by Audrey Benedict | May 5, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard # 38: Megaherb Discoveries You know how much I enjoy questions! Yesterday’s ePostcard #37, Megaherb Mysteries, prompted lots of questions and encouraged me to dig into the most recent literature to find out what botanists are discovering about these...
by Audrey Benedict | May 4, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #37: Megaherb Mysteries Botanists continue to be puzzled by the prevalence of outsized leaves and flowers—the so-called megaherb flora—of the subantarctic islands. It is not known whether the megaherbs are relics of an ancient, more widespread flora that...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 30, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard # 33: Gray-headed & Southern Royal Albatrosses One of the highlights of hiking up through the grass tussocks on Campbell Island, was spotting a gray-headed albatross just settling into a mixed species colony near some southern royal albatrosses. With its...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 29, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #32: Albatrosses—Ocean Spirits I feel I have joined a higher order of mortal,having seen the albatross. Robert Cushman Murphy, author, Guide to Oceanic Birds, 1940 We spent six magical weeks aboard the Spirit of Enderby exploring the seemingly...
by Audrey Benedict | Apr 28, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #31: Introducing the Galápagos of the Subantarctic To explore the magnificent ocean realm of New Zealand’s Subantarctic Islands, we must leave typical cruise routes far behind us. In December of 2006, snug aboard our 48-passenger, ice-strengthened and...
