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Sunday, June 7, 2026

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar Assigns Wilson's Plovers June 2026

Summary: Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Wilson's plovers June 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series.

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Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Wilson's plovers, mid-, southeast-Atlantic, northeast-, north-, northwest-Caribbean Unitedstatesian and California-peninsular, Pacific-coastal Mexican shorebirds, June 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series.

Being genus-specied Charadrius wilsonia ("healing-powered-mythical-bird," Greek χαραδριός ["dry-riverbed," χαράδρα]) bases Wilson's plovers in the Charadriiformes ("plover-shaped," Latin charadrius fōrmēs) order's Charadriidae ("[Eurasian-stone-curlew-Burhinus-oedicnemus-]plover-appearing/-resembling," Latin charadrius -idæ) family. Unitedstatesian-zoologist George Ord (Sun., Mar 4, 1781-Wed., Jan. 24, 1866) calling the species wilsonia commemorates Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson (Sun., Jul 6, 1766-Mon., Aug. 23, 1813). Charadrius wilsonia beldingi (Lyman Belding [Fri., Jun 12, 1829-Thur., Nov. 22, 1917]; Robert Ridgway [Tues., Jul 2, 1850-Mon., Mar 25, 1929]) designates Pacific-coastal Mexican, peninsular-Californian subspecies.

Long-, stout-, straight-billed Wilson's plovers eat crustacean ("shell's," Latin crusta -acea), insect, mollusk ("soft-/thin-shelled," Latin molluscus) and worm prey and such hard-shelled crabs as fiddler crabs.

"Range map of Wilson's plover"; purple: Year-round, orange: Breeding. "Adapted from: BirdLife International. 2016. Charadrius wilsonia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22693774A93421931. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22693774A93421931.en.": Simon Pierre Barrette (Cephas), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Mid-Atlantic through Florida-tip, north-Caribbean and southeast-Texas coastlines figure as breeding, migrating flyways favored by Wilson's plovers even as afore-featured Caribbean-coastal Texas through Florida fulfill overwintering functions.

Breeding grounds go from coastal-south Maryland and New Jersey coastally southward through and along coastal-east Florida, northward along peninsular Florida and coastally westward along coastal-southeast Texas. North-American Caribbean-Sea and southeast-Atlantic coasts house mud- and saltwater-flat, open-beach, overwash-area, vegetated-dune habitats even as such coastlines herald loose-colony and low-tide foraging Wilson's plovers shallow-scrape nest-housing. Physical and sexual maturity impels one breeding interlude, April through June, even as that interval's four 1.41732283- by 1.02362205-inch (36- by 26-millimeter) egg-maximum imperils already-declining populations.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series jubilates June 2026, month three in Wilson's plovers breeding-season trio.

"Nest of Charadrius wilsonia and brooding male on Coroa do Avião Island, Igarassu, Brazil," image obtained Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, 10:30.: Wallace Rodrigues Telino Júnior, CC BY 1.0 Générique, via Wikimedia Commons

Coastal reefs, sand dunes and shingle beaches kindle driftwood-, grass tuft-, open ground-kept pebble- and shell-fragment nests kept together, or not, with pebble- and shell-fragment lining.

Wilson's-plover mothers-to-be launch daylight-laying and day-time lodging their eggs even as Wilson's-plover fathers-to-be log nightly nest-locating and nest-lodging and looking after single-brooded eggs, hatchlings, nestlings, fledglings. They manage 24- to 25-day-incubating two to four black- to silver-blotched, scrawled, speckled, spotted, buff-cream, buff-white to cream, non- to somewhat-glossy, oval to short-oval, smooth eggs. Downy, precocial ("before I-ripen," Latin prǣ- coquō), black-paired flanks-, mid-to-lower-back-, tail-, wing-lined; black-speckled, irregular-paired crown-lined; buff-white-headed, back-headed, underside-headed; silver-faced, silver-undersided, white-collared hatchlings nestle elsewhere for 21-day-fledging.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series overlaps June 2026 and Wilson's plovers in last-chance, third-month single-broodability.

Wilson's plovers peregrinate hastily, horizontally, preferably proximitously to ground surfaces even as they prioritize direct, fast flight patterns whose ground-surface proximitousness protects them from predatory pursuers.

