10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. Lucky him, right? At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Though he ended up dead anyway.

Birds 215

Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 215

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

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.

Collecting 159

Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 159

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2020

Size apart, the sighting rates in the right season and area are really striking. 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.

Sri Lanka 198

Sri Lanka Whales Whaling Leopards 198