Adam Markham

@adammarkham.bsky.social

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Climate, biodiversity, heritage & archaeology. Co-chair Climate Change Specialist Group of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. Trustee ICOMOS-USA. #HeritageAdapts #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology

A fragment of tan coloured pottery with a partial monochrome bird head facing to the right. The bird has a big eye and a fairly long bill. A wader or gull? Photo mine - April 2026.
A dark yellow/brown haze that is blocking sunlight, seen over the treeline in Southern Connecticut less than an hour after England lost to Argentina because of going defensive too early while 1-0 up.
Unshelled beans in a yellow bowl
A slightly chaotic vegetable & flower garden.
A small terrestrial turtle walking on old tarmac and see from above, head to the top of the photo. The shell is dark brown with beautiful blotchy yellow markings. It’s a damp day.
A large brown dog with white feet and nose markings looks up while lying on the floor. The dog has a rainbow bow-tie and rainbow coloring on it's forehead.
three fluffy golden birds on green grass
A woman decorates a traditionally built earthen wall using an edged metal tool. The woman is wearing a yellow top and a yellow and blu head scarf. The caption, in white letters says: Thousands of local heritage stewards: 1 mission. Comming 4 June. Photo: PreservingLegacies.
Two men in red winter coats and woold hats are standing on the deck of a boat in the Arctic near Svalbard in 2007. The weather is grey and there is ice in the sea in the background. But the men look happy - they are toasting each other with champagne glasses in their gloved hands and smiling. Maybe they think the climate crisis is just a little bit closer to being solved.
Rafe Pomerance on a boat in the Arctic in 2007. He's raising his right arm in a gesture of defiance to the prevailing political situation. he is wearing a red winter c oat and has binoculars and a camera on straps round his neck. His fist is in front of a Norwegian flag on the ship. He is also wearing a red and grey wool hat.
A Starboy kisses a gleaming trophy topped by a crown. The drawing is made by Poorly Drawn Arsenal, and not poorly drawn at all. The background is a dusty salmon pink. The colours are Arsenal. The pitch and the player are reflected (in glory) on the Premier League cup, for that is what the trophy is. I'm sure you can buy it on products here: https://shop.poorlydrawnarsenal.com
Several very large pink flowers, some with yellow centres visible, in front of a white picket fence in early morning sunlight.
A brown spotted butterfly on a pre flower with green leaves.
Two adult Canada geese heading rightward on a pond, followed by 5 golden goslings. At back there is varied vegetation.
Purple flowers with green leaves against a background of brown fallen leaves.
A large grasshopper on a plant stem, almost vertical. The grasshopper is grey-green and the background is spring green plants.
A black and cream hornet working on a wood paper pulp nest.
A cluster of pink azalea flowers.
A pink man orchid and green grass.
Profile pic of Ted Turner in a red and black winter coat, travel hat and shades. Photo: mine 2008
Shackleton's sinking ship and some watching sled-dogs. Photo: Royal Geographic Society
A roman mosaic seen from a viewing gallery slightly above. There are two rooms - one large and the other in an apse at the back. Various geometric patterns and pictorial scenes are depicted mainly in white, green and red. Photo: mine 2026
A Hellenistic terracotta man's head pictured in 3/4 profile from 400-300 BC. It has curly locks of hair and a curly beard, as well as almond-shaped incised eyes and full lips. There are traces of blue pigment on the beard and red pigment on the hair. Photo: mine, 2026.
Mounted skeleton of a peregrine falcon in a museum case.
An inside shot of a greenhouse from one of the doors. The greenhouse is full of plants in pots and trays of seedlings. A blue car can be seen outside the door at the opposite end.
The rectangular entrance of a rock-cut tomb in the Pantalica necropolis. The entrance is surrounded by a cut spcae where a closing slab or door could be placed.
Small pots, beads and metalwork from an Iron Age tomb in a museum display case
Tiny metal dagger and bronze axe amulet from a Bronze Age grave in a museum display. Also a boar's tooth.
Amphorae and pots in a museum display with a grey base against a background of terracotta tiles. Paolo Orsi regional arch. museum, Siracusa, Sicily.
Limestone cliffs with about a dozen ancient tomb entrances visible. The hillside is covered in brush and in the foreground are yellow and pink wildflowers. On the horiszon to left is a modern town. The sky is grey and cloudy.
Large limestone blocks laid out as foundation of a megalithic building. The spaces are filled by short grass, a hill across a river valley is on the horizon and the sky is grey with low clouds.
Two chairs throw shadows on a floor of black-and-white geometric pattrerned tiles.
Deep and pale pink apple blossom buds and flowers against a blue sky in early morning light.
A Roman mosaic. Two pigeons harnessed to a chariot are pulling it to the right. A man on the cart is using a small whip, seemingly against a man behind the cart who is holding up a branch that looks like a giant piece of rosemary.
An ancient Greek amphitheatre seen from the top of a hill, looking down. Workers are preparing the site for a summer thatre season by cladding the stones seats with wood, and buidling a stage and set. in the distance there are sea and city views. The sky is blue and grass grows in the foreground where additional rows of seats would have been in Greek times, before they were stripped/quarried for limestone in more modern times.
Two orchid flowers with pink, yellow & brown flowers. 📷 me.
Mosaic of Romans capturing a rhino.🦏 my
A small & pudgy bird figure made of clay. Different shades of light brown. The bird faces to the right with its head pointing down. Paolo Orsi Regional Archaeological Museum, Siracusa. 📷 mine.
Yellow, green , blue and white floor tiles.
Mosaic of a rate biting the leg of a Roman boy. Red blood streams from the boy’s leg. Around are many leaves on an off-white background.
A Greek temple on a hill with factories behind in the distance.
Spiky yellow flowers and spiky grey/green thistle leaves.
Artichokes and a temple.
A pottery bird neck and head - possibly a swan - on a stand in a museum case. Photo: mine.
Part of the head and back of an alligator in a shallow wetland.
A grey and White House
A green lizard on a white piece of wood, shedding its skin- which is split down the back and looks milky colored and rice paper thin.
A building front with a sign that says Wicked Bao. There are three palm trees in front, two with strings of lights round their trunks. It is dark outside.
Part of the Ring of Brodgar stone circle on Orkney. Half the picture is blue sky.
Daffs in a field with trees and a stone wall behind
Several red leaf buds emerging from dark soil.
A man and a woman on a stage in blue and red lighting. The man is playing guitar. The woman is singing.
Black book cover illustrated with a circle of people on grass. Title is The Routledge Handbook on Cultural Heritage and Climate Justice - edited by Mesut Dinler and William Megarry.
Lettuce-lime green leaves and some mottled with purple emerging from a mat of wet fallen brown oak leaves.