Peanut and Popje are in love. They hooked up at a rehab facility on the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire. Popje has lingering issues, but Peanut was discharged. Then Peanut returned, insisting he be let back in. Withdrawn and not eating in Peanut's absence, Popje sprang to life. Now Peanut comes and goes, bringing food for Popje, the weight of her happiness on his shoulders.
I should say on his yellow shoulders, because Peanut and Popje are yellow-shouldered parrots. Echo, the conservation center where they met, protects their threatened species and its habitat, Bonaire's tropical dry forest. Feeding melon to these emerald-and-gold beauties was one delight of my trip to Bonaire. Another was earning bragging rights: According to eBird, the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's crowdsourced database, I am among the top birders on Bonaire. Located along the flyway from South America, the island is a stopover for 20,000 shorebirds and a breeding ground for American flamingos; in short, it's a birding wonderland. Even in summer, the birding off-season, I encountered 64 of the 245 species that have ever been recorded here.
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The Slow Road - Rather than rush from Tokyo to Kyoto by train, as most visitors to Japan do, Tom Vanderbilt chose to bike - coasting down country roads, spying snow monkeys, and refueling with hearty bowls of soba
Rather than rush from Tokyo to Kyoto by train, as most visitors to Japan do, Tom Vanderbilt chose to bike - coasting down country roads, spying snow monkeys, and refueling with hearty bowls of soba. At the peak of the day's heat, I pulled into the tiny hamlet of Hirase, in Japan's Gifu Prefecture. I'd just climbed a twisting, waterfall-lined road several thousand feet through Hakusan National Park before descending into the shimmering fantasy landscape of Shirakawa-go, an almost Tolkien-esque village (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) comprising centuries-old farmhouses with peaked thatch roofs.
SHAILENE WOODLEY on FIJI
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easy does it
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gather round
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SANDS OF TIME
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THE PAST IS PRESENT
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Creation Story
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Continental Drift
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On the Rise
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Antiques Road Show
After buying a second home, in France, the designer Claire Vivier called up fellow designer Kate Berry to go on the ultimate shopping spree
