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Nature Smart: Ecuadorian photo tour

I just returned from leading a photo tour to Ecuador in South America. For 10 days we trekked through cloud forests with trees covered in mosses, lichens and bromeliads that towered over 100 feet tall.

Nature Smart: Respect for skunks

You usually smell a skunk long before you see one. One moment the night air is soft and quiet; the next, it carries that unmistakable odor.
Most people don’t like it, but I slow

Nature Smart: Dragonfly migration

On a warm September afternoon, I stood at the edge of a cattail marsh on my property watching the sky. At first it looked empty. Then a large dragonfly swept past at eye level, followed

Nature Smart: Nifty belted kingfishers

Long before I saw the bird, I heard it.
A hard, dry rattle echoed down the shoreline, like someone shaking a metal can filled with pebbles. Then I spotted a large bird, slightly bigger

Nature Smart: Interstellar navigators

Most birds nest in spring or early summer, but some remain busy raising young well into late summer. American goldfinches are a familiar example, timing their nesting to coincide with an abundance of the small

Nature Smart: Rebounding pelicans

There are some birds that seem almost too improbable to be real.
The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is one of them. With a wingspan stretching nearly 9 feet and a bill that’s absurdly

Nature Smart: Speedy cliff swallows

While leading a photo workshop this year, my small group of photographers saw a flock of interesting birds. We had more than 300 individual birds swooping and diving all around us. I instantly recognized them

Nature Smart: Meet the flycatchers

Did you know the most common and largest family of birds in the world is found right here in North and South America? The crazy part is, you most likely have never heard of these

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