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Home-cloning kit for waders.

10,000 Birds

Would the photograph be better if the whole bird was portrayed without being masked by unwanted greenery? A stem of plant material with a cluster of pink Apple Snail’s eggs are marring the picture by covering part of the eye. Right click on this point on the donor picture. Take the Wood Sandpiper above as an example.

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Bird Love Week: How They Get It Done

10,000 Birds

As the reigning birder of the world, I feel it is only right to look a little deeper into the lives of birds here, and talk about something beyond the mundane nuances of plumage variations of freshly-molted Empidonax flycatchers and if migrant Warbling Vireos arrived 3 days earlier this year than last.

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