Bonsai

View this post on Instagram Um artista e professor fantástico! Você consegue reconhecê-lo apenas olhando para as árvores? . Robert Stevens é um artista e professor incrível que tivemos a sorte de ter em vários países da nossa região. Siga-o em seu perfil do Facebook e conta do Instagram @robertbonsai #Bonsai #盆栽 #บอนไซ #분재 #бонсай #盆景 #Penjing #Bonsaï #HagamosBonsai A post shared by bonsaimente (@bonsaimente) … Continue reading Bonsai

A Rhapsody of Whimbrel

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Around the globe, the seven-note whistle of the Whimbrel is a spring theme tune for shorebird migration. Where are flocks going to, as they gain height and head north in March, April and May, and why have birds chosen that particular moment to depart? In a paper in Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, Camilo Carneiro, Tómas Gunnarsson and José Alves analyse… Continue reading A Rhapsody of Whimbrel

Plovers from the north

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Despite its global distribution, the Grey Plover (or Black-bellied Plover in the Americas) does not get the attention it deserves, according to Andrew Darby, author of Flight Lines, a book about shorebird migration and Grey Plovers in particular. Who would want to study a shorebird that is the first species to sneak away from its tundra nest when danger threatens, and… Continue reading Plovers from the north