Abandoning Collecting Family Namibia 
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2012
It’s often considered wasteful that so many nests are abandoned and left to degenerate, but my theory of one of the reasons for this behavior is related to predation. Anaplectes – Red-headed Weaver A male Red-headed Weaver collecting shoots for building his nest. Image by Adam Riley in Namibia.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2014
There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. I think we caught perhaps three bats.
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