cryptic reminders
collect build arrange dance sing imitate maraud decide silver tags robot shapes multiple players multiple recorders fisheye lens telphoto lens aerial photography topo map
musings
bower 8 showing green glass chips
bower 8 showing numbered green glass chips
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Roebuck Bay from bower 2
The tide is out in Roebuck Bay (from bower 2)
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Galamudera
A small image (presumably from a contact sheet) taken by czech Dr Jirí Baum when he travelled around the world and visited Australia in 1935. Dig that plant pattern in the background.
I still want to do this
Another idea that I couldn’t do for The Systems of Nature was to collect up all the published information about bowerbirds and to use biological software that plots the relatedness of things to be able to draw a sort of evolutionary chart of bowerbird research. This type here always reminds me of dandelions.
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Clifford and Dawn Frith’s new book
Have just discovered that Clifford and Dawn have written a new book Bowerbirds: Nature, Art and History to be published in December. It even has a whole section on the history of bowerbird discovery and bowerbirds and human culture. They have done my work for me!
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Bowdler Sharpe’s lithograph
Bowdler Sharpe’s lithograph of the Great Bowerbird from Sharpe, R.D. (1891-1898), Monograph of the Paradisaeidae or Birs of Paradise, and Ptilorhynchidaae or Bower-bird. Parts 1-8. London: H. Southern and Co. In Michael Everett’s book (where this is scanned from) it is reproduced this way around but most often its reproduced as a mirror image.
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other early shots from the Kununurra bower
These were all taken of the well-known bower at the end of Hidden Valley in Mirimar National Park in Kununurra. This bower is within 200 metres of a major town but has no red material. predominantly grey and green (why I named the project such)
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muckingabout for the Green, Grey or Dull Silver Project
a small digital experiment with ink and acrylic on paper superimposed onto stone of colour favoured by the bowerbird.
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possible research questions
Is the use of red reported in Townsville great bowerbird a local or widespread trait? I have not seen it in bowers I have visited in the Kimberley. Is this because of a small sample size or poor observation, or is there no red out there? What is the relative importance of sphericity versus
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ideas of hierarchies
diagram from Linnean style categorisation of the tree of life
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the mystery Queensland researcher
The warden at Broome passed on some tantalising information about a researcher from Queensland who was mapping bowerbirds with a GPS in the last year or so. Details are sketchy so I am now ploughing through universities in Queensland trying to find out someone who might know this mystery person. It would be great
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had a strange dream
I have been thinking about Tim Low’s winners and losers in The New Nature (2002) and how he devalues those animals and plants that don’t do well in disturbed ecosystems. One of the reasons why I am working with bowerbirds is that I know that they are very adaptable and tolerate disturbance. The bowerbird
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