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The sound that wakes me most mornings here on Maui comes from an introduced bird species called the Gray Francolin.  They are quite common in Hawaii, particularly around the beach where many hotels have unwittingly provided the perfect habitat in which they thrive.  There were a pair sitting in the tree, just outside the lanai, [...]

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A few years ago, my husband and I went to Noosa Heads in Queensland for a holiday.  It was our first trip to the island continent and we had a marvelous time.  After spending just a few days in Sydney, which I later photographed for a feature story for National Geographic Traveler, we boarded a [...]

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The first day of spring was marked by the arrival of the migratory rufous hummingbird.  Since that day, the male, and now the female, have been regularly hanging around our feeders.  They defend the feeders with ferocity and our local Anna’s family is definitely distressed about these newcomers as fighting regularly breaks out.  It’s a [...]

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