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Read my new book, The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird at Amazon or at many other fine distributors like Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and more.
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By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.
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A bibliography of my published books and stories.
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Here's a simple card-counting FAQ to get you up to speed on the basics. Here's the true story of the notorious DD' blackjack team, told for the first time on the fabulous internets. No other team went from a starting investor's bankroll of zero to winning millions of dollars. |
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A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!!
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates
on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit
the official fan site, Passages in the Void.. |
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My Bird Lists -- My Louisiana State Life List, My Yard List and, tah dah, My World Life List.
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HEY! What happened to the Peachfront Conure Files? The world's only OFFICIAL Peachfront Conure site now features free peachfront conure coverage, including
a magazine length Intro to Conures previously published in American Cage-Bird Magazine, now free on the web. I offer the best free Peachfront Conure information on the internet. If you have great Peachfront Conure info, stories, or photos to share, contact me so I can publicize your pet, your breeding success, your great photograph, etc. on my site. Thanks.
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if a collared forest falcon puts his head in an umbrella of leaves, you can't prove he's there, right? right?
2013-01-15 - 3:20 p.m.
Jan. 10, 2012 Up at
oh dark thirty to seek out the
Collared Forest Falcons. Young birds
were crying, with one bird flying
across the road and even giving us a
brief look through the scope. We
tracked them into the forest and
eventually located great views of two
crying juveniles. There was a third
one crying somewhere but, as we all
know with our Collared Forest Falcon
friends, if they want to stay hidden.
Fortunately, the two youngsters we
viewed were still at the "peekaboo"
stage of life, where they assume if
they put their heads in a bunch of
green and can't see you, then you
can't see them. So it was a matter
of finding them and settling in to
wait, until they finally emerged to
give us the full
view. Plumbeous Kite are so
abundant that you could call them a
nuisance underfoot. A particularly
cute sighting involved a crying
juvenile who called in a protective
parent, giving us great looks at both
adult and young plumages, and
especially showing off the long, long
wings that extend beyond the tail --
a feature that always cracks me up to
see them perched with their wing-tips
poking out beyond their short
tails.
Everywhere we went on the mud road
in Iguazu National Park, we found
ourselves surrounded by swarms of mud
puddling butterflies, including tons
of beautiful swallowtail species.
Other new trip
birds: - White
Woodpecker
- Black Tailed
Tityra
- Southern Rough-
wing
- Blue and white
Swallow
- Black and White Hawk
Eagle (being mobbed by two juvenile
Plumbeous Kites)
- King
Vulture
- Southern Caracara --
in Igauzu National Park, the birds
are painted with the red clay to make
a very beautiful specimen
indeed
- Rufescent Tiger
Heron
- Common
Gallinule
- White-Tipped
Dove
- American
Kestrel
- Savannah
Hawk
Worth noting:
For lunch, we dined at the not yet
open ecolodge owned by a bird
photographer. He's the one who
located the adorable baby Common
Potoo for me to photograph. In the
evening, we found the brand new road,
just opened the day before, to the
hotel not opened much earlier. Here
I enjoyed an excellent pacú
for dinner -- it's naturally flat and
ready to flat all nice and crisp.
all photos
this page � elaine
radfordbaby common potoo --
you can't see him, and if you did
seem him, you can't prove you saw
him
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