13 December 2009 – 12:14 am
This is one of my favourite birds ever, the Chestnut-crowned Antpitta, Grallaria ruficapilla:
Or in a more orthodox portrait:
They have a simple three-note call, and on a birding trip to Venezuela we encountered one individual that consistently got the notes in the wrong order. Which got funnier every time it did it.
» Chestnut-crowned Antpitta, perhaps my favorite [...]
23 November 2009 – 1:33 pm
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a novel about a cooking teacher whose first husband is a charming lowlife, who is always disappearing in search of wine, women, song and roulette, and her second marriage to an upright, responsible, devoted pharmacist who, for all his good qualities, is duller and more reserved. Especially in [...]