Green mansions of Tamaulipas.

From: Journal of the Southwest | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

What was it like to collect birds and to conduct fieldwork in Mexico in the "early days"? For me it began not at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, half a century ago, when I lost a ping pong game to Ernest P. "Buck" Edwards and won a trip to the tropics, to tropical Mexico, a dream come true. Instead, it began from the experience of growing up with parents who knew and loved farms and the rural-suburban interface. Their experience and the insight about ecology one gains from living on a farm, even one close to a major metropolitan center, is a gift from the gods.

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