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Waxwings
(In addition to field guides, we’re experiencing a renaissance of natural history writing. I’ve got my eye on Super Fly by Jonathan Balcombe)
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The Golden Age of Field Guides
Coming next year: The Social Wasps of North America Princeton Field Guide to North American Spiders Let’s face it, birds, which are where I started, are ridiculously easy when compared to lichens, spiders, bees, beetles, flies (forget it), wasps, etc. And plants are a hell of a challenge. Oh, the chlorophyl crowd looks easy with…
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More Henslow, Please
A bird unimpressed by people. As a vagrant rarity, this little creature has attracted crowds to the cemetery. But the bird just goes on patrolling the grass and the edges of the road, sometimes getting quite close to people. This has worried some observers: is the animal alright? A sparrow maven’s quote that the species…
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A Sunday Sermon
Recently, a respected botanist we know and used to admire was photographed and quoted at a fascist anti-vax march against public health measures here in NYC. He wore a large yellow star on his clothes in a brazen attempt to align himself with Jewish victims of Christian European anti-Semitism over the centuries, but particularly in…
