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© Ron TaubeTropical kingbird photographed in Murphy-Hanrehan Park in Savage. Likely the first seen in Minnesota.
It was spotted by a keen observer down in the Murphy-Hanrehan Park, part of the Three Rivers Park district in Savage, Minnesota. The tropical kingbird is most often seen in Texas, Arizona and in Central and South America. No one really knows what it is doing so far out of its area, but nevertheless, it is here.
After going down to Murphy-Hanrehan once and failing to find the bird my wife, Carolyn, and I went down again a few days later to try again. I read several reports of its sightings, and it seemed that you had your best chance early in the morning or from 6 p.m. on, so we timed our visit to arrive in the evening.
The tropical kingbird is between 8 1/2 and 9 inches long. It has a pale gray head with a darkened mask-like area around its eyes and a gray bill. The back is gray-green and it has a forked tail. The throat is grayish and then beneath that is an olive yellow that turns into yellow on the belly and on down.
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The study found almost 6000 of those bitten by dogs were admitted to hospital - a rate of almost two a day. More than a third of them are children, with mostly facial injuries.
Plastic surgeon Dr Zachary Moaveni said about 70 percent of attacks occured on private properties.
He said children under 10, Maori and Pacific Islanders and people who lived in low socio-economic areas were more likely to be attacked.
KOMO-TV reports the attack happened around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday on the base near Tacoma, Washington. Officials said the man, a civilian, was attacked while walking in a restricted area. He sustained only some scratches.
Officials are now looking into why the man was there. They're also looking for the animal that attacked him.
Bears are common in the area. In April, Washington state wildlife agents shot and killed a black bear at the base, a week after a bear attacked a civilian base employee. That employee, who was attacked while he was running with his dog on the base, was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Source: The Associated Press
Comment: It seems that the local bears just don't take kindly to humans in the vicinity of this military installation, see also: Man survives second bear attack in 4 years at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington: 'I just had this deja vu'
© KGO-TVA whale washed up on Esplanade Beach in Pacifica, Calif. on Sunday, August 2, 2015.
Biologist says dead whale that washed ashore has shark bites, but likely not the cause of death. #Pacifica #mapit pic.twitter.com/s55Lxiww5I
— Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) August 3, 2015
A dog walker discovered the large marine mammal on the beach along Esplanade Avenue around 6 a.m. Sunday.
© Gordon WatsonThe rare arctic whale was spotted off the coast of Antrim.
It is believed to be the first ever sighting in Northern Ireland.
The beluga whale is normally found over 3,000km away around the Barents sea, eastwards of the the Svalbard Archipelago.
This sighting marks what is believed to be the 17th time in 100 years that this type of whale has been seen in Britain and Ireland.
There have been just two recorded sightings of the whale in the Republic of Ireland - one off Clare Island, Co Mayo in 1948 and another at Cobh, Co Cork in 1988.
Comment: This is the second such report in 2015 for this species which is normally resident in Arctic waters at this time of year, see in addition: Wrong place, wrong time: Trio of Arctic Beluga Whales seen off coasts of New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut
This unusual southward migration was also recorded in June of last year -
Wrong time, wrong place: Rare Arctic Beluga whale seen in Massachusetts
Wrong place, wrong time: Dead Arctic beluga whale washes up on a Scottish beach
The circled area shows a humanoid figure as it turned toward the man recording it.
Sarah, a Sumter woman who says she went to church with a friend Sunday morning, stepped out of the sanctuary to see the Lizard Man running along the tree line.
So she did what anyone else would do -- took a picture with her phone.
"My hand to God, I am not making this up," she wrote in an email to the ABC News 4 newsroom. "So excited!"
She says they were just a mile or so from Scape Ore Swamp, the site of a similar spotting of what may also be the Lizard Man in May.
A man who asked not to be identified submitted a short video of what he thought was the Lizard Man Monday morning. He said he took the video in May while coon hunting but kept its existence quiet -- until he saw the reports of Lizard Man outside a church.
Farmers would normally expect to no more than 2% of their sheep to die, but this spring some lost up to a third
About 5,000 sheep died this spring, with the northern and western regions worst affected, and so far experts haven't been able to work out why, Morgunbladid's Iceland Monitor website reports. One theory is that sulphur emitted during a recent volcanic eruption might be to blame, as it could have contaminated vegetation and caused malnutrition in the sheep. The huge eruption at the Holuhraun lava field lasted for six months, and released millions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere.
"When the ash cloud moves over the country from the east, it is often accompanied by rain," Prof Jonas Eliasson, from the University of Iceland, tells the site. "The rain cleans the sulphur out of the air and snow does the job even better. When the snow melts in the spring, the sulphur remains on vegetation and in the soil."
Comment: See in addition this earlier report from June: Hundreds of sheep mysteriously die across Iceland
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Pesticides and other methods have controlled their spread and ability to swarm and destroy crops in the last hundred years or so. That said, if left unchecked, they still can cause biblical havoc on crops - just ask farmers in southern Russia.
This week tens of thousands of locusts swarmed the Russian village Achikulak in Stavropol krai and destroyed local agriculture. The swarm was caught on video (see below).
Motherly love! The cat had recently given birth to kittens and adopted the little lynx as a part of her own brood
A worker at the Novosibirsk Zoo in the city of Novosibirsk, Russia, noticed that the young lynx Nika was not being correctly cared for by its mother.
The lynx had refused to feed the cub because it was the runt of the litter and the zoo needed to find an innovative solution for the problem.
An employee at the zoo then decided that she would bring her cat into work with her to act as a surrogate mother.
Her cat had recently given birth to kittens and it was hoped that the feline would adopt the little lynx as a part of her own brood.
Comment: See also these other recent reports of mysterious mass animal deaths in Kazakhstan: Death toll of rare saiga antelope reaches 85,000 in Kazakhstan
More mass animal deaths in Kazakhstan: 70 rare dalmatian pelicans found dead in country's west
Over 1 thousand dead seagulls discovered in Kazakhstan sector of Caspian Sea
If these deaths are being caused by viruses, then perhaps the following extract from the book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection (The Secret History of the World) by Pierre Lescaudron, may be of some relevance here: In addition, there's this report to take into possible consideration - Why the U.S. Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan?