Crazy as
/I survived a bout with dengue and made it to the Netherlands.
Eurasian Coot (Friesland, Netherlands)
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Wanted: Field guide to birds of Southeast Asia
/I was stopping off at a waterfall on the road to Tham Lod (to see a few hundred thousand Pacific swifts funnel into a giant cave to roost for the night) when I came upon this rotund little bird. It was hopping and fluttering around from rock to rock at the base of a series of rapids, apparently catching bugs lurking near the surface of the water.
Mae Hong Son province, Thailand
I'm very sad (very, very sad) to say that I don't have a field guide with me at the moment. The internet is fickle in these parts, but next time I get decent wifi I'll start by perusing the Muscicapidae (if I'm on the wrong track, somebody set me straight.)
Kidnapped
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Reward: $12,250
You'd think that when someone steals your homing pigeon, you could just wait a few days.
Turkey doodle
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Click above for a vocabulary lesson of questionable value, brought to you by the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and his lesser known relative, the Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata).
“But... I still don't know what ocellated means,” you say. Well, if this turkey fanned his tail, you'd see concentric semicircles of eye-like spots, a.k.a. ocelli. Maybe I should have illustrated that.
The other side
/Nickel Creek, California
Last time I drew a crow in snowy Maine. Today, a pair of ravens in fog-filled northern California.