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Hoopoes and woodhoopoes | ScienceBlogs

Yet more from that book project (see the owl article for the back-story, and the hornbill article for another of the book's sections).

South-korea , Madagascar , Namibia , Han , Namibian , Jamieson-spencer , Roberte-simmons , Atlantic-olson , Atlantic-ocean , Picocoraciae-mayr , Hackett , Oxford-university-press

You can never have too many shoebills

You can never have too many shoebills
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South-korea , Pakistan , Fayum , Al-fayyum , Egypt , Tunisia , United-kingdom , Fayum-province , British , Han , Tunisian , Stork-balaeniceps

Mound Builders - Everything2.com

From about 1000 BC to AD 1450, eastern North America witnessed the rise and fall of three distinctive prehistoric cultures known as the Adena, Hopewell ...

United-states , Smithsonian-institution , District-of-columbia , Milwaukee , Wisconsin , Egypt , Washington , Minnesota , Ohio , Russia , Spain , France

The Madagascar pochard returns (again)

The recent article about Meller's duck Anas melleri inspired me to recycle my ver 1 article about another of Madagascar's endemic ducks, the Madagascar pochard Aythya innotata [male shown below]. Meller's duck is endangered, with a global population of between 3000 and 5000, but the Madagascar pochard is in an even worse position: in fact, it was regarded as extinct until 2006, when a small group of less than 20 was discovered (read on).

Germany , Jersey , Lac-alaotra , Toamasina , Madagascar , Mascarene-islands , Reunion-general- , Reunion , Kazakhstan , Bangladesh , India , United-kingdom

Alexornis and other 'alexornithiforms'

Again, more recycled text from the Mesozoic bird section of the fieldguide...

Berkeley , California , United-states , Mongolia , Russia , Uzbekistan , Russian , Mongolian , Alexander-wetmore , Larry-martin , Alexornithidae-kurochkin , Eugevny-kurochkin

Cruel and Quirky History Tidbits of Port Orford, South Oregon Coast

Reedsport to Brookings, places to stay; winter deals
Initial contact with this part of the southern Oregon coast was quite peaceful, made in 1792 by George Vancouver. However, by the 1850s the U.S. had a bad case of the Manifest Destiny and a wrathful lust for land and gold. Any treaties with local tribes were routinely disregarded, and things came to a head quickly in proto-Port Orford when Captain William Tichenor arrived with nine men in a steamship in 1851.
The problem was they showed up with a cannon and guns, landing right at the native's seaside village – a group called the Qua-to-mah. Tichenor took off back to San Francisco, leaving the men to fend off an angry mob, and this turned into a few days of deadly skirmishes on what is now known as Battle Rock.

New-york , United-states , Willapa , Washington , Portland , Oregon , Cape-blanco , Coos-bay , Alaska , Battle-rock , Port-orford , San-francisco