Here’s another field report from Jon Erickson, the intrepid volunteer who has been recording (for the Macaulay Library) some of the world’s rarest birds during a 9-month stay in Mauritius. This post is from an April visit to a remote part of the Black River Gorges National Park. His visit to the [...]
Here’s part two of Jon Erickson’s report from his holiday visit to Round Island, 14 miles off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean: Evenings on Round Island are quite special. The island is home to a large colony of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters that dig burrows into the loose soil to lay their eggs. After the sun goes [...]
A couple of weeks ago we checked in with Jon Erickson in Mauritius. He had just climbed into the hills of Black River Gorges National Park, where he had a brief encounter with a Mauritius Kestrel, a species whose population had dwindled to just four birds in the mid-1970s—but has now climbed back to nearly [...]
