Mark Hedden
Mark Hedden is a photographer, writer, and semi-professional birdwatcher. He has lived in Key West for more than 25 years and may no longer be employable in the real world. He is also executive director of the Florida Keys Audubon Society.
WILD THINGS: DUCKS: RUSSKIES, OKIES AND OTHERWISE
The things that freak people out about Muscovy ducks are the caruncles, sometimes called wattles – the prominent, bright red, fleshy bits on their...
WILD THINGS: BALD EAGLES AND MAKING IT OFFICIAL
There were five of us in the car – my sister Karen, my brother-in-law Lee, and their friends Kathy and Charles. We’d been up...
WILD THINGS: ENTER SANDERLING
A male sanderling in breeding plumage is something to see, a bird with a classic shorebird profile – horizontal torso, slim, longish bill, respectable...
WILD THINGS: KUNG FU HERONS & THEIR PLACE IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS
It was the third year that Ellen Westbrook and I had done the morning part of the Christmas Bird Count by bike, which officially...
BIRD GEEK MARK HEDDEN ANSWERS READERS’ QUESTIONS
Why doesn’t North America have any big flightless bird? Africa has ostriches, South America has rheas, Australia has emus and cassowaries. Did we have...
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