a wax hoodie. In addition, the disheveled wax larvae successfully disguise themselves as lichens. In addition, the wax repels water and prevents the lampshade from being severely damaged by tropical downpours.
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Wax filaments are secreted from glands on the abdomen. They also help the larva to soften the impact when falling. The larva also has a tail, which helps to stay afloat in the water, because wax is hydrophobic. But the grown-up individual has a different appearance, and looks like a jumping piece of paper.
Therapeutic horse pool in Colombia.
This is how they relax and learn to walk again after injuries.
Polar owls lead a solitary lifestyle.
And they only meet with their relatives during the mating season.
The four-winged cuckoo Tapera naevia has settled in South America - from Mexico and Trinidad south to Bolivia and Argentina.
And she is famous for her unsurpassed dancing. Yes, we also thought at first that this was a clever video montage, but no. Judge for yourself: only someone who saw this dance live could call an ordinary bird with two wings four-winged!
This bird occupies an important place in Brazilian folklore and is related to the legend of Sisi - a one-legged mulatto boy with holes in his palms, an incorrigible joker smoking a pipe.
One of Sisi's magical properties is the ability to transform into the elusive matitapere bird, whose melancholic song seems to come from nowhere...
Lori's paws are small, but very strong.
And the ankles and wrists are so mobile that the lori animal can hold on to them even for thin branches.
Golden-breasted andigena (saffron toucanette) Pteroglossus bailloni is a bird of the toucan family found in South America - in eastern Paraguay, in the Argentine province of Misiones and in southeastern Brazil, where it lives in tropical rain jungles.
The body length of the antigen is about 35-40 cm, the wingspan is about 130 cm. The weight of adult birds is 150 to 170 g. A distinctive feature of the species is the saffron-yellow color of most of the plumage. The beak is also predominantly yellow, and the wings are rather brownish.
The basis of the antigen diet is fruits, but they do not disdain the destruction of the nests of small birds.
The lovebird parrot collects material for the nest, folding it into its tail to save time.
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Thanks to this "diver's bag", the lizard can hide under water for up to 16 minutes.
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The palm thief's leg span can reach 1 meter, and they weigh up to 4 kilograms.
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Queen Victoria's bird of Paradise, Ptiloris victoriae, lives in northeastern Queensland, Australia.
It is the smallest bird of paradise with a body length of only 23-25 cm. Males have iridescent purple plumage, a velvety black throat with a metallic blue-green triangular spot in the center. The females are colored in different shades of brown.
When the male begins courtship, he raises the feathers on his throat and sides to emphasize the bright colors of his plumage in the rays of sunlight penetrating the twilight of the rainforest. He bends his rounded wings over his head and throws it back, exposing his throat to the sun's rays, and then moves from side to side.
In addition to insects, their diet also includes fruits. Some of them are cleaned by birds of paradise, holding the fruits with one foot and peeling the skin with their beak.
The rarest albino cougar was born in a zoo in Nicaragua. The sex of the baby is still unknown. Zoo veterinarian Carlos Molina said that now there are only four white cougars in the world, and the recently born cub is one of them.
There are three kittens in the litter, the other two are beige with spots. Adult cougars are already spotless, their color is usually beige or brown. The mother and cubs are still kept in an airtight cage to protect her from stress and foreign odors.
If a mother confuses human smells with the smells of kittens, she can attack them. The father lives in a separate enclosure so that he does not harm the kids. They are going to be shown to visitors when they turn three months old.
The white cub is healthy and eats well, the veterinarian said. He added that albino cougars are very sensitive to sunlight and require careful care.
The shuttle-billed Cochlearius cochlearius is distributed from Mexico to Brazil in Central America and northern South America. It prefers densely forested riverbanks and mangrove swamps.
A characteristic feature of this bird, which belongs to the pelican-like, is a large black crest. The plumage is predominantly grey. The forehead, sides of the head and throat are white.
The shuttle beak has an unusual beak shape - it is short and wide (8 cm long and 5 cm wide) with a tooth at the end of the upper beak. He has big eyes, with which she can navigate perfectly at night.
The diet of the shuttle beak is the same as that of other herons: fish, crustaceans, insects, small amphibians and even small mammals.
The shuttle beak is a solitary bird. Life expectancy is approximately 25 years