NEBRASKA BUFFALO
This is a project of collecting postcards from all over the world. Please send me postcards of your beautiful countries, states, islands, regions and subjects of interesting places, so I can feature them here.
Friday, August 15, 2025
USA - Nebraska - Nebraska Buffalo
NEBRASKA BUFFALO
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa)
Native to Central and South America, King Vultures have mostly featherless heads with a rainbow of colors including orange, pink, yellow, purple, grey, and black.
The king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) is a large bird found in Central and South America. It is a member of the New World vulture family Cathartidae. This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. It is the only surviving member of the genus Sarcoramphus, although fossil members are known.
Large and predominantly white, the king vulture has gray to black ruff, flight, and tail feathers. The head and neck are bald, with the skin color varying, including yellow, orange, blue, purple, and red. The king vulture has a very noticeable orange fleshy caruncle on its beak. This vulture is a scavenger and it often makes the initial cut into a fresh carcass. It also displaces smaller New World vulture species from a carcass. King vultures have been known to live for up to 30 years in captivity.
King vultures were popular figures in the Mayan codices as well as in local folklore and medicine. Although currently listed as Least Concern by the IUCN, they are decreasing in number, due primarily to habitat loss (read more).
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Timber Wolf (Gray Wolf)
Timber Wolf (Gray Wolf)
There are two forms, the larger being referred to as the Great Lakes-boreal wolf, which is generally found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, southeastern Manitoba and northern Ontario, and the smaller being the Algonquin wolf, which inhabits eastern Canada, specifically central and eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec, with some overlapping and mixing of the two types in the southern portions of northeastern and northwestern Ontario. The eastern wolf's morphology is midway between that of the gray wolf and the coyote. The fur is typically of a grizzled grayish-brown color mixed with cinnamon. The nape, shoulder and tail region are a mix of black and gray, with the flanks and chest being rufous or creamy. It primarily preys on white-tailed deer, but may occasionally hunt moose and beavers (read more).
Monday, June 23, 2025
Sri Lanka - Elephants at Pinnawala
Elephants at Pinnawala.
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage (Sinhala: පින්නවල අලි අනාථාගාරය), is a captive breeding and conservation institute for wild Asian elephants located at Pinnawala village, 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of Kegalle town in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. Pinnawala has the largest herd of captive elephants in the world. In 2023, there were 71 elephants, including 30 males and 41 females from 3 generations, living in Pinnawala.
The orphanage was founded to care and protect the many orphaned unweaned wild elephants found wandering in and near the forests of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1975 by the Sri Lanka Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC).
On 31 August 2021, a 25 year old elephant named Surangi gave birth to twin male baby elephants at the orphanage. It also marked the first instance of the birth of twin elephants in Sri Lanka after a gap of 80 years since 1941 (read more).
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
USA - Wildlife In Southwestern Desert
Sent by Yajaira from New Mexico, USA.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
USA - Bald Eagle (2)
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
My Russia - #1 - Larga Seal Rookery
Larga Seal Rookery near Kekura Column, Sea of Japan.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Thailand - Chiang Mai - Mae Taman Elephant Camp
Fun time with elephants at Mae Taman Elephant Camp, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Monday, February 10, 2025
United Arab Emirates - Racing Camels
Racing Camels.
Sent by Narj from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Havelock Island
I went to this island on 2nd January 2025 by cruise ship from Haddo Jetty in Port Blair. Bought this postcard and others and got the stamps cancelled at the Havelock Island's Post Office.
Sunday, January 5, 2025
India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Clown Fish
Monday, December 23, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
Mongolia - Greetings From Mongolia
Harsh but often beautiful : the desert
Sent by myself during my travel to Mongolia in July this year.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Canada - Nunavut - Muskox
Nunavut - Canada's Arctic
Muskox at Cambridge Bay.
The muskox (Ovibos moschatus, also spelled musk ox and musk-ox) is an Arctic mammal of the family Bovidae, noted for its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted by males, from which its name derives. This musky odor is used to attract females during mating season. Muskoxen primarily live in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, with small introduced populations in Sweden, Siberia, Norway, and Alaska. (read further)
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Antarctica/Australia/New Zealand - Macquarie Island
Say Ah? King penguin squawks at an elephant seal, Macquarie Island.
Sent by Vivienne from Christchurch, New Zealand.
Macquarie Island is an oceanic island in the Southern Ocean, lying 1,500 km south-east of Tasmania and approximately halfway between Australia and the Antarctic continent. The island is the exposed crest of the undersea Macquarie Ridge, raised to its present position where the Indo-Australian tectonic plate meets the Pacific plate. It is a site of major geo-conservation significance, being the only place where rocks from the Earth's mantle (6 km below the ocean floor) are being actively exposed above sea level.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne Aquarium
left : Common Seadragon Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
right : Leafy Seadragon Phycodurus eques
Sent by Elizabeth, a postcrosser from Australia.
Melbourne Aquarium is a Southern Ocean and Antarctic aquarium in central Melbourne, Australia. It is located on the banks of the Yarra River beside and under the Flinders Street Viaduct and the King Street Bridge.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Greenland - Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida)
The ringed seal (Pusa hispida), also known as the jar seal and as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal (family: Phocidae) inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The ringed seal is a relatively small seal, rarely greater than 1.5 m in length, with a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light grey rings, whence its common name. It is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the northern hemisphere: ranging throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south asNewfoundland, and include two freshwater subspecies in northern Europe. Ringed seals are one of the primary prey of polar bears and have long been a component of the diet of indigenous people of the Arctic.
The ringed seal is the smallest and most common seal in the Arctic, with a small head, short cat-like snout, and a plump body. Its coat is dark with silver rings on the back and sides with a silver belly, from which this seal gets its vernacular name. Depending on subspecies and condition, adult size can range from 100 to 175 cm (40–69 in) and weigh from 32 to 140 kg (70-308 lbs). The seal averages about 5 ft (1.5 m) long with a weight of about 50–70 kg (110-150 lbs). This species is usually considered the smallest species in the true seal family, although several related species, especially the Baikal, may approach similarly diminutive dimensions. Their small front flippers have claws more than 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick that are used to maintain breathing holes through 6.5 ft (2 m) thick ice. (Source)
Monday, March 18, 2013
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Lithuania - National Bird - White Stork
White Stork.
Sent by Raimnoda, a postcrosser from Lithuania.
"The White Stork (gandras) was declared the national bird of Lithuania in 1973. Lithuanians believe that storks bring harmony to the families on whose property they nest; they have also kept up the tradition of telling their children that storks bring babies. Stork Day is celebrated on March 25 with various archaic rituals: gifts for children, attributed to the storks, such as fruits, chocolates, pencils, and dyed eggs, are hung on tree branches and fences; snakes are caught, killed and buried under the doorstep; straw fires are lit. Notably, Lithuania is a beneficial and important habitat for these birds: it has the highest known nesting density in the world."(Source)