Michael Gäbler

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These are my featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons. They are considered some of the finest images.

Agama agama at the Zoo Schmiding in Schmiding near Bad Schallerbach, Austria.

The peninsula Ellenbogen with the Leuchtturm List Ost, Sylt, Germany.

Megalithic grave "Harhoog" in Keitum, Sylt, Germany.

Red lionfish at the Aquazoo (aquarium) in the Zoo Schmiding in Schmiding near Bad Schallerbach, Austria.

Ghost town Frisco in Beaver County, Utah, USA. It was an active mining camp from 1879 to 1929. Since 2002 it is again an active mining camp.

The image shows a barn swallow when feeding her young in the nest in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

The Jungle Palace in the Hanover Zoo with the male Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata at sunset.

The "Rosenmühle" is a former water mill in Adensen, Nordstemmen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Entrance to a Chine with hoodoos in the Cedar Breaks National Monument.

Thatched cottage in the sand dunes by Denmark.

Foothpath with pollarded willows from the Convent Wülfinghausen to the "Café am Waldkater". Wülfinghausen belongs to the town Springe in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Young Bison bonasus bonasus in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Young Bison bonasus bonasus in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Wisent in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Karl Bodmer: Indians hunting the bison. Tableau 31. In: Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied: Maximilian Prince of Wied’s Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832–1834; Translation H. Evans Lloyd; Achermann & Comp., London 1843–1844.

This chromolithograph from the year 1856 shows the waterfall Harsprånget in the polar night with the aurora borealis. The waterfall Harsprånget (former name: Njommelsaska) was the largest waterfall of the Swedish Lule River. Today there is the largest hydroelectric plant in Sweden Stora harsprånget.

The hoodoos in the Bryce Canyon National Park.

Fallow Deer in the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park near Nindorf, Hanstedt, Germany.

The image shows the middle of a polished slice of a petrified tree from Arizona. After the enlargement of the image it is possible to see the insect borings in the wood. They lived approximately 230 million years ago in the late Triassic. Size: 15.34cm × 18.04cm.

The youth-sculpture on the fountain made 1972 by Friedrich Adolf Sötebier near the street "Klosteramthof" in Wennigsen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

August Haake painted "Feld mit Kornhocken" over a period of 1911-1914 in Fischerhude near Bremen.

August Haake painted "Duck houses" over a period of 1911-1914 in Fischerhude near Bremen. The duck houses are standing in the river Wümme. On the right side goes a path and a footbridge over a branch by the Wümme.

Red Deer (female) in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

View in the Kolob Canyons. Kolob Canyons is the northwest section of Zion National Park, Utah, United States.

View from the town Kranjska Gora in north-west Slovenia to the Julian Alps with Razor (left) and Prisojnik (right).

Oxbow Bend outlook in the Grand Teton National Park. View over the Snake River to the Mount Moran with the Skillet Glacier (12605 ft), Bivouac Peak (10825 ft) and Eagles Rest Peak (11258 ft) in the Teton Range, Wyoming, United States.

Rock face in Ruby Beach with hot springs in the Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA.

Flowing artesian well in the meadow near the "Laghi di Fusine-superiore", Valromana, Italia.

Snowi, a young wild boar in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

A part of the horse market in Lorenzkirch, Zeithain, Saxony, Germany. View from the church steeple in Lorenzkirch to the horse market, to the river Elbe and to the town Strehla.

The miller from Lorenzkirch leaves his shipmill at the river Elbe with flour bags in his rowboat. In the background are three shipmills tied up alongside the embarkment by the small town Strehla, Saxony, Germany. Coloured Lithograph "Strehla" by Carl Wilhelm Arldt about 1840.

Fishermans from Lorenzkirch in front of Strehla, Saxony, Germany. Coloured steel engraving "Strehla (in Sachsen)" by J. Umbach, pub. by G.G. Lange, Darmstadt.

Sunset in the Saxon Switzerland National Park, Saxony, Germany. View from the viewpoint on the top of the Papststein. The three large mountains are Gohrisch (left), the Königstein Fortress (in exact centre) and the Lilienstein (right). The village has the name Kurort Gohrisch.

Hazy blue hour in Grand Canyon. View from the South Rim.

Jackson Lake Lodge outlook in the Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States. View over the Willow Flats area to the Teton Range with the Mount Moran and his Skillet Glacier (12605 ft) in the middle.

European Wildcat in her environment. The image was taken in the Wisentgehege Springe game park, near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

The Blue Poison Dart Frog Dendrobates azureus or even Dendrobates tinctorius.

George V of Hanover, his wife Marie of Saxe-Altenburg and their children Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, Princess Frederica of Hanover and Princess Marie of Hanover.

View in Vienna from the bridge Reichsbrücke over the River New Danube towards the footbridge Ponte Cagrana and to the hill range Vienna Woods in Austria.

Farmer in Tamil Nadu, India in the year 1993.

Lakeside of the Mono Lake with Tufa columns in the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve, California, United States.

Juvenile Bald Eagle from the Falkenhof in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Head of the juvenile Bald Eagle from the Falkenhof in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Bald Eagle in the Adlerwarte Berlebeck in Berlebeck, Detmold, Germany.

Golden Eagle in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

A couple of Ruddy Shelduck.

Weathered growth rings in a horizontal cross section cut through an tree felled around AD 1111 used for the western building complex at Aztec Ruins National Monument, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA. There is the cross section cut of the tree located in the outer wall of the building.

