Wednesday, August 12, 2020

FINE Things No 7

 FINE = Fun, Interesting, Novel, Exciting

About box turtles.

Helen Macdonald in the NYT Magazine: The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down. It's about Swifts; by the author of H is for Hawk.
 

Freshwater mussels; an overview with videos from Knowable Magazine.
 

I posted about freshwater mussels earlier this year.
 

This article talks about freshwater mussel's role in stream ecology and current restoration efforts.
 

Catherine Chastain recommends this article about mosses that use quartz parasols. 

Comic book: Centuries of pondering - and squabbling about - trees

Until next week,

Dale