Watching Humboldt seabirds on the cold waters off the coast of South America, I noticed that of them dive for their fish/food. Small birds...
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Let’s address, up front, the funny name. We get it. If those 16th Century Spanish sailors knew the kind of grief with which they’d...
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I realize the potential for inappropriateness here is high. That the birds known by ornithologists as “Sulids” and by the general public, often accompanied...
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Its amazing to me that there are still places on earth where wildlife is blissfully unafraid of humans. Isla Isabel, a picturesque volcanic island...
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The Brown Booby is a bird that helps explain why birders don’t always want to share what they are doing with non-birders. Explaining to...
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The order Suliformes holds a lot of special birds from anhingas and darters to cormorants and shags as well as frigatebirds, pelicans, and tropicbirds. But...
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