Posts in Wave Fifteen
The Little Nut Job

In typically imaginative storytelling we learned in school of the once magnificent oak forests of Ireland before they fell to the axe and the plough, and of how they were so extensive that a squirrel could scamper the length of the island without ever having to touch the ground. Can you see it in your mind’s eye now, the nimble, bushy-tail traveler covering hundreds of miles bounding from twig to branch?

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Roseate Spoonbill: Where is that Pink Bird?

Ever wonder what those beautiful pink birds are and where they live? This beautiful and graceful species is the roseate spoonbill, Platalea ajaja. This bird is in the ibis and spoonbill family order called Pelecaniformes, which also includes five other families of long-legged wading birds such as egrets, herons, ibises and other large storks that are not migratory.

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