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Forest Dweller: World Biome: Boreal or Taiga Forest

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Thursday, 9 May 2013. World Biome: Boreal or Taiga Forest. As I mentioned in my previous posts, there are three (3). Major forest biome in the world namely:. 2 temperate forest, and. 3 boreal or taiga forest. Both are the major constituents that are so very important in balancing the world climates. I have discussed about rainforest in my previous post and I will discuss more about boreal or taiga forest biome in this post. Let us take a look at the first step, what is this boreal or taiga forest? In sum...

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Forest Dweller: Khasiat Pokok Semalu

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Sunday, 14 August 2011. Assalamualaikum w.b.h. dan salam sejahtera. Info Medik merupakan satu slot baharu khususnya kepada para pelawat yang datang singgah melawat ke blog Forest Dweller ini. Slot ini akan merungkai rahsia perubatan yang hanya wujud di hutan hujan yang ada di Malaysia ini. Baiklah, pada edisi sulung ini saya akan berkongsi maklumat mengenai tumbuhan semalu ( Mimosa pudica. Anda kenal tumbuhan di atas? Tahukah anda, apakah khasiat tumbuhan unik ini? Dan MEMECAHKAN BATU KARANG. Setelah itu...

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A Wandering Naturalist: Florida: Pondhawk

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Monday, August 3, 2015. One of the more optimistic things a naturalist can do in South Florida is to discover areas that, counter to the usual tendency for urban and suburban sprawl, are being converted from manicured lawns and sterile pools back into natural areas. I first came across the Pondhawk Natural Area. Pondhawk centers around a restored marshy area and a scrub zone dotted with pine, underlain with a dense growth of Saw Palmetto ( Serenoa repens. Trees in the state. Poking around the edge. T...

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Forest Dweller: The Original Seven Wonders of the World

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Monday, 25 June 2012. The Original Seven Wonders of the World. WONDER NO.1 : THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES. From its building to its destruction lies a time span of merely 56 years. Yet the Colossus earned a place in the famous list of Wonders. "but even lying on the ground, it is a marvel", said Pliny the Elder. The Colossus of Rhodes was not only a gigantic statue. It was a symbol of unity of the people who inhabited that beautiful Mediterranean island of Rhodes. This article is republished courtesy from U4MIX.

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A Wandering Naturalist: July 2015

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Thursday, July 30, 2015. Australia: Farewell to the West (Part 2). The afternoon of September 22, 2013, was our last in Western Australia, and it was time for Eileen and I to think about heading, more or less, in the direction of Perth Airport. That meant, after a final look at the Indian Ocean at Lancelin, heading east again across the sandy coastal heathlands before turning south. It also meant another pass through some very nice wildflower country. Mayweed Sunray ( Hyalosperma cotula. Pimpernel comes ...

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A Wandering Naturalist: Florida: Wetland Birds and Dragonflies

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Saturday, August 1, 2015. Florida: Wetland Birds and Dragonflies. An Anhinga ( Anhinga anhinga. Still soaking wet, preens and basks in the sun. A Glossy Ibis ( Plegadis falcinellus. Picks its way through the marshland vegetation. A pair of Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks ( Dendrocygna autumnalis. Scratch and preen while an unconcerned male Blue-winged Teal ( Anas discors. Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks are among the most handsome of waterfowl. Wintering Northern Shovelers ( Anas clypeata. Are charming creat...

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A Wandering Naturalist: June 2014

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Saturday, June 28, 2014. The second day of our weekend at Edwin Wiek's WFFT rescue centre (March 10, 2013) was devoted to the fabled Kaeng Krachan National Park. The largest in the country, only a short drive away. A one-day visit cannot do more than scratch the surface of this huge place, but even so it gave me enough for three posts. The next two will be devoted to a sampling of Kaeng Krachan's fabulous butterfly fauna (around 300 species! A species now extinct. Edwin had advertised our outing as a bir...

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A Wandering Naturalist: May 2014

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Scarcely deserves the adjective "usual". We did come across a few birds that were not so usual - at least, not for me. American Bitterns ( Botaurus lentiginosus. Are not rare birds, but they are not always easy to come by in South Florida. Getting a good look at one in the open is always an event to celebrate. Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks ( Dendrocygna autumnalis. Presumably wanderers from the Bahamas. Telling the two apart isn't always easy, especially considering that the ...

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A Wandering Naturalist: Florida: Exotic Swamphens and Wandering Cormorants

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Sunday, August 2, 2015. Florida: Exotic Swamphens and Wandering Cormorants. When I was a child, I would have had to travel to the Old World to see a Purple Swamphen ( Porphyrio porphyrio. Or, if you follow the recent tendency to split that species up, I would have had to go to Asia to see a Grey-headed Swamphen ( P. poliocephalus. Like their smaller native cousin the American Purple Gallinule ( Porphyrula martinica. Though iguanas, like the Purple Swamphen, are vegetarians. Green Iguanas are native to Me...

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A Wandering Naturalist: November 2014

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Friday, November 21, 2014. Taiwan: In Da’an Park. After taking you up and down the central Taiwanese mountains and back and forth through the greener parts of Taipei, I thought I would end my account of our April 2013 trip to Taiwan with a stroll - my last bird walk before heading home - just across the street from our hotel. Da'an Park is a first-rate urban birding site, where the small trees and manicured lawns make bird-spotting easy. Another widespread Asian species. Besides scattered trees and bits ...