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Edward Lear – bird artist
Read moreToday we visited the Happy Birthday Edward Lear exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford. Edward Lear is best known for…
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The extinction of the Great Auk – 3 July 1844
Read moreThe Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) was once a common and magnificent sight in the sparkling waters of the North Atlantic.…
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Swimming with dolphins in Cuba
No CommentsRead moreTwo years ago I had a beautiful encounter swimming with dolphins in Kaikoura, New Zealand. A pod of perhaps 500…
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The birds of Cuba
Read moreAlthough our recent holiday in Cuba wasn’t the typical exploratory journey through the planet’s natural wonders that Moth and me…
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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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