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  • Various bird drawing experiments, and a bilby

    Various bird drawing experiments, and a bilby

    Quick notes on some bird drawing experiments

    Zoe

    April 23, 2021
    Field Notes, Field Reports
  • A minute for Martha

    A minute for Martha

    Lost Species Day, 2022.

    Zoe

    February 2, 2023
    Reflections, Zoe’s birds
  • All the lapwings are called John

    All the lapwings are called John

    A lone female masked lapwing ( Vanellus miles, also: plover, bloody plover, melted cheese face) haunts the Blue Mountains Bushwalk exhibit at Taronga Zoo. Over 18-months of regular visits to the enclosure, we have developed a kind of kinship with John. One of the volunteers told us that all the masked lapwings are called John Travolta…

    Zoe

    February 2, 2023
    Field Reports
    masked lapwing
  • Stitching with Regent Honeyeaters

    Stitching with Regent Honeyeaters

    When we began this project in 2018, our primary intent for it was to be a creative practice collaboration. The number of talks and publications from the project since then might suggest that no longer to be the case. Yet in the background we both continue to make creative works in response to what we…

    Timo Rissanen

    February 1, 2023
    Reflections, Timo’s birds, Zoe’s birds
    cross-stitch, regent honeyeater, villanelle
  • Calyptura cristata

    Calyptura cristata

    Aim: I was struck by the descriptive language used to describe both the bird and the lack of knowledge about the species. For example, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, this paragraph: The Kinglet Calyptura is among the most enigmatic and poorly understood species of Neotropical birds. A bizarre bird, it resembles a kinglet (Regulus)…

    Zoe

    January 18, 2022
    Uncategorized, Zoe’s birds
  • TR Taronga Zoo field report #1

    TR Taronga Zoo field report #1

    This report covers visits taken place on January 7 (with Zoe), February 3 (with Zoe), April 2 (on my own), and April 22 (with Zoe), 2021. I also visited Taronga Zoo on May 15, but being with family I did not visit the regent honeyeaters. This report is an attempt to respond to the first…

    Timo Rissanen

    May 19, 2021
    Field Notes, Field Reports
    field report, regent honeyeater
  • Birds of Mallacoota by Nick Ritar

    Birds of Mallacoota by Nick Ritar

    Following the New Year’s Eve bushfire that forced most of Mallacoota’s residents on its beach, Nick Ritar of Milkwood, a permaculture smallholding, documented some of the avian victims on January 2, 2020. The images are posted here with Nick’s permission. Thank you, Nick, for documenting this event so that we can all bear witness. Nick’s…

    Timo Rissanen

    January 12, 2020
    Climate change, Reflections
    Australian fires 2019-20, Climate change, Mallacoota
  • Pentti Linkola

    Pentti Linkola

    Pentti Linkola is something of a conscience for Finland and for humanity. His ideas are radical, often shocking and sometimes dangerous. Yet I’ve shared some of his thoughts in moments, as a visceral reaction to the persistent destruction of the biosphere that I have witnessed, and contributed to, throughout my life. While a lot of…

    Timo Rissanen

    December 24, 2019
    Reflections, Uncategorized
    deep ecology, Pentti Linkola
  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    “Weep! Weep! calls a toad from the water’s edge. And I do. If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.” A friend and colleague recommended Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass a few months ago.…

    Timo Rissanen

    December 10, 2019
    Reading Notes, Uncategorized
  • Storytelling for the uncanny present

    Storytelling for the uncanny present

    While overseas in November, I caught snippets of news from home: unprecedented bushfire smoke choking major cities; koala populations declared functionally extinct (not all koalas); heritage-listed rainforests burning; farmers traumatised by the screams of dying animals. From afar, these unsettling accounts seem fictional, like the ‘raining frogs’ in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. Except in Anderson’s…

    Zoe

    December 10, 2019
    Reflections, Uncategorized
    motherhood, solastalgia
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