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Trips

Paradise Trashed

October 15, 2014 by Duncan 1 Comment

Sometimes, when you plan and book trips, you pick the wrong option. So it was with my family’s trip to Borneo, where, for the...

Birds

What Exactly is a Pardalote?

October 1, 2014 by Duncan 4 Comments

Sometimes, when I’m writing trip reports about far off places (relative to most of my readers) I wonder what exactly people make of some...

Birds

Eye Level with a Whiskered Treeswift

September 24, 2014 by Duncan No Comments

Treeswifts are funny little things. They’re swifts, only they aren’t, actually. When they were first described they were thought to be a link between...

Trips

Out and About with the Cumberland Bird Observers Club

September 17, 2014 by Duncan No Comments

Laid out as I was with some nasty virus for most of my trip to Sydney, a lot of the excursions I planned for...

Birds

Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

September 11, 2014 by Duncan No Comments

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an...

Trips

Mega Rarity Tour of New Zealand – Extinction Special

September 10, 2014 by Duncan 2 Comments

I’ve decided to get into the bird tour business. I mean, how hard could it be? Get up early, point at lots of birds,...

Birding

Getting the Hang of Royal NP

September 3, 2014 by Duncan 3 Comments

Not all birding sites are created equal. Some sites have birds in such abundance you’re left shell-shocked, others are so grueling and demanding you...