As the sun rises over the wetlands on the shores of Lake Victoria, papyrus harvesters set out into the swamps to harvest stalks of papyrus. At the docks, fishermen returning from a night’s work haul their boats onto the shore. The deep, ringing song of the papyrus gonolek (Laniarius mufumbiri) and the hooting of the […]
Barnacle goose, left. Photo by Patrick B. Newcombe
Thanks to Sadie for sending Saturday: “Dozens of DC birders are on a wild goose chase this weekend because a barnacle goose a bird that’s never been seen in DC before in recorded birding history,
a bird that nests on Arctic coasts from northeastern Greenland east to Siberia, and should be wintering in northwestern Europe right now has been sighted on the Potomac, canoodling with a raft of boring old Canada Geese.
Photo by Patrick B. Newcombe
This is not an escaped pet, so it’s therefore way cooler then NYC’s glamour duck.”