nature

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A faint light; a dim glow.

A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

Buteo jamaicensis, a medium-sized bird of prey found throughout North America.

Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.

A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.

Any of various trees and shrubs of the family Casuarinaceae growing in Australasia and parts of Asia.

Ulmus rubra, a North American elm tree with a mucilaginous and slightly aromatic inner bark.

A common species of rat, Rattus rattus.

Either of two unrelated flowering plants:

One who has been marked or deformed by nature.