Emerald Tree Boa (Corallus caninus)
Emerald Tree Boas are beautiful, non-venomous snakes that can be found in the rainforests of South America.
Emerald-collared Parakeet / Layard's Parakeet
Australian Ringneck Parrots ...
EMERALD TOUCANET FACTS
Description
The Emerald Toucanet is the smallest toucan. They are mainly green, and there are a number of subspecies have different throat color and eye ring color. Throat varies from gray, white to blue.
Emerald Tree Boas
Corallus caninus
Distribution: Lower Amazon basin, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname ...
Emerald Boa
Reptile. The perfect resting place for an emerald boa is a horizontal branch overhanging water. The snake will coil around the branch, resting his head in the center of his coils.
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
Turtur chalcospilos
The Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove (Turtur chalcospilos) is a resident of woodland and savanna in parts of Africa. The species is called "Green-spotted Dove" in some references.
Emerald Shiner Behaviour
No observations regarding Emerald Shiner behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Emerald Shiner ...
Emerald tree boa
Corallus caninus
The emerald tree boa is a brilliant green with white bands across its back, but it does not start out that way.
Emerald Tree Boa Species Profile
The emerald tree boa generally displays a green dorsal background color with a cream to yellow ventral stripe. Horizontal white bands run the length of the snake's back.
Emerald-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis alinae
Described by: Bourcier (1842)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps indica) is a widespread resident in India. Size: 27 cm
Anseriformes
Apodiformes ...
Cuban Emerald (Chlorostilbon ricordii)
Despite the name, the Cuban Emerald is distributed in the Bahamas as well as in Cuba. It is found in a variety of habitats from forest to gardens.
Emerald Tree Boas from the northern part of their range in Guyana and Suriname may be 160-180 cm (63-71 inches) long and have a broken white line and irregular blotches of white down the back.
Emerald boa
Below you will find a collection of photos from various places. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2007. While these images are the property of mongabay.
Emerald Ash Borer
Scientific name: Agrilus planipennis (Fairmaire)
Common name: Emerald ash borer ...
Emerald is hardly the only green gem to bejewel birdlife. The Tourmaline Sunangel combines exquisite amethyst and deep forest green, while the Berylline Hummingbird mixes chestnut and kelly to remarkable effect.
Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis)
Natural History
Firewood Alert!!! (PDF)
How You Can Help
Non-DNR Links ...
The Hine's Emerald Dragonfly, Somatochlora hineana, was described from Ohio specimens in 1931. By the 1950s those populations were gone, and the species was thought to be extinct.
Glittering-throated Emerald: Photos, notes in: The Avifauna of the Interior of Ceará, Brazil
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At long last, a beautiful adult male Emerald Basilisk holding a pose in plain sight for my photographing pleasure.
Emerald-collared Parakeet
Psittacula calthorpae (Blyth 1849) ...
Emerald tree boa
Class: Reptilia
Status: IUCN: Not Listed; CITES: Appendix II
Fly River turtle ...
Emerald Eggs: On average, she will lay 11 very large, thick-shelled, dark-green eggs, but as many as 20 may be laid.
Emerald, Puerto Rican Chlorostilbon maugeaus Endemic to Puerto Rico
Photographed by Dick Daniels in Puerto Rico
Genus Colibri
Violetear, Green Colibri thalassinus Found: The Americas
Photographed by: 1, 2) Bogdan Moldovan 3, 4) Doug ...
Male
Mostly emerald green with very long tail, and pink and black neck ring.
Psittacula krameri
Length: 38-42 cm (15-17") ...
Emerald Aguna (Aguna claxon)
Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 10/13/04.
Though very worn, this ultra-rarity is just brilliant!
Dorantes Longtail (Urbanus dorantes)
Mission, Hidalgo Co., TX 10/13/04.
Emerald poison frog (Ameerega smaragdina)
Bloody Bay fragrant frog (Mannophryne olmonae)
Bubble-nest frog (Philautus sarasinorum)
Cook's robber frog (Eleutherodactylus cooki)
Sierra Leone reed frog (Hyperolius chlorosteus) ...
Willow Emerald Damselfly Lestes viridis
The Willow Emerald Damselfly deposits her eggs in trees. more...
Suborder: Damselflies (Zygoptera) ...
Bright emerald green eyes
Fun Fact:
Prefers to hunt at night than during the day! ...
The bright emerald green color of this snake makes it easy to identify. In northern and central Wisconsin, adults are sometimes a lighter, pale yellow color. But, no matter what color the adults, the young are olive-green upon hatching.
Smaragdbetta, emerald-fight-fish
the Betta smaragdina lives in the middle water-regions of your aquarium. The basin-length of the aquarium should amount to at least 70 cm for these fi...
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Peaceful Dove, Emerald Dove, Spectacled Monarch, Rufus Fantail, Grey Fantail were all porch birds.
MacLeay's Honeyeater was one of the first birds I identified.
