Penguins! Penguins here! <pause> Do I have your attention now? There are few bird names that will elicit great big smiles and Penguin is...
A bird of prey showed up in the tiny park across the boulevard from me yesterday, setting himself down on a park bench and...
One good thing about birding during a pandemic–the forced restrictions on place and time translate into more time to observe what birds do. And...
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“Look around, look around…” The refrain is from Hamilton, a demand and a plea to look with the brain and the heart and then...
Be careful how you Google ‘bird of paradise’! Type it in and you’ll find articles about a showy South African plant, trailers for two...
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