12 Nov 2018
Black-cheeked Woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani)
A common and opportunistic bird that gladly eats from human feeding stations during its daily rounds in its range. It sounds like this:
5 Dec 2014
Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros)
This was a brief encounter with the species as I was about to leave SouthWild Pantanal and go to Chapada dos Guimarães - the rainmaker and the source of…
27 Nov 2014
Pale-crested Woodpecker (Celeus lugubris)
This was the only encounter of the species during my stay in Pantanal, and is a female seen a few hours upstrem from Porto Jofre.
31 Jul 2014
Keiserkåpe (Argynnis paphia)
Rundt Sjølitjernet og elven vokser det mye Blåknapp (Succisa pratensis) og med det har man en møteplass for de lokale sommerfuglene, deriblant den vakre…
3 Jul 2014
Vendehals (Jynx torquilla)
Det er nå juli og ungene maser veldig og "tyter" ut av redehullet, og det virker som om de kan forlate redet når som helst.
15 Jun 2014
Vendehals (Jynx torquilla)
En dag hørte jeg en sjelden lyd som trigget minner fra da jeg var liten. Kunne det være vendehalsen? Det lignet veldig, men lyden kom fra ulike plasser med…
19 Nov 2013
Headlight Beetle (Pyrophorus nyctophanus)
This is such a little known annual display in Oct/Nov in some of the forests bordering the Cerrado in Brazil and Bolivia. Each light is a beetle larva…
16 Nov 2013
Campo Flicker (Colaptes campestris)
The only species of woodpecker I encountered while at Pousada Xaraés. This was the second and last, and being the last few hours of my stay I think I should be…
23 Aug 2013
Tistelsommerfugl (Vanessa cardui)
Hver sensommer treffer jeg på tistelsommerfuglen, spesielt rundt stranden sør i Sandbukta - som her hos naboen lengst i sør. Den besøker ikke bare tistler som…