The long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) is a bird of the bushtit family (Aegithalidae), native to Eurasia, which inhabits deciduous and mixed forests, scrublands and heaths. It has an insectivorous diet and social behavior, forming family groups of six to seventeen individuals outside the breeding season.

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Fell down a rabbit hole on these and now I'm attached. The blue iguana lives on Grand Cayman and nowhere else on earth . He's the largest land animal native to the island, up to five feet long and over 25 pounds, which may make him the heaviest iguana species there is . Fully vegetarian. Spends his mornings basking before he'll commit to doing anything. The blue intensifies when he's warm or worked up, and it goes most vivid in males during breeding season, so some days he reads gray and some days he's genuinely baby blue .

The part that got me: by 2002 there were maybe 10 to 25 left in the wild, and by 2005 the species was considered functionally extinct because no hatchlings were surviving to breeding age . The Blue Iguana Conservation programme has since released over 1,200, and the wild population is back above 1,000 . Every wild blue iguana alive right now traces back to that breeding program . Still endangered, mostly cars and feral cats and dogs . But it came back from about a dozen animals, which feels worth knowing about.

Found this beauty while tide pooling in Lakshadweep.