Northern Lapwing – Dhahran Hills Football Fields

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3 weeks ago

Global Birdfair 2025

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I’m late to the party, but in this case, better late than never.

Over the weekend of 11–13 July, I took part in the world’s largest birding
event – Globa…

3 weeks ago

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درسة رفيعة تخطيط Striolated Bunting درسة شعيرية Ortolan Bunting درسة قمحية
Corn Bunting

The post الدرسات Buntings appeared first on Nader Fahd.

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…

4 years ago

Adventures in Mexico

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In January 2020 we headed off to Mexico for some decent weather as the UK
was looking very grim. After an 11 hour flight we landed in Puerto
Vallarta and …

5 years ago

End of Year Update

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

Office for Conservation of the Environment ranger with tagged Steppe Eagle
at Raysut, January 2019. We…

5 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 …

5 years ago

171326 a change in home range.

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by B.-U. Meyburg & M. McGrady

Most of the Egyptian vultures we captured and fitted with satellite
transmitters in January 2018 were apparently settled ter…

5 years ago

KAUST week ending May 23, 2019

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KAUST week ending May 23, 2019
mostly White-cheeked Terns behind, Crab Plovers in the centre and a Caspian
Tern in the front.
A very quiet week at KAUST w…

6 years ago

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Photographic Field Guide to the Birds of
Sri Lanka

Very honoured and extremely pleased to be featured with several images in
this new publication by Geh…

7 years ago

20th August

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Today’s birding was a real tale of contrasts, with the Obs and Crown Estate
Field mist-nets tapping into a nice pulse of new arrivals that somehow
managed …

11 hours ago

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A day of passage migrants with variety in the way of *Whinchat*, *Spotted
Flycatchers* and *Pied Flycatcher* but *Willow Warblers* were the star bird
of …

11 hours ago

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Not a to report but the bird of the day was a *Black Tern* that settled
briefly on Bull Hill along with numerous Common Tern & Sandwich Tern . But
then …

19 hours ago

Esnorquel en El Portús

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Hola a tod@s

El 2 de agosto al mediodía Irene Álvarez, Carmen Martínez Funes y yo
estuvimos haciendo snorkel en El Portús, en el municipio de Cartagena.

P…

1 day ago

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The easterly breeze continued for the day before switching to northerly in
the afternoon. It was a quieter day over all with just 12 *Willow Warblers*
no…

1 day ago

Mist netting 15th August

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After having had several successful catches in the vicinity of the
Discovery Hut, four of us ventured down to Colyford Common to ring in the
‘crop field’…

3 days ago

9 Aug 25 – A Garden Shieldbug Tick

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While doing some decorating work on the house, I spotted a Shieldbug in the
conservatory. I couldn’t get a name to it and suspected it was a species I
hadn…

4 days ago

Frailecillosa a corta distancia

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En tierra firme, el Frailecillo Atlántico (*Fratercula arctica*) deja ver
un repertorio de comportamientos y rasgos que pasan desapercibidos en mar
abie…

6 days ago

Birds panting to cool down

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Glosy Starling
Yellow-vented Bulbul
Brown Shrike
(From AI Overview)
Birds pant, or more specifically engage in “gular fluttering,” to cool
down by rapidl…

6 days ago

New Forest – 10th August

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Before the heat of the day in the UK’s fourth heat wave, I headed to the
New Forest for a couple of species. First, to Dibden Bottom where up to
three ma…

1 week ago

20th July – 3rd August

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With the Sheep Festival and Black Guillemot chick ringing taking up a lot
of obs staff time, field sightings have been a bit few and far between
during …

2 weeks ago

ALGUNAS IMAGENES DE LOROS BRASILEÑOS

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En esta entrada algunas imágenes de loros fotografiados en nuestra última
visita a Brasil.
Comenzamos con el Guacamayo Aliverde ” Ara chloroptera”, fot…

3 weeks ago

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Highlights from the spring March-June These 2 Turtle Dove were the forth
for the garden Only a handful of Red Kite this spring Little-ringed Plover,
Golf C…

4 weeks ago

Cornish Kittiwakes coming back home

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It’s that time of year again where we start to turn our attention to
seabirds, with Kittiwakes starting to settle on cliffs always a lure. An
afternoon c…

4 months ago

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After a (thankfully!) uneventful journey from Cornwall we arrived at our
superb accommodation in Norfolk at 1430hrs and once all introductions were
compl…

6 months ago

Pendeen Update & Booted Eagle Visit

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Introduction

*I realise that I never posted a “final” post on my Pendeen Birding blog.
Readers may have gathered from the lack of posts that “something” …

6 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 …

1 year 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…

1 year 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 …

1 year 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 …

1 year ago

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[image: Welcome]

As a proud member of the Bird Observatory network, Lundy is committed to
the long-term study of bird populations and migration. Explore …

2 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…

5 years ago

Mid-February to Mid-March

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For me, the period from mid-February to mid-March has always felt a bit of
a damp squib the renewed vigour of New Year has started to wane but spring
…

5 years ago

Forty three species at the waste water site

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Yesterday I went to the waste water site again. It is my “local” patch
these days since the demise of F-Nord lake. The lake was pumped dry by
overzealous c…

6 years ago