by Audrey Benedict | Jul 31, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #88: Darwin’s Stone Streams (Falklands/Malvinas) ePostcard #88: Darwin’s Stone Streams (Falklands/Malvinas) Among the most spectacular landscape features of the Falkland Islands are the vast periglacial blockfields and patterned ground, which...
by Audrey Benedict | Jul 29, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #87: Charles Darwin, Geologist ePostcard #87: Charles Darwin, Geologist Credit: Charles Darwin’s portrait was painted in 1840 by George Richmond, four years after he returned from the Beagle voyage. Charles Darwin took his boyhood love of collecting...
by Audrey Benedict | Jul 28, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #86: Adobe Ingenuity (Black-browed Albatross Nests) Sitting at the edge of a black-browed albatross colony on Steeple Jason Island in 2009, I watched as an albatross added freshly collected chunks of mud to the thick walls of its pedestaled and...
by Audrey Benedict | Jul 27, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #85: Life in the Rookery (Falkland Black-crowned Night Herons) ePostcard #85: Life in the Rookery (Falkland Black-crowned Night Herons) My first memory of watching the ghostly silhouette of a black-crowned night heron flying across the night sky goes back to...
by Audrey Benedict | Jul 24, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #84: Mystery of the Curious Wolf click images to enlarge ePostcard #84: Mystery of the Curious Wolf Charles Darwin regarded the Falkland Island wolf as a compelling biological mystery to be solved, and his observations would set the stage for what would...
