Tropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds now classified in their own order Phaethontiformes. Their relationship to other living birds is unclear, and they appear to have no close relatives. There are three species in one genus Phaethon. They have predominately white plumage with elongated tail feathers and small feeble legs and feet.

Postings which TN members have been kind enough to mark as favourites.

Photographs from a trip over Christmas and New Year 2009/2010

A series of photgraphs taken on my visits to Chile in 1999 and 2008.

These are pictures I have taken of penguins in the wild. I have been lucky enough to sight 15 of the 17 penguin species in the wild.

These are a series of shots I took in Japan in January 2008. The locations take in the furthest reaches of the archpelago, from S Kyushu to NE Hokkaido.

Franz Josef Land is an extensive archipelago of 191 islands located in the northeast Barents Sea region of the Arctic Ocean. They are situated north from the islands of Novaya Zemlya and 1,000 km south from the North Pole. The islands form the northernmost regions of the European Arctic and are bound by the waters of the open Arctic Ocean to the north, the Barents Sea to the south and by the Kara Sea to the southeast.

Nepal covers a wide range of habitats and therefore posses a wide range of plants and animals.