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Conferenceville in British Columbia – May 2010

In recent years Ethnoornithology has emerged as a valuable sub-discipline of ethnobiological research, partly for its potential to be able to make a valuable contribution to bird conservation and also as a means of empowering people of all cultures preserve, re-examine and discover the connections between individuals, groups and cultures and the birds that people hunt, venerate and cherish.

By Bob Gosford|2025-08-19T18:35:01+09:30May 18th, 2010|Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Indigenous land management, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|1 Comment

Ayepe-arenye – Moth Larvae of the week – Alice Springs, March 2010

You get Ayepe-arenye caterpillars on the tar-vine. People before used to gather them while the caterpillars were eating the plant. They would put the ayepe-arenye on the ground and squeeze the guts out into a little hole, and then cook the caterpillars in hot soil. Then they would get them out and leave them in the sun for two or three days to dry. Then they'd share them around and eat them.

By Bob Gosford|2010-03-01T16:26:34+09:30March 1st, 2010|Animals, Fun stuff, Photography, Some places I've been|2 Comments

Bird of the Week: the Australian Hobby has lunch on the wing

Last Friday I packed up the Troopie and headed north-west for a few hours to a gorge that I've camped at a few times in the past. At this time of year there are quite a few waterholes scattered throughout the ranges that this gorge cuts through. Right now the waterhole near the mouth of the gorge is full and fresh, later in the year the waterhole will be the last "free" water in the area.

By Bob Gosford|2019-07-31T17:51:48+09:30February 23rd, 2010|Animals, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology|10 Comments

Interview with Dr Rohan Clarke – birds, avian malaria and remote islands

We get into incredibly remote and exciting places like the Torres Strait - very few people have been to a place where they can look across to New Guinea while standing in Australia. So they are bonuses but doing the research and making new discoveries, and learning new things about natural history and ornithology and management - all sorts of things...

By Bob Gosford|2010-02-01T20:08:50+09:30February 1st, 2010|Animals, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birds and people, Fun stuff, Some places I've been|3 Comments

Roadkill of the week: Lesser Paradise Kingfisher, Tanysiptera hydrocharis

As usual, the locals have the last laugh - and the best eyes for a bird. Just before I left Saibai I had a yarn with Saul Aniba about this most beautiful bird. He told me that he had seen one a few months before - also dead - not far from where we found this latest specimen.

By Bob Gosford|2017-11-22T06:02:30+09:30January 29th, 2010|Animals, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Roadkill, Some places I've been|6 Comments

David Winderlich, South Australian independent: winter’s light and the “state of suppression”

David Winderlich: I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t disclose how much they are spending on sportsmen like Lance Armstrong - unless of course they are ashamed of it. But there is also the fundamental question that is paramount in any democracy - which is transparency - why shouldn’t people know these things - what is secret about it? I think the general default position is that everything should be open unless there is a good reason for it not to be.

By Bob Gosford|2010-01-18T16:59:34+09:30January 18th, 2010|Animals, Australian politics, Some places I've been, The Law|3 Comments

Phil Liggett talks about birds, sewage treatments works and good chopper pilots

The chopper pilot and I were coming in at 2,000 feet off the mountain. We came right up behind a Wedgetailed Eagle (Aquila audax) and the chopper pilot said "Look at this – I’ve never seen this in my life!" We were no more than 60 feet behind him and this magnificent Wedge-tailed Eagle was turning his head to check us out in the chopper behind him. An unbelievable and absolutely memorable experience that will stay with me forever.

By Bob Gosford|2009-12-27T10:59:06+09:30December 27th, 2009|Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Cycling, Fun stuff, Some places I've been|3 Comments

Alfred R Wallace, “native boys” and the Red Bird of Paradise

"All travellers know that native accounts of the habits of animals, however strange they may seem, almost invariably turn out to be correct."

By Bob Gosford|2009-12-26T15:12:22+09:30December 26th, 2009|Animals, Art, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology|2 Comments

The wild bird trade in Indonesia has a cultural perspective – Part 1

While it is easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that thousands of birds are kept in appalling conditions purely for human exploitation, profit and enjoyment, it is important to note that, as with most of the relationships between people and birds, things are a bit more complex than that.

By Bob Gosford|2009-12-24T12:48:42+09:30December 24th, 2009|Animals, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology|4 Comments

Interview with Jan Allen, AMRRIC Program manager

AMRRIC is covering a wider field now in that we are trying to help out with not only facilitating vets into communities but also to help the local Shires with legislation, trying to increase awareness at the Federal government level of the problems with animal management nationally and we are also trying to increase education of the community.

By Bob Gosford|2009-12-23T17:34:36+09:30December 23rd, 2009|Animals, Camp Dog of the week, Dogs, Fun stuff, Some places I've been, Yuendumu|4 Comments