Mature females quarter adult-male colors and patterns even as they queue less contrast in head-color patterns and often-incomplete brow breastbands with minimal, or without any, black. Mature males reveal black breastbands, eyes, heavily long, stout bills; white eyebrows, foreheads, throats, underparts; brown upperparts; black-edged, white-barred brown wings; dusky-banded, white-edged tails; pink-legged pink-footedness. Physical, sexual maturity secures 6.5- to 8-inch (16- to 20-centimeter) body, 15.5- to 19.5-inch (39- to 49-centimeter) wingspan lengths; 2- to 2.5-ounce (55- to 70-gram) weights.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar teams June 2026 and Wilson's plovers even as the latter tone buzzy-descending, rattle-seried distraction; "peet"-short, "tweet"-slurred whistled-alarm; "pi-dit," short-"pip" flight calls.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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French-American artist, explorer, naturalist and ornithologist John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin; April 26, 1785-Jan. 27, 1851) backgrounded his description of Wilson's plovers with memories of observations ". . . on some of the sandy shores between South Carolina and the extremity of Florida . . . . The air is warm and pleasant, the smooth sea reflects the feeble glimmerings of the fading stars . . . And here am I, inhaling the grateful sea-air, with eyes intent on the dim distance . . . . and on my ear comes the well known note of the bird which bears the name of one whom every ornithologist must honour. Long have I known the bird myself, and yet desirous of knowing it better, I have returned to this beach many successive seasons for the purpose of observing its ways, examining its nest, marking the care with which it rears its young, and the attachment which it manifests to its mate" (John James Audubon, The Birds of America: From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories, vol. V [1842], pages 214-215).
Female (left) and male (right) Wilson's plovers (Anarhynchus wilsonia), under protonym Charadrius Wilsonius, illustrated by John James Audubon and lithographed by England-born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based lithographer John T. Bown (ca. 1801-1856), in The Birds of America, vol. V (1842), No. 64 Plate 319, opposite page 214.:
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/8590152468/;
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Not in copyright, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/birdsofamericafr05audu/page/n296/mode/1up;
"Wilson's Plover 1834," John James Audubon, Birds of America (1834), via University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) Digital Collections @ https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3Aaud0209;
John James Audubon, Birds of America (1834), Plate CCIX (209): University of Pittsburg, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:209_Wilson's_Plover.jpg

"Nest of Charadrius wilsonia and brooding male on Coroa do Avião Island, Igarassu, Brazil," image obtained Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, 10:30.: Wallace Rodrigues Telino Júnior, Générique, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ninho_com_ovos_e_macho_incubando.jpg

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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 September 2024. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024: Dall Sheep at September Snow Willow." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 August 2024. "Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Arctic Terns Above August Nagoon?" Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 6 July 2024. "Ivishak River Acts as Wild July on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 May 2024. "Beluga Whales Awe Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 as Wild May." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 2 March 2024. "Baffin Bay Agrees as Wild March With Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 February 2024. "Tufted Puffins Add Wild February to Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 30 December 2023. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 Assigns Snowy Owls to December Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/12/audubon-arctic-wall-calendar-2022.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 December 2023. "Spectacled Eiders Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 December Birds." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/12/spectacled-eiders-are-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 November 2023. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 Adds Mount Katmai to Wild November." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 14 October 2023. "Caribou Abound as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 October Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 October 2023. "Red-Necked Phalaropes, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 October Birds." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 9 September 2023. "Brown Bears Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 2 September 2023. "Polar Bears Act as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 September Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 12 August 2023. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 Augurs King Eiders as August Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 5 August 2023. "Savannah Sparrows Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 August Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 July 2023. "Kenai Peninsula Awes, As Wild July, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 10 June 2023. "Buff-Breasted Sandpipers, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 June Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/06/buff-breasted-sandpipers-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 June 2023. "Rock Ptarmigans Act as June Birds on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 6 May 2023. "Moose Appear as May Animals on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 April 2023. "Brooks Range Acts as Wild April on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 April 2023. "Arctic Terns Are April Birds on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 March 2023. "Western Sandpipers Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 March Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 March 2023. "Baffin Island Wolves Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 Wild March." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 18 February 2023. "Musk Ox, Muskox Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar February 2022 Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 11 February 2023. "Red-Throated Loons Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 February Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 21 January 2023. "Mallard Ducks Aced Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 as January Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 January 2023. "Red Foxes Are January Wildlife on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 December 2022. "Dark-Eyed Juncos Are December Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 26 November 2022. "Eared Grebes Are November Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 October 2022. "Barred Owls Are October Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 September 2022. "Brown Pelicans Are September Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 August 2022. "Allen’s Hummingbirds Are August Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 30 July 2022. "Reddish Egrets Are July Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 June 2022. "American Oystercatchers Are June Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 May 2022. "Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks Are May Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 10 April 2022. "Crested Caracaras Appear as April Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 19 March 2022. "Cerulean Warblers Are March Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 5 February 2022. "Northern Bobwhites Are February Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 January 2022. "Florida Scrub-Jays Are January Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Thursday, June 4, 2026

