10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2011
I mentioned last week, while talking about rails and the Pacific, that Tonga is not a particularly birdy birding destination. A combination of extinctions and proximity to Fiji means that a trip to that island group would net you pretty much all the same birds plus a whole raft of others.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Enter the Silktail , an odd little bird found only on two islands, Taveuni and Vanua Levu, in Fiji. The affinities of this small dark blue bird with a white tail has been a longstanding mystery for taxonomists for a long time. Indeed it was part of that family. Nothing is ever new, and no idea ever loses favour completely!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2011
The world of birding is filled with challenging groups well known to all, birds like gulls , Empidonax flycatchers or cisticolas that require attention to the tiniest details in order to assign an individual to a specific species (if it can be done at all). One such bird is the Collared Kingfisher ( Todiramphus chloris ).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. ” Beehler et al.’s
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2011
The kakariki are an odd group of parakeets, particularly in terms of their distribution. Incidentally the two genera form a sister clade to another Pacific genus, Prospeia , the shining-parrots, a gorgeous trio of parrots endemic to Fiji. Let’s back up a little bit and introduce the parakeets.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
I’ve subsequently managed to dive in some spectacular destinations, including Turneffe Atoll in Belize, the Great Astrolabe Reef in Fiji, the kelp forests of Monterey and the wreck of the President Coolidge in Vanuatu. The second dive site was under the Eastern Arch inside the main group.
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