Barn Swallow – Dhahran Percolation Pond

Good old friend

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Yesterday Piki and I paid a visit to a good old friend, Goldy, the Tel Aviv
Pacific Golden-Plover. This individual bird has been returning to the same
bu…

1 week ago

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سنونو أبيض الحلق White-throated Swallow دخلة جبلية Mountain Chiffchaff

The post الشاردة Vagrant appeared first on Nader Fahd.

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…

2 months 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…

10 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

[PaleoMammalogy • 2024] Southernmost Record of Megadolodus (Litopterna:
Proterotheriidae: Megadolodinae) from the late Middle Miocene of
Fitzcarrald, Peruvian Amazonia, and mesowear analysis of diet in
megadolodine litopterns

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*Megadolodus molariformis* McKenna, 1956

*in *Wilson, Carrillo, Salas-Gismondi, Antoine, Benites-Palomino,
Condamine, Marivaux, Pujos, Sánchez-Meseguer…

47 minutes ago

Common Iora Singing

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The common iora (Aegithina tiphia horizoptera) -male, foraging on Rambutan
tree.
singing – mimicking a song of Magpie Robin
fly jump

4 hours ago

6th November

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Lots of quality if slightly lower numbers again today, with an arrival of 3 *Pallas’s
Warblers*, 3 *Yellow-browed Warblers* and a *Siberian Chiffchaff* at…

6 hours ago

Embalse de Puentes

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Hola a tod@s

El 31 de octubre por la mañana estuve algunos ratos viendo aves en el
Embalse de Puentes, en el municipio de Lorca.

Embalse de Puentes

Las …

11 hours ago

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It was another dull grey day, this perhaps reflecting the impact that
events across the Atlantic will have on the global climate. The conditions
made for…

11 hours ago

26 Oct 24 – The Gillingham Shrike

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On the morning of 19 Oct, there was an RBA message about an Isabelline
Shrike at Gillingham. I passed the news onto a few locals who I knew would
be intere…

13 hours ago

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Our annual ‘Bus man’s holiday’ to Scilly in ‘Teachers Week’ saw just 5 of
us head out this year, the team depleted due to injury and family
commitments. …

3 days ago

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A quick trip down to Exmouth this morning got me my first *Black Redstart*
in my home county of Devon this year .
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3 days ago

22nd – 30th October

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The constant throughout the whole of the past week has been the Black-faced
Bunting, gracing the obs and trap areas to be enjoyed in the field by all
the…

1 week ago

La Cogujada Montesina en Mas de Melons

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De las aves que tuve la ocasión de observar en la Reserva de Mas de Melons
está la Cogujada montesina (Galerida theklae), un ave que he visto en pocas
oc…

1 week ago

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The wind calmed overnight to a brisk west-south-west, the sea was slightly
quieter than hoped but a good passage of *Mediterranean Gulls *saw 383
logged …

2 weeks ago

Mist netting 21/10/24

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There was a good turn out for today’s mist netting session, with 9 members
attending. The old ‘feeders’ area (where no feeders are currently in use),
had…

2 weeks ago

LLEGAMOS AL PANTANAL

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Dejamos Poconé y por fin llegamos a la carretera transpantaneira. 150 Kms
de pista que termina en Porto Jofre. Este año es muy seco y hay pocos
humeda…

3 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…

4 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…

5 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 …

9 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…

10 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 …

10 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