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New York City is well known as a city of immigrants so it makes sense that the only lizards living within the five boroughs are immigrants as well.  Our northern winters and highly developed landscape make New York City inhospitable to most species of lizard and it is no surprise that the two species that [...]

When I was in Kazakhstan way back in May there were several species of lizard we spotted that I have neglected to write about for 10,000 Birds, which is a shame because they are pretty cool lizards, as most lizards tend to be.  Three of the four were spotted near one of the two waterholes [...]

Visiting Jamaica is truly a sensory experience. Not only does one see astounding beauty and feel that warm Caribbean sun, but one also hears every night a collection of chirps, croaks, and hoots that fairly falls between a symphony and a cacophony. This unmistakable ruckus, which persists until birdsong takes over at dawn, is the [...]

It is not every day that one gets to see a pair of Green Iguanas sunning themselves on a bush from close range.  But, as I have already shown in one of my two posts about visiting Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, that is exactly what the boat load of birders I was with got [...]