040511 ♥ 123A female osprey carries a tree branch to her nest at loch of the Lowes wildlife reserve, Perthshire, Scotland. She is believed to be the oldest breeding female ever recorded in the UK, having returned, after a 3,000 mile migration from West Africa, for the 21st year. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters
Laysan ducks (by USFWS Pacific)
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040411 ♥ 98saffron finch Oahu Hi (by David Walenga)
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032911 ♥ 295Submitted by zultanite
This special bird is known in Eternal Gardens as the Lazoli Bird. It is the official bird of Mossleaf and a sacred animal of the Harvest Goddess - it is from this bird that the sacred blue feather, used to propose in Mossleafian culture, is collected.
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022811 ♥ 459Blaze of Blue, Diving Kingfisher, England
photo by Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic