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Project Noah Nature School
PhD student in Marine Biology, with a passion for nature and art.
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Alex, I think something went wrong with your upload! There were 3 photos, but 2 of them were mostly just black. I deleted them for you, but if you were trying to add another 2 pictures to your spotting, try uploading them again. As for the one photo that did upload, it's very very difficult to tell what's in it. My guess is that they are 2 starlings or sparrows, but it's impossible to say from this. Do you have a clearer picture?
This is definitely a hard coral, and it's from the genus Platygyra - most commonly known as brain coral. It's hard to ID coral to species level from photos, so I think for the ID it's best to just put Platygyra sp.! It looks like it's not in too good health, those white patches are signs of either disease or bleaching. But it's a really good spotting, these corals look so neat!
What a gorgeous find! It looks like a female Indian Fritillary. I'll put a link to the Wiki article in my suggestion since it has a lot of info, but there are more photos of it here: http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!/sp/8... The males are more of a solid orange colour, but the females have the blue and white tips on the wings like you found here!
Wow, fantastic find, Dave! I saw these birds in the Arctic Circle, they are simply magical. One of my favourite birds, for sure. Lucky you that this one came down for a visit! Great snap, too.
That's a fantastic photo, Paul! These are such striking insects, that fat fuzzy body with a fluffy tail, and the wild proboscis! A great spotting
What an absolutely stunning creature, and well captured Hari! Such beautiful wing colours...
That's really neat, a pretty wild caterpillar. Looks like it has cowry shells on its back! Kudos to the kid that found it, maybe you should get them to sign up ;D
Woah that's so cool! I've never seen a tree hopper like this, I didn't know they could be this shape or colour. What a fab spotting!
This is a very cool find, it's a kind of mussel called a swan mussel. That white thing coming out on the right of the shell is its foot. I'm not sure what those other things on it are, hard to tell from this photo, but I'd guess it's another smaller species of bivalve that's latched on to it. Thanks for sharing, I'll get the ID suggested for you!
What a gorgeous butterfly, nicely captured! When you get the chance, could you update your spotting with the ID from bayucca and Viv? The more spottings we can get out of the "unknown" category, the better!
