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

skul, skul skul

Hi

After a long time now I have not been able to post new messages on my blog. Have been so busy lately. With all the moving and getting set up in a new environment takes so much time. But now that all that is done, I will try to post new updates. I hope you still like the posts of far...

Catch laterrr

Training

Rain clouds

Orchid bloom

Grassy bloom

Misty downs

Black is beauty

Dark clouds

In a wind beat

Endless ranges

Protection a must for these mountains.

A lasting legacy of the beauty PNG has to offer. But for how long?

Sacred mountains- Mendi

Cooling off

quiet waters- Moro

Quiet day- Moro

Tranquility - Lake Kutubu

Muddy waters

Muddy waters

Captive

In the realm of the eagle

In the distant lands
Once there were trees
One dawn with the South east winds blowing
With it the appearance of man
A stranger and nosy creature
Twitters, chips, hoots and cooing were heard in the forests
Annoucing the arrival of the new being
Little did they know
The creature would be their doom
Years passed, populations dwindled as man killed
Cleared and built
Gone was peace and stillness
Their return to the lands unknown

Ciao
ngheagle

King bird of paradise

A king in the land of green
A lurker in the dark
Silhouttes are what we see

A mere glimpse is all we get
The king appears and is gone
His subjects chitter and twitter
Announcing the dawn of a new day


Ciao
ngheagle
Thanks Chris for this

Glossy swiftlet stretch

The left wing of this swiftlet was ripped off by a slingshot. The hunter a male no more than 16 years of age. Hunting in PNG is widespread and is rapidly changing the biota of many tropical rainforest environments in PNG (http://rspas.anu.edu.au/papers/rmap/Wpapers/rmap_wp61.pdf). What happens next when all wildlife is gone is a question that we need to seriously look into. Wildlife costs nothing to maintain except having intact forests and managing our hunting practises. The choice is ours to make....

Hi

In the untouched tropical rainforests of New Guinea one would expect to come across this bird. However this is not so for many areas that have pretty decent large tracts of rainforests still standing. This reminds me of something I read a while ago that goes like this"forests remain standing but are devoid of any wildlife". I cannot recall what the statement was referring to but the plight of this bird reminds one of the lack of wildlife in areas that have been touched by the hand of man and seen the presence of hunters.

This blog gets its name from this bird. While there are many issues that I will cover in this blog, the main emphasis will be on this bird.

Look forward to issues on conservation, wildlife research, education and papua new guinea.

ngheagle