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  Eurasian Nuthatch

  Sitta europaea

  

  

  

  Animalia,Chordata,Aves

  

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  • Sitta europaea has a FLIGHT of 2.

  
  

  • Sitta europaea is the most common and most widespread nuthatch.

  Cool, Warm

  Image by Mark Sosbe marksosbe

  Sergey Yeliseev www.flickr.com/people/yeliseev/

  The Eurasian Nuthatch, Sitta europaea, is a small passerine found throughout temperate Europe and Asia, although not in Ireland. It belongs to the nuthatch family Sittidae. This bird is the most common and most widespread nuthatch, and is often referred to just as the Nuthatch. It is a resident bird of deciduous woods and parkland, with some old trees for nesting. It feeds [...]

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  Chilean Myrtle

  Luma apiculata

  

  

  

  Plantae,Angiosperms,Eudicots

  

  4 POINTS

  
  

  • Luma apiculata has a SPREAD of 2.

  
  

  • Luma apiculata has orange-brown bark which peels as it grows.

  Warm

  Image by Teh-Aguará teh-aguara.deviantart.com/

  Alfonso commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alfonso%22

  Luma apiculata, (Chilean Myrtle) is a species of tree in the genus Luma in the family Myrtaceae, native to the central Andes mountains between Chile and Argentina between 33 and 45° South Latitude. The Chilean Myrtle grows slowly, forming a small tree of around 10 to 15 meters, rarely 20 meters. Its trunk appears twisted and contorted and has smooth bark, coloured [...]

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  Atlantic Blue Crab

  Callinectes sapidus

  

  

  

  Animalia,Arthropoda,Crustacea

  

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  • Callinectes sapidus has a MOVE of 2.

  
  

  • Callinectes sapidus females have red-tipped claws.

  Cool, Warm

  Image by Scott Plaster scottplaster.com/

  Wendy Kaveney www.wendykaveney.com/-/wendykaveney/

  Callinectes sapidus (from the Greek calli- = “beautiful”, nectes = “swimmer”, and Latin sapidus = “savory”), the Chesapeake or Atlantic blue crab, is a crustacean found in the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific coast of Central America and the Gulf of Mexico. On the Pacific coast of Central America it is largely ignored as a food source as picking [...]

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  Fire Salamander

  Salamandra salamandra

  

  

  

  Animalia,Chordata,Amphibia

  

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  • Salamandra salamandra has a MOVE of 2.

  
  

  • Salamandra salamandra can spray neurotoxic chemicals at attacking predators.

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  Image by Klaudia Blicharska jigoku-no-son.deviantart.com/

  Orchi commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Orchi

  The fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) is probably the best-known salamander species in Europe. It is black with yellow spots or stripes to a varying degree; some specimens can be nearly completely black while on others the yellow is dominant. Shades of red and orange may sometimes appear, either replacing or mixing with the yellow according to subspecies. Fire [...]

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  Axolotl

  Ambystoma mexicanum

  

  

  

  Animalia,Chordata,Amphibia

  

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  • Ambystoma mexicanum has a MOVE of 2.

  
  

  • Ambystoma mexicanum can regenerate its limbs.

  
  

  Warm

  Image by Yukiko Fujiwara www.cdb.riken.go.jp/en/05_development/0506_piccard05.html

  LoKiLeCh commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kolling

  The axolotl ( /ˈæksəlɒtəl/), Ambystoma mexicanum, is a neotenic mole salamander belonging to the Tiger Salamander complex.[citation needed] Larvae of this species fail to undergo metamorphosis, so the adults remain aquatic and gilled. The species originates from Lake Texcoco underlying Mexico City and is also called ajolote (which is also the common name for the Mexican Mole Lizard). Axolotls are used extensively in scientific [...]

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  Luzon Bleeding-heart

  Gallicolumba luzonica

  

  

  

  Animalia,Chordata,Aves

  

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  • Gallicolumba luzonica has a FLIGHT of 2.

  
  

  • Gallicolumba luzonica has a dark red patch on its breast that looks like a bleeding wound.

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  Image by Heather E. Harlow forbidding.deviantart.com/

  Adrian Pingstone commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arpingstone

  The Luzon Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica) is one of a number of species of ground dove in the genus Gallicolumba that are called “bleeding-hearts”. They get this name from a splash of vivid red colour at the centre of their white breasts. The Luzon Bleeding-heart is the species in which this feature is most pronounced, and on first sight [...]

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