Wild Amazonia: Report from the Rainforest
We arrived in the bustling metropolis of Manaus a couple of days ahead of our group to begin our first exploration of the vast equatorial...
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John J King II
- Apr 15, 2018
- 4 min
Postcard from Patagonia: Adventure in the Wild South
The predawn hours at Estancia La Ernestina during the month of March are often very cool with temperatures around 5 - 8 degrees Celsius...
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John J King II
- Jan 27, 2018
- 2 min
Fire & Rain: Exploring Costa Rica's Mountain Rainforests
Frozen inlets and sub freezing temperatures have been the order of day this winter on Cape Cod. After spending wonderful time with family...
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John J King II
- Dec 30, 2017
- 1 min
Ten Years After: A Decade of Adventure
As the last dark winter days of December slowly fade from view we are reflecting on not just the past year’s highlights but those of the...
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John J King II
- Aug 27, 2017
- 1 min
Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer Bird Migrations
We took a break from our field work tracking and photographing white sharks here on Cape Cod to head to a favorite birding spot on...
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John J King II
- Aug 16, 2017
- 2 min
Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer White Shark Research Report
Our summer adventures here on Cape Cod have once again been breath taking and the time has passed quickly. As in the previous 3 years we...
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John J King II
- May 22, 2017
- 1 min
Report from SE Alaska: Bald Eagle “Top Gun” School
On our recent trip to SE Alaska to observe the annual herring spawn spectacle (previously reported on) we made more than 5000 images of...
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John J King II
- May 6, 2017
- 1 min
Wild Southeast Alaska: Lights, Camera, Action!
Spring in Southeast Alaska is signaled by rapidly increasing daylight, robust waterfalls from melting snow and seasonal rains as well as...
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John J King II
- Apr 5, 2017
- 3 min
Return to Wild Patagonia: Orcas!
When I had the good fortune to meet conservationist, and orca researcher Juan Manuel Capello in South Africa four years ago and learned...
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John J King II
- Mar 14, 2017
- 2 min
Humpbacks on the Silver Bank
Late winter and early spring in the Caribbean waters between the southern Bahamas and the Dominican Republic means that North Atlantic...
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John J King II
- Dec 9, 2016
- 1 min
Wild Places and Wild Things: 2016 in Review
Autumn is in full swing here on the elbow of Cape Cod and it is a time for transition for most observers of the marine natural world in...
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John J King II
- Sep 28, 2016
- 1 min
Wild Cape Cod Notebook: At the Equinox
The languid and steamy summer that we enjoyed on Cape Cod has transformed into cooler autumn weather pattern with ever more easterly...
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John J King II
- Aug 24, 2016
- 1 min
Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer - Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge and the Atlantic White Shark Conse
Summer is a siren that woos us on Cape Cod each year here into a state of contentment with warm breezes and sunny days and spectacular...
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John J King II
- Jun 12, 2016
- 1 min
Wild Southeast Alaska: Spring Abundance
During the spring each year an amazing natural spectacle unfolds in Southeast Alaska. Creatures as large as humpback whales and as small...
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John J King II
- Apr 7, 2016
- 4 min
Wild Patagonia: Of Condors and Cats
Fresh from an amazing expedition deep into the ice of Antarctica I hit the dock in Ushuaia, Argentina, head spinning, with one last...
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John J King II
- Apr 5, 2016
- 3 min
Antarctica: The End of the Earth
More than two years ago I learned that my friend Ted Cheeseman was planning to bring a team of mammal researchers led by Ari Friedlander...
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John J King II
- Apr 3, 2016
- 2 min
Spring in the Shadow of Mt. St Helens
Thirty six years ago Mt St. Helens exploded. For about sixty days the volcano had been giving clues of a pending event - starting with a...
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John J King II
- Apr 3, 2016
- 3 min
Wild Patagonia: Peninsula Valdez
Once each year for about 6 weeks a unique spectacle of nature occurs in a remote part of Argentina's wild Atlantic coast. In the...
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John J King II
- Oct 21, 2015
- 2 min
Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Winter Approaches
Our work with the Massachusetts White Shark population study is winding down with only a couple of weeks to go to the end of the field...
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John J King II
- Sep 12, 2015
- 3 min
Wild Cape Cod Notebook
The last six weeks of summer have been a blur of intense activity on the Outer Cape Cod area. Emotional highs and lows and the awe of...
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