Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once again to one of my...
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I have said it before and I will say it again – I love getting to Jamaica Bay at the end of a day...
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The Pied-billed Grebe, a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane. Podilymbus podiceps is most certainly common in my experience,...
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Autumn is a season of transitions and migrations, a slow descent from summer’s heat to winter’s cold. Sometimes blustery and rainy, sometimes warm and...
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Tubenose. No, it’s not part of a Shakespearean insult. Tubenoses are seabirds that belong to an order called Procellariiformes (from a Latin word for...
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Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) photos by Larry Jordan (click for full sized images) While visiting Arcata Marsh a couple of weeks ago, I had...
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One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...
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Now that there are 7 billi0n of us on this planet, it seems appropriate to look at and appreciate other great big collections of...
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