Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants. The term accidental is sometimes also used. There are a number of poorly understood factors which might cause an animal to become a vagrant, including internal causes such as navigatory errors and external causes such as severe weather. Vagrancy events may lead to colonisation and eventually to speciation.
Laughing gull, a species of the Americas, photographed in Wales.
Vagrant birds in unfamiliar habitats may end up dying from stress or a lack of food, as happened to this great shearwater that was found at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan
Atriplex cinerea, commonly known as grey saltbush, coast saltbush, barilla or truganini, is a plant species in the family Amaranthaceae. It occurs in sheltered coastal areas and around salt lakes in the Australian states of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales.
Image: Atriplex cinerea
Image: Iconography of Australian salsolaceous plants (1889) (20746093475)
The purple globular clusters of the male flower.
The male flower during anthesis.