January 2012

My Last Days in Tanzania

Thumbnail image for My Last Days in Tanzania by Rich Hoyer 31 January 2012

Rich Hoyer shares a few photos from the Udzungwa Mountains of east-central Tanzania.

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The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 10

Thumbnail image for The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 10 by TomMckinney 30 January 2012

The Greatest Lie Ever Told by Morton Cubberd Chapter 10 “Liz? What’s going on?” The effects of the tranquiliser dart were wearing off, and Paddy Rogue opened his eyes to see the bloodbath in the parlour of Bramblebay Castle. “Are you okay, Rogue?” Liz asked. “What’s going on?” he slurred. “You were shot with a [...]

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The Bird World Cup Winner

Thumbnail image for The Bird World Cup Winner by Gunnar 29 January 2012

The winner is…. It is usually straight forward to pick a winner in a voting game. The participant that gets most votes wins. This is a little more complex. Presenting the results from the final of this contest which has been running since the beginning of December 2011 is long overdue. Things got a bit [...]

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Learning North American Birds (in Europe)

Thumbnail image for Learning North American Birds (in Europe) by DaleForbes 29 January 2012

You know those people who look at something once and the info is glued in to their brain, seemingly permanently? I am not one of those people. I forget stuff as soon as I do not use/practice it. I love languages and birding, but neither of them are like riding a bicycle (at least not [...]

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A Special Orange Beak

Thumbnail image for A Special Orange Beak by Alex Vargas 28 January 2012

Prasae it’s always been a birding and Bird-Photo hotspot, but in August-September 2010, the appearance of a red billed bird -which turned out to be an unusual RIVER TERN- placed that site in everyone’s map! In the calm waters of the Thai Gulf, Prasae has always been a good site to find waders terns and [...]

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The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 9

Thumbnail image for The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 9 by TomMckinney 27 January 2012

The Greatest Lie Ever Told by Morton Cubberd Chapter 9 Thick red fluid ran along the cracks in the ancient oak floorboards forming deep puddles, deep enough to see your reflection before the puddles dried. Shards of bone, sinew, flesh and bullet holes peppered the walls, spitting specks of deep crimson over centuries of priceless [...]

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Rwanda Sunbird Confusion

Probable Stuhlman's Sunbird. Rich Hoyer by Rich Hoyer 26 January 2012

A gallery of sunbird photos from Rwanda illustrate an identification problem.

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The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 8

Thumbnail image for The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 8 by TomMckinney 21 January 2012

  The Greatest Lie Ever Told by Morton Cubberd Chapter 8 Huggins the butler returned to the parlour with a dust pan and brush to clean up the shattered glass from Sir Wilkins Bramblebay’s monocle. Bramblebay was sat on an antique Louis XV bergeres chair, worth tens of thousands of pounds, and straightening out his [...]

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The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 7

Thumbnail image for The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 7 by TomMckinney 18 January 2012

The Greatest Lie Ever Told by Morton Cubberd Chapter 7 Tiny Lizzie McAubrey was running back from the shops. It was a Saturday morning and her mother had allowed her to spend her meagre three pence of pocket money in Skanky Stan’s sweet shop at the end of the road. By the time she got [...]

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Tucson’s Sweetwater Wetlands – a Winter Snapshot

Thumbnail image for Tucson’s Sweetwater Wetlands – a Winter Snapshot by Rich Hoyer 17 January 2012

Rich Hoyer reports on a morning bike ride to Tucson’s premier birding hotspot, Sweetwater Wetlands.

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James Currie ~On National Geographic WILD

Thumbnail image for James Currie ~On National Geographic WILD by dAwN FiNe 17 January 2012

Great news Via The American Birding Association Blog The National Geographic WILD TV network is debuting Aerial Assassins, hosted by James Currie on Friday, January 20, 2012. The new hour-long show delves into the Sonoran Desert to track Harris’s Hawks. A former wildlife wrangler, Currie also hosts, Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV, the first bird-watching travel show [...]

