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April 2004 Damon Ramsey was hired as... Print E-mail

Guest Lecturer, tours of Polynesia, the World Discoverer, Society Expeditions (Germany/USA).

ImageOn the Easter Island to Tahiti trip, highlights included the Easter Island statues and the Henderson Island endemics, such as the Henderson Island fruit pigeon, Henderson Island lorikeet and the Henderson Island reed warbler.


On the Tahiti to Fiji trip the highlights included not getting killed playing soccer with the Samoans, the breeding colonies at Bird Island, the various fruit doves and honeyeaters of the islands of Polynesia.
 
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Plants

Syzygium: australian 'apples' and lilly-pillies
There are about 500 species in the genus Syzygium, with almost 60 species in Australia. The flowers are often showy, and dominated by many colourful shaving brush like stamens. They develop fleshy fruits that are also often colourful.
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Birds

Grebes
Grebes are an unusual group of birds that constitute their own order. Some of the larger grebes are well known for their spectacular mirror courtship displays, amongst much water splashing. The smaller grebes, often known as 'dabchicks' resemble baby ducks. Grebes are rarely observed on land. They even tend to nest on the water, often within reed beds. Individuals of some species may spend their entire life cycle on one lake. When underwater hunting for their prey, they propel themselves with their feet, not their wings.
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Australasian Grebe and reflections
 

Mammals

Possums
The name 'possum' is a fairly vague and not very scientific term. Other than both being marsupials, the Australian/New Guinea 'Possums' are not closely related to the Neotropical 'Opossums'. In fact, within Australia, the term 'Possum' actually covers a few quite different families of animals.
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