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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

10,000 Birds

The start was there to try and break the warm fuzzies people have about wildlife biologists, people generally well regarded for doing badly paid work trying to help photogenic animals in the wild. Now I’m a former wildlife biologist and can assure everyone that wildlife biologists can be every bit as flawed as anyone else.

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Wild Sri Lanka

10,000 Birds

Throughout the book there are extracts from `A Naturalist’s Journal’, which in the form of a first person commentary take readers to specific habitats in search of the animals to be found there. Okay, okay, huge and hard to miss aside, but what about birds? 465 species have been recorded and the list keeps growing.

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