My column this week is about the Bee Hummingbird, the smallest hummingbird in the world.It was one of the many star attractions of James Bond’s Birds of the West Indies, I saw earlier several this winter on a trip to
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Had a great time talking about Jim Bond and Caribbean conservation last week — with a lot about coral reefs, sandy beaches and the fish that Bond collected for science. The webinar, sponsored by The Nature Conservancy on New
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One of the highlights of my trip to Cuba in 2016 was meeting the great ornithologist Orlando Garrido. I met him as part of a group of birders who visited Cuba with the Caribbean Conservation Trust. The biggest reason for
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I just came across an album that blends electronic music with the sounds of endangered birds in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. The album’s producers write: “For the album we chose 10 endangered or threatened bird species and challenged
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The real James Bond loved birds and the West Indies, and he was an advocate for protecting them both — especially preaching the need to end the slaughter of rare species in the Caribbean. The headline above was from an
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I hadn’t seen a Pileated Woodpecker all year. Now — thanks to some friends — I saw one twice in one day. This one was next to my backyard. Whenever I see one, I think that it’s the closest I’ll
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In the 2002 007 film “Die Another Day,” James Bond the secret agent posed as James Bond the ornithologist and even held a copy of one of the later editions of Bond’s landmark field guide — with Bond’s name obliterated.
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