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27.04.2024

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 10 - Travels With Birds

27 February, 2024 Cayo Coco - Jagüey Grande - Havana I was awake early and discovered that the issue with water was ongoing. There wa...

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22.04.2024

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 9 - Travels With Birds

26 February, 2024 Playa Paredon Grande - Playa Las Coloradas Most of us set off for an early morning start, before breakfast in fact...

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17.04.2024

Book Review - Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin and the Dawn of Modern Science - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

I am not sure that there is a convention when it comes to reviewing books, but it is probably customary to expound on the contents be...

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15.04.2024

Birding in Cuba - February 2024 - Part 8 - Travels With Birds

25 February, 2024 Cayo Coco (Cueva El Jabalí, Laguna Flamencos) - Playa Las Coloradas Breakfast at the buffet was enjoyed by all, follo...

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12.04.2024

Book Review - Frogs of the World: A Guide to Every Family - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

It seems that people have always had a fascination with frogs. After all a maiden had only to kiss one to have her very own prince, a...

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10.04.2024

Book Review - Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behaviour Solved - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

It was hard not to chuckle at this playful title of a book by one of the world's most pre-eminent bee biologists. The book begi...

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08.04.2024

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 7 - Travels With Birds

24 February, 2024 Trinidad - Carretera Trinidad - Río Higuanojo - Río Higuanojo - Pedraplén Cayo Coco - Entrada de Cayo Coco Everyone l...

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06.04.2024

WRN Outing to The Mill Race , St. Jacobs, ON - Travels With Birds

27 March, 2024 Leader: David M. Gascoigne Members: Joan Astley, Miriam Bauman, Beverly Church, Lynn Conway, Pauline Copleston, Lisa Den Be...

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05.04.2024

Book Review - Shells of the World - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

There is perhaps no more enduring pastime than collecting shells; an activity that transcends age, gender, social status, race, colou...

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03.04.2024

Book Review - The Little Book of Beetles - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Having enjoyed The Lives of Beetles (Princeton University Press) so much, and having consulted it a thousand times, I was delighted ...

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31.03.2024

Mary Anning (1794 - 1847) - Travels With Birds

"Mary Anning is probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology." Stephen J. G...

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30.03.2024

Book Review - The Little Book of Trees - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Another resounding success in the "Little Book" series. I suspect that many readers of my blog are familiar with the magnific...

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28.03.2024

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 6 - Travels With Birds

23 February, 2024 Playa Larga - Bermejas - Cienfuegos - Laguna Guanaroca - Río Caonao - Trinidad I awoke at 05h:00 after a good night...

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26.03.2024

Book Review - Plankton: A Worldwide Guide - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

I suspect that I am not unlike many others when I confess that I "knew" what plankton are - sort of- but didn't really know much abou...

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24.03.2024

Book Review - Field Guide to North American Flycatchers - Kingbirds and Myiarchus - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

I would stand no risk of being accused of hyperbole were I to state that birders have been waiting for this book for a very lon...

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21.03.2024

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 5 - Travels With Birds

22 February, 2024 Las Salinas - Casa Ana Birding "Nature in the wildlands is the birthright of everyone on Earth." E.O. Wilson There...

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20.03.2024

Book Review - The Little Book of Butterflies - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

I am approaching my second review of a book in this series with the same level of enthusiasm as the first. They really are quite an a...

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17.03.2024

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 4 - Travels With Birds

"How long have we been enchanted by birds? Forever it seems." Graeme Gibson 21 February, 2024 Santo Tomas - Rancho Los Pintines - Los Hon...

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16.03.2024

Book Review - The Little Book of Spiders - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Princeton University Press has recently introduced a series of little books like the one shown above. Having now received four of the...

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14.03.2024

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 3 - Travels With Birds

20 February, 2024 Los Hondones - Casa Ana Birding (Playa Larga) I was awake early after a good night's sleep, and went down to chat w...

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11.03.2024

Birding in Cuba - February 2024 - Part 2 - Travels With Birds

19 February, 2024 Viñales - Presa Herradura - Los Palacios - Autopista Viñales - Soroa (Botanical Gardens) - Las Terrazas (Hotel Molha) - Va...

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09.03.2024

Book Review - Wasps of the World: A Guide to Every Family - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

There are many avenues of satisfaction from Princeton University Press, and one of them is the familiar format of books in a series o...

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06.03.2024

Birding in Cuba - February 2024 - Part 1 - Travels With Birds

My love affair with Cuba, its birds, its people and its history continues and I was happy to organize another tour with a stellar group...

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04.03.2024

Book Review - Molds, Mushrooms and Medicines - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

What a fine book! Here is a work guaranteed to make us reflect more deeply than we ever have before about the pervasive and unen...

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02.03.2024

Back Home Again - Travels With Birds

"People ask you why you live in Cuba and you say it is because you like it. It is too complicated to explain about the early morning in th...

