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. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact.

Birds 209

Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 209

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

Sri Lanka 193

Sri Lanka Whales Whaling Leopards 193