The idea took hold when I had returned home laden with bags after a spontaneous pop in to the local opp shop. My partner said...

Conservation work in Australia is gaining ground in beginning to understand how landscapes have changed in their composition – what...

Its an interesting life the beautifully coloured birds of the forest lead, and the more we find out about them, the more curious they...

The bar was set high when my brother announced that he was taking my Dad on a diving trip to Timor-Leste for his 60th birthday. How was I...

This article has been published in the Ecological Society of Australia's Bulletin June Issue, along with other perspectives on this...

The inconspicuous little Black-throated finch has been in the media a lot in the last few weeks, and that is because decisions being made...

Submitting your paper is a momentous occasion for a PhD student – well any researcher, really! Its such a relief to get the work complete...

We have funding for a PhD project to study ecology and conservation of the Black-throated finch. Please be in touch if this interests...

All our Brazil adventure plans were thrown out the window while we focussed our efforts on finding a cure for Beloved’s leishmaniasis,...

After farewelling EBCC at Manu National Park, we headed upstream along the Rio Madres de Dios. We refuelled and scrubbed off the mud in...

In our last week at Cocha Cashu we found the ‘Pampas’ trail that we hadn’t yet explored, so headed out for the afternoon. It always takes...

We borrowed some kayaks to head out on the Cocha to do a caiman census. In the fading light we watched masked crimson tanagers flitting...

Chatter began around the lunch tables about the upcoming trip to the local indigenous community of Maizal up the river from Estacion...

Wandering back to camp one afternoon, Beloved muses “Wanna go for a paddle on the cocha [oxbow lake]?” Damn fine idea, I thought. We...

Cocha Cashu Biological Station (EBCC) is full of monkeys. We’ve been watching Peruvian spider monkeys, black-capped capuchins,...

Turns out watching hummingbirds squabble over feeders is a nice distraction while recovering from an unpleasant stomach bug – we were...

My beloved arrived at the end of my second week in Ecuador, so Andres and Paola took us out to celebrated with canelazo (the Ecuadorian...

Its been a while between posts, but I am finally snatching a moment to put something together. Life has felt hectic! My blog is going to...

It seems that I am often the harbinger of doom. I find myself reporting more terrible news about species declining towards extinction,...

Getting to the nitty gritty of climate change makes for sobering reading. This semester I’m coordinating and lecturing a course on...