A little help from nature's friends...
This Anthus trivialis and 31 European forest plants need some IDs. Can you help?
This Anthus trivialis and 31 European forest plants need some IDs. Can you help?
Now it's only 20 more biota to be identified, before we can start with our project. We believe that a project can add even more value to our observations, as we will be able to discuss them with you in their specific contexts. Do you recognize some of these plants and animals? Please add an ID and tell the world, you do! Thank you so much for your help!
I had to look at the pictures of the tree pipit so many times, before I realised, that one of them shows it with a grasshopper in its beak (third tree-pipit photo, added today)! Tree pipits and meadow pipits used to be common birds in Switzerland. Today, there are hardly any or even no breeding pairs at all left in the Mittelland-region where this observation took place. This may explain why this is the first tree pipit I have ever met in my life! The species suffers from loss of meadows with high vegetation and suitably high trees during the breeding season. The tree pipit on the picture was already on its way to western and eastern Africa, south of the Sahara desert. I hope that the insects of Küsnacht Wangensbach provided it with some extra energy for this dangerous long-distance migration!
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Thank you everyone for sharing your knowledge and kind help!
I am trying to identify a couple of bumble-bees, wild bees and hover flies. Can you help? Thanks!
Another kind of bumble-bee! I thought, I knew this place, and am fascinated to learn so much more about its insect-inhabitants!. Thank you for helping with the identification!
Some Alpine newts (Ichthyosaura alpestris), a wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) and an injured hummingbird hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum, deutsch.: Taubenschwänzchen) need another ID...
Thank you for your help!
It's wonderful, how so many species can be identified on iNaturalist! Maybe you have an idea about these? Thanks a lot for your IDs and advice!