Guess which of this post’s two key species is in a position to look down on the other?
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The next image – taken within seconds of the featured one – shows which of the feuding Griffon Vultures won their brief stoush.
(All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken February 2020)
Comments closedThe greater part of February 2020 has just been wonderfully well spent in India – mostly in Gujarat and Rajahstan.
2 CommentsIn Australia, the unpleasant truth – rarely admitted – is that in many instances, the answer to the headline’s question is “no”.
Carbon credits counted in government projections can, quite literally, go up in smoke and blow out the emissions side of the CO2 ledger.
Comments closedLabahe Nature Reserve is most celebrated as a place where it is (relatively) easy for humans to see red pandas.
Too many of its visiting humans have eyes for nothing else!
2 Comments…as currently done, locally, by Great Crested Grebes and “snake-birds”.
Comments closedMost of the starkly magnificent Changtang is now within the world’s highest nature reserve, which is also one of the largest.
Its emblematic mammal has fur more precious than gold – a circumstance which very nearly led to the species’ extinction.
Comments closedNow happening in southern Australia…and some us do not have to leave town in order to enjoy surprisingly close views.
On at least one inner-metropolitan lake, Podiceps cristatus has recently become surprisingly much less wary of Homo sapiens.
One CommentAs we had done many hundreds of times over the last three decades, my beloved and I walked to Lake Monger shortly before sunset on the second day of 2020.
This time, we witnessed something utterly unexpected.
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