Helping my son research flora and fauna of the French Pyrenees brought me to the door of Personal Museum of Natural History, a labor of love by Seiko & Nobuhisa Takano of Tokyo.
Here's what it's all about (in their own words):
"Instead of displaying bones or stuffed dead animals, we offer you our
collections of photographs, taken in Japan and other places including
Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Bhutan, Suriname, Namibia, Gabon, Polynesian
Islands, France, Greece and Australia, among others. Every picture
displayed here represents (in principle) an animal, a plant or a fungus
we saw at a certain place on the globe, and at a certain moment in our
life – so we named this site "personal museum" because its collections
also consist of our personal favoritism, experiences and memories.
galleries."
The 6 sections are Birds, Mammals, Insects, Other Animals, Plants/Funghi and Landscapes.
They mostly stick to animals and plants in the wilderness or animals free to roam.
The main site is complemented by the Wildlife Portrait Archive, a photoblog
Seiko's day job I found out is as a translator (French-Japanese).
Taking a nature hike for Tokyo Thursdays # 138
Previously: Drinking Sake, Eating Tokyo, Tokyofoodcast,
Found on Showa Day