Ian Fraser, talking naturally

Friday, 4 October 2013

Living on the Nullarbor

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In the last posting I waffled enthusiastically about the wonderful Nullarbor Plain, and summarised the drive across in terms of the physica...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Crossing the Nullarbor

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It's nice to be back writing a post after a solid - but exhilarating - month's work in the south-west of far-off Western Australia,...
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Saturday, 21 September 2013

Apology from Australia

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This is not my usual natural history posting - in fact I'm still in Western Australia, about to start the 4000km drive home tomorrow. I ...
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Monday, 26 August 2013

Magnificent Murchison (the Australian one!)

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I have to specify that in the title, because elsewhere in the world people are likely to think of the superb Murchison Falls in Uganda - an...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013

On This Day, 21 August; Augustus Gregory's birthday

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Augustus Charles Gregory was born in England on this day in 1819, son of an army Lieutenant. Wounded, his father accepted a land grant in t...
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Friday, 16 August 2013

Darwin's Famous (Un)Finches

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It was one of the thrills of my natural history life to get off the aircraft at Baltra Airport, an ex-military base in the midst of a typic...
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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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