Writing Articles

My 'Bird Nerd' column in the latest Australian Geographic Magazine (Issue 159) is all about variations in colouration and patterning in birds caused by the presence or absence of certain pigmants. The blacks and browns, in particular, are caused by melanin, and the...

Backyard Birding The May/June 2020 edition of my Bird Nerd column in the wonderful Australian Geographic Magazine is called "Backyard Birding". It talks about the movements of the backyard birds that we see from the comfort of our own homes (more so during the...

My recent 'Bird Nerd' column in the January/Febraury 2020 edition of the awesome Australian Geographic Magazine is about bird names. This article is called 'What's in a Name?', and talks about the binomial system developed by Swedish Naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the...

My 'Bird Nerd' column in the latest Australian Geographic Magazine (Issue 153) is all about those migrating cuckoos that call throughout the summer nights and keep the light sleepers amnogst us awake. Cuckoos are typically secretive birds, hiding within dense foliage...