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	<description>by Noah Strycker</description>
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		<title>Announcing&#8230; My Next Book!</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2012/05/announcing-my-next-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 22:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in September, I got an email out of the blue from an editor at Riverhead Press, an imprint of Penguin Books in New York (the largest publisher in the world). &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for a writer for a book on birds,&#8221; she wrote, and &#8220;I think you&#8217;d be great for it.&#8221; She had been directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiputini Megafauna</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2012/03/tiputini-megafauna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to get preoccupied with birds and big cats, but Tiputini is full of other interesting wildlife. In the past two months I’ve seen some cool stuff here. For starters, monkeys are abundant. Tiputini is remarkable in hosting ten different species of primates, of which I’ve encountered eight: howler, wooly, spider, squirrel, tidi, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JAGUAR</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2012/02/jaguar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 9:10 this morning, I was working alone in a remote research plot about two miles from Tiputini. I’d just finished a transect of mixed-flock surveys and was standing quietly in a small clearing, writing in my field notebook, when something rustled a leaf at the edge of the open area. Thinking it was one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biggest Big Day</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2012/02/biggest-big-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The game: To find as many species of birds as possible in one day at Tiputini. The rules: Each bird must be positively identified by sight or sound. The players: Abby and me. Pretty simple, really. Abby and I got up at 3 am on Friday to do an all-out “Big Day” around the Tiputini [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double Celebrity Birthday</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2012/02/double-celebrity-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birthdays are obviously healthy, since the people who have the most live the longest. I had a memorable one today. It’s pretty cool to turn 26 in Ecuador’s Amazonian rainforest. Last year I was banding birds in the highlands of Costa Rica for my 25th. Next year… who knows? Incredibly, out of the dozen researchers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of Tiny Tim</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2012/01/the-tale-of-tiny-tim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen days after arriving at Tiputini, I noticed a mosquito bite on my back that hadn’t seemed to heal right. Instead of disappearing, the lump was getting bigger, and, well, something inside it seemed alive. “Guys,” I said that evening at the dinner table, “I think I have a bot fly.” I knew by heart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margay</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2012/01/margay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 1:30 this afternoon, near the end of an eight-hour block of tracking Wedge-billed Woodcreepers through the jungle, I noticed a flock of agitated antshrikes mobbing something in a tree just off the transect I was working on. Thinking that they might have found a roosting raptor, I plunged into the undergrowth to see what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dropped From 130 Feet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my first full day off at Tiputini, I decided to climb the canopy tower at sunrise. A set of rickety metal scaffolding ascends to a platform in the fork of a huge ceiba tree which towers over the surrounding jungle, 130 feet above the ground – it’s a great spot for canopy birds and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1,999</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2012/01/1999/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, my life list stands at 1,999 species. It’s likely that I’ll hit 2,000 this very afternoon, since, at Tiputini, practically anything is possible. What bird will it be? I arrived on Friday after spending 24 hours in international airports and eight hours on a small plane, a bus, a boat, another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador Bound</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2012/01/ecuador-bound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holidays are over and it&#8217;s time to head to the tropics! Tomorrow I catch a flight to Quito, Ecuador, then I&#8217;ll travel onward via small plane and boat to Tiputini Biodiversity Station, one of the most remote research stations in the world. I&#8217;ll be studying Wedge-billed Woodcreepers there for the next three months, spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Book Signing</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2011/11/wild-book-signing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Portland&#8217;s Wild Arts festival yesterday, I shared a small table with Robert Pyle, that internationally known butterfly expert, conservationist, and author. We spent almost five hours signing books; I sat behind a glossy stack of Among Penguins, while Bob&#8217;s 15 or 20 titles formed an impressive mountain covering his side of the desk. Along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penguins at the Rotary</title>
		<link>http://noahstrycker.com/2011/11/penguins-at-the-rotary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Strycker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;See that table, in the corner?&#8221; asked Pat, President of the Grants Pass Rotary club in southern Oregon, just after lunch today. &#8220;They&#8217;re a little hard of hearing back there. If they hold up a giant sign that says LOUDER, lean in to the microphone. They&#8217;re brutal.&#8221; I was about to give my penguin slideshow [...]]]></description>
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