Biodiversity

Observations from my expeditions to document the variety of species living on our planet.

Life in the Coastal Seas

24 Observations

11 Identified Species

Humpback Exhales While Breaching

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)

Northern Gannet in Gloucester Harbor

Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

Porpoising Harbor Seal

Castine, Maine (September 2021)

Basking Shark

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (July 2024)

North Atlantic Right Whale

Head-On Humpback Breach

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA

Diversity of Bird Life

91 Observations

56 Identified Species

Red-Shouldered Hawk Flying Past Emblem of the National Park Service

Everglades National Park, Florida, USA (March 2020)

Short-Eared Owl

New York, USA

Black-and-White Warbler

Pawlet, Vermont, USA (July 2023)

Northern Flicker

Pawlet, Vermont, USA (June 2025)

Purple Martins 'Ungrateful Offspring'

Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware, USA (July 2023)

Gray Ghost Hunting Grassland Male Northern Harrier

New York, USA (March 2022)

Hall of Mammals

24 Observations

19 Identified Species

Macaque Eat Corn Raided from Nepalese Farm

Hemja, Nepal (June 2013)

Five-Striped Palm Squirrel In the Garden of the Shechen Monastery

Kathmandu, Nepal (May 2013)

Eastern Fox Squirrel

Austin, Texas, USA (August 2011)

Western Coyote

Baca National Wildlife Refuge, Crestone, Colorado, USA (October 2016)

North Atlantic Humpback Whale Breaching

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA

Humpback Lunge Feeding

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA

Herptile Files

Exploring the forms and lives of the creepers — Reptiles and Amphibians.

27 Observations

25 Identified Species

Greater Short-Horned Lizard

Baca National Wildlife Refuge, Crestone, Colorado, USA (September 2016)

Green Anole

Austin, Texas, USA (June 2011)

Eastern Mud Turtle

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, USA (July 2023)

Basking Crocodile

Everglades National Park, Florida, USA (March 2020)

Spring Snapping Turtle on Vermont Farm

Pawlet, Vermont, USA (May 2011)

Variable Skink

Crestone, Colorado, USA (March 2017)

The Varieties of Plant Life

34 Observations

33 Identified Species

Tricolor Hibiscus

Paros, Greece (August 2017)

Swamp Rose Mallow

Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware, USA (July 2023)

Lister's Primrose Rare Himalayan Wildflower

Ghandruk, Nepal (May 2013)

Quaking Aspen along Willow Creek Sangre de Cristo Wilderness

Crestone, CO, USA (October 2016)

Himalayan Horned Poppy

Lete, Nepal (May 2013)

Japanese Cherry Tree

New York City, New York, USA (April 2012)

Arthropoda of the World

53 Observations

48 Identified Species

Black Horse Fly Massive 1½-Inch-Long Fly

Monarch on Joe Pie Weed

Pawlet, Vermont, USA

Slaty Skimmer Dragonfly

Pawlet, Vermont, USA (July 2018)

Tropical Fritillary Butterfly

Dana, Nepal (May 2013)

Indian Milkweed Bug

Paros, Greece (August 2017)

Russet Percher Dragonfly Perched in the Eastern Marshes of Fewa Lake

Pokhara, Nepal (May 2013)

Mollusca

2 Observations

2 Identified Species

Roman Snail along the Wall at Gütsch Lucerne, Switzerland

Château Gütsch, Lucerne, Switzerland

Eastern Whitelip Snail

Pawlet, Vermont, USA

The Fungus Among Us

3 Observations

3 Identified Species

American Yellow Fly Agaric

Pawlet, Vermont, USA (September 2018)

Etheirodon fimbriatum

Pawlet, Vermont, USA (June 2026)

Oyster Mushrooms

Pawlet, Vermont, USA (May 2018)

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