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Long-Billed Curlew


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Animal of the Month:
Long-Billed Curlew

Photo by Sherry Smith, Morro Bay, California, 1/2006.

Learn about the long-billed curlew, a bird that visits both the coasts and grasslands of Central California.

Special Feature: Animal or Plant Personality Quiz

What Animal or Plant Are You?

What animal or plant are you? Find out by taking our quiz featuring 16 fascinating animals and plants.

Favorite Art

My art page features links to paintings featuring subjects ranging from a child learning to read to an ancient cave painting of an owl.

July's Quote

"The trees and fences draw/ Far back into the gloom./ You watch the street, alone/ Within the falling snow."

-- Boris Pasternak (tr. E. M. Kayden), from "Meeting"

Nature This Season

Lowest tides at Point Bonita, San Francisco, CA: July 3rd at 6:14 am.

Outside our hotel room window in Monterey, many brown moths appeared in the junipers in the evening.

Average high temperature for July in Flagstaff, Arizona: 82 degrees.

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