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Tag Archives: MELISSA GROO

#91, March 8, 2017: Mystery on the Savanna: The Last Giraffe

March 8, 2017 Alex ShoumatoffDispatchesLeave a comment0

Smithsonian Magazine has published my piece on the giraffes, with beautiful photos by Melissa Groo.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/save-giraffes-put-our-necks-out-180962128/

 

the cranes get their due

March 9, 2014 Alex ShoumatoffBlogLeave a comment0

The article in the March Smithsonian about the half a million sandhill cranes that gather every year on the Platte River in Nebraska to dance and fuel up on waste corn for the journey to their arctic and sub-arctic nesting grounds, some as far away as Siberia, has had a much greater impact that either …Read More

#72: For The Love of Birds

December 21, 2011 Alex ShoumatoffDispatches, reader alerts1 Comment0

We became Facebook friends and last July when I was visiting the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, where she lives, we had dinner. Melissa is a tall, statuesque, striking blonde. She grew up on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, but since then has lived from California to Paris to Santa Fe, doing everything …Read More

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