Patrickb Newcombe News Today

As the sun rises over the wetlands on the shores of Lake Victoria, papyrus harvesters set out into the swamps to harvest stalks of papyrus. At the docks, fishermen returning from a night’s work haul their boats onto the shore. The deep, ringing song of the papyrus gonolek (Laniarius mufumbiri) and the hooting of the […]

Barnacle goose, left. Photo by Patrick B. Newcombe Thanks to Sadie for sending Saturday: “Dozens of DC birders are on a wild goose chase this weekend because a barnacle goose — a bird that’s never been seen in DC before in recorded birding history, a bird that nests on Arctic coasts from northeastern Greenland east to Siberia, and should be wintering in northwestern Europe right now — has been sighted on the Potomac, canoodling with a raft of boring old Canada Geese. Photo by Patrick B....