Arctic Hares Abide All Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico

Summary: Arctic hares abide all Seasons by the Lake by author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees, Dial Books, Penguin/Random House imprint, March 17, 2026.

Arctic hares abide all Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland by author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees, Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin/Random House imprint, March 17, 2026.

One arctic hare, two and three arctic hares respectively beautify front cover, attribution-page backside, fall-month fourth page, winter-month ending; spring-month first page, back cover summer-month beginning. Sea-level to 900-meter (3,000-foot) elevations contain arctic hares even as cold-weather, frozen-precipitation plateaus, treeless coasts, tundras ("flat-treeless-arctic"; Russian ту́ндра; [northwest-Russian's] Kildin Sami тӯндрэ) characterize such altitudes. Insular, mainland, northernmost-domained North America domiciles arctic hares even as such species dwell in northmost Greenland, north-Canadian northwest, Nunavut, Yukon Territories, Labrador, Newfoundland, Ellesmere, Arctic Archipelago.

Arctic hares establish 1- to 7-hare homes and 12-plus-hare colonies along leeward, rocky-boulder sides, between leeward-mountain ledges even as they extend such homes through snow cover.

Greenland winter-month April, spring-month May feature the arctic-hare breeding season even as the spring-month May, the summer-month June, the summer-month July figure the arctic-hare birthing season.

Arctic-hare mothers-to-be annually generate 53-day-gestated, 8-baby-maximum litters even as they guard litter sizes averaging 5 babies and, in Seasons by the Lake, 3 June-August summer-month babies. Human-made, 188-centimeter- (74.015748-inch-) long burrows sometimes house full-furred, open-eyed newborns nursed every 18 hours even as arctic leverets ("young-hare"; French levre -et) handle 8-, 9-weeks-old weaning. Arctic hares ingest woody-plant blooms, leaves, roots, twigs even as folivore herbivory ("leaf-devour plant-devouring"; Latin folium vorō, herba -vorus) impels crowberries, lichens, mosses, saxifrage (Saxifraga nathorstii).

Author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees journey summer-brown-gray, winter-white molt-coated, year-round black-eartipped and black-nosed arctic hares through Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland.

"Range map of Arctic Hare (Lepus arcticus)," uploaded Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, to Wikimedia Commons via UploadWizard by Cephas; adapted from Arctic Hare Lepus arcticus. Smith, A.T. & Johnston, C.H. 2019. Lepus arcticus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T41274A45185887 (https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41274/45185887).:
Simon Pierre Barrette (Cephas), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Physical and sexual maturity afore the first post-birth breeding season kindles 455- to 70-centimeter (17- to 28-inch) body, 4.5- to 10-centimeter (1.8- to 3.9-inch) tail lengths.

Arctic hares log 2.5- to 5.5-kilogram (6- to 12-pound) mature-body masses even as 20 percent of that compact-bodied, short-eared, short-limbed, small-nosed mass lodges body-insulating, energy-reserving fat. They maintain a year-round body temperature of 38.9 degrees Celsius (102.02 degrees Fahrenheit) even as they manage to move at 60-kilometer (40-mile) maximum speeds per hour. Coastal Greenland niches arctic hares for 7,960 years and arctic hare-preying ermines (Mustela erminea), foxes (Vulpes lagopus), gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus), owls (Bubo scandiacus), wolves (Canis lupus).

