Wikipedia picture of the day on August 1, 2021:
Rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta japonica) in summer plumage on Mount Tsubakuro, Japan
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 31, 2021:
A house wren (Troglodytes aedon) peeking out of its nest box in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, New York
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 29, 2021:
Male Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea) in the Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan. Since 2015, it has been the national bird for the State of Palestine.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 27, 2021:
Common lionfish (Pterois miles) at Shaab El Erg reef in the Egyptian part of the Red Sea
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 26, 2021:
Clementines – peeled and unpeeled
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 25, 2021:
Branches of a jade plant (Crassula ovata), potted in a teal glazed ceramic jar.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 24, 2021:
Saint Christopher at the winged altar of the parish- and pilgrimage church Kefermarkt, Upper Austria. Anonymous master (called Master of the Kefermarkt Altarpiece), around 1497.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 23, 2021:
Little Cormorant (Microcarbo niger), Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 22, 2021:
Stairwell of the Water Tower in Vladimir, Russia
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 21, 2021:
Turk’s cap lily (Lilium martagon) in the Tauern Valley near Mallnitz, High Tauern National Park, Carinthia, Austria
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 20, 2021:
The Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 19, 2021:
Mountain stream between S-charl in the Swiss Grisons and Piz Sesvenna on the border with South Tyrol
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 18, 2021:
Fields and drystone walls in Swaledale near Gunnerside
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 17, 2021:
Wooden doors in the imperial palace in Huế, Vietnam.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 16, 2021:
Former bulk bin (“Elephant”) in the port of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 15, 2021:
A chestnut heath (Coenonympha glycerion) photographed early in the morning when the dew was abundant.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 13, 2021:
Baobab (Adansonia digitata) in a typical landscape of the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Botswana.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 12, 2021:
Common chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) of Samos.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 11, 2021:
A Negress by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, painted in 1884. Collection of the National Museum, Warsaw.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 10, 2021:
Tjasker Zandpoel, a tjasker windmill used for water level management near Wijckel, De Fryske Marren, Friesland, the Netherlands.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 9, 2021:
African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) male with attendant cattle egret, in the Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 8, 2021:
An eastern screech owl (Megascops asio), rehabilitated after an injury, with handler in New York City
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 7, 2021:
View of the right bank from the left bank of the Spiti River across a narrow valley about 15 km above Kaza, Spiti, Himachal, India. The river has cut a gorge about 100m (330’) deep in the floor of the valley. The river bed elevation is 3,820m (12,533’). The Spiti is a braided river with many channels meandering along the broad river bed. NH 505 from Kaza (left) to Grampoo (right) is visible on the right bank. 23 June 2018.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on July 6, 2021:
French marigold (Tagetes patula), possibly a hybrid cultivar. Ukraine.
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