by Peter Rowland | Monday, March 1, 2021 | Australian Geographic, Birding, Birds, Writing
Better Birding Locations My latest Australian Geographic Magazine ‘Better Birding’ column continues to introduce skills, tips, tricks and suggestions to help you become a better birder. Some 900 bird species have been recorded in Australia. Around 40% of...
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 | Tuesday, September 1, 2020 | Article, Australian Geographic, Bird Nerd, Birds, Brush-turkey, Magazine, Malleefowl, Megapodes, Mound-builders, Scrubfowl
‘Big Building Birds’ (Bird Nerd Column) My ‘Bird Nerd’ column in the latest Australian Geographic Magazine (Issue 158) is all about those incredible birds that build huge mounds to incubate their eggs – the Magapodes. The name actually...
by Peter Rowland | Sunday, March 1, 2020 | Article, Australian Geographic, Bird Nerd, Bushfire, fire, Photography
The March/April 2020 edition of my 'Bird Nerd' column in the wonderful Australian Geographic Magazine is now available. This article is called 'Fire: Friend and Foe', and talks about the impacts that bushfires, including the recent devastating 2019/2020 fires in Vic,...
by Peter Rowland | Monday, December 23, 2019 | Article, Australian Geographic, Bird Nerd, Magazine, Writing
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...
