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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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tah dah...the amazing nepal trip bird list
2015-12-11 - 8:56 a.m.
Whew. I've got a huge bird list from Nepal, which includes a total of 234 birds (so far) and 167 new life birds in bold-- so far. I say "so far" because there may be some missing species or a few corrections needed here or there, but I'm going to let it sit a few days before I go over it again to give me a better chance of finding any errors.
- Lesser Whistling Duck
- Greylag Goose
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Common Pochard
- Ferruginous Duck (F. Pochard)
- Gadwall
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Mallard
- Common Teal
- Asian Pygmy Goose
- Indian Peafowl
- Common Quail
- Black Francolin
- Red Junglefowl
- Kalij Pheasant
- Little Grebe
- Great Crested Grebe
- Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon
- Speckled Wood Pigeon
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Spotted Dove
- Pompadour Green Pigeon
- Emerald Dove
- Greater Coucal
- Lesser Coucal
- Sirkeer Malkoha
- Common Hawk Cuckoo
- Ruddy-breasted Crake
- Brown Crake
- White-breasted Waterhen
- Purple Swamphen
- Common Moorhen
- Eurasian Coot/ Common Coot (F. atra)
- Sarus Crane
- Lesser Adjutant
- Asian Openbill
- Black Stork
- Woolly-necked Stork
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Indian Pond Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Grey Heron
- Purple Heron
- Great Egret
- Intermediate Egret
- Little Egret
- Black-headed Ibis
- Indian Black Ibis
- Little Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- Oriental Darter
- River Lapwing
- Red-wattled Lapwing
- Pheasant-tailed Jacana
- Bronze-winged Jacana
- Common Greenshank
- Common Redshank
- Small Buttonquail
- Osprey
- Black-winged Kite
- Oriental Honey Buzzard
- Bearded Vulture
- Egyptian Vulture
- Crested Serpent Eagle
- Red-headed Vulture
- Himalayan Vulture
- White-rumped Vulture
- Slender-billed Vulture
- Griffon's Vulture
- Cinereous Vulture
- Mountain Hawk-Eagle
- Changeable Hawk-Eagle
- Indian Black Eagle
- Indian Spotted Eagle
- Greater Spotted Eagle
- Steppe Eagle
- Bonelli's Eagle
- Booted Eagle -- all dark morphs, I think (!)
- Western Marsh Harrier
- Hen Harrier -- well, supposedly, it's a lifer, but I've seen it before in Europe, I just thought it was the same as Northern so I didn't add it to my life list
- Pallid Harrier
- Pied Harrier
- Shikra
- Besra
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Grey-headed Fish-Eagle
- Black Kite
- White-eyed Buzzard
- Himalayan Buzzard
- Jungle Owlet
- Spotted Owlet
- Oriental Pied Hornbill
- Indian Grey Hornbill
- Common Hoopoe
- Wryneck (Northern Wryneck, is that a subspecies?)
- Himalayan Flame-backed Woodpecker
- Black-rumped Woodpecker (Flameback)
- Rufous Woodpecker
- Lesser Yellow-naped Woodpecker
- Streak-throated Woodpecker
- Grey-headed Woodpecker
- Great Slaty Woodpecker
- Brown-capped Woodpecker (Indian pygmy woodpecker)
- Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
- Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker
- Yellow-crowned Woodpecker
- Crimson-breasted Woodpecker
- Great Barbet
- Brown-headed Barbet
- Lineated Barbet -- BVD
- Blue-throated Barbet
- Coppersmith Barbet
- Indian Roller
- Pied Kingfisher
- Common Kingfisher
- Stork-billed Kingfisher
- White-throated Kingfisher
- Common Kestrel
- Eurasian Hobby
- Peregrine Falcon
- Plum-headed Parakeet
- Red-breasted Parakeet -- BVD
- Alexandrine Parakeet
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Small Minivet
- Long-tailed Minivet
- Scarlet Minivet
- Large Cuckoo-shrike
- Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike
- Black-hooded Oriole
- Black-naped Oriole
- Ashy Woodswallow
- Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
- Common Woodshrike
- Black Drongo
- White-bellied Drongo
- Crow-billed Drongo
- Hair-crested Drongo
- Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
- Long-tailed Shrike
- Grey-backed Shrike
- Rufous Treepie
- Grey Treepie
- Yellow-billed blue Magpie
- Common Green Magpie
- House Crow
- Large-billed Crow
- Purple Sunbrid
- Fire-tailed Sunbird
- Green-tailed Sunbird
- Black-breasted Weaver
- Red Avadavat
- White-rumped Munia
- Black-headed Munia
- Scaly-breasted Munia AKANutmeg Mannikin AKA Spice Finch
- House Sparrow
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Richard's Pipit
- Paddyfield Pipit
- Citrine Wagtail
- White-browed Wagtail
- White Wagtail
- Gray Wagtail
- Common Rosefinch
- Pink-browed Rosefinch
- Yellow-breasted Greenfinch
- Crested Bunting
- Chestnut-eared Bunting
- Rock Bunting
- Fire-capped Tit
- Yellow-browed Tit
- Green-backed Tit
- Zitting Cisticola
- Golden-headed Cisticola
- Grey-breasted Prinia
- Yellow-bellied Prinia
- Ashy Prinia
- Plain Prinia
- Common Tailorbird
- Blyth's Reed Warbler
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Eurasian Crag Martin
- Plain Martin
- Black Bulbul
- Himalayan Bulbul
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Red-vented Bulbul
- Hume's Leaf Warbler
- Lemon-rumped Warbler
- Smoky Warbler
- Common Chiffchaff
- Tickell's Leaf Warbler
- Greenish Leaf Warbler/Greenish Warbler
- Grey-sided Bush Warbler
- Black-faced Warbler
- Black-throated Tit
- Yellow-eyed Babbler
- Whiskered Yuhina
- Oriental White-eye
- Chestnut-capped Babbler
- Rufous-rumped Grass Babbler
- Striated Laughingthrush
- Striated Babbler
- Jungle Babbler
- White-crested Laughing-thrush
- White-throated Laughing-thrush
- Streaked Laughing-thrush
- Rufous Sibia
- Chestnut-tailed Minla
- Goldcrest
- Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch
- White-tailed Nuthatch
- Asian Pied Starling
- Common Myna
- Jungle Myna
- Bank Myna
- Oriental Magpie-Robin
- White-rumped Shama
- Dark-sided Flycatcher
- Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher
- Asian Verditer Flycatcher
- Bluethroat
- Black-backed Forktail
- Blue Whistling Thrush
- White-tailed Rubythroat
- Red-throated Flycatcher
- Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Blue-fronted Redstart
- Eastern Stonechat (Siberian Stonechat?)-- a split from the former Common Stonechat (Nepal)
- White-tailed Stonechat
- Pied Bush Chat
- Grey Bush Chat
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