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Audubon’s Birds of America
Read more“With the exception of the mockingbird, I know no species so gay and frolicksome” Audubon wrote of the red-headed woodpecker…
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The birds of Peru – jungle
Read moreAfter watching the birds of the coast and mountains of Peru we flew east to Puerto Maldonado, a frontier town…
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The birds of Peru – coasts and mountains
Read morePeru is home to nearly 2,000 species of birds; a fifth of all the world’s bird species. To someone like…
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In praise of Peruvian mammals
No CommentsRead moreOur trip to Peru earlier this month was punctuated with sightings of all kinds of wildlife: birds, insects, lizards; and…
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Nazca lines, grand designs
Read moreOn a high desert plateau in the west of Peru are a spectacular series of massive geoglyphs known as the…
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Zebra running
1 CommentRead moreWe were at Crater Lake game reserve near Naivasha, Kenya,in March 2010, a place where, with a guide, you can…
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In praise of wildebeest
No CommentsRead moreSome people think they’re ugly and stupid, but I think blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) are marvellous creatures. What stripes! Such…
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Swimming with dolphins in Kaikoura
No CommentsRead moreMoth and I fell in love with the little town of Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand’s South…
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I love keas
Read moreThe one place you don’t expect to see parrots is in cold mountains… …but such is the evolutionary weirdness of…
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California wildlife: elephant seals
Read moreA week before we went to California, my Californian friend Karen tipped me off about a rookery of elephant seals…
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