I did not prepare properly when I went to the Galápagos. Reading over my email from that period, I can’t believe I ended up...
The Galapagos Islands? Costa Rica? How can a remote archipelago made famous for Darwin, a bunch of finches, and other cool endemic birds be...
When Adam Riley let me know he had seen some cool frigatebird photos and wondered if we wanted to run them on 10,000 Birds...
A couple of days ago, my end of the world started to tip back towards the Sun. In six weeks it will have tilted...
This elusive, night-feeding, endemic bird of the Galapagos Islands is not easy to see. I have only seen it a couple of times; once...
I am not an ornithologist but this albino finch got my attention. I suspect that it is an incomplete albino since there is some...
The most common owls in the world are also in the Galapagos Islands and are considered subspecies that only occur in Galapagos, so one...
If you know only a little bit about Charles Darwin, you know that he figured out Evolution via his study of the finches (and...
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