At 5:15 a.m. on a Sunday morning, my only companions on the Ross River Parkway were birds – peaceful doves, little corellas, rainbow lorikeets, mynas, stuttering white-gaped honeyeaters, shrill magp...
On the verge of a year-long adventure in Australia, I read Sean Carroll’s book Into the Jungle. Its stories of Darwin and Wallace captivated me. In fact, the early naturalists inspired this blog...