Cottontop Tamarin in the Tierpark Bad Pyrmont in Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Head by the Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) in Hanover Zoo, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Silver torch cactus (Cleistocactus strausii) in the Berggarten in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Barn Owl in the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park near Nindorf, Hanstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Rooster Black Bovan.

European Wildcat in the Wisentgehege Springe game park, near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Sacrifice of Isaac. Handcolored etching Abrahams Opfer by Adi Holzer 1997 (Work number 835).

John the Baptist baptize Jesus. Handcolored etching «The baptism» by Adi Holzer 1997 (Work number 849).

A male Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) at sunset in Hanover Zoo.

Head of the Blue-and-yellow Macaw in the Weltvogelpark Walsrode near Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany.

The „Kufenstechen“ is an event that takes place in Feistritz an der Gail in Carinthia, Republic of Austria during the annual Kermesse on Whit Monday. The task of young unmarried men, riding on bareback Noriker horses, is to smash a wooden barrel with an iron club.

Lady in Bundi, Rajasthan, India in the year 1986.

The Christmas flood 1717 was the result of a northwesterly storm, which hit the coast area of the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia on Christmas night of 1717. In total, approximately 14,000 people drowned.

The wheat harvest near Eldagsen in Germany. The combine Claas Lexion 584 06833 mows, threshes, shreddes the chaff and blows it across the field. In the meantime he loads the threshed wheat at full speed on a trailer.

The combine Claas Lexion 584 06833 in the wheat harvest near Eldagsen in Germany. Claas Lexion 584 threshing the wheat. Then he crushed the chaff and blows it across the field.

Harris's Hawk in front of a natural stone wall in the Sababurg game park near Hofgeismar, district Kassel, Hesse, Germany.

Arctic Wolf in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Fallow Deer (female) in the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park near Nindorf, Hanstedt, Germany.

A young wild boar in his environment in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Railway station in Kreiensen in the district of Northeim, Lower Saxony, Germany in the year 1963.

Pennaceous feathers by the Eurasian jay in Hanover, Germany.

Sword razor with Balanus crenatus on the razor, found in the Mudflat by the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park nearby Kampen, Sylt, Germany.

Wood engraving Crucifixion of Jesus 1866 by Gustave Doré.

Louis Armstrong. Handcolored etching and Photogravure Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) by Adi Holzer 2002 (Work number 899). It is a part of the Zyklus Mythos 2 from the year 2002.

The Hindenburgdamm is an 11 km-long causeway joining the North Frisian island of Sylt to mainland Schleswig-Holstein. It was opened on 1 June 1927 and is exclusively a railway corridor. The Sylt Shuttle operated by DB AutoZug transports road vehicles on railway wagons over the Hindenburgdamm.

This Steam locomotive, No. 991777-4, is used on the Radebeul–Radeburg railway. Primarily a tourist attraction, the Radebeul-Radeburg railway maintains a year-round timetable and runs between Radebeul East station and the small towns of Moritzburg and Radeburg north of Dresden.

The Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik built 1912 in Kirchen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany this Tank locomotive No. 897513. Today pulls the locomotive a Heritage railway in Northern Germany.

Train by the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in the railroad station Silverton.

German Beekeeper in the district Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Saker Falcon from the Falkenhof in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Caligo eurilochus at the Schmetterlingshaus (Butterfly zoo) in the Palmenhaus (palm house) near the Burggarten in Vienna, Austria.

Ulysses butterfly, Blue Mountain Butterfly or the Blue Mountain Swallowtail at the Schmetterlingshaus (Butterfly zoo) in the Palmenhaus (palm house) near the Burggarten in Vienna, Austria.

Danaus genutia also Common Tiger (dragonfly) and Striped Tiger at the Arthropodenzoo in the Zoo Schmiding in Schmiding near Bad Schallerbach, Austria.}

Tawny Owl in the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park near Nindorf, Hanstedt, Germany.

Meripilus giganteus in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Young European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), or common hedgehog, is a hedgehog species found in northern and western Europe.

Dead man's fingers in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.

Mountain Marienberg and the Marienburg Castle, Germany, in autumn. The image is made on 31. October. This is in Germany mostly the last day with Autumn leaf color. On this day the colouring is already brownish before the leaves fall.

View to the Backenswarft on Hallig Hooge, Germany.

View from the Backenswarft on Hallig Hooge, Germany.

Harris's Hawk in the Neuhaus game park near Holzminden, district Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in the Neuhaus game park near Holzminden, district Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany.

White-headed Vulture in the Adlerwarte Berlebeck in Berlebeck, Detmold, Germany.

Underside of an European garden spider (Araneus diadematus) in its web.

Amulet created earlier than the year 1901 by unknown in Western High Plateau, Cameroon.

Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard in the Leipzig Zoological Garden, Leipzig, Germany.

The orchid Hybrid Dactylorhiza × braunii is one of the rarest plants worldwide. There is only a little number of habitats worldwide. The Global Biodiversity information Facility says: there are only 11 number of occurences by 8 data providers in europe.

Disa uniflora is a species of orchid in the Orchidaceae family in the Berggarten in Hanover, Germany.

Canna Golden Gate in the botanical garden Berggarten in Herrenhausen near Hanover, Germany.

Rosy pelican in the Zoo in the city of Dresden in Germany.

Tawny owl from the Falkenhof in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany.