by Audrey Benedict | Aug 4, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #90: Ready to Fly (Black-browed Albatrosses) ePostcard #90: Ready to Fly (Black-browed Albatrosses) Since their first glimmerings in dinosaurs about 250 million years ago, feathers have evolved into one of nature’s most powerful and beautiful adornments....
by Audrey Benedict | Aug 3, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #89: Pair-Bonding—Black-browed Albatrosses! ePostcard #89: Pair-Bonding—Black-browed Albatrosses! We celebrate the wonder of black-browed albatrosses with our final two ePostcards from the Falklands/Malvinas. Before we go, however, we must preen our own...
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...
