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Imago cottidiana
15 Maius 2025
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Green garden lizard (Calotes calotes). A juvenile has climbed a flowering bush, hoping to catch the female common jezebel butterfly (Delias eucharis) in the Sinharaja Forest, Viharahena, Sri Lanka
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English : The submerged St. Nicholas Church in Mavrovo, North Macedonia. Built in 1850, the church served as the main village church of Mavrovo. With the construction of the hydroelectric power station in Mavrovo and the artificial Mavrovo Lake, the church got submerged under water in 1953.

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English : Canoes on the coast, Tsitsikamma National Park (part of Garden Route National Park), Eastern Cape, South Africa

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English : Malabar pied hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus) male in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.

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English : Motorsport, IDM, Finale Hockenheimring 2022: Melvin van der Voort (NED, Niederlande), IDM Supersport 600.

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English : Lake Seliger in Ostashkovsky District, Tver Oblast, Russia.

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English : Deelerwoud, (the eastern part.) Birchs on a heathland.

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English : Interior of the Estates Theatre in Prague, Czechia

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English : Crooked doors and decaying brickwork of a building in Savannakhet, Laos

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English : Barn swallow juvenile (Hirundo rustica rustica) at the Ormož Basins nature reserve, Slovenia. Taken during a period when the storm Boris blocked migration routes, and low temperatures left the swallows struggling to find prey and stay warm in that area. This one was visibly weak, nevertheless, it had just caught a moth, with remains visible around the beak, and its scales on the face.

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English : Örebro Castle on the Svartån river in Sweden.

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English : American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) close up

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English : 50th International Dixieland Festival Dresden: Allotria Jazz Band on the open-air stage 'Junge Garde', trombone. The 53rd festival is taking place this week.

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English : Green garden lizard (Calotes calotes). A juvenile has climbed a flowering bush, hoping to catch the female common jezebel butterfly (Delias eucharis) in the Sinharaja Forest, Viharahena, Sri Lanka

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English : Spanish-American biophysicist Eva Nogales in 2023. Today is her birthday.

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English : Ore bunker in the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : Closed flower of an Oenothera stricta 'Sulphurea' (Night bloomer) Focus stack of 54 photos.

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English : Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), Ras Muhammad National Park, Egypt.

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English : Worm's-eye view of Tokyo Skytree, Japan. The tower was opened to the public on this day in 2012.

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English : Huvudsta metro station, Stockholm

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English : This image of Mary Help of Christians was painted after the original by Lucas Cranach the Elder and is located in Maria Hilf pilgrimage church (Moosbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Today is the feast day of Mary Help of Christians in the Catholic Church.

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English : The Taras horizon landscape reserve at dawn in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine

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English : Runners in tunnel. São Martinho do Porto, Portugal.

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English : The window in a cafe in San Gimignano opens on Valdelsa, in Tuscany (Italy).

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English : Bicycle parked in front of a graffitied building façade with doors, in a street near Kloveniersburgwal, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Front view.

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English : Kishū Kumano iwatake tori by Hiroshige II, a Japanese woodblock print in the ukiyo-e style, depicting the harvesting of iwatake mushrooms (Umbilicaria esculenta) near Kumano in the Kishū Domain.

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English : This stained glass window (1880) located in the Cathédrale Saint-Louis (La Rochelle, France) depicts Joan of Arc. Today is St. Joan's feast day.

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English : Fresh water collecting in the valleys between sand dunes in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil. A layer of rock beneath the sand prevents the rain water from dissipating during the rainy season, resulting in a broad expanse of lagoons.

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