Archives for the 'Wildlife' Category
Launch of BirdPlanner.com
Published on 23 Feb 2008 at 3:32 am.
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Filed under Birds, Ecology, Solutions, Wildlife.
I am pleased to publicly announce the launch of BirdPlanner.com
I have been working on this project for one year now, and it is now ready for public consumption. The site enables bird watchers and ecotourists to create a list of the birds that live at any location in the Western Hemisphere. If you are travelling and […]
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Planet Earth
Published on 12 Dec 2007 at 3:20 am.
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Filed under Green, Photography, Travel, Wildlife.
I have been really enjoying the BBC Series Planet Earth. I am extremely impressed with the quality and subject matter of the footage, and can watch these episodes over and over again.
As we have an HDTV, I am going to wait to purchase the series until we have a BlueRay player. I don’t think that […]
Encyclopedia of Life
Published on 31 Oct 2007 at 2:32 am.
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Filed under Biology, Birds, Climate, Exploration, Green, Internet, Wildlife.
I recently learned of the project called “Encyclopedia of Life“, which endeavors to create an online encyclopedia featuring every known life form on Earth. From what I can see, this is going to be done in an open access manner.
Sample pages exist for the following organisms:
Death Cap Mushroom (Amanita Phalloides)
Rice (Oryza Sativa)
Yeti Crab (Kiwa Hirsuta)
and […]
Behold the Gorgeted Puffleg
Published on 15 May 2007 at 12:45 am.
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Ornithologists Alexander Cortés-Diago and Luis Alfonso Ortega recently announced the discovery of a new hummingbird in the cloud forests in the Serrania del Pinche in south-west Colombia. The bird was sighted three times during surveys of the region in 2005.
Surveys in 2006 yielded photographs of the bird, which enabled scientists at the International Bird […]
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Texture and Wallpaper Gallery
Published on 26 Mar 2007 at 1:48 am.
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Filed under Photography, Solutions, Travel, Wildlife.
I often like to take photgraphs of various textures and wallpaper. This includes brick walls, tree bark, earth, water, and so on. Recently, I went through and collected together some of these images that I have captured, and I organized them into a photo gallery:
http://www.huginn.com/gallery/
I have been using the Simple Picture Gallery Manager
http://spgm.sourceforge.net/
and found it […]
