Author Archives: Roger Gosden
Northern Jacana
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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Tagged Northern Jacana, Polyandry
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Great Curassow
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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Tagged Costa Rica, Cracid, Great Curassow
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Aquamation-Graveyard talk
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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Tagged Alkaline hydrolysis, Aquamation, Cremation for funerals, Desmond tutu
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Green Ibis
Virginia has recorded three species of ibises (surely not ‘ibi’), but never a Green Ibis as far as I know. Inge photographed this one in Costa Rica, close to the northern limit of a huge range across South America. So, … Continue reading
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Anhinga
A head like a heron, body like a wild turkey, flies thermals like a vulture, swims like a diver, but genetic analysis shows Anhingas match closer to families of cormorants and tropical boobies, and frigate birds. Not a bird to … Continue reading
Roger musing about Peace with Nature 