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The Greatest Lie Ever Told – the story so far

Thumbnail image for The Greatest Lie Ever Told – the story so far by TomMckinney 16 January 2012

Confused as to what’s happened in the previous six chapters? Baffled by the most convoluted nonsensical plot ever dreamed up? Just landed here by mistake and got absolutely no idea what this is all about? Well here’s a synopsis of the story so far. Don’t worry, this whole ridiculous thing should hopefully be wrapped up [...]

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Book Review: Top Birding Sites of Europe by Dominic Couzens

Thumbnail image for Book Review: Top Birding Sites of Europe by Dominic Couzens by DaleForbes 15 January 2012

I love books and I really like to travel, so I started looking in to some of the offerings on the book market with collections of places which I should consider putting on my birding/visiting bucket list. Now, given that this particular list is already rather long, and my knowledge of Europe is rather modest, [...]

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Cede Prudente, a great Bird-Photographer in Malaysian Borneo

Thumbnail image for Cede Prudente, a great Bird-Photographer in Malaysian Borneo by Alex Vargas 14 January 2012

Cede Prudente is an excellent reference of first class Bird-Photography in Malaysian Borneo and he shares a bit of his history and fantastic work with us at BirdingBlogs I visited Sabah, Malaysian Borneo in a birding expedition back in 2010 with my friends Mario and Roxanne and quickly got in-loved with such a majestic paradise [...]

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Zanzibar Shorebird Quiz

Thumbnail image for Zanzibar Shorebird Quiz by Rich Hoyer 10 January 2012

Wow, we timed the tide  just right at the beach below our backpackers hostel south of Paje on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania last week. The photo above seems to contain five species, a relatively easy quiz given the location and time. To help out, I’ve excised the ones I found and uploaded them below: [...]

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The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 6

Thumbnail image for The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 6 by TomMckinney 9 January 2012

The Greatest Lie Ever Told by Morton Cubberd Chapter 6 Something really wasn’t right at all. Detective Inspector Paddy Rogue was more than accustomed to waking up feeling nauseous and with a thumping headache, but this was altogether more serious. The pulse in his temples was banging harder than David Lombardo from Slayer beating the [...]

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The Best of Birdingblogs.com in 2011

Thumbnail image for The Best of Birdingblogs.com in 2011 by DaleForbes 7 January 2012

Looking back at 2011, there were tons of great bird-related blog posts that touched us, motivated us to be better birders/people, and made us laugh (or cry); so I thought I would look back through the birdingblogs.com archives and dredge out some of the posts that really stood out to me this year.   Are [...]

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Blue -river- Jewel of the South

Thumbnail image for Blue -river- Jewel of the South by Alex Vargas 6 January 2012

The Blue-banded Kingfisher isn’t the most colorful of his group, but certainly it is one of the most difficult to find and photograph! When I was coming to this side of the world, I was looking at the book in the plane and right away got amazed with the colors and crazy looks of the [...]

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The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 5

Thumbnail image for The Greatest Lie Ever Told – chapter 5 by TomMckinney 5 January 2012

The Greatest Lie Ever Told by Morton Cubberd Chapter 5 Maurice Wagon, Kilmister-on-Belford – DECEASED Jock MacDogkennel, Asstermowth – DECEASED Monty Quim, North Yorkshire – DECEASED Lillian Adverse-Camber, Scurby – DECEASED Richard Tube, Lemmyster – DECEASED Roland Keyboard, Maidenrule-on-Thames – DECEASED Cassy O’watch, Argos – DECEASED Detectives Paddy Rogue and Timmy Keen sat in the [...]

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Afromontane – A New World (and Word)

Thumbnail image for Afromontane – A New World (and Word) by Rich Hoyer 3 January 2012

I guess mountains are so rare in Africa, that an adjective has been coined to describe the forests found there. In the Neotropics, we say something more general, such as “tropical montane,” or  “cloud forest,” I guess assuming that anywhere you have mountains in the tropics you get a resulting forest type. It turns out [...]

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