A bunch of Mexicans are migrating!!!

[Waldo 0]

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico.

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The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters.

Gliding silently beneath the waves they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks.

She said: "It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind.

"It's hard to say exactly how many there were but in the range of a few thousand.

"We were surrounded by them without seeing the edge of the school and we could see many under the water surface too.

"I feel very fortunate I was there in the right place at the right time to experienced nature at his best."

Measuring up to 7ft (2.1 metres) from wing-tip to wing-tip, Golden rays are also more prosaically known as cow nose rays.

They have long, pointed pectoral fins that separate into two lobes in front of their high-domed heads and give them a cow-like appearance.

Despite having poisonous stingers they are known to be shy and non-threatening when in large schools.

The population in the Gulf of Mexico migrates, in schools of as many as 10,000, clockwise from western Florida to the Yucatan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews...-migration.html

Can someone make these pictures work?

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Edited February 5, 2009 by Waldo

[HAL 9000 96]

Its only a matter of time before someone has an issue with undocumented monarch butterflies making their way North from Mexico.

[Jasman0717 9]

Its only a matter of time before someone has an issue with undocumented monarch butterflies making their way North from Mexico.

[Staashi 371]

Its only a matter of time before someone has an issue with undocumented monarch butterflies making their way North from Mexico.

Actually, where I live in Tallahassee, just 10 miles south of us is a wildlife refuge called St. Marks. It is the final migrating place for the Monarchs before they make their way back to Mexico. They really are amazing to watch. We went in October of 2007 to see them and just were entranced by their beauty.

[almaty 19]

i am sure none of them have a green card..and will eventually come across the border into america..the land of milk and honey..well, at least nectar and pollen

[HAL 9000 96]

Its only a matter of time before someone has an issue with undocumented monarch butterflies making their way North from Mexico.

Actually, where I live in Tallahassee, just 10 miles south of us is a wildlife refuge called St. Marks. It is the final migrating place for the Monarchs before they make their way back to Mexico. They really are amazing to watch. We went in October of 2007 to see them and just were entranced by their beauty.

Amazing indeed!

Try visiting them in Mexico... quite a sight to behold forests lined with billiions of monarchs...

Sorry Waldo... turned your thread into a butterfly thread.

i am sure none of them have a green card..and will eventually come across the border into america..the land of milk and honey..well, at least nectar and pollen

Probably liberal monarch butterflies. A fence must be built to keep them out.

[almaty 19]

and nets used...

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

That means Mexico has a problem of Canadian undocumented butterflies??

Deport them all! hold on...they self-deport after winter passes, still DEPORT THEM!

Edited February 5, 2009 by TävôLuDô

[HAL 9000 96]

Felons.

[Waldo 0]

Its only a matter of time before someone has an issue with undocumented monarch butterflies making their way North from Mexico.

Actually, where I live in Tallahassee, just 10 miles south of us is a wildlife refuge called St. Marks. It is the final migrating place for the Monarchs before they make their way back to Mexico. They really are amazing to watch. We went in October of 2007 to see them and just were entranced by their beauty.

Amazing indeed!

Try visiting them in Mexico... quite a sight to behold forests lined with billiions of monarchs...

Sorry Waldo... turned your thread into a butterfly thread.

i am sure none of them have a green card..and will eventually come across the border into america..the land of milk and honey..well, at least nectar and pollen

Probably liberal monarch butterflies. A fence must be built to keep them out.

Recently I have started collecting butterflies. I'm going to try to make a small hobby into bringing them up from the Amazon and selling them.

[HAL 9000 96]

Blue Morpho. Right?

Saw many huge ones in the Inti Iri Wasi park in Cochabamba, Bolivia some years ago. Alive.

[almaty 19]

a most beautiful buttefly..i have never seen one