One day my wildlife rehabilitator friend Marilyn brought me a black shoebox decorated with 6 or 8 quarter-sized holes. Energetically sticking his head out,...
Emotion. Drama. Intrigue. Philosophy. Yes, I’m talking about scientific proposals to ornithological taxonomic authorities. Take, for example, the gem I found in the latest...
Being a beat writer is a great privilege but some weeks you simply have no idea what to write about. The real world is hammering away...
For the last two weekends I’ve chosen one day to wake up around five in the morning. Bleary eyed, I pull on a pair...
Gaining independence in 1990, Namibia is one of Africa’s “newer” nations, although not quite as newborn as South Sudan which has yet to celebrate...
What is there to say about a post that is essentially a gallery of Willets in flight? On the ground Willets are a bland...
Let me be honest… I have no idea what my best bird of the weekend was. I mean, of course now that the weekend...
Yikes! I’m in the land of goulash and, um, Budapest? We Americans, or at least this American, know little about Hungary. But this American...
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