The only member of genus Cerorhinca, the Rhinoceros auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) is closely related to the puffins. A fish-eating sea bird, they are sometimes called Rhinoceros puffins. The common name "Rhinoceros" comes from the horny protrusion jetting up from the......

Here are a couple of wood ducks (Aix sponsa) at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in Citrus county, Florida. Lovely birds, aren't they? Not sure why people like to shoot them for pleasure, except with a camera. Hard for me......

The bark anole (Anolis distichus) is yet another non-indigenous, yet unbearably cute, south Florida lizard. I truly do love these little fellas, ecological consequences be damned! Bark anoles haven't flourished nearly as quickly as the Cuban brown anole (Anolis sagrei......

The Southern toad (Bufo terrestris) is a toad after my heart. These dudes just rock. And they're romantics, these toads. Deep, passionate romantics. It's hard to not love them. Unless, of course, you don't like the the deafening sound of......

Hey! Just in case you were looking for somebody with a lot of patriotism and a catchy jingle to back it up, I give you Dennis Madalone's moving power-balled, "America, We Stand As One"...!This Media Glorificus discovered by the mandatory......

I'm now officially in Bird Mode... It usually works like this. I'll spin through cycles of interest. Over the break, I was in post-punk and reptile mode. Right now? Right now I'm in classical music and bird mode.So this is......

We've passed the winter solstice. And that's a good thing. I'm ready for Spring. I'm ready for Summer. I'm ready for The Big Thaw. Of course, we've got a while to go before Winter begins to lighten up. Hell, the......

Annotations, Notes, and Autobiographical Musings during the reduction of a full length album to an EP-length bundle of only five tracks, primarily for mobile iPhone use. This is not necessarily a review. It's what I call an EPification and it's......

My manic run of mayhem continues -- and I find myself generally without the energy or will to do significant posting on the blog.  Work is piling up and I now feel like I know what it must feel like to swim for twenty days straight. BUT:  A note. Tonight, as I process, process, process... ...

We're going to have some fun tracking the polls today and though this isn't exactly the type of blog readers would likely go to for constant news updates on the election, we still want to liveblog the election from our perspective -- from up here in Anchorage, Alaska on this most historic day. It's ...