Hi from Ecuador! A search for 'Cuckoos and Caterpillars' led me on an interesting trail to Fragments from Floyd and then to your new site, which has been a joy to peruse. Your writings at time remind me of Skutch's - so pensive and poetic, yet also balanced with important data.
In another post you addressed the declining songbirds, and many of those migratory birds in the list have graced my field of vision here on the equator. Thanks for the link to that Stanford article. A few weeks ago I 'threatened' to climb a tree and call 'prensa/the press' to prevent more widening of a one-lane dirt road in an almost 3,000 acre refuge! It was in the exact spot where several rare species call home. Luckily others were equally concerned and took legal measures to halt the work. Whew.
Recently another rare cuckoo showed up - the Pearly-breasted, which is a South American migrant, and extremely rare for this part of Ecuador. In order to hopefully spot it again, I'm trying to absorb as much data as possible about all cuckoos, their diets, what the nests might look like, etc. The bonus from this research was finding your writings.
Hi from Ecuador! A search for 'Cuckoos and Caterpillars' led me on an interesting trail to Fragments from Floyd and then to your new site, which has been a joy to peruse. Your writings at time remind me of Skutch's - so pensive and poetic, yet also balanced with important data.
The title to this post suggested (to me) several serious or perhaps fun options - or there was a small chance that it was about aphantasia. I also wrote about it here: https://playamart.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/aphan-whatsia/
In another post you addressed the declining songbirds, and many of those migratory birds in the list have graced my field of vision here on the equator. Thanks for the link to that Stanford article. A few weeks ago I 'threatened' to climb a tree and call 'prensa/the press' to prevent more widening of a one-lane dirt road in an almost 3,000 acre refuge! It was in the exact spot where several rare species call home. Luckily others were equally concerned and took legal measures to halt the work. Whew.
Recently another rare cuckoo showed up - the Pearly-breasted, which is a South American migrant, and extremely rare for this part of Ecuador. In order to hopefully spot it again, I'm trying to absorb as much data as possible about all cuckoos, their diets, what the nests might look like, etc. The bonus from this research was finding your writings.