Learning about waterfowl bills with tongue spikes, teeth-like ridges, and taste buds were probably a shocker in last month’s column.* I have…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND-GRUBBERS, STRAINERS, SKIMMERS, AND SHEARERS: DUCK BILLS, MORE OR LESS, PART 1 OF 2
Doesn’t this title sound like cooking utensils found in a kitchen? Instead I will discuss tools for food gathering by duck-like bills…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND-SINGING THE BLUES PHOTO ESSAY
Enjoy this short photo essay of birds with “blue” plumage. While three are winging the blues, at the end is a bird…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND-BELLY FLOPPING: TRICOLORED HERON
Tricolored Heron, Egret tricolor, Garza Tricolor (Spanish) Wading birds use different feeding strategies to capture their prey. But I think the more-than-three-colors…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND-SWAMPED WITH SWAMPHENS
Thirty-four chicken-sized birds emerge from cattails to engage in a dodge-ball dance in an open, flat wetland of southern Florida. Usually the…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND-OWL BE SEEING YOU: BURROWING OWL
BURROWING OWL, Athene cunicularia, “Tecolote Llanero” (Spanish) Time for some light heartedness and whimsy! I chose the expressive Burrowing Owl, a tiny…
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THE WASHINGTON POST featured the story of the Mexican photographer Santiago Sierra who had a tremendously spiritual journey collaborating with an ancient…
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Photographer arrested in Mérida allegedly sold ‘Pics’ of his victims on the Internet
The subject was arrested in possession of intimate graphic material of dozens of women whom he was blackmailing. (MÉRIDA, YUC. – PEI).-…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND-EYE RISK UPDATE: PILEATED WOODPECKER
Last month The Yucatan Times published my image* of a deteriorating iris of a Pileated Woodpecker. My online research of other woodpecker…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN, AND BEYOND-EYE RISK: PILEATED WOODPECKER
Begin this New Year with new hope, discoveries. I found something new to ponder. IMAGINE my surprise when I enlarged an image…