Taiwan – Page 3 – Flora and Fauna of Tropical Asia

3 July 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 3 Comments 2 tags

It is always a pleasure to learn that a species of animal frequenting your backyard is a unique one, not ...

27 June 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 2 tags

Some people have asked me what method I use for identifying plants. Well, in the good old days one would ...

26 June 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 3 tags

We came across this lovely scene last weekend near the town of Chishang (池上) in Taitung County, southern Taiwan. Much ...

22 June 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 3 tags

A rather ordinary plant, the night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum) is widely cultivated in southern Taiwan. I always wondered what makes ...

20 June 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 3 tags

Once upon a time breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) was the staple diet of many island nations in Polynesia and other parts ...

18 June 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 3 tags

If you had to pick a tree that best represented the tropics, which one would it be? While there are ...

27 May 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 3 tags

The exciting and ultimately heartbreaking events of the past three weeks (the laying of eggs, their successful hatching, and the ...

25 May 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 5 tags

The bulbul nest is now empty. It was a sad end of a rather exciting week which provided us with ...

25 May 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 4 tags

Bad news – two of the baby bulbuls were lost yesterday afternoon. I don’t know if this was a case ...

23 May 2013 Ladislav Bodnar 0 Comments 1 tag

I was finally able to take a few decent shots of the bulbul couple (Pycnonotus taivanus) that set up residence ...