Grey-headed Swamphen – Dhahran Waste Water Lake

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سنونو أبيض الحلق White-throated Swallow دخلة جبلية Mountain Chiffchaff

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3 hours ago

Excellent day made even better!

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Friday was one of those crazy days… I started early at the Jerusalem Bird
Observatory, leading a birding walk for the birding club operated by
BirdLife…

4 weeks ago

رحلة أبها 1445 – مشاهد طبيعية

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تعتبر شجرتي العرعر والطلح أهم مظهر للغطاء النباتي في جبال الحجاز ومنطقة
عسير ومناطق أخرى في المرتفعات الغربية .

يهيمن العرعر الفينيقي على المرتفعات الت…

1 month 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…

9 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…

4 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…

5 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

6th October

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Quality continues to have taken the place of quantity with the second *Red-breasted
Flycatcher* of the weekend – this one at the Obs – the day’s star bird; …

5 hours ago

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Although the weather was never as wet as forecast, it was something of a
day of two halves, with a damp morning seeing 25mph southeasterlies and a
glorio…

6 hours ago

Pechiazules (Luscinia svecica) ♂♀

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Hoy he asistido a una jornada de anillamiento científico organizada por
Ecometròpoli, dirigida por Xavier Larruy, en el municipio de Santa Coloma
de Gram…

8 hours ago

2nd – 5th October

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It has been a pretty exciting couple of days with some nice stand out birds
to keep the distinct lack of common migrants off our minds.

The 2nd was a rat…

1 day ago

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Two *Spotted* *Redshanks *were the star birds today on Bowling Green Marsh
. Also seen were Ruff , Whimbrel , Bar-Tailed Godwit , numerous Common
Redsha…

1 day ago

Juvenile Jungle fowl

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One morning, I noticed this big bird perching on a coconut tree petiole.
Domesticated fowl rarely fly high up the tree. This must be a jungle
species that…

2 days ago

ULTIMA MAÑANA EN CHAPADA

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Amanece el 30 de agosto y antes de irnos todavía damos una vuelta por los
alrededores de la Pousada do Parque.

Volvemos a ver al Chinchero Chico ” Lep…

2 days ago

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Calmer easterlies with clear skies turned to a calm south-east during the
afternoon. Out to sea four *Wigeons*, 25 *Common Scoter*, seven
*Mediterranean*…

3 days ago

Los Camachos

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Hola a tod@s

El 21 de septiembre al mediodía estuve observando aves en las balsas y
campos cercanos al polígono industrial de Los Camachos, en el municipio…

5 days ago

Mist-netting 26/9/24

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The weather forecast kept changing & we almost cancelled the session due to
impending rain showers….but decided to give it a go. We’d originally
planne…

1 week ago

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23rd September 2024 It don’t get better than this when it comes to moths in
the UK!! This OLEANDER HAWKMOTH is the highlight of the year so far for on
Scil…

1 week ago

San Clemente del Tuyú (marzo 2024)

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A finales del mes de marzo hicimos una recorrida por la ciudad de San
Clemente del Tuyú, donde vimos algunas especies de aves en la zona
portuaria y Las …

2 weeks ago

18th June – Martin Down

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On 18th June I visited the wonderful expanse of chalk grassland that is
Martin Down National Nature Reserve. My main aim was to see the mythical
hoverfl…

3 months ago

Toukokuun lopput ja kesäkuun alku

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Toukokuun puolessa välissä alkoi uudet työt lentoasemalla, joten suurin
aika mennyt uusien asioiden omaksumiseen ja viikonloppuisin toki vähän
tullut my…

3 months ago

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“Another fantastic short tour in Majorca, beautiful weather, amazing
scenery and fabulous Birds”

The post Majorca – Spring 2024 appeared first on Cornwal…

3 months 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…

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 …

8 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…

9 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 …

9 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…

1 year 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…

3 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 …

4 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…

6 years ago