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About Roger Gosden

A British/ Canadian/ American scientist specializing in reproduction & embryology whose career spanned from Cambridge to Cornell's Weill Medical College in NYC. Married to Lucinda Veeck, the embryologist for the first successful IVF team in America. They retired to Virginia, where he became a master naturalist and writer affiliated with William & Mary. He also writes on Substack at What’s Hot in Fertility? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gosden

A Magnificent Hummingbird

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Roger Gosden

Just as the most famous sultan of the Ottoman empire,  Suleiman the Magnificent, was known by different names according to region, the formerly named Magnificent Hummingbird is called Rivoli to the north of a boundary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica … Continue reading →

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Rewilding South Georgia

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Roger Gosden

There’s something about being island-born that calls you back, even if delivered there by accident (instead of London). Gazing from a mainland shore, if I see an island I feel drawn to visit and savor the mystery. It is Avalon … Continue reading →

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Northern Jacana

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Roger Gosden

The Northern Jacana is a pheasant-sized waterbird with long toes for walking on lily-pads. Found in Mexico and occasionally in Texas, there are other species in the tropics in the New and Old World. Females are larger than males, a … Continue reading →

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Great Curassow

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Roger Gosden

This is a species I may never see in the wild but grateful for this wonderful image of two female Great Curassows in the jungle of Costa Rica. It introduced me to a whole new family, including cracids and guans, … Continue reading →

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Aquamation-Graveyard talk

Posted on January 8, 2022 by Roger Gosden

Watching sparks fly in the night around a scout camp fire, we often burst into song. One of our favorites was the graveyard song, called the hearse song in other versions. One of the stanzas goes: The worms crawled in … Continue reading →

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