January 26th, 2022 | by
David Waugh The results of applying the new technique show that on average, Areas of Habitat (AsOH) are 12% larger than published distributions. Thus, eBird...
December 13th, 2021 | by
David Waugh This is an endangered species found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, which has undergone a dramatic population...
May 12th, 2021 | by
David Waugh One notable example of non-invasive collection of genetic samples from the shed feathers of wild individuals has been with a Scarlet...
April 25th, 2021 | by
David Waugh Of the original six islands where the Ultramarine Lorikeet occurred, Black rats have been present on three since about...
March 8th, 2021 | by
David Waugh What kind of mattress suits you best for a good night’s sleep? Is it the spring kind, or foam, or maybe air or water, or even one that has hexagonal cells called a honeycomb base. If it is the latter, you are sharing this...
January 8th, 2021 | by
David Waugh Of Indonesia’s staggering total of 17,508 islands, the name of a relatively small one, Komodo, has been conferred ona formidable species of monitor lizard which lives there. This of course is the Komodo dragon (Varanus...
January 4th, 2021 | by
David Waugh In many places of the world where centres take in and provide professional care to sick, injured and confiscated wild animals, most will include rehabilitation as part of their mission, which implies the return of the animals to...
November 28th, 2020 | by
David Waugh The flight calls of Vinaceous-breasted Parrots (Amazona vinacea) lingered in the chill air of the austral winter dawn in southern Brazil. However, no parrots were seen, because the dense early morning mist had not dispersed by...
October 28th, 2020 | by
David Waugh In 1644 a Dutch artist painted an image which turned out to be the first record of the Grey-breasted Parakeet (Pyrrhura griseipectus), a severely threatened species endemic to north-eastern Brazil. The parakeet was formally...
October 19th, 2020 | by
David Waugh News has arrived about a phenomenon that many of us suspected was true, but in practice has remained unexamined objectively until now, not least due to the difficulties of estimating species abundances in the wild. Poachers do...