A few migrants – Al Uqair

الطيور في شهر أبريل

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يعتبر هذا الشهر من افضل الشهور للاستمتاع بطيور الحديقة حيث تكون الطيور
المقيمة في اجمل حلة لها والعديد منها قد فرخ وظهرت صغاره وبعضها ما زال يسعى
لحضنة …

5 days ago

Global Big Day, 11 May 2024

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Yesterday was Global Big Day and World Migratory Bird Day. Global Big Day
is organised by the Cornell Lab, in association with Swarovski Optik and Global …

2 weeks ago

Gambia 2019

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Well behind in posting this one as life has been a bit full on but here’s
pics from our trip to Gambia in 2019. Unfortunately there will be a bit of
a gap…

5 months ago

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Notes from the field – Nader Fahad on using the OSME Birds of the Middle
East Arabic App Nader Fahad is a young bird watcher and photographer based
in Sa…

5 months ago

Home Sweet Home

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09 December 2020 – Kyalami Estate, Midrand

I am now back home in South Africa and re-united with my family after
almost a year due to the Covid restricti…

3 years ago

Stopover 187

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by M. McGrady, F. Al Lamki, B. Meyburg, A. Spalton

As mentioned in yesterday’s post (click here), 187 has been in southern
Russia for the last week or s…

3 years ago

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This morning I went to Jahra Farms, having a feeling that the
Black-throated Thrush should have arrived by now as two weeks earlier one
was found in Pivot …

4 years ago

KAUST week ending May 30, 2019

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KAUST week ending May 30, 2019

Indian Silverbill
Another very quiet week birdwise at KAUST.

A pair of Indian Silverbills have been seen a number of times…

4 years ago

Morocco October 2017

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Trip report for 4 days in Morocco October 2017

Full PDF report and images can be found here : Morocco

[image: Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita)]

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6 years ago

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A day of stiff northerlies meant that the cliff counts were postponed for
the day, conditions just too breezy to allow for steady and accurate
counting. …

7 hours ago

29th – 30th May

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29th saw the last day of easterlies forecast for the foreseeable future so
we knew it would be one of our last chances to eek some rarities out of the
cu…

9 hours ago

ALREDEDORES DE MERZOUGA

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Dunas de Merzouga, el llamado Erg Chebbi, de 28 kms de extensión, todo un
espectáculo natural.

Algunas imágenes tomadas en los alrededores del…

23 hours ago

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This spring’s nadir? A new Spotted Flycatcher at the Obs was literally the
only bird worth a mention today!
— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs….

1 day ago

Mist netting 2/4/24

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On 2nd April, the group were hosts to a visiting group of students from
University Centre Reaseheath College, Cheshire. The group has a
long-running asso…

1 day ago

Barn Owl throuple and other odd goings on

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Over the long bank holiday weekend we had a chance to make our first visits
to Barn Owl nestboxes across part of our patch. It was a long slog, with
plen…

1 day ago

Guiando a los pollos

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Hoy he tenido la oportunidad de presenciar una escena conmovedora en la
zona de la desembocadura del río Besòs. Una madre “azulona” (Anas
platyrhynchos, …

1 day ago

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It was a wet and windy day with strong south-westerly winds and heavy rain
first thing, and bands of thick fog blowing across to smother Enlli for
long …

2 days ago

Esnorquel en Cala Cortina

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Hola a tod@s

El 26 de mayo por la mañana Manolo Ruíz, María Montosa y yo estuvimos
haciendo snorkel en Cala Cortina, en Cartagena.

Paisaje marino en Cala …

2 days ago

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There is not a lot around at the moment but a look at Bowling Green Marsh
got me a Stock Dove and a pair of Black Swan with 5 cygnets and I think
that t…

2 days ago

Gran Día Mundial (11 de mayo de 2024)

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Imágenes de la salida por la laguna de Monte y la zona rural en
inmediaciones de Berra.
Dejamos los enlaces a eBird con las especies observadas ese hermos…

4 days ago

Nokisorsa ja mökkeilyä 12.5.2024

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7.5 lähdettiin Kari Lindblomin kanssa ajelemaan kohti Poria aamusella, kun
olin saanut pojan päiväkotiin. Nokisorsasta tuli päivityksiä pitkin matkaa
ja…

2 weeks ago

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10th May 2024 This Temmink’s Stint was feeding only at arms length away at
the project Pool, lower Moors. A Temmink’s Stint turned up at the project
Pool e…

2 weeks ago

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January 2024 Private tour booked for the lovely Becki and Andrew on a cold
winter Friday in West Cornwall. We set off from HQ at 8.30 and headed
straight…

4 months ago

Rundum Highland, Tenom

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9th – 13th January 2024

Bird survey with the Sabah Birdwatchers Association at Rundum Highland,
revealed some of the exciting mixture of species from …

4 months ago

We’re migrated to a new website…

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This blogspot is no longer active and will continue to be hosted online as
an archive. But never fear, all of your favourite island news and more and
can n…

5 months ago

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SEAWATCHING in Cornwall is my main interest in birding, mainly because the
county lends itself perfectly to an incredible passage of seabirds and a
its …

5 months ago

Birds Beaks

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I made this simple explanation about the diversity of beak types in the
birds. You could of course delve deeper into more complex beak types and
their us…

9 months ago

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[image: Lundy]
*Welcome to Lundy Bird Observatory*

As a proud member of the Bird Observatory community, Lundy Bird Observatory
is committed to and promo…

1 year ago

Early June Visit

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Over half term we had a family trip down to Cornwall again. With two out of
three children in tow we headed off on Tuesday for the rest of the week.

The…

2 years ago

What makes for a long life?

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Rob Robinson writes: I am sometimes asked the question: “How long do birds
live?” The answer is, as to many good questions, “It depends”. The oldest
known …

3 years ago

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The migration blog has a new home, head over to
https://www.bto.org/community/bto-blog to check out what species are on the
move and where best to find them.

4 years ago

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Birding at my backyard is a solo activity , that don’t involve large crowd
gathering. Friday, 13 Mar 2020, 10:23 PM MYT – Malaysia positive cases =
197 cas…

4 years ago

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For those who have not heard, I am afraid I have some bad news to share.
Rob, my brother, died suddenly at home in Mauritania from a heart attack on
the 9t…

5 years ago