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A Near Conjunction

10,000 Birds

Cocoa Woodcreepers are the largest species of woodcreeper in T&T, and they have a proportionately massive bill. Alas, he was gone before I had a chance to lift my camera. As if to stamp its approval on the habitat alteration, a Pale-breasted Spinetail voiced its content with the human disturbance. And so, we continued.

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Rosefinches, Griffons and Woodcocks

10,000 Birds

This is my first visit to this area, known as the Madz Brod, where two new breeding species for the country were discovered a decade ago. Alas, I am not among them. Eurasian Griffon Vultures are flying towards the restaurant (occasionally visited by Brown Bear , too). At some rock faces we see juveniles on their nesting ledges.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

But " Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism " is a great look back at how we humans have managed to always find a way to consider ourselves unique, despite what the reality of the nonhuman world tells us. Here are some of my favorite passages. [S]ince