The Brown Hairy Dwarf Porcupine lives in the thick forests of Colombia. It prefers to avoid the forest floor.
This porcupine has soft, long spines and a shorter tail than its relatives. The tail helps the porcupine navigate the tree branches, where it spends most of its time.
Moreover, it comes out at night to search for food, including the leaves, fruits, and small branches of the Cecropia tree.
When threatened, the porcupine fluffs up its quills to appear bigger and scarier, accompanied by whistles, grunts, and shrieks.
Observing a Brown Falcon can be an exciting experience. As its name portrays, it has a predominantly brown plumage, with hues ranging from shoulder to dusk. Its beak is sturdy, hooked, and light grey, an attribute that marks its predatory lifestyle.
These types of falcons span between 18-24 inches in length, typically weighing from 1.1 to 2.7 pounds. They can thrive in habitats such as open woodlands, grasslands, arid regions, and urban areas. It feeds on mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and occasionally scavenges carrion.
When hunting, the Brown Falcon perches high above the ground, scanning for potential prey. It swoops quickly once it spots a target, sometimes going on a mid-air chase.
Moon’sun, but not the wind or the rain! :-)
Mühlwald, South Tyrol, Italy
Published on November 3, 2017 (UTC)
Canon, EOS 70D
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The soil brown (Maniola jurtina) is a butterfly found in the Palearctic region. Also south are Europe, Russia east to the Urals, Asia Minor, Iraq, Iran, North Africa, and the Canary Islands. They feed on larval grass.
West House is one of Brown’s Environmental Program Houses (along with our up-the-block neighbor North House), well known for it’s vegetarian food community. Residents and out-of-house members make up a fun and loving group committed to environmentalism, eating locally, social justice, building community, and – some of us more than others – strawberry yogurt.
Stop by any of our open dinners to get to know us better! Every Thursday @ 6:30 (during the school year), we meet at North House (111 Brown Street) and open our community up to the world with enticing dishes of lentils, squash, and quinoa. No invite is necessary – and we will serve as many as we can until the food runs out. If you show up late, you might miss the food – but certainly not good company!
We are located at 91 Brown Street, on the corner of Brown St. and Meeting St.
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