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27.02.2024

Book Review - Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts - Princeton Field Guides - Travels With Birds

I am quite sure that for most naturalists the vascular plants encompassed by this field guide, collectively known as "pteridophytes,"...

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21.02.2024

F.W.R. Dickson Wildlife Area, Riverside Park - Travels With Birds

04 February, 2024 F.W.R. Dickson Wildlife Area, Ayr, ON Miriam and I decided to pay a visit to this often productive location - and m...

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15.02.2024

More Delights - Gustatory, Floral and Avian - Travels With Birds

In our backyard the two most common species continue to be Dark-eyed Junco ( Junco hyemalis ) and Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura ), b...

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12.02.2024

Book Review - Velvet Ants of North America - Princeton Field Guides - Travels With Birds

I know what ants are - Edward O. Wilson made sure of that. I am a birder and could be forgiven for thinking they exist only as flicke...

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09.02.2024

A New Location and an Old Favourite - Travels With Birds

".....when will we run the world with the needs of wildlife in mind, with nature twined throughout our lives in towns, villages and cities; ...

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06.02.2024

Happenings of Late - Travels With Birds

For the most part, winter is undeclared this year; occasional snow but followed by melting almost immediately. Strange weather indee...

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02.02.2024

The Mill Race, St. Jacobs, ON - Travels With Birds

23 November, 2023 The beavers have done a masterful job blocking the flow of water on the Mill Race. Unfortunately, this probabl...

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29.01.2024

More Catch-up - Travels With Birds

15 November, 2023 DesJardins Canal, Dundas, ON The signature winter bird at this location is Hooded Merganser ( Lophodytes cucullatus...

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25.01.2024

Catch-up - Travels With Birds

As I look back over my files there is lots to catch up on, incredibly going all the way back to November. So, here goes! 03 Novemb...

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22.01.2024

Birding in Cuba - November, 2023 - Part 10 (Final) - Travels With Birds

29 November, 2023 Cayo Coco - Santa Clara - Havana We had breakfast at the resort and were pulling away by 08h:30. A few reflectio...

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19.01.2024

Birding in Cuba - November, 2023 - Part 9 - Travels With Birds

28 November, 2023 Cayo Coco and Surrounding Cays We set off early to hunt for Bahama Mockingbird ( Mimus gundlachi ) and Oriente Warble...

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16.01.2024

Birding in Cuba - November, 2023 - Part 8 - Travels With Birds

27 November, 2023 Cayo Coco and Surrounding Cays Following the removal of the Berlin Wall, both physically and geopolitically, Russia...

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13.01.2024

Book Review - The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Much has been written about the demise of the Great Auk ( e.g. Fuller (1999), Gaskell (2000), Kolbert (2014), Birkhead (2022) - and o...

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11.01.2024

Book Review - Birds of China - Princeton Field Guides - Travels With Birds

This is a remarkable field guide. From the front cover with its stunning image of a pair of Temminck's Tragopans, to the thumbnail po...

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08.01.2024

Birding in Cuba - November, 2023 - Part 7 - Travels With Birds

26 November, 2023 Trinidad - Cayo Coco Dawn was breaking over the city. Just imagine a pleasant sunny morning, the temperature i...

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Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 10 - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 9 - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin and the Dawn of Modern Science - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - February 2024 - Part 8 - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Frogs of the World: A Guide to Every Family - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behaviour Solved - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 7 - Travels With Birds

WRN Outing to The Mill Race , St. Jacobs, ON - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Shells of the World - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Book Review - The Little Book of Beetles - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Mary Anning (1794 - 1847) - Travels With Birds

Book Review - The Little Book of Trees - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 6 - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Plankton: A Worldwide Guide - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Field Guide to North American Flycatchers - Kingbirds and Myiarchus - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 5 - Travels With Birds

Book Review - The Little Book of Butterflies - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 4 - Travels With Birds

Book Review - The Little Book of Spiders - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - February, 2024 - Part 3 - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - February 2024 - Part 2 - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Wasps of the World: A Guide to Every Family - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - February 2024 - Part 1 - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Molds, Mushrooms and Medicines - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Back Home Again - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts - Princeton Field Guides - Travels With Birds

F.W.R. Dickson Wildlife Area, Riverside Park - Travels With Birds

More Delights - Gustatory, Floral and Avian - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Velvet Ants of North America - Princeton Field Guides - Travels With Birds

A New Location and an Old Favourite - Travels With Birds

Happenings of Late - Travels With Birds

The Mill Race, St. Jacobs, ON - Travels With Birds

More Catch-up - Travels With Birds

Catch-up - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - November, 2023 - Part 10 (Final) - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - November, 2023 - Part 9 - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - November, 2023 - Part 8 - Travels With Birds

Book Review - The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction - Princeton University Press - Travels With Birds

Book Review - Birds of China - Princeton Field Guides - Travels With Birds

Birding in Cuba - November, 2023 - Part 7 - Travels With Birds

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