Our riverside pitch,Los Batanes

Azure-winged Magpies

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April 17th 2013
This is to be our last day here in Los Batanes, Lagunas de Ruidera, so we made it an "in-camp" day. John spent most of it photographing birds (of the feathered variety). There is a large family of Azure-winged Magpies living in the trees around us. These birds live in large families in only two places in the world, one being here in the Iberian Peninsula and the other in Eastern Asia, mostly China ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more