May 2011

Jonathan Franzen: Liking Is for Cowards.

Bestseller author Jonathan Franzen is a birder Jonathan Franzen is a very famous modern American author praised by the critics and awarded many fine nominations and awards. He has been […]

Pilansberg National Park, South Africa

Pilansberg Game Reserve (and National Park) lies just 1.5-2hrs drive west of Johannesburg/Pretoria and has received some measure of fame through the bordering Sun City and Lost City (luxury casino, […]

BirdingBlogs Fest #003 May 21, 2011

6 posts from the past week of awesome blogs about birds. Tips for point and shoot cameras; Pelagic birding featuring Blue Fulmar and Zino’s Petrel; Fantastic shots of Ruby-throated Hummingbird; and Tom McKinney in one of his funniest posts – on how to identify plugs from DSLR photos on the Forum. Enjoy!

Reed Cormorant in Spain

Spain’s only record of the Pygmy Cormorant (Microcarbo pygmaeus) is from a single cormorant collected in Catalunya in 1855, with no known records since. The large numbers of Pygmy Cormorants […]

Oregon in Spring Tour 2011

I’m in the middle of my seventh Oregon in Spring tour – 10 days of exciting birding from the coast to the mountains to the desert. But there just aren’t […]

A new bird in the flock

Some of you may know me already. Gunnar has been asking me to contribute to BirdingBlogs for quite some time now, but I’ve always postponed my involvement, mostly because I’ve […]

Birdingblogs Fest #002 May 15, 2011

Warbler week. This is not how I planned this. Trying to get together a new birdingblog fest in just a few hours before the publication. But I have been busy, […]

Book review: Reservoir Cats

They came, they saw, they sprayed – and then they fucked off. A dog would never do that. I should have written this review ages ago.  Or maybe Kenn should […]

Colombian Mysteries

Colombia has a lot of birds and not all are easy to identify. While in the old days, the info of field guides was scanty and a lot of birds […]

Tweeting birds. Finally!

Real birds tweet on Twitter Here is the newest viral tweeter on Twitter. A Twitter account totally run by birds. Latvian journalist Voldemars Dudums figured out a way to get […]

Birdingblogs Fest #001 May 7, 2011

No time to follow all the birdingblogs out there? How to sellect the best blog posts among the 1000s of posts out there? We will do it for you. Guaranteed the best of birdblogging will show here on a weekly basis.

The Great March of Anatolia

“The Great March Of Anatolia is a movement initiated by the People of Anatolia to keep the water, nature and their roots alive. This is an open call for everyone […]

Featured~Poet~Bird Blogger of the Month

Dawn Fine presents Kathie Brown of Kathie’s birds as this month’s birdblogger. Kathie is a fanatic ebirder, blogger and poet. She has build a good number of fans since she started blogging in 2004. A narrative flow, poetry and great photos makes it a very solid blog. One of the best.

Birdingblogs.Collected

Birdingblogs compilation Just because “I and the Bird” birding blog carnival died – this does not mean that birdblogging has died. There are more birdbloggers out there than ever. One […]