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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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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: 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 ...
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A Wandering Naturalist: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Sarawak: Invasion of the Parrotfinches (Part Two). The Pin-tailed Parrotfinches ( Erythrura prasina. Once again, I was only able to get some distant photographs, and none of the birds perched and feeding on the rice (which always seem to happen just out of sight). These aren't great photos by any means, but at least they show the birds' colours. Unfortunately, the birds never came near him. But I'm not at all sure that that is what it is. Though, were easier to photograph.
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A Wandering Naturalist: Florida: Heron Eats Snake
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Sunday, August 2, 2015. Florida: Heron Eats Snake. That had managed to capture a large Florida Watersnake ( Nerodia fasciata. By the time I came across the scene the snake was already dead, and hung limply from the heron's bill. How the hero had dispatched it - with a stab, a severe shake, or simply by bashing it against something, I cannot say - but the bird now faced a larger problem. How was it to swallow its prey? At length, though, the snake completed its transit to the heron's interior, and after a...
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Butterfly from Rejang Land: Euploea camaralzeman malayica (Butler,1878)
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Butterfly from Rejang Land. Gallery butterfly from Rejang land and nearby. Saturday, July 18, 2009. Euploea camaralzeman malayica (Butler,1878). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hidari irava (Moore, 1857). Euploea camaralzeman malayica (Butler,1878). Pompelon marginata Guérin-Meneville 1843. The Moths of Borneo. Siam Insect-Zoo and Museum.
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Butterfly from Rejang Land: June 2009
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Butterfly from Rejang Land. Gallery butterfly from Rejang land and nearby. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Photo by Curup Kami. Location air lanang village, rejang land, sumatra. Monday, June 29, 2009. Euripus nyctelius euploeoides male form. C and R. Felder, [1867]. Location : Tanjung Dalam, Rejang land. Delias pasithoe goda male form. Delias pasithoe goda Fruhstorfer, 1905. Really gratefull for Mr/Mrs. Leslie Day the owner,author web World of Delias. Photo by Curup Kami. Location : Tanjung Dalam Village. Hespe...