Birds Articles

My second 'Bird Nerd' column in the 150th edition of the awesome Australian Geographic Magazine is now available. This article is called 'Trash or Treasure?' and discusses the incredible bower-building activities of the male bowerbirds. Bowers can come in a few...

On Tuesday 2nd April I gave a talk to the Illawarra Birders birdwatching group at the meeting hall in Coniston, NSW. Here is the blurb that the Illawarra Birders put up on their site's calendar: "Speaker Peter Rowland – “Australia's Birdwatching Megaspots”. Peter...

My first of (hopefully) many regular articles for my 'Bird Nerd' column in the awesome Australian Geographic Magazine is now available. This article is called 'A Shore Thing' and is about shorebird and human interactions on our beaches and the shores of our wetlands....

A quick chat with Walter Boles Walter Boles is the former curator and scientific officer of the ornithology department at the Australian Museum, Sydney. I have known Walter since 1983, when I was placed at the museum by my school for work experience, and we have been...