I have this memory that goes back about forty years, when my marvelous father took me for the first time to observe waders at the Saline di Siracusa, SE Sicily, Italy (my homeland); there was this salt-pan now in disuse, right at the southern gates of my city and the […]
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European Lanner – A vanishing ghost
Summer seems to be arriving with great strides, and the air is trembling with the heat even though the sunny June is still far from appearing. I am sitting in the shade of a gnarled olive tree, centuries of history branch out among its branches, giving me the most precious […]
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