I don’t bear in mind the place I first realized about Elizabeth Gould–presumably after I was birding Doi Angkhang, Thailand and noticed a shocking little hen named Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird–however…
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Miss Waldron’s Crimson Colobus. Its function in understanding Yellow Fever
Willoughby Lowe in The Finish of the Path famous that it was on their second go to to Goaso (i.e. in the course of the 1934-35 expedition to Gold Coast)…
ShukerNature: THE GRUESOME GBAHALI – LURKING IN LIBERIA?
Illustration of the gbahali primarily based upon eyewitness descriptions (© Tim Morris) Since 1900, the West African nation of Liberia, nonetheless plentifully provided with coastal mangrove swamps and inside…
What the rings reveal – 10,000 Birds
Most critical fowl photographers dislike taking photos of birds carrying rings (or what on the opposite aspect of the Atlantic you name bands). I can sympathise, as a shiny new…
Miss Waldron’s Crimson Colobus. The Lowe-Waldron specimens have been NOT the primary to achieve London’s Pure Historical past Museum
From McGraw 2005 Willoughby Lowe’s entry within the Eponym Dictionary of Mammals has a few unkind sentences: He’s additionally infamous for having shot eight specimens of Miss Waldron’s Crimson…
celebrating NZ land animals – Journal of Zoology Weblog
Waitangi Day (Te Rā o Waitangi) is the nationwide day of New Zealand marking the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, an settlement between the British Crown…
The Lowe-Waldron Expeditions to the Gold Coast in 1933-34 and 1934-35
One in all Fannie Waldron’s pictures of the expeditions In following up my monitoring down of Fannie Waldron (1876-1959) because the individual after whom Miss Waldron’s Purple Colobus was named,…
Stamps in a Weathered Passport
A number of years in the past, I used to be uncovered to the lyrical, poetic prose of a Grand Trunk commercial. This hammock seller deftly used imagery to promote…
ShukerNature: DANIELL’S QUAGGA AND WARD’S ZEBRA
Daniell’s quagga (left) and Ward’s zebra (proper) (public area) Following on from my earlier ShukerNature article regarding the lovely however long-forgotten isabella quagga (click on right here to entry…
New ecosystems, unprecedented climates: extra Australian species than ever are struggling to survive
Australia is residence to about one in 12 of the world’s species of animals, birds, vegetation and bugs – between 600,000 and 700,000 species. Greater than 80% of Australian vegetation and…