tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227472496788017132024-03-13T19:03:44.480-07:00Clifford B. Frith & Dawn W. FrithFrithBirdBooksAndPhotos.comClifford B. Frith Dawn W. Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11348613636710502970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-422747249678801713.post-7068866326428887042012-07-07T20:53:00.000-07:002013-11-17T16:27:24.041-08:00<h2 class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have lived as independant full time Australian research zoologists, authors, photographers, and publishers for 30 years, specialising in the tropical Australasian region, while also working elsewhere, as photographers, authors, publishers and as academic zoological and ornithological researchers. Our main interests include studying and photographing tropical Australasian birds, particularly birds of paradise and bowerbirds. We have published more than 150 scientific contributions. We are privileged to be joint recipients of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union’s D. L. Serventy Medal for outstanding original contributions to ornithology</span>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Clifford is senior author of the 1998 book <i>The Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae</i> and he and Dawn authored the 2004 <i>The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae</i>, both of the acclaimed Oxford University Press <i>Bird Families of the World </i>series. In 2008 we self-published </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Bowerbirds: Nature, Art & History </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">and in 2010</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Birds of Paradise: Nature, Art & History</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> – both winning the</span><em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> prestigious Whitley Book Award of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for outstanding publications. W</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial;">e have also written and photographically illustrated some half a dozen smaller books on natural history of the tropical Australian region as well as numerous articles in various magazines worldwide.</span><em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Our still photographs have appeared in many general and specialist books and magazines worldwide. Transparencies were taken with 35mm and 6x7cm format cameras but all photography is now 35mm digital. We have photographed birds Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, South Africa, India, Chile (including Easter Island), Ecuador (including the Galapagos Islands), Peru, Bolivia, USA, Thailand, Malaysia, Europe, Falkland Islands, & Antarctica. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u>May-July 2011</u></strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our latest overseas adventure was a three month photographic trip to Western Canada and Alaska including a seven day visit to the Pribilof Islands where we photographed auks, murres, puffins and kittiwakes.</span></div>
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<u>November-December 2011</u></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In late October we heard that Aurora Expeditions had a last minute cabin vacancy for their 13-day trip to the World Heritage listed Subantarctic Islands - one we had long wanted to do. Before departure we spent four days on Stewart Island photographing many rare and endangered bird species. We set sail from Bluff, near Invercagill, New Zealand for Snares, Auckland, Campbell and Macquarie Islands aboard the Russian vessel <i>Akademik Sholakski</i>. Much time was spent on deck photographing albatrosses and petrels. On land we saw and photographed many of the rare endemic island bird species including the teal Auckland and Campbell Island teals and the Subantarctic Snipe. The final highlight was on Macquarie Island where huge penguin colonies, including the Royal, abound. We disembarked at Hobart and then spent another 10 days (not long enough) photographing more rare and endemic bird species. It was an exciting trip and we added a good number of new species to our photographic library. See our web site. </span></div>
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Auckland Teal (pair)</div>
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<u>September - October 2012<o:p></o:p></u></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Visiting Borneo had always been a life-long dream, and Sabah, because of its tourist infrastructure, was the obvious destination to photograph a suite of birds new to us, not to mention Proboscis Monkeys, Orangutans and Pygmy Elephants. </span></div>
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Adult male Orangutan</h4>
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Stork-billed Kingfisher</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> After Sepilok we met the water taxi at Sandakan for a three hour trip along the Kinabatangan River to reach Abai Lodge, where we spent four days and then went further upstream to Sukau for seven more days. Each day we spent three to four hours each morning and (thunderstorms permitting) three hours in the afternoon in our own motorboat with our boatman/guide. Along the riverbanks we saw and photographed Pygmy Elephants, foraging on riverine vegetation, as well as a few Orangutans, macaques, huge crocodiles and monitors. A</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">t long last we were seeing the ‘real’ Borneo and were able to take some photos including of Blue-eared Kingfishers, Grey-headed and Lesser Fish Eagles, Serpent Eagles, Storm’s Storks, including the Bushy-crested Hornbill which was a new species for us. One of the quieter waterways better for birding was Mennagol Creek where we glimpsed the rare Bornean Ground-Cuckoo and a male Crested Fireback displaying. </span></div>
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Blue-eared Kingfisher</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After our river experiences, we visited the huge Gomatong Caves - with vast populations of several species of swiftlets and bats and millions of cockroaches. The local security caretakers actually sleeps in the cave at night to protect the edible bird's nest from thieves - for they are worth their weight in gold. From here we travelled once again through vast oil plantations, extending up the steepest of slopes, to Tabin Wildlife Reserve (112,00 hectares of rainforest), renowned for its mud volcanoes, with a rich diversity of birds and a successful breeding programme to save the Sumatran Pygmy Rhinoceros. Highlights of our four days there included photographing the Blue-banded Kingfisher (female) at a small waterfall and amazingly a leaping fish appeared in one of the shots! </span><br />
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Blue-banded Kingfisher</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">From Tabin we drove to Danum Valley for seven days to stay at a ‘five star’ luxurious lodge within lowland rainforest. Some 300 species of birds have been recorded at Danum, including several hornbills, trogons, pittas and of other bird groups. It was truly amazing - this being the best of Sabah birding locations. Every day for fours in the morning and at least two hours in the afternoon we walked the trails, with our guide Rafael, carrying our 500 mm and 300 mm lenses in rucksacks, camera bodies and tripod! It was so hot and humid that we each lost four kilos. The high <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">canopy walkway was truly amazing and it was from here that we saw, but could not photograph, the </span></strong>rarely seen Bornean Bristleheads bathing in a pool of water in a tree knot.The highlight of our whole trip, especially for Cliff who had wanted to see this bird as a young boy, was photographing a pair of Whiskered Tree Swifts at their tiny flimsy nest with one egg atop it in the Lodge gardens. The staff built him a two metres tall ‘photographic platform’ near the nest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a good note to finish the trip on. </span><br />
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Whiskered Tree Swift</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Of the some 492 species of birds recorded in Sabah we saw about 240 of them — not at all bad as we are not bird twitchers in any shape or form!</span><br />
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