Sira Tanager. Does it really exist?

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Sira Mountains, Peru – revisited! I have just come back from my third trip to the wilderness area of Cerros de Sira not far from Pucallpa. Sira has a familiar […]

Cape May Yellow-rumped Madness

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I realize I’m running the risk of being typecast here, but I’m featuring Yellow-rumped Warbler video for the second week in a row here. Remember the hyperbolic little joke I […]

Twitchers: A Very British Obsession!

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TV documentary show the extremes in UK birdwatching Yesterday (Nov 1)  on prime time UK Television there was a documentary about Twitching. (thanks Tom McKinney for the thumbs up about […]

Galapagos Frigatebird – a new split

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But how shall you ID Galapagos Frigatebird when out of range? In a recent paper from Proceedings of the RSPB, Hailer et al present convincing genetic data (although hard to […]

Hummer Madness in Tucson

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Watch your head in this hummer-filled yard! The yard here on N Vine Avenue in Tucson has been a hazard zone the past week with dozens of hummingbirds whizzing back […]

What and Wow

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2 Words vital to Birding I was 11 years old. A (Barn) Swallow was nesting under some eaves at our house in Northern England. I watched, mesmerised as it collected […]

Birds and bloggers

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First, I want to say… Hello everyone! or, as you will see on all my future posts my signature  Howdee all, Secondly…. What the heck am I doing here with […]

Fair Isle Daze

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I am currently on my favourite Isle, a place which over the last 7 years has become my second home – Fair Isle. Fair Isle is a tiny Island, Britain’s […]

Consider the Yellow-rumped

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Hello, everyone! Below is a 49 second video of a Yellow-rumped Warbler. It’s a Yellow-rumped Warbler that was hanging around in the vicinity of a lot of noisy, noisy Canada […]

Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Brazil

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One of My Favorite Places in the World Cristalino Jungle Lodge is one of my favorite places on Earth. OK, you could probably put me almost anywhere in the Amazon […]

A bit of Extremaduran birding

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So I came to Extremedura (western Spain) hoping to get some quality time with some of Europe´s most spectacular raptors. Well, the eagles have been playing very scarce (only got […]

Birds from Sulawesi

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Susan Myers is in techno-wilderness of Halmahera. Here she sends some Sulawesi bird pictures from her iPhone!

Addicted to birdwatching

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Szimi Style birding Shorebirds, bird conservation, travelling for birds and bird photography and recently a blogger… these are the keywords which could describe me and my birding interest. I thought […]

Lovable gulls for gull-haters!

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First: ugly Gulls! I admit it: I love gulls.  They are endlessly fascinating and challenging.  If we look at a gull flock closely, we find that no two individuals look […]

Multi-author birding blog launched

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A brand new blog for birders with many well known names such as Kenn Kaufman, Jeff Gordon, Martin Garner, Tom McKinney among the 11 birders participating in the birdingblogs.com project that is being launched today. This is going to be a great ride. Fasten your seatbelts.