http://www.birdsandpeople.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:11:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a long while since either of us blogged here so here is the first of what will be regular updates on the photographic progress I am making with the project. In September myself and Mark set off down under, traveling through the interior of Australia's Queensland we ... http://www.birdsandpeople.org/blog/?p=31 Bird photographers have for many years flocked to Bosque del Apache in New Mexico for what surely must be one of the worlds great bird spectacles, the sight of thousands of cranes and geese lifting off at dawn. Of course such a spectacle can be witnessed at countless places ... http://www.birdsandpeople.org/blog/?p=25 I have come across an intriguing mystery recently while working on two families. Cisticolas are not the most culturally endowed genus but one story is remarkable. It concerns the Cloud Cisticola C. textrix. The species occurs in a broad arc through the eastern half of South Africa and is widely known for ... http://www.birdsandpeople.org/blog/?p=24 As this is my first post on the ... http://www.birdsandpeople.org/blog/?p=20 The week before last (22-28 September) I was fortunate to attend the BirdLife International World Conservation Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was a perfect opportunity to get the message out about Birds and People to the 100 partnership organisations which make up the BirdLife family. But as well as ... http://www.birdsandpeople.org/blog/?p=12 This is my first blog and come on the occasion of my imminent departure for Buenos Aires and the BirdLife International World Conference. The project is co-sponsored by BirdLife and I am speaking to an audience made up of delegates from its 100 partner organisations. Our goal is to broadcast ... http://www.birdsandpeople.org/blog/?p=11 The authors' blog gives anyone a chance to catch up on progress with the Birds and People book and also an opportunity to contribute to it. The book is a five-year project and author Mark Cocker and photographer David Tipling give regular updates on the species and subjects they are ... http://www.birdsandpeople.org/blog/?p=1