Birds – Flora and Fauna of Tropical Asia

16 September 2017 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 3 tags

Sometimes I wonder if there are many families of animals (or plants) represented by just a sole species. In other ...

13 July 2016 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

It’s always a pleasure to discover that a new species of bird has moved into one’s garden to start a family. ...

18 June 2016 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 4 tags

Following my dramatic (and heartbreaking) encounter with the Grey treepie (Dendrocitta formosae) three years ago, I kept hoping to find ...

31 May 2015 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

I bought a pair of Solomons cockatoos (Cacatua ducorpsii) in December 2010. At six months of age, they were still ...

18 February 2015 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 1 tag

“Where could the fish go?” I was quietly wondering after numerous attempts at counting the koi fish in the fish ...

7 September 2014 Ladislav Bodnar 8 Comments 3 tags

It is the second time in less than a year that I am hand-feeding a lost Spotted dove (Spilopelia chinensis) ...

12 June 2014 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 3 tags

One of the most spectacular birds I observed during my recent trip to the Indian ocean island of Réunion was ...

24 October 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 1 tag

Every morning at precisely 5:30, a harsh, loud rattling call of a long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach), gives us an untimely ...

16 July 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 1 tag

Witnessing the behaviour of animals in nature and their relationships is never short of astonishing. The case of the rescued ...

14 July 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 2 Comments 2 tags

Typhoons can cause enormous damage not only to plants and farms, but also to wild animals. One of the victims ...