by Peter Rowland | Sunday, February 14, 2021 | A Different Track, Backyard, Bees, Insects, Interview, Podcast, Research, Spotify, YouTube
Season 1, Episode 6 All the Buzz about the Bees in the Burbs Kit Prendergast is a native bee researcher, with a focus on honeybee competition and native bees in the ‘burbs. Kit does research in Literary Theory, Linnaean Taxonomy and Zoology. She did a PhD on...
by Peter Rowland | Sunday, February 7, 2021 | A Different Track, Aerial Photography, Birds, Books, Identification, Interview, Photography, Podcast, YouTube
Season 1, Episode 5 Identifying Whales and Chasing Birds Chris Farrell is a nature photographer who has spent three decades behind the camera capturing images from the land, air and sea. Chris is most at home flying over the coasts and oceans of Australia at between...
by Peter Rowland | Sunday, January 31, 2021 | A Different Track, Books, Family, Healing, Interview, Spotify, Wellness, Writing, YouTube
Season 1, Episode 4 A Personal Journey of Writing for Emotional Therapy In this special episode Peter Rowland chats with his daughter Meg about her debut novel “An Unwanted Heritage”, which she is finalising to send off to potential publishers. Meg chats...
by Peter Rowland | Sunday, January 24, 2021 | A Different Track, Birds, Books, Chytrid, Ecologist, Environment, Frogs, Fungus, Photography, Spotify, Tours, Wildlife, YouTube, Zoologist
Season 1, Episode 3 The (not so) Typical Life of a Wildlife Ecologist Angus McNab is a wildlife ecologist who attained a MSc in Zoology, studying chytrid fungus in the frogs inhabiting the lowland rainforests of Queensland’s Wet Tropics. Angus is also the author...
by Peter Rowland | Sunday, January 17, 2021 | A Different Track, Big Year, Birding, Birds, Books, Podcast, Spotify, Talk, YouTube
Season 1, Episode 2 From Singer Songwriter to Birder & Best-Selling Author R. Bruce made his living as an internationally touring comedian and singer/songwriter, but later became an avid birder. In 2015 he embarked on a year-long, life-changing trip around...
