John tagged me with a birding meme. 1. What is the coolest bird you have seen from your home? Hmm. Although I see this species regularly, it was pretty cool and unexpected seeing our first yard American Woodcock rocketing over…
Flotsam and jetsam
Mother Jones is one of my favorite magazines. The last page of the July/August issue has a graphic titled “The New Math of Global Warming.” Some of the equations are have a much broader application and are timeless. Here are…
Coturnix (Bora Zivkovic), surely one of the most prolific bloggers in science, or elsewhere, is organizing the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference in Chapel Hill later this month. Through that, he ended up with the job of editing The…
I did this last year, so I may as well do it again: Number of species seen: I did a lousy job of recording, so I don’t know. New life birds: 21 First life bird: I said it would be…
I recall as a child getting my tetanus shot. I just could not wait to run out and play amongst garbage and sharp objects, with no worry my contaminated wounds would cause lockjaw. And along with that hepatitis B shot…
Obligatory tally of 2005 birds: Number of species seen: 513 New life birds: 201 Last life bird: Cinnamon Woodpecker (Celeus loricatus), Pipeline Road, Gamboa, Panama Total life birds: 887 otal ABA-area birds: 568 Total state birds: 304 Total birds in…
It was cool to discover that Slate.com linked to my blog in a recent “Today’s Blogs” column, quoting my comments on wildlife on military bases. This prompted an email from an editor at the Los Angeles Times, who said she…
I am currently reading a biography of William Beebe (1877-1962), early American naturalist and prolific author, long associated with the New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) as Tropical Research director. Although he never even finished his undergraduate…