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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: VULTURES VS. ACTS OF GOD

I bounced off of Tom McGuane’s novel “Panama” the first couple times I tried to read it. It seemed arrhythmic, and fraught with a...

WILD THINGS: DON’T FEAR THE QUACKER

Ducks scare me.  Some people might be tempted to get Freudian about this, and think it has to do with male ducks’ often outsized corkscrew...

BIRDS DON’T CARE WHAT YOU CALL THEM, BUT IT STILL MATTERS

Avian nomenclature generally does not rate a lot of attention – or any attention, really – in the mainstream media. At least it didn’t...

WILD THINGS COLUMN: ‘TOP OF THE WORLD, LOOKING DOWN ON CREATION’

It was weird. The last time I was on Mount Wachusett in northern Massachusetts I was 8, riding the chairlift alone. It was spring...

FLAMINGO FOMO AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

This is the thing: I’ve seen American flamingos before. At least a dozen times in the U.S., maybe two dozen times, sometimes in groups,...
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