November and early December can be a frustrating time here at Nanhui – on the one hand, there are fewer and fewer birds as...
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As a child of the eighties, I experienced a number of elegies for Whooping Cranes. Commentators seemed to take their extinction as inevitable, although...
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This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Like my two previous visits I...
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Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) are among the oldest living birds. The oldest unequivocal Sandhill Crane fossil is 2.5 million years old, over one and...
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A few winters ago, I went waterfowling in East Anglia. At local Internet forums, my friend Dr B. (sounds like some James Bond’s nemesis,...
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So what’s so special about seeing the resident re-introduced Whooping Cranes in Florida? According to the ABA, they are not countable. And when you see...
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Its a hard life being a bird but its especially hard if you’re a crane. Of the fifteen species of cranes alive today eleven...
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Now this is a bird worth seeing! Get yourself to Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge in Meigs County, Tennessee!
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