Emerald Lorikeet
Musschenbroek's Lorikeet
Western Musschenbroek`s Lorikeet
Southern Musschenbroek`s Lorikeet
Palm Cockatoo
Black Cockatoo
Yellow-tailed Cockatoo
Tasmanian Yellow-tailed Cockatoo
White-tailed Cockatoo
Carnaby's White-tailed Cockatoo ...
Its colored varieties include aquamarine (pale blue-green), emerald (dark green), heliodor (yellow), and morganite (pink). See also the field guide entry for beryl. Biotite K(Mg,Fe)3(AlSi3O10)(OH)2.
The largest is the great emerald bird (Paradisea apoda), about the size of the common jay. Its head and neck are covered with short thick-set feathers, resembling velvet pile, of a bright straw colour above, and a brilliant emerald green beneath.
Emerald darter (Etheostoma baileyi)
Etowah darter (Etheostoma etowahae)
Fantail darter (Etheostoma flabellare)
Firebelly darter (Etheostoma pyrrhogaster)
Fountain darter (Etheostoma fonticola)
Fringed darter (Etheostoma crossopterum) ...
Their ground-colour is a bright emerald-green, sparingly marked with dots and a few streaks of black, accumulated near the apex, and some large marks of dull purple here and there over the whole surface.
The colour ranges from light blue to emerald green or almost grey, the ventral surface being white and rough in texture. Some have irregularly shaped spots on their back, which increase in number as the animals grow old.
I am owned by a White Fronted Amazon named Emerald. That's "Emmie" for short. Emmie is marked like a male, but acts like a female. He has a pet budgie that he feeds and protects relentlessly and lives in my bird room with 13cockatiels and 3 budgies.
They have an emerald green oral disk which is broad and flat, and can reach up to fifteen centimeters in diameter. Their columns are either olive or brown. They have warts on the upper third section of their column.
Adult male: Emerald green back, iridescent ruby red gorget (throat) that may appear black under some lighting conditions, gray flanks, forked tail with no white. Smaller than the female.
They come not only in red, fuchsia, orange, pink, blue, gold, saffron, black, emerald, maroon, earth tones, and more, but also in metallic colors.
Two other species, the Cuban Emerald and the Bumblebee, have been recorded, but, in the Emerald's case, with no photographs or specimens, and with only ancient specimens (1896) in the case of the Bumblebee.
Some are brightly colored, like the green and white emerald tree boa of the tropics (Boa canina), or iridescent, like the wide-ranging rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchris).
The back is marked in a beautiful complicated pattern, with deep maroon, cream, ochre, black and metallic emerald-green.
Its dark emerald head, yellow bill, white neck ring, chestnut breast, and gray body are well known. The far less striking female is mottled brown overall, with an orange bill smudged in black at the center.
The nape, back, and wings are emerald green with large yellow-green patches on the wings. The tapered tail is blue.
Tinamous, ostrichlike birds found in South America, lay very shiny, emerald green eggs. Bluebirds and robins produce blue eggs. Emus have greenish-black eggs. Rheas lay creamy beige eggs.
This slender snake varies from light to emerald green and averages 60 cm in length. Its belly is light yellow and it has smooth scales. Its colouring is perfect for camouflage in tall grasses—it also sways in the wind to keep hidden! ...
Females lay nine to 20 emerald-green eggs in spring, and the aggressive males incubate the eggs and rear the chicks. Chicks are striped with black, brown and cream, so they are well-camouflaged in long grass.
A large elegant Baskettail, usually with three spots in each wing. Can be confused with large Emeralds if the wing spots are not seen. Female and young Twelve-spotted Skimmer have a similar wing pattern but are p...
Dragonfly ...
Their aposematic (warning) colors exhibit combinations of inky blacks and dazzling iridescent blues, oranges, yellows and emeralds reflecting the toxic nature of their skins.
For more information on the Toucan, visit The Emerald Forest Bird Gardens .
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Juveniles are tan with a dark stripes. Older adults are black with emerald green spots, a bright yellow underside, and may reach 42.5" in length. It burrows in loose dirt, often going as far as a foot underground.
The green tree python looks and acts much like its South American relative, the emerald tree boa. However, the resemblance in appearance and behavior nearly all the two have in common. Boas bear live young; python species are oviparous.
blacks/browns/grays, but feather structure can of course change a simple black into an emerald green or purple, as we see in the Mallard.
Most hummingbirds are brightly colored and iridescent, commonly
metallic green. The throat is often glittering red, blue, or emerald green,
usually in males only.
BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE MEXICAN LEAF-FROG by T. A. Wiewandt - excellent in depth article.
Mexican Leaf Frogs: Emeralds from South of the Border Gerold and Cindy Merker
Frogs and Toads of a foreign country beautiful photos ...
Such is the reputation of the magpie that it turned out to be the main culprit in the popular Tintin series, The Castafiore Emerald. There are many species of the same.
The male is a crimson and white with bright blue feet and green-tipped fan-like plumes on its shoulder. The two elongated tail wires are decorated with emerald green disk feathers on its tip. The unadorned female is a brown bird with barring below.
 See also: Reptile, Emperor, Turtle, Parakeet, Rhino
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