July 2020
Boating in Ankobohobo, or The Importance of Bird Areas
PhD Student Fionn Ó Marcaigh on a recent paper surveying the birds of Ankobohobo Wetland in Madagascar.
The remarkable bird life of the Wakatobi Islands, SE Sulawesi: hidden endemism and threatened populations
Working on the avifauna of the Wakatobi Islands was an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of some great ornithologists and biogeographers, out to a remote string of islands off South-east Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Wakatobis have always sat in glorious isolation, they’re a coral uplift which formed upon a platform of Australasian origin and have […]
The Bird Life of Wawonii and Muna Islands Part II: mining the literature, mining the hills
Indonesia is a constellation of islands, big and small and many-shaped, born out of volcanism or coral build-up or sheared from the ground of continents, each its own world. The complex geography of this region begat an equally complex biogeography, with evolution working enthusiastically to populate it, and the staggering biodiversity that resulted will surely […]