4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 14, 2011

Read on for some fascinating tips on how working with animals relates to our own weight! In 2007 – at age 50 – I realized that the answer was right in front of me. Her animal training experience includes working with dogs, cats, horses, llamas, alpacas and camels. I have battled with my weight since age fifteen.

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Llamas Camels 2007 Raccoons 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. The naming of the hornbill family is a bit farther fetched. Wikimedia Commons Bucerotidae is etymologically opaque to most birders, I’d venture, but when Rafinesque described the family almost two centuries ago, he had kine on his mind.

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Cows Cattle 2011 Birds 142

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

And, there is a fairy named Moth in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a superhero named The Moth, appropriately from Dark Horse Comics, the poor cousin to the two big comic book companies. Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America (left plate) and Southeastern North America (two right plates).

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

When they surface, the tips of the snout, biosonar “melon” and dorsal fins appear simultaneously, the tail rarely showing before diving. We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 260

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

eBird states that “small white patch on throat is not obvious and difficult to see” And they use a photo that I submitted as main illustration, so they must be right. Note to self: If I am ever reincarnated as a Common Kestrel , I need to make sure not to have my photo taken while preening. It just looks stupid.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 196