Photo observations from Turkey
Last summer I took a few snaps of the wildlife I saw in and around Cirali and Cappadocia whilst on a family holiday in Turkey.
Category Archives: Dragonflies
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When I first proposed a study on dragonflies be undertaken on the British Exploring 2012 Oman expedition I can’t say the idea was met with the untameable wave of excitement […]
Arabian Dragonflies
Sixty four species of Odonata are known from the Arabian Peninsula and 42 species of Odonata are known from Oman, with around 24 recorded from the Dhofar region (J.–P. Boudot […]
The Little Things in Life
One can spend days on expedition hoping to see a rare bird species or searching for that elusive mammal only to get a brief glimpse before it flies, hops or […]
A Typical Day aboard the Lobo de Rio
“Beep beep beep beep beep” wakes me up. I roll over, its 5 in the morning. That was the painfully loud alarm clock from the macaw team’s room as they […]
The Giant Helicopter Damselfly of the Amazon
Calling their flight graceful would be inaccurate, but slowly bobbing through the humid understory, there was something transfixing about their movement, their body bouncing out-of-sync with their brightly coloured wing […]
Why Dragonflies?
After explaining what I have been getting up to over the last few years, people will often ask me “why dragonflies?”. In all honesty, I love hearing this question because […]
Dragon Hunting
I first became fascinated by dragonflies during my gap year expedition to Madagascar. There was a dusty track that led from camp down to Tsarakibany village which we would walk […]
Lawrence Ball - Conservation Science 