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Juvenile and non-breeding Adult Red-necked Phalaropes.
Bolsa Chica, California. September 01 2004.
 

Mixed age-group

Mixed age-group

Adult (front) and juvenile (rear)

Juvenile

Juvenile

Juvenile

Juvenile

Juvenile

Oiled Juvenile

Oiled Juvenile
 

Wilson’s Phalarope: Juvenile (partially-moulted into adult non-breedingphotographed same location/same date)

 
All photographs © Charlie Moores.
 

This planet of ours is impossibly vast, as those eager to bird the length and width of it might attest. Watching birds in a new territory can be a tense affair; if you don’t spot and identify that tody-flycatcher during your brief stay in a distant land, YOU MAY NEVER GET ANOTHER CHANCE! There are […]

It’s customary to declare an interest before you begin a review of a product, and I’ll say right from the outset I’m a big fan of Leica binoculars. Prior to buying the Ultravids this year I’d been using a pair of Leica Trinovid 8×42 BAs since 1991, and though the exteriors showed the wear picked […]

Birds follow a different calendar than we humans do. Even though we’re still clinging desperately to sweet, sweet summer, their fall migration has already begun. Jewel-toned warblers are filtering through the five boroughs, with scads of songbirds spotted recently in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Eager to relive those heady migratory days of May, when we spotted […]

Magpie-larks Grallina cyanoleuca
Melbourne, Australia, 12 August 2005
 
The Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca is a conspicuous Australian bird of small to medium size, also known as the Mudlark in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, and as the Peewee in New South Wales and Queensland. It is common and widespread, occupying the entire continent except for Tasmania and […]

Canyon Towhee Pipilo fuscus
Mexico City, June and August 2004
 

Chapultepec Park, August 2004
 

Chapultepec Park, August 2004
 

Chapultepec Park, August 2004
 

Chapultepec Park, August 2004
 
 

Juvenile, Teotihuacan Pyramids, June 2004
 

Juvenile, Teotihuacan Pyramids, June 2004
 

Teotihuacan Pyramids, June 2004
(For more on the Teotihuacan Pyramids please go to http://www.mexicocity.com.mx/teoti_i.html)

 
All photos copyright Charlie Moores
 

Singapore Botanic Gardens
07:30 - 12:00, 09 August 2005

With just a few hours spare before a flight down to Melbourne I decided to have a look around the renowned Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG) - a mix of manicured plantings and remnant rainforest located about twenty minutes by taxi from the city centre.

It’s probably worth pointing […]

 
“Field Guide to Australian Birds”
Written and illustrated by Michael Morcombe (Steve Parrish Publishing 2004)

Review: August 2005
 
The last Australian field-guide I bought was an early edition of Simpson and Day’s classic “Field Guide to the Birds of Australia” way back in the early-1990s. At the time this was an innovative book, sturdy with large […]

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab to its friends, is the largest high-energy physics laboratory in the United States, second in the world only to CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Fermilab, which gets its name from Enrico Fermi, a pioneer in the science of particle physics, is a hotspot for high-energy physics research. Its […]

Tim Gallagher’s The Grail Bird is the definitive narrative of one of the most exciting ornithological discoveries in recent U.S. history. Yes, that’s right — I’m talking about the identification of living Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in an Arkansas bottomland swamp. What other bird story has inspired such passion, delight, and, most important, media attention in the […]