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...
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The Galapagos Islands? Costa Rica? How can a remote archipelago made famous for Darwin, a bunch of finches, and other cool endemic birds be...
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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...
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A couple of days ago, my end of the world started to tip back towards the Sun. In six weeks it will have tilted...
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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...
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I am not an ornithologist but this albino finch got my attention. I suspect that it is an incomplete albino since there is some...
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The most common owls in the world are also in the Galapagos Islands and are considered subspecies that only occur in Galapagos, so one...
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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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