png 2007 stamps

A copy of the stamps that I talked about earlier

New Guinea eagle stamps

In a recent article to the National newspaper of PNG, I highlighted the wrong image display of Harpia harpyja as the New Guinea Harpy Eagle in a PNG 2008 stamp. This resulted in a series of calls for the stamps to be withdrawn and since that time I have had communications with folks at PNG POST to assist them with releasing new stamps in 2009 that promoted the New Guinea Harpy Eagle. I am happy to do this as way of awareness on the species and promoting the conservation of the New Guinea Harpy eagle in PNG.

Southern Highlands

In this series of posts I upload some photos of the other side of Southern Highlands that many people do not have the opportunity to experience.

Enjoy

Wanbel stap

Nature serve

Today I wanted to try something different so here I uploaded a video (click on the video bar displayed at the bottom this page) about nature searve and what it is doing to save nature.
See also the feature on Guadalupe Conservation Fund and their work on sharks.....

Loria's bird of paradise

Cnemophilus loriae
Currently listed as a species of Least Concern by IUCN. It is part of the Bird of Paradise family. Found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, the bird inhabits tropical lowland and montane moist forests. More information can be obtained in this book by Frith and Beehler (1998) and also at this website; http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/51184/all

This photo was taken at Gahavisuka Provincial Park in Goroka, EHP, Papua New Guinea during a WCSPNG (http://www.wcs.org/international/Asia/175994/PNGpublications) field training course for local PNG biology major students.

Recent strides into the field of phylogenetics could mean placing the species of cnemophilus with honeyeaters (heard somewhere but need to check on this). From a morphological perspective honeyeaters (Meliphagidae, Melidectes etc) are in no way closer to the looks of the cnemophilus group but in this day and age of DNA revolution, this means genes take first precedence.

Okay I rest my case....see yah later and thanks for visiting

Kaioni (a papua new guinea language which means goodbye).....

There

At least now have things sorted out so will be posting something new today or more specifically a description of a bird that I posted sometime ago......

hope you like it