Naja Lund Aparico and Alex Nees offer Seasons by the Lake arctic hares (Lepus arcticus groenlandicus; Samuel Rhoads [Wed., Apr. 30, 1862-Sat., Dec. 27, 1952], 1896).

Chordata phylum-ship ("cord-/string-having nation-/race-/set-/tribe-having"; Latin chorda -ata; Greek φῦλον) prompts central nervous system-precursing nerve cord; feeding-, respiration-supportive pharyngeal-slitting; post-anal tail; skeletal support; thyroid; vertebral column-precursing notochord.

Mammalia ("breast-pertaining"; Latin mamma -ālia) class-ship quarters body-covering; internal-bone-work; live-birthing; milk-producing; three middle-ear bones; warm-blooded metabolism even as Placentalia ("nutrients-oxygen-waste-pertaining"; Greek πλακόεντα) infraclass-ship queues live-birthed-developed fetuses. Lagomorpha ("hare-form"; Greek λαγώς μορφή) ordership relays short tails and two-paired upper incisors even as hairy-soled, long-hindlegged Leporidae ("hare-resembling"; Latin lepus -idæ) familyship relays obligate plant-eating. Genus-specied Lepus arcticus ("hare northern-pertaining"; Latin lepus; Greek ἀρκτικός; John Ross [Wed., Jun 24, 1777-Sat., Aug. 30, 1856], 1818) suggest big-, padded-footed, seasonal-coated, short-eared severe-biogeography survival.

Naja Lund Aparico and Alex Nees, in Seasons by the Lake, track arctic hares untroubled by arctic hare-terminating arctic foxes, ermines, gyrfalcons, snowy owls and wolves.

Arctic hares (Lepus arcticus) inhabit the Arctic tundra and other icy biomes, which include northernmost Greenland.
Three snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) traverse Greenland's spring sky above two Arctic hares (Lepus arcticus) in Seasons by the Lake (2026), authored by Greenland-born, Unitedstatesian Pacific Northwest-based, Greenlandic Inuk writer Naja Lund Aparico and illustrated by Aabenraa, southern Denmark-based, German Choctaw artist Alex Nees.: greenlandraised, via Instagram March 18, 2026

