Volume 14, Number 17
September 9, 2008

nature

Also in this section:
Panama Viejo birds
The Panama Canal's coming competition: the ice retreats on Canada's Ellesmere Island
Suicide prevention's not all that expensive

Is this a juvenile grackle on the right, in a bid to bum a meal from the female on the left? The markings on the birds' legs and around their eyes leave veteran birders in doubt.

Birds in Panama Viejo
photos by Allan Hawkins

No doubt about it --- these are brown pelicans in the dirty waters off of the colonial
capital that Pedrarias the Cruel founded on the site of an ancient indigenous village

Also in this section:
Panama Viejo birds
The Panama Canal's coming competition: the ice retreats on Canada's Ellesmere Island
Suicide prevention's not all that expensive

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