We first discovered Tim Bawden’s images while searching through the ALA’s Recent Sightings for some pictures of Australian mammals for promotional material. Digging through them, we found a great collection of sightings – many of rarely-seen species. They also cover a wide variety of locations around the country.
Tim uses the ALA to work out new areas to explore and look for areas that contain “target” species that he hasn’t seen before.
He doesn’t use the ALA for identification assistance, other than to work out the range of the species.
He prioritises entering the images of species that are “interesting or rare” into the ALA. He works in IT and his hobby of using the ALA is a “good diversion”.
Many of Tim’s images are now the feature image for that species in the ALA.
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