Golden-Breasted Starling: A Striking Beauty
April 11, 2008 by adrianadams
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The Golden-Breasted starling is a strikingly beautiful bird, vibrantly colored and highly visible in the wild. Considered by some to be one of the most beautiful of all African starlings, the Golden-Breasted starling has a deep green plumage on its head, a metallic blue back and tail, contrasting white...
[Read more...]The Rare Red Legged Honey Creeper
April 11, 2008 by adrianadams
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The Red-legged Honeycreeper is a small, rare bird from the tanager family, typically found in various regions of Central and South America. These include southern Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and most parts of Brazil, and also in Cuba, and on the island of Trinidad and Tobago. There is a slight difference...
[Read more...]Natural Pest Bat Control
Considered to be pests by many folks, bats do hold a special and beneficial place in the ecosystem. When bats are nesting in your home them bat control is important and natural bat control is even better. Most species of bats found in North America are not harmful to people or animals and bats do help...
[Read more...]Be Proud to Be a Bird Watcher
The passion and pleasure that a bird watcher finds in that hobby is inspirational. Those who bird watch are unique group of people. Bird watchers have a great sense of awareness as to what is going on around them and a degree of patience that is rare in our society. A bird watcher will find as much delight...
[Read more...]Bird Watching and The Latest In Internet Technology
One of the thrills of bird watching is the discovery of a species you have never seen before. In the past, a bird watcher often had to wait for a long time to get help in identifying a bird that he or she may not have recognized. Programs, like the one at Cornell University, allowed those who bird watch...
[Read more...]The Best in Bird Watching Binoculars
Trying to read and interpret all of the jargon about various bird watching binoculars can be a little difficult if you are new to it. You will probably find that all of the manufacturers think their product is the best, and that nothing else is worth looking at. If you are like most consumers, you want...
[Read more...]Rainforests: Way More Than Just Monkeys And Parrots
April 10, 2008 by adrianadams
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Rainforests are the dynamic engine of the Earth’s biosphere; they fix carbon from the atmosphere, and the aspiration of plants in the rain forests produce nearly 10% of the oxygen we need to live (over 70% of the oxygen is generated by algae and plankton on the world’s oceans). They act...
[Read more...]Return of the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
If you’ve not done so already, it’s time to clean out and refill your hummingbird feeders, because the Ruby-throated hummingbird – the king of nature’s frequent flyers – is on its way back to the eastern U.S. Reportedly, they are about a week ahead of last year. Ruby-throated...
[Read more...]Bali Mynah: Rare Beauties Of Bali
April 10, 2008 by adrianadams
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Bali Mynahs are a rare and beautiful bird found only on the Bali Island in Indonesia. There are as few as 60 wild Bali Mynahs that inhabit the Bali Barat National Park in its northwestern corner. There they live amongst the open woodland and openly gather in the morning hours. In size, they are no bigger...
[Read more...]The Elements of Feng Shui
The Feng Shui energy (or Chi) of an object, person, or place, relates to whatever is in its space, and the flow of Chi is unique in every living environment. These forces are always moving and always seeking balance (Yin and Yang), which rely on the Five Elements of water, wood, metal, earth, and fire,...
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