05/04/2011 - The 2,665-mile Bird Walk :: Comments (5)
In two weeks I will heft a backpack, drape my Leica binocs around my neck, and begin walking slowly north from the Mexican border near San Diego. If all goes well, I’ll arrive, considerably hairier and dustier, at the Canadian border in mid-September, having continuously hiked and birded the deserts... READ MORE »
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Noah Strycker, Associate Editor of Birding magazine, is on a mission to observe, study, photograph, draw, and write about as many birds as possible, at home in Oregon and worldwide. Noah's bird photographs and articles have appeared in all major birding magazines, and his recent book, Among Penguins: A Bird Man in Antarctica (Oregon State University Press, 2011), chronicles his adventures with a quarter million Adélie Penguins on the world's windiest, coldest, driest, highest, least populated, and most remote continent.
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03/05/2011 - A Note from Cano Palma, Costa Rica :: Comments (5)
Somewhere between the Red Bull models on our birdathon, Christmas dinner at a remote jungle station, and the Barred Forest-Falcon we caught on my 25th birthday (along with the visiting Japanese prince, the Bullet Ant bite that knocked me unconscious, and the December flood to end all floods), I’ve noticed... READ MORE »
Somewhere between the Red Bull models on our birdathon, Christmas dinner at a remote jungle station, and the Barred Forest-Falcon we caught on my 25th birthday (along with the visiting Japanese prince, the Bullet Ant bite that knocked me unconscious, and the December flood to end all floods), I’ve noticed... READ MORE »
11/16/2010 - Yard Listing on the Farallones :: Comments (3)
An algae-covered, two-story, four-bedroom, 140-year-old wooden house on a tiny, windswept island of crumbling granite, 20 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, boasts the biggest yard list in North America. More bird species have been recorded from within arm’s length of this house than any other residential structure north... READ MORE »
An algae-covered, two-story, four-bedroom, 140-year-old wooden house on a tiny, windswept island of crumbling granite, 20 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, boasts the biggest yard list in North America. More bird species have been recorded from within arm’s length of this house than any other residential structure north... READ MORE »
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