Vanuatu Related Topics 
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2013
Diving has taken me to places like Belize, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Egypt, places that coincidentally are fun to bird. For some it allows you to boast about the amazing locations, and for some it simply scratches that itch to invest heavily in gear. Kina, or Sea Urchin. I was a diver before I was a birder.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2014
I’ve written before about how the Collared Kingfisher is a million splits waiting to happen (not happened yet), and the golden whistlers of the Pacific have been split now (giving me on from Fiji, one in Australia and one in Vanuatu), but I hadn’t really expected the Wattled Honeyeater to be a split.
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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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2014
The closest I came to exploring a cave was diving in a wreck in Vanuatu a few years ago, and while I found the experience nerve-wracking, a combination of sheer fascination and nitrogen narcosis (the effect while diving of compressed nitrogen acting like alcohol – particularly to the decision making processes) kept me sane.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Whereas most of Fiji shares the Streaked Fantail with New Caledonia and Vanuatu, Kadavu has its own species, the Kadavu Fantail. The remainder of Fiji’s whistlers are in the Fiji Whistler, and it seems that Fiji was invaded by whistlers on two occasions. Another biogeographical oddity is the local fantail.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
’s Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia , “nests colonially on small offshore islands, but visits coastal lowlands of larger islands to forage for food.” “A ground-dwelling inhabitant of dense lowland rainforest,” notes Doughty et al.’s ” Beehler et al.’s
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
He is a writer and communicator whose day jobs have taken him to six continents and more than 25 countries, including Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kenya, and Cameroon. His fascination with birds and nature began at the age of four or five, and he now works full time in conservation of Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River birds and ecosystems.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Subspecies juliae , Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. For example only a single subspecies from Vanuatu was sampled. Image by author. It can’t have escaped your notice that there is still quite a lot of variation in these new species.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2013
The aforementioned Kauri in turn used these islands to reach places like Vanuatu. These far flung fragment islands have served as stepping stones in their own right to New Zealand, with the Cyanoramphus parakeets and New Zealand geckos originating there bringing a slightly tropical feel to the wildlife.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2014
While Australian birds migrate to New Guinea, New Zealand birds migrate to the Bismark Archipelago and the Solomon Islands (there are also resident populations in New Caledonia and Vanuatu). This makes them rather special birds here, and I can’t believe what a privileged look I got of this individual last weekend.
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