Beautiful green and blue lizard .They can reach to 28cm with the tail. Is mainly insectivorous, but also preys on small lizards like the iberian wall lizard or large like psammodromus.
Awesome series Robert,i love the first shot,super spotting,congrats on the well deserved SOTW and thanks for sharing your amazing wildlife encounters
Attractively coloured. The male is very dark, with white markings. Not a complete set of eight legs...quite a warrior this spider. Interestingly, another individual I saw enroute Hampi in Karnataka also lacked the complete complement of legs.
Congratulations Robert, this series was voted Spotting of the Week! Great images and notes as always; however what was really appreciated here was your effort to make your observations of these birds fit in our special 2019 mission. Thanks!
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Very well disguised,looks like a fresh green leaf in the bushes,she even mimic the ribes of the leafs.They have sexual dichromism in the wings colouration,males have yellow wings and iridescence while females have greenish-white wings and are not iridescent.
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Mapping Nature on Your Smartphone
For the developers at New York start-up Networked Organisms, smartphones are the butterfly nets of the 21st Century. Their tool, Project Noah, lets people upload photos of plants and wildlife around them, creating a map of the natural world and contributing to scientific research in the process.
What kind of beetle? This app knows
Bespectacled scientists of yore would carry around hefty field guides, made up of hundreds of pages of text and photos. But these days, smartphone owners have a lighter option: an app called Project Noah, which aims to help people identify plants and animals as well as collect data from "citizen scientists" about where certain species are located.
Designing ecosystems for talent development
Project Noah enables us to be part of a more focused online community where we can learn more about wildlife around us and contribute to scientific research. It pulls participants into deeper, more meaningful engagement by enabling people to go on “missions” to collectively map changes based on sightings.
A smart way to save wildlife
A modern invention that may also hold the key to saving species in the future. Project Noah is a global study that encourages nature lovers to document the wildlife they encounter, using a purpose built phone app and web community. In addition to the virtual "collection" of species, Project Noah encourages citizen science by linking up with existing surveys including the International Spider Survey and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.
Dial-a-Class
New mobile applications include a tool called NOAH that lets you take cellphone pictures of bugs and trees and then sends back an identification of the exact type in as little as 24 hours.
