While we were working in one of the plots this morning, I was startled by the sudden eruption of a pheasant-like bird from a clump of ferns a few metres in front of me. Like a pheasant, the dark bird also had wings that made a whirring noise as it…
Predators, such as barn owls, have long been encouraged in oil palm plantations to control rats, which damage the ripening fruit. Attempts to establish new barn owl populations in the plantations have been very successful, and many estates, including those surrounding the BEFTA plots, now contain high densities of these…
