A belated blog of my week long trip to Uganda in December. All started with my Emirates flight to Entebbe via Addis Ababa in Ethiopia which involved an hour on the Tarmac there. Arrived on time in Entebbe around 3pm in the afternoon, skys a little grey but no rain. I was met by my […]
PhotoShare: Inquisitive Buffalo
I thought I’d share another image from our trip last year to the northern Kruger National Park. This buffalo was one of a herd that was blocking out way late one afternoon. I liked the inquisitive starehere. Note the ISO setting of 6400. Cheers! Morkel Erasmus
Those guys from the coast
I’ve still got some stragglers from recent trips to Anahuac NWR. And whywhywhy do I not have anything clever to say anymore? Maybe one day I’ll be back to the old Johnny Nutcase. So, that Seaside Sparrow, as mentioned in another post, was a bit of a weirdo. He and a bud were all hanging […]
Bird Photography off the Beaten Path By Fabiola Forns
Bird photography is my passion and has been for many years now. There is nothing like finding a bird you’ve wanted and then capturing an image of it, the way you had dreamed. Creating beautiful bird pictures can be very rewarding. However, sometimes we want even more by pushing the envelope a bit and creating […]
The Geladas of Ethiopia by Adam Riley
Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. These relics of times gone by now cling to a precarious existence on the sheer cliffs of Ethiopia’s mountains, from which each morning they materialize, to forage on nearby moorlands, before […]
Birds of Peru in Manu National Park
Part 03/11 of Glenn Bartley’s 3-month trip around Peru – With these targets photographed it was time to start making my way into the jungle. I really wanted to spend some quality time in Manu National Park. After all, it is the most biologically diverse place on the planet! Imagine a single park with over […]
American Alligator: Back from the brink of extinction.
The American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) almost became extinct 30 years ago. Under constant pressure from market hunters who sold both the meat and hides, and a significant loss of habitatdue toagricultural and residential development, the alligator was listed as an endangered species in 1967. With the Endangered Species Act of 1973 all hunting of this […]
Steppe Gull (Larus fuscus barabensis) – Status & identification in Eastern Saudi Arabia
The taxonomic treatment of the Large White-headed Gulls (LWHG) in Saudi Arabia has undergone various revisions over the years. Prior to 1970, and following the principle reference works for the region at the time, Vaurie – The Birds of the Palearctic Fauna, Non Passeriformes (1965) & Hue & Etchecopar –Les Oiseaux du Proche et du […]