Ian Fraser, talking naturally

Monday, 8 April 2013

The Blues; nature's trompe d'oeil #1

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I think it's time to introduce another chapter in our intermittent discussion of Colours in Nature - you can find the others from that...
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Friday, 5 April 2013

Musing on Emus

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As Gondwana was breaking up 100 million years ago, after half a billion years of comprising one mighty southern land, many of the most fami...
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Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Flood Bugs on the Move

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On one occasion only in western Queensland, I've come across vast numbers of what we in Australia call 'slaters' moving along r...
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Thursday, 28 March 2013

Meet the Great Greenhoods!

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In my last posting I featured a few greenhood orchids, but I realised later that they probably won't be familiar to readers outside of...
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Monday, 25 March 2013

March of the Orchids

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I don't generally think of March as being a good time for orchids around here, but when I started to go through my records, I decided t...
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Friday, 22 March 2013

Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens; treasure at the coast

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I suspect that the majority of Canberrans make the 150km journey across the edge of the Monaro Plains, through historic Braidwood and down ...
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Ian Fraser
Canberra-based naturalist, conservationist, educator since 1980. I’m passionate about the natural world (especially the southern hemisphere), and trying to understand it and to share such understandings. To that aim I’ve written several books (most recently 'Birds in Their Habitats' and 'Australian Bird Names; origins and meanings'), and run tours all over Australia, and for 17 years to South and Central America. I've done a lot of ABC radio work, chaired a government environmental advisory committee and taught many adult education classes – and of course presented this blog, since 2012. I am a recipient of the Australian Natural History Medallion, the Australian Plants Award and most recently a Medal of the Order of Australia for ‘services to conservation and the environment’. I live happily in suburban Duffy with my partner Louise surrounded by a dense native garden and lots of birds.
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