Alan_Geog

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Professor Emeritus of Geography focused on #cartography, #visualization, geographical information retrieval (#GIR), and #giscience genrally. Life-long environmentalist. My avocation is #birding and #photography (of birds), and #writing related to both. Resident of central #PA and part-time #OBX #NC

New book, Nov. 2022: A Geo-Big Year https://books2read.com/A-Geo-Big

Also @alanGeoVISTA on Twitter as long as it lasts.
#geography, #giscience, #fedi22, #socialjustice, #graphics, #mapping, #Design

Trump cut lifesaving foreign aid as State Department planned to buy expensive art for embassies | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/trump-cut-lifesaving-foreign-aid-as-state-department-planned-to-buy-expensive-art-for-embassies

i have now added 35 photos representing 25 different species of hummingbirds to my new Northern Peru Flickr album

https://www.flickr.com/photos/98553536@N03/albums/72177720322039889/

the holidays get busy but i will still be finding time to add more next week

#bird #birds #hummingbird #hummingbirds #BirdPhotography #BirdInFlight #BIFPhotography #NikonZ8 #Nature #outdoors

Northern Peru Hummingbirds and More

November 2024, Tropical Birding Tour: Peru Photography Workshop led by Pablo Cervantes Daza. Emphasis on hummingbirds including rare endemics of northwest Peru. Both flash and handheld practice.

Flickr

“In 2017, Gabbard made an unannounced trip to Syria to meet President Bashar al-Assad, the country's authoritarian leader. The trip sparked bipartisan criticism. The same year, she cast doubt on the U.S.' own intelligence agencies' conclusion that Assad's government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on Syrians.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/nearly-100-former-national-security-officials-alarmed-gabbard-rcna183121

Nearly 100 former national security officials 'alarmed' at prospect of Gabbard leading intel community

Nearly 100 former national security officials signed a letter criticizing President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate former Rep.

NBC News

Gull in Motion

This ring billed gull (Larus delawarensis) passed me by at the beach at Gulfport, Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico.

"Familiar acrobats of the air, Ring-billed Gulls nimbly pluck tossed tidbits from on high. Comfortable around humans, they frequent parking lots, garbage dumps, beaches, and fields, sometimes by the hundreds. These are the gulls you're most likely to see far away from coastal areas—in fact, most Ring-billed Gulls nest in the interior of the continent, near freshwater. A black band encircling the yellow bill helps distinguish adults from other gulls—but look closely, as some other species have black or red spots on the bill." - allaboutbirds.org

Visit my photo gallery at:

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #birdphotography #ringbilledgull

Coy Pearson - Official Website

This is the website of Coy Pearson. Shop for nature art, wildlife art, bird art, and more. Designs are available to purchase as canvas prints, framed prints, posters, greeting cards, apparel, and other products. Retired soldier. I spent about 30 years in the military (USMC/Army). Also recently re...

Coy Pearson - Official Website
I don’t think it’s too much to ask for defense secretary who isn’t a womanizing booze hound who has been accused of sexual assault and had multiple secret families

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseths-drinking-worried-colleagues-fox-news-sources-tell-nbc-ne-rcna181471
Pete Hegseth's drinking worried colleagues at Fox News, sources tell NBC News

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News.

NBC News
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
You've heard of Elf on a Shelf, in Canada we have...
Yesterday, on my 4th try, I finally saw the Black-legged Kittiwake that has been in Centre County for a week. It is my first in Pennsylvania and only my second ever. I managed a distant photo. #Birds #birding

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars.

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

The Conversation