Tag Archives: Barn Swallow

Recovered from the bellies of fish, hands of prisoners and the claws of family cats

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

Spent last weekend with a bunch of ornithologists trying to catch a white bellied bustard. This is not a particularly rare bird, but it does seem to have an inkling of what those pesky humans are up too with their … Continue reading →

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I, citizen scientist

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

We were an army and every month we would deploy. We would fan out across South Africa. But we didn’t carry guns, our equipment were binoculars, a bird book and a floppy hat. It was the late 80s, I was … Continue reading →

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