..and the struggle to save the Western Himalayas In 1972, with my late wife, Anne-Marie, I trekked through Himachal Pradesh in the Western Himalayas from the Sutlej to the Beas valleys via the Bashleo Pass. Then, we lived downtown in Delhi and in April temperatures hovered around 40 degC. We needed to escape somehow. Now, … Read more
Crows and swallows sit on wires. Owls and robins perch on branches. Woodpeckers hop up tree trunks. Plovers and curlews run on the beach. They all inhabit the land. Seabirds live on the sea, but they must come to land to make their nests and rear their young. Children of the Sea is the story … Read more
https://www.africanjourney.ca/ Fresh out of university in 1968, Tony Gaston set out to explore for birds in the Ahaggar Mountains of the central Sahara. Without a map or compass, he continued south to Niger and westwards to Liberia and Sierra Leone, traveling on trucks and buses and on foot through countries just emerging from colonialism. He … Read more
Abstract A recent review of bird distributions in Nunavut demonstrated that Mansel Island, in northeastern Hudson Bay, is one of the least known areas in the territory. Here, current information on the birds of Mansel Island is summarized. A list published in 1932 included 24 species. Subsequent visits by ornithologists since 1980 have added a … Read more
Arctic Ocean Islands Anthony J Gaston, National Wildlife Research Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Introduction: 1 Pleistocene and Holocene Histories: 1 Terrestrial Ecosystems:3 Flora: 3 Oceanography: 5 Terrestrial Vertebrates: 6 Mammals: 7 Birds: 8 Marine Ecosystems: 10 Mammals: 10 Seabirds: 11 Biogeography: 11 Human Influence: 11 Conservation: 13 Resource … Read more