November 4, 2010

Bird mimics steal Meerkats’ food

Fork-tailed drongos use deceptive mimicked alarm calls to steal food A very interesting report from BBC- Earth about how Fork-tailed Drongos Dicrurus adsimilis make alarm calls of other species to […]

A date with a ‘Horny Man’

One of the most enjoyable ‘groups’ of birds to photograph & get to grips with during a good Autumn on Fair Isle are the various Redpoll sub-species which can arrive on the Island […]

Sira Tanager. Does it really exist?

Sira Mountains, Peru – revisited! I have just come back from my third trip to the wilderness area of Cerros de Sira not far from Pucallpa. Sira has a familiar […]