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Bloggers rarely have the opportunity to put a face to the name, to encounter in what techies call “meatspace” the folks we know so well in cyberspace. This is, for the most part, a good thing. A blog allows a person to project a selective profile, either a fragmented, focused self or an idealized, extra-eloquent […]

Just yesterday, I received a interesting plea for assistance:
I googled birds + Puerto Rico and yours was the first and best site to come up. I hope you can help us. We were just in PR visiting family and we came across this bird. My sister gave it to my uncle who has a small […]

Two owls in the Genus Strix populate North America. The first of these, the Barred Owl, is highly adaptable, common throughout the eastern United States and much of Canada, and in the process of expanding its range. The second, the  Spotted Owl, is sedentary, rare, and specialized, requiring very specific habitat to survive. The two […]

 
Lekki Conservation Center, Lagos, Nigeria
18 June 2005.

Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria and, with its population of 13.4 million (2000), one of the largest in Africa (second only to Cairo, Egypt) - the population is expected to reach 24 million people by 2020, which would make it the third largest city in the world. […]

While writing up yesterday’s post, my inherent weakness for alliteration got the better of me. I eagerly described the season’s bounty of warblers as a “procession of precious passerines.” Now, it is definitely not my style to insert the word “precious” into a conversation, but it seemed to fit with the surrounding words. Yet, when […]

All good things, as they say, must come to an end. Predictably, spring migration, with its succession of stunning songbirds, is one of them. Too bad the waves of warblers had to wane so soon.
Although family commitments kept the Core Team occupied in Connecticut for most of the weekend, I had the opportunity to slip […]

Variable Antshrike Thamnophilus caerulescens
Serra de Cantareira. June 2005
 
Variable Antshrike Thamnophilus caerulescens:

There are 12 subspecies of Variable Antshrike (there may be more than one species involved), and males are highly “variable” across its wide range - which is from Peru and Bolivia to Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil, with a disjunct population in north east […]

Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner Philydor rufum
Serra de Cantareira. June 2005
 
Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner Philydor rufum:

The Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner is distributed in Costa Rica and Panama, the coastal highlands of Venezuela, Andean highlands from Colombia to Bolivia and in southern Brazil. It is found in humid and montane forest.

A common and conspicuous member of bird-parties at Serra da Cantareira, this individual […]

Little Swifts Apus affinis
Nairobi, Kenya 02 June 2005
 
The following photographs were taken from the roof of the Intercontinental Hotel, Nairobi in the late afternoon as a group of about one hundred Little Swifts hawked over the centre of the city in the company of Yellow-billed Kites and Pied Crows.

The race breeding throughout much of Africa […]

Serra da Cantareira, Sao Paulo, Brazil 08 June 2005.
 
I’ve just got back into the hotel after a rather long but very exciting day wandering around the Serra da Cantareira, an almost 8000ha chunk of remnant rainforest high above the pollution and chaos of São Paulo.

The park is, so websites say, located just 10 […]