14 Dec 2023
Commelina albescens
Native range of Commelina albescens is Eritrea to Malawi, Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan to West India
Elevation: 641 meters.
3 Feb 2023
Large Caltrops (Pedalium murex)
Large Caltrops (Pedalium murex) ia an introduced species to Socotra that spreads from gardens, and date groves. Native range is West Tropical Africa to Eritrea…
31 Mar 2017
Blue-throated barbet (Psilopogon asiaticus)
Barbets are such colorful birds and when seen out in the open on a naked branch, you would not think of this as a bird very hard to locate once it’s in the…
3 Feb 2015
Commelina forskalaei
My first thought when I saw commelina forskalaei was that how did it come all the way here from South America. In Pantanal I found lots of Commelina erecta,…
12 Dec 2014
Ladder-tailed nightjar (Hydropsalis climacocerca)
Here in the Peruvian Amazon I found many nightjars around an oxbow lake at Amazon Research and Conservation Center (ARCC), and this ladder-tailed nightjar…
2 Dec 2014
Talinum triangulare
Talinum triangulare was in some places growing in dense groups, and as all were in bloom I could see a dense pinkish carpet from afar. Outside flowering season…
2 Dec 2014
Talinum triangulare
Talinum triangulare was in some places growing in dense groups, and as all were in bloom I could see a dense pinkish carpet from afar. Native range is Tropical…
22 Nov 2014
Ekornmose (Leucodon sciuroides)
Desember er kun en uke unna, men ingen tegn til vinter! Jeg kan derfor nyte frodige moser som stortrives i det fuktige været, som ekornmose (Leucodon…
5 Oct 2014
Storkransmose | Big shaggy-moss (Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus)
Enkelte steder vokser det rene skoger av denne mosen! Under kraftlinjen bak Sandbukta er det skyggefult og skogen holdes i sjakk her, dermed får mosen vokse…
5 Oct 2014
Blåmose (Leucobryum glaucum)
Jeg har kun funnet en bestand av denne bladmose arten i området, men det er i tillegg en stor gruppe som vokser i en vestvendt skråning i Sandbukta. Den minner…