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Cuba Bird Survey - BirdWatching
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Subscriptions and digital editions. Basics of bird-friendly yards. Binoculars and spotting scopes. Basics of bird ID. Make your birdwatching count. Why is that bird bald? What to do if you find a baby bird. Photos & Calendar. Cuban Grassquit, courtesy of Hal and Kirsten Snyder. For the second time,. Magazine, in collaboration with the Caribbean Conservation Trust. Our team will include acclaimed Cuban scientist Dr. Luis Diaz. Cuban Trogon singing, courtesy of Hal and Kirsten Snyder. Our itinerary provide...
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: Open Wide, Diamondback!
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Open Wide, Diamondback! Among the delights of living in the southwest borderlands is the opportunity to watch interesting reptiles going about their lives. Western Diamondbacks are the most frequent rattlesnakes to visit our yard –– sometimes to drink, sometimes to battle each other for dominance, sometimes to mate, and often to ambush prey. They are nonaggressive towards us, but we do have to fine-tune our snake radar during the warmer months! A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake,.
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: December 2013
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Imagine: you're immersed in the early-winter splendor of the Chiricahua Mountains. Dawn light on the Chiricahua Mountains (Photos by Narca). The air is brisk and glorious, and, hiking up South Fork, you settle into the depths and subtleties of the season. Into the drifts of sycamore leaves. Light gleams from the seedheads of Cane Beardstem. Streamside willows still hold a few leaves,. And the sycamore's bark takes on a subtle hue of green from chloroplasts. Our first book wa...
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: April 2015
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Thursday, April 2, 2015. Rufous-backed Robins Visit Portal! My glimpse of an interesting bird at dusk was confirmed soon after when Dave Jasper called to tell us that he had just seen Rufous-backed Robins by the post office in Portal that morning. Rufous-backed Robin in Arizona Sycamore. You can just make out the warm rufous tones. On this bird's back and wing coverts. The streaks on the throat are stronger and extend farther down. On Rufous-backs than on American Robins,. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: April 2014
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Friday, April 11, 2014. The reserve has been cobbled together since 1999 from patches of forest and old pasture land. The cleared areas are now being reforested, with the help and support of local communities. Growth of the reserve itself continues; the target size is about 20 square miles, or more than three times its current size. Remnant cloud forest at Buenaventura Reserve. Welcome to Buenaventura Reserve! Graceful Swallow-tailed Kites are frequent. The Long-wattled is also exceedingly rare. For comp...
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: Portal after Odile: Bob Rodrigues' Story
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014. Portal after Odile: Bob Rodrigues' Story. Bob Rodgrigues (who owns the property still familiar to some of you as "Jasper's feeders"), sent this account of the changes to the flow of Cave Creek where it crosses his land, below the mouth of Cave Creek Canyon. In Bob's words:. Figure 1 (Photos by Bob Rodrigues). The new channel widened below this point (Figs. 3 and 4). The flooding resulted in significant bank erosion on the north bank of the creek on my property (Fig. 5)&...
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: May 2014
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Thursday, May 29, 2014. Waterbirds at San José del Cabo Estuary. Face-to-face with a Common Gallinule. As a RAMSAR wetland of international importance, the San José del Cabo Estuary supports a wide range of water-dependent birds, ranging from that quintessential fisherman, the Osprey, to ibis, shorebirds, herons, ducks. An Osprey in late afternoon light. We find the usual suspects for such a locale. An immature Double-crested Cormorant, sporting orange lores. A graceful Great Egret leaps into the air.
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: July 2013
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Saturday, July 6, 2013. What finer sight is there than a giant California Condor, soaring in thermals in a sky of peerless blue, above the painted rocks of canyon country, and the immense chasm of the Grand Canyon? Pen and ink by Narca). From a population low of 22 individuals in 1982, captive breeding-and-release efforts have built their numbers up to over 300 birds, with about half of those flying free in the wild today, in California, Arizona, Utah, and Baja California. In December 1996, six young cap...
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014. Community Meeting with Forest Service. Just a quick update: I don't have time right now to do justice to the subject. Kevin Warner, the Douglas District Ranger, told a gathering (which filled the Portal Fire Station classroom) that walkers and cyclists can now enter. Cave Creek Canyon. Most cars are not allowed in at this time. Although Howard couldn't be present, we volunteered him to be the person who will collect updates from the Forest Service as repairs are made and ro...
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: Community Meeting with Forest Service
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014. Community Meeting with Forest Service. Just a quick update: I don't have time right now to do justice to the subject. Kevin Warner, the Douglas District Ranger, told a gathering (which filled the Portal Fire Station classroom) that walkers and cyclists can now enter. Cave Creek Canyon. Most cars are not allowed in at this time. Although Howard couldn't be present, we volunteered him to be the person who will collect updates from the Forest Service as repairs are made and ro...