Flagstaff Ecosystem (click on the underlined links to explore)

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Blue Morphos
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Photographed in Butterfly Zoo in Victoria, Canada

Same Planet - Different Neighborhood

Green Butterfly
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Butterfly zoo in Canada

Common Collared Lizard
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A mini dinosaur in the Petrefied Forest

 
 
 
Like a  modern day T-Rex, this little desert dweller hops from rock to rock hunting other smaller lizards for lunch.  He also voraciously eats 1/2" red  ants like we eat grapes, by the handful.

Spruce Grouse (Franklin's)
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Destined to be somebody else's dinner, this Spruce Grouse in the wild in Whittier,  Alaska,  let me touch its tail before it  slowly strolled a few feet away.

Lupine in Alaska
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Alaska tulips
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