Bird names range from the bleeding obvious to the quite evocative and then to the delightful. Then there are drongos and loons, dotterels today and plovers tomorrow and sensitive Collingwood supporters. Here is some musing on bird names.
When we think ‘wildlife’, we should think India! More antelopes than Africa, elephants, rhinos, tigers and lions (in fact, 5 big cats), jackals, hyenas, langurs and macaques, over 1,300 birds …
Why are they called harriers? Our twitchathon team, the Common Loudmouths, had just seen the clock tick over 4 pm and we were glum. We’d counted 133 species in the …
Toby was driving, I was in the front passenger seat, Philip was in the back of the Toyota troop carrier. The other car was way in front so we didn’t …
There’s a lot to think about when you think about birds. They’re always there. Mammals, you only see at night, reptiles you only see in summer. Frogs – you have …