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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Marriner, Derdriu. 21 May 2026. "A Greenland Dog Assures Safe Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 14 May 2026. "Arctic Fritillary Ages Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 May 2026. "Where Are the Greenlanders in Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico?" Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 30 April 2026. "What Languages Are in Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico?" Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 23 April 2026. "What Foods Are in Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico?." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 16 April 2026. "Daily Activities Allay Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 9 April 2026. "Green and White Colors Anchor Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 2 April 2026. "Greenland Attire Appears in Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 26 March 2026. "Seasons by the Lake Acquaints Us With Greenland Houses, Inside and Out." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 19 March 2026. "Naja Lund Aparico Avails Seasons by the Lake Tuesday, March 17, 2026." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 11 September 2025. "Arctic Chill and Arctic Thaw Affix Greenland in The Winds of Change." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 September 2025. "Oils Are Why Greenland Sharks Are in Greenland by Jean F. Blashfield." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 28 August 2025. "Arctic Thaw Awaits Greenland Sharks in Ocean by Miezan van Zyl." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 21 August 2025. "Greenland Sharks Not Polar Thaw Awe The Ocean by Miranda Krestovnikoff." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 14 August 2025. "The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife Adds Arctic Thaw to Greenland Sharks." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 August 2025. "Arctic Thaw Affects No Greenland Sharks in Everything About Sharks." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 31 July 2025. "Greenland Sharks Age Despite or Due to Arctic Thaw in Mission: Arctic." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 24 July 2025. "Arctic Thaw Aggresses Greenland Sharks in The Ultimate Book of Sharks." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 17 July 2025. "People, Not Arctic Thaw, Aggress Greenland Sharks in 100 Facts/Sharks." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 10 July 2025. "Pores Aid Greenland Sharks During Climate Change in South with the Sun." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 July 2025. "Greenland Sharks Maybe Avoid Arctic Thaw as Greenland Ice Melt in Ice." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 26 June 2025. "The Secret History of Sharks Absents Arctic Thaw From Greenland Sharks." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 19 June 2025. "Arctic Thaw Aids No Overfished Greenland Sharks in Vanishing Treasures." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 12 June 2025. "No Arctic Thaws Ax Greenland Sharks in Sharks and Other Dangerous Fish." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 5 June 2025. "Arctic Thaw Alarms No Greenland Sharks in Fantastic Facts About Sharks." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 29 May 2025. "Arctic Thaw Ails No Overfished Greenland Sharks in How Old Is a Whale." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 22 May 2025. "Men With Chains, Hooks, Pollution Ail Greenland Sharks in Shark Drunk." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 15 May 2025. "Overkilling Afflicts Greenland Sharks in Shark by Dr Miranda Macquitty." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 May 2025. "Greenland Sharks Are in Can't Get Enough Shark Stuff by Kelly Hargrave." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 24 April 2025. "Jonathan Sheikh-Miller, Monica Tamariz Avail Tiburones Greenland Shark." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 17 April 2025. "George W Benz Authors Greenland Shark for Grzimek's Animal Life." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 10 April 2025. "Super Shark by Derek Harvey Airs Greenland Sharks Without Arctic Thaw." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 3 April 2025. "Greenland Sharks in The Shark Handbook by Dr Skomal Avoid Arctic Thaw." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 27 March 2025. "The Encyclopedia of Sharks by Steve Parker Applauds Greenland Sharks." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 20 March 2025. "Jennifer V Schmidt Authors Greenland Shark for World Book Volume 8: G." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 13 March 2025. "Mary Pope Osborne Adds No Greenland Sharks to Narwhal on a Sunny Night." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 6 March 2025. "Greenland Sharks Allure Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 27 February 2025. "Angela's Glacier by Jordan Scott Amplifies Greenland Thaw in Underland." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 20 February 2025. "Greenland Thaw and Nuclear Waste Appall Robert Macfarlane in Underland." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 13 February 2025. "Greenland, World Waters and Their Water World Life Affect Each Other." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 6 February 2025. "Arctic Thaw Affects Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean Island Greenland." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
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Thursday, May 28, 2026

Snow Buntings Aerialize, Aestheticize and Announce Seasons by the Lake

Summary: Snow buntings aerialize, aestheticize and announce Seasons by the Lake by author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees, Dial Books, March 17, 2026.

Their classification as passerine, or perching, birds, places snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) in the order Passeriformes (Latin: passer, "sparrow" and formis, "-shaped"). Snow buntings live circumpolarly in the Arctic tundra region's high latitudes, which include North Greenland.
Two snow buntings fly Greenland's spring sky on the front cover of Seasons by the Lake (2026), authored by Greenland-born, Unitedstatesian Pacific Northwest-based, Greenlandic Inuk writer Naja Lund Aparico and illustrated by Aabenraa, southern Denmark-based, German Choctaw artist Alex Nees.: greenlandraised, via Instagram March 18, 2026

Snow buntings aerialize, aestheticize, announce Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland by Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees, Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin/Random House imprint, March 17, 2026.

Snow buntings beautify the front cover; the back side to that cover; the first page to the spring-month section; the next-last page to the winter-months section. Rocky areas with perchable boulders near sparse-vegetated tundra constitute snow-bunting breeding habitat even as snow buntings congregate in open-country, on shoreline, nonbreeding southerlier Northern-Hemisphere winter habitats. Insular and mainland Alaska and northern Canada, Svalbard, northern Europe, northwest Russia domicile them even as wintertime nonbreeders dwell in southern Canada and the Unitedstatesian North.

One-and-one-quarter (1.25)- to 2-ounce (35- to 55-gram), 6.5-inch- (16- to 18-centimeter-) long bodies and 12.5- to 14-inch (32- to 35-centimeter) wingspans establish boulder-, rock-, scree-crevice nests.

"Map of the geographical distribution of Snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)"; color code: orange--breeding, yellow--migration, purple--year-round, blue--nonbreeding; sourced from BirdLife International. 2016. Plectrophenax nivalis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22721043A89345729 (https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22721043/89345729); uploaded Monday, May 7, 2018, 23:09, to Wikimedia Commons by Cephas via UploadWizard.: Simon Pierre Barrette (Cephas), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Boulder-, rock-, scree- ("landslide/landslide"; Old Norse skriða) nests feature dry-grass, lichen, moss cups fine feather-, grass-, hair-, wool-lined even as snow buntings favor same year-after-year nests.

