Author: marcuscengland
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A Gray Catbird is California Species 290
Yes, I know the featured image is not of a Gray Catbird. Unfortunately, I was unable to photograph it. A Gray Catbird was this morning, however, my 290th lifetime species for the state of California and 268th lifetime species for the County of Los Angeles. I have observed 69 species for the year so far. […]
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2016
I’m not really one to make resolutions for a new year. I am constantly evaluating my life and my choices to some extent, trying to figure out what works for me and what doesn’t so I can get through my limited time on this planet in the most enjoyable way possible and, perhaps, leave a […]
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Birding in Baja
I spent the last week on vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. This wasn’t one of my usual birding trips. As my first real vacation since Belize and Guatemala in 2012, I really needed a chance to relax and unwind. We were invited guests of one of my wife’s insurance associates at […]
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Adventures in Central America, Part 5
Note: The following is a reproduction of the field journal I kept from my first summer in Costa Rica in June and July 1996, when I was a student at La Suerte Biological Station. This was the first time I’d ever left the United States for a country other than Canada. I’ve typed out the […]
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Adventures in Central America, Part 4
Note: The following is a reproduction of the field journal I kept from my first summer in Costa Rica in June and July 1996, when I was a student at La Suerte Biological Station. This was the first time I’d ever left the United States for a country other than Canada. I’ve typed out the […]
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Adventures in Central America, Part 3
Note: The following is a reproduction of the field journal I kept from my first summer in Costa Rica in June and July 1996, when I was a student at La Suerte Biological Station. This was the first time I’d ever left the United States for a country other than Canada. I’ve typed out the […]
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Adventures in Central America (Part 2)
Note: The following is a reproduction of the field journal I kept from my first summer in Costa Rica in June and July 1996, when I was a student at La Suerte Biological Station. This was the first time I’d ever left the United States for a country other than Canada. I’ve typed out the […]
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Adventures in Central America (Part 1)
Note: The following is a reproduction of the field journal I kept from my first summer in Costa Rica in June and July 1996, when I was a student at La Suerte Biological Station. This was the first time I’d ever left the United States for a country other than Canada. I’ve typed out the […]
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Dancing for Sex in the Rainforest
Though advertising for sex often results in a jail sentence in most areas of the United States, these advertisements are highly conspicuous and visible daily in the animal world. You may not often think about it, but sexual innuendo is all around you. If you are one of many who glance up from the morning […]
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Antbird Aggregations: The Dynamics of Foraging Formicarids
Note: The following is a write-up I did for the February 1998 Song Sparrow, a publication of Columbus Audubon, as part of a series I authored on tropical ecology. It is based on a term paper I wrote for an animal behavior class at Ohio State. The original term paper (“Dominance Hierarchies in Foraging Antbirds”), […]
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