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If you’d flown to Bangalore*, southern India, literally not slept all night, and then gone straight out to Lalbagh Botanical Gardens on what turned out to be a beautifully warm but very crowded Sunday morning, I’d understand that you’d probably want to see as many birds as possible before you fell asleep in the nearest [...]

Sydney Botanic Gardens, Australia, 26 February 2006
 

 
I only get down to Australia once or twice a year, so why - it would be reasonable to ask - would I bother spending time in a Botanic Gardens I’ve been to many times before?

Well, I may get to Australia twice a year, but I only get to [...]

Orange-breasted Sunbird Anthobaphes violacea
Cape Town, South Africa

The beautiful Orange-breasted Sunbird Anthobaphes violacea is endemic to the fynbos of southwestern South Africa, but also occurs in parks and gardens. Often tame and quite approachable (especially in eg Botanic Gardens), the Orange-breasted Sunbird is a common breeder across its limited range, and an altitudinal migrant moving to [...]

Orange-headed Thrush Zoothera citrina citrina
Dhaka Botoanical Gardens, October 2005
 
The Orange-headed Thrush Zoothera citrina is a generally shy species that is said to be crepuscular and “a bird of deep shade” (Birds of South Asia. Volume 2. Rasmussen et al). There are between three and five subspecies (depending on which author you read): the birds in [...]

Dhaka Botanical Gardens
04 October 2005

Dhaka (the romanized spelling of the Bengali name was changed from Dacca in 1982) is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. Founded during the 10th century it is located in the geographic center of the country in the great deltaic region of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. The city [...]

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 [...]