Tim laid on the ground to capture the feeling of this two meter long Yellow-spotted Monitor Lizard closing in.
Yellow-spotted Monitor Lizard
Yellow-spotted Monitor Lizard
The Drop into Palm Creek
Eric Hahn guides Pete Ikin into the drop at the Palm Creek crossing on the Overland Telegraph Line track up the center of the Cape York Peninsula. These are the kinds of bad roads we encountered in some remote parts of the Cape York Peninsula.
Green Python!
Tim is now in the rain forests of the Iron Range National Park, and he was lucky enough to find the famous Green Python. Certainly one of the world’s most beautiful snakes, and another species showing the former New Guinea connection to this part of Australia.
Singing Wings
Back in May 2012, National Geographic published Tim’s story on Manakins. Tim went to Ecuador to photograph the Club-winged Manakin, along with other species of Manakins, for Kimberly Bostwick, an evolutionary biologist at Cornell University. Visit Kim’s Beta website at www.SingingWings.org to see Tim’s videos and learn more about these interesting passerines. To see Tim’s photographs of Manakins, including the Red-capped and Wire-tailed Manakins, visit Tim’s Online Archive. You can also see the moonwalk in the Red-capped Manakin video.
Flying Foxes
A late afternoon hike took us to a roosting site of the Little Red Flying-foxes, which were hanging upside-down in incredible numbers, including these two. Flying-foxes are of course not foxes at all, but large fruit eating bats, and are among the most abundant mammals here.
Birds-of-Paradise Book
It has been eight years in the making, but Tim’s book, with collaborator Edwin Scholes, BIRDS OF PARADISE: REVEALING THE WORLD’S MOST EXTRAORDINARY BIRDS is finally complete and currently being shipped from the printers. Tim just received his advanced copy, and we are happy to report that the printing quality fully meets his expectations. It will be on sale from Oct 23, so please contact the office to reserve a copy now. If you buy it directly from us, Tim will sign and even personalize your copy if you like. This is a book like none other that you are not going to want to miss.
Papuan Frogmouth
This nocturnal bird, the Papuan Frogmouth, is a perfect example of a species found only in New Guinea and this part of Australia. Tim found it by spotlighting at night. Notice the large red eyes that it uses to catch pray in the dark.