THERE’S STACKS of bird books on the market these days. Some highly technical, some basically informative and some are just good old fashioned coffee table celebrations. Every now and again one shows up which combines all of these elements and when it is full of images taken by one of the world’s great avian photographers [...]
IT WAS AN EXCITING TIME for me at Boat Harbour yesterday. The morning (low tide) survey was amazing, with tens of thousands of shearwaters moving in massive flocks on the horizon, large flocks of Kelp Gulls (well for me anyway – dozen at a time) and plenty of shorebird activity. It appears that our Little [...]
The other day I was pondering how so many organisms are simply an alimentary canal with a sphincter called a “mouth” at one end and another sphincter called an “anus” at the other (I’m frequently given to pondering such uncomfortable realities when out driving). Everything else is just window dressing, the result of Natural Selection, as Richard [...]
WITHIN THE NEXT SIX WEEKS all of the Pacific Golden Plover and most of the Red-necked Stints, Ruddy Turnstone and Grey-tailed Tattlers on Long Reef will have commenced their migration. We are now into the time of the year when we can expect to see breeding plumage appear and the waders putting on weight as [...]
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