12 Dec 2023
Iphigenia socotrana
My first encounter of Iphigenia socotrana, and what a perfect specimen! 22 October 2023 cyclone Tej hit Socotra, and with it extreme amounts of rain inundated…
24 Nov 2018
White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
After an amazing experience with a spectacled bear I was on my way to the main road when I noticed this white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) feeding not…
12 Nov 2018
Black-cheeked Woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani)
A common and opportunistic bird that gladly eats from human feeding stations during its daily rounds in its range. It sounds like this:
15 Oct 2018
Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori)
Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori) is an amazing bird, one of the largest flying bird species on the planet. Yet you rarely see it fly, but when you do it's very…
9 Oct 2018
Rüppell’s Korhaan (Eupodotis rueppellii)
Bustards blend in perfectly with the desert landscape and in withered vegetation, and often not seen unless they are moving. It sounds like this:
4 Feb 2015
Great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor)
Socotra's Shuab beach is rich in flora and fauna due to a combination of a mangrove forest and steep cliffs providing shade until late in the morning. These…
5 Dec 2014
Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros)
This was a brief encounter with a green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros) as I was about to leave SouthWild Pantanal and go to Chapada dos Guimarães -…
27 Nov 2014
Pale-crested Woodpecker (Celeus lugubris)
This was the only encounter with the pale-crested woodpecker (Celeus lugubris) during my stay in Pantanal, and is a female seen a few hours upstrem from Porto…