10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

Birds 206

Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 206

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 157

Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2020

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. 465 species have been recorded and the list keeps growing. Okay, okay, huge and hard to miss aside, but what about birds?

Sri Lanka 190

Sri Lanka Whales Whaling Leopards 190