This morning I dropped by Overlook Park. It’s aptly named, since that’s pretty much all you can do there. It’s basically a fishing pier, a parking area, and a few trees, but on either side of the park there are a couple inlets. During the winter months, you can often see Bonaparte’s Gulls and Forster’s […]
Join the “Race for Conservation” in Eilat Israel
Champions of the Flyway is a major new international bird race taking place in Eilat, Israel – one of the world’s most spectacular migration hot spots and rewarding birding destinations. Competing teams from around the world will try to find, identify and log as many species as possible – as they go head to head […]
Bändelkorsnäbb
En ensam hona har uppehållit sig inne i Jönköping och provianterat i den lärk trol. dagligen (den är inte alltid lätt att hitta). Idag var det snöigt, blåsigt och saknades ljus men det är ju bara att anpassa sig och försöka ställa in kameran så det blir bilder av det.
Great white sharks ‘live for 70 years’
Great white sharks live far longer than was previously thought. Using a new technique to age the tissues of these impressive creatures, scientists have identified a male great white that lived into its 70s. The researchers say the finding has important implications for the animals’ protection. Knowing the longevity of a species, how fast it […]
The mighty Bonelli’s
A mighty raptor, a fearless eagle that can often bring down large prey and also be seen preying on other birds of prey. Shy and sly, an eagle that has the charm to make you fall in love with it, an eagle called the Bonelli’s Eagle.
Sun bear sanctuary to save ‘forgotten species’
Like a proud dad, Siew Te Wong’s office walls and desk are covered in baby pictures, but unlike ordinary infants these possess four-inch claws and a taste for insects and honey. Wong, a leading sun bear researcher, has a heartfelt passion for the world’s smallest bear that is as big as the problems facing the […]
Peregrine Falcon
I saw this falcon at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, New Jersey, on Christmas day, 2013. I would not have noticed it, but an adult peregrine circled around me. I looked at the ground where the adult had swooped lowest and I saw the young peregrine on the ground. I took […]
Black rhino hunting permit auctioned for $350,000
A permit to hunt an endangered African black rhino sold for $350,000 at a Dallas auction held to raise money for conservation efforts but criticized by wildlife advocates. Steve Wagner, a spokesman for the Dallas Safari Club, which sponsored the closed-door event Saturday night, confirmed the sale of the permit for a hunt in the […]