A flock of lapwings took to the turf during an under-20 Copa do Brasil football game between São Paulo and Joinville on Wednesday. The feathered invaders forced the game, which was being broadcast live, to suffer a short but amusing stoppage.
Madikwe: May 2010 (Part 3)
Hello everyone. It was with a shock that I realised that my last blog post was written in August! So much has happened – between hosting a Wild Eye photo safari in the Maasai Mara, jetting off to Hong Kong with my wife on assignment for Nikon Asia, and then attending the Wildlife Photographer of […]
POLL: Should Mauritius be allowed to cull its bats?
Despite widespread protests by conservation groups and citizens, Mauritius will start culling its native Mauritius fruit bats (Pteropus niger) tomorrow. These bats are listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. According to a press statement released by Mauritius’s Ministry of Agro Industry and Food Security today, culling of 18,000 bats will […]
Corbatita blanco (White-bellied Seedeater) Sporophila leucoptera
Hoy a la mañana nos fuimos con Roby a pajarear un rato a la reserva del Arroyo Itá, al promediar una clase de fotografía con el amigo en la que estuve probando distintas configuraciones en su nueva Panasonic Lumix, apareció este Corbatita blanco bastante confiado muy cerca nuestro permitiendo que el amigo obtenga sus primeras […]
Video: Africa’s vultures are sliding towards extinction
Six of Africa’s 11 vulture species – the continent’s largest and most recognisable birds of prey – are now at a higher risk of extinction, according to the latest assessment of birds carried out by BirdLife International for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The main causes of the drop in African vulture populations […]
Teetering on the brink
As Saeed Shanfari and I finished at Dowkah farm so fresh on Monday we pressed on to Qatbeet before turning round. Qatbeet was so far from the coast, it was the only place which was not affected by cyclone chapala at all. It was it’s usual very hot self. Winter coolness arrives later in the […]
Macedonia dam faces the axe over risk of Balkan lynx extinction
A controversial €100m (£71m) dam project in a Macedonian national park is expected to be scrapped after independent experts called for a halt to all funding and construction work because of risks to critically endangered species, including the Balkan lynx. A Bern Convention mission to the Mavrovo national park reported that the planned hydropower dam […]
Carancho (Southern-crested Caracara) Caracara plancus
Fácil de identificar por su gran tamaño y comportamiento el Carancho sea quizás la rapaz más conocida de nuestra fauna; junto a los Chimangos tal vez sean de los mas abundantes. Infaltable al costado de las rutas de nuestro país alimentándose de los animales atropellados por los vehículos cumpliendo por ello una muy importante función […]