Trump tweets attacks on a Puerto Rico Mayor after she begs for help. Here's Lin Manuel Miranda's response(s).
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In September of 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by two powerful hurricanes: it was grazed by Irma and then clobbered by Maria, a Category 4 storm that cut a devastating swath across the island. One bold celebratory move would be to expand the ABA Area to include Puerto Rico and the U.S.
It was early afternoon when Mike and I arrived at Bosque Estatal de Guanica, the large dry forest reserve on the south coast of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican Screech Owl and the Puerto Rican Nightjar would have to wait until dark.) Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo , check!
Though it's been over a month since Mike and I returned from Puerto Rico my blogging about the trip has been sadly lacking. Puerto Rican Woodpecker. Yes, this is the best shot I got of a Puerto Rican Tanager. The Puerto Rican Oriole had thus far eluded us.
Culebra is the lesser known of the two major islands that lie off the eastern edge of Puerto Rico. Vieques is the island Americans tend to think of when they think of an island vacation destination off the coast of Puerto Rico, both because it is larger and because of the more recent and public fight to stop the American military from using it for bombing practice. A young Brown Booby buzzed the boat on our way back to Puerto Rico.
On our first full day in Puerto Rico (Sunday, 15 January), Mike and I decided to start in the east of the island and work our way west. I was convinced that we would get a Puerto Rican Tody as our first endemic species while Mike was sure it would be a Puerto Rican Woodpecker.
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In a move swift and resounding, the capital of Puerto Rico is saying goodbye to horse-drawn carriages. The act is immediate, as San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto over Read More The post Puerto Rico's Capital Quickly Bans Horse-Drawn Carriages After Accident appeared first on Ecorazzi.
Nestled on Calle González near the University of Puerto Rico in Santa Rita < Rio Piedras < San Juan, sits an airy, open market that calls itself a tea room, but is so much more.
Such is the current situation in Puerto Rico, once a place where environmentalists had thought they won a small victory. In 2007, a preserve was ordered to be created in northeastern Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico has to be flat-out one of the warmest, friendliest, most interesting destinations I've had the pleasure of visiting. Just a few minutes' walk from Concalma was LUCA , another boutique specializing in local Puerto Rican designers and ethical, slow fashion.
The western coast of Puerto Rico boasts an ecologically diverse landscape that needs to be seen to be believed. The mangroves remind you you're still in Puerto Rico, but as you inch along the winding entryway, the world as you know it eases further and further from your mind.
I recently asked whether Puerto Rico should be part of the American Birding Association's ABA Area. I will suggest an answer to the question: this post makes the argument that both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Puerto Rico is a U.S.
Martin has announced plans to open a new center for at-risk children in Loiza, Puerto Rico. The Child Development and Prevention Center will open in 2012, and could expand beyond Loiza to other areas of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Latin America and Mexico, according to Martin.
Way back in January Mike and I made a quick trip to Puerto Rico with the hope of cleaning up on all of the endemic species on the island. We saw a Puerto Rican Parrot ! We much more heard a Puerto Rican Parrot and saw a dark, bird-shaped, thing fly overhead.
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EPA Environmental Quality Award on behalf of the Sierra Club of Puerto Rico with our partners and EPA Region 2 Regional Administrator Judith Enck (far right). Last week, the Sierra Club of Puerto Rico was honored by the Environmental Protection Agency with the 2013 U.S. Over 200 volunteers manning recycling stations collected 70 tons of recyclables at the festival," said Camilla Feibelman, Organizing Representative for Sierra Club Puerto Rico.
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During the legendary, lost ' Puerto Rico Month ' on this blog, a Puerto Rican endemic was mentioned that no 10,000 Birds reader, and in fact no living birder, will ever add to their life lists. It is now believed to have been a fairly common resident of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands until the arrival of the first humans when it went the way of most flightless easy to catch island birds immediately after the arrival of man.
From FiveThirtyEight.com : On Tuesday, two things happened: A New England Journal of Medicine article by Harvard researchers argued that the death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was most likely thousands higher than the official number of 64; and Roseanne Barr, the sitcom star, was fired for a racist Twitter rant. According to the watchdog group Media Matters, CNN devoted nearly five hours to discussing Roseanne, and just over 12 minutes to discussing Puerto Rico.
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Parrots Over Puerto Rico is a wonderland of colors and shapes. The story of the Puerto Rican Amazon, also known as the Puerto Rico Parrot, Parrots Over Puerto Rico is illustrated with deeply hued collages created by Susan L. There are two stories here–the story of the parrots, and the story of the settlement of the island of Boriquén, which became the island of Puerto Rico.
Corey did not get out birding much this weekend after our trip to Puerto Rico last week. Mid-January offers some pretty bland birding in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, or at least little you can't see during the month before or after.
Good or bad, I'm hitting the road this weekend and dragging Corey with me as we blitz through Puerto Rico in an effort to vacuum up every endemic on that sunny Caribbean island. May I let you in on a little secret, just between you and me?
He has also written about birding in Puerto Rico, which he believes is criminally underappreciated as a destination for birders. We here at 10,000 Birds are excited to announce a new beat writer who will have his first post go live tomorrow.
That I have trips to Puerto Rico, Austria, and the Bahamas planned in the first two months of the year makes me a bit more confident than usual that I can make it again this year. It's doable, but I might have to work at it and will really have to clean up in Puerto Rico.
Corey will be returning from Puerto Rico and may need several days to re-acclimate to New York winter conditions. Saint Augustine famously asserted, "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." Sometimes I think the world is a field guide. Only through travel can you truly appreciate all the plates! I'm still in Israel, planning to cap off our adventure by exploring the Dead Sea and some live birds.
Corey and I just spent our first day blitzing Puerto Rico and pulled some sweet sightings. Anyone who makes the effort will likely find–and fall for–the Puerto Rican Tody , a dazzling member of a charismatic Caribbean genus.
Corey's Best Bird of the Weekend was going to be one of the birds he saw in Puerto Rico on Friday before flying back to New York. Many people I know are begrudgingly returning to work today after a long weekend or holiday away. Perhaps you're in the same boat. If so, remember that one of the most mature ways to deal with the end of a memorable vacation is simply to plan the next one!
It was introduced to Puerto Rico and other island nations, and now flourishes. I remember the very first time I saw the national bird of Venezuela. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught sight of a flash of orange disappearing behind a thick layer of tree leaves.
from North Carolina through Texas, and in Puerto Rico and U.S. Another missed opportunity: From the inbox: The National Marine Fisheries Service has two positions for marine resource economists with the Social Science Research Group at the Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Miami, FL. The Southeast Fisheries Science Center conducts basic and applied research to support management of living marine resources in federal waters off southeastern coastal waters of the U.S.
That coupled with my preparations for a departure for Puerto Rico late on Sunday means that I didn't get much birding done. Valentine's Day has come and gone. Did you see any birds that you particularly loved this weekend? Here in New York City we suffered through our coldest period of the winter with wind chill values dipping well below zero degrees Fahrenheit.