May through August breeding generates 3 to 9 blue-green, blue-white, glossy, smooth, subelliptical 23- by 16-millimeter (0.90551181- by 0.62992126-inch) eggs variably dark-light blotched, distributed, speckled, spotted. Sometimes larger ends host such heavy to sparse variability of black-brown, black-purple, brown-purple, brown-red-white, gray-purple-white markings even as such camouflageability hinders ground-foraging caribou and polar bears. Only snow-bunting mothers-to-be incubate their single-brooded eggs for 10 to 15 days even as snow-bunting fathers-to-be subsequently involve themselves in the hatchling and the nestling intervals.

Author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Ness jubilate monogamous female, polygamous male, nestling or fledgling snow buntings in Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland.

"Egg of Snow Bunting. Collection of René de Naurois / Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut," collected at Kingsbay, Ny-Ålesund ("New Ålesund"), Oscar II Land, western Spitsbergen, Brøgger peninsula (Brøggerhalvøya), Svalbard archipelago; image data generated Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 15:24.: Didier Descouens (Archaeodontosaurus), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Snow-bunting hatching kindles altricial ("nourisher"; Latin altrīx), red-mouthed, yellow gape-flanged (lower-upper-jawed-meeting) hatchlings whose bodies keep long, plentiful down on their uppersides and black-gray on their undersides.

Newborn to 5-day-old snow buntings lodge with their mother and lunch on father-located food even as 6- to 9-day-olds look to both parents for their food. They move, as 8-day-olds to and from their nests with their parents even as they move independently, albeit still munching parent-mobilized meals as 10- to 14-day-olds. They nestle, as 26-day-olds, into their niches even as they number among numerous family- and friend-netting all-season flocks throughout their perhaps 6- to 8-year life-expectancy lifespans.

Author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees offer Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland a front-cover two-parent, one-young family and a winter-spring breeding couple.

Chordata phylumship ("notochord-having rank"; Latin chorda -ata; Latin phylum; Greek φῦλον) presents to snow buntings notochord, hollow dorsal nerve cord, thyroid, pharyngal slits and post-anal tail.

Aves class-ship ("birds"; Latin avēs) qualifies snow buntings as back-boned, feathered, hard-shelled egg-laying, high-metabolism, warm-blooded vertebrates with beaked, toothless jaws; four-chambered hearts; and lightweight, strong skeletons. Passeriformes (Latin passer -fōrmēs) ordership and Calcariidae ("lime-pertaining-resembling"; Latin calcārius -idæ) familyship render genus-specied Plectrophenax nivalis ("spur-imposter snow-pertaining"; Greek πλῆκτρον φέναξ; Latin nix -ālis) sparrow-shaped, lime-colored. Breeding- versus nonbreeding-season physical and sexual maturity suggests black-backed, black-billed, white-headed, white-undersided, versus black-brown-eyed, yellow-billed, buffy-edged black-feathered, rusty-orange breast-, chest-patched, white-patched black-winged, white-outer tail-feathered, white-undersided, males.

Naja Lund Aparico and Alex Nees tender Seasons by the Lake buzz-rolled-, tyew-flight-calling, squeaky-whistled song-transmitting male, rufous-white-crowned, white-undersided female, gray-bodied, white-eyeringed juvenile insect-, sedge-tracking snow buntings.

Snow Bunting (plectrophenax nivalis), "Male in Breeding Plumage Thule Greenland," image obtained Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 19:19:46.: Drew Avery, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

"Snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis insulae) female in breeding plumage, Flatey Island, Western Iceland," image obtained Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, 15:24:19.: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_bunting_(Plectrophenax_nivalis_insulae)_female_breeding_Flatey.jpg

Snow Bunting (plectrophenax nivalis), "Male in Breeding Plumage Thule Greenland," image obtained Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 19:19:46.: Drew Avery, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_Bunting_(Plectrophenax_nivalis),_Thule,_Greenland_1.jpg;
Drew Avery (Drew Avery), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/33590535@N06/5391608087

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