Greater Sand Plover – Al Uqair

Super day at Maagan Michael

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I don’t do these kind of things anymore, report on a single days’ birding.
However, today was really brilliant and report-worthy. Once a month I spend
a …

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.

2 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…

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

22nd October

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Another vismig day, with heavy cloud cover that rolled in right after dawn
dropping a substantial passage to the sort of height where it could be
readily a…

2 hours ago

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The avian event during a beautiful day was the news that one of this year’s *Manx
Shearwater *chicks had been recovered (see below). There was further
ex…

7 hours ago

El Alcaudón Real

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El alcaudón real (Lanius meridionalis, botxí en cat. ). Con su plumaje gris
en la parte superior, su característico antifaz negro y un pecho claro, su
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8 hours ago

15 Oct 24 – A Hermitage Of Thrushes

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When I checked if there was a collective name for Thrushes, I found it was
a Hermitage of Thrushes: hence the title of this Blog Post. A Ring Ouzel
had bee…

9 hours ago

17th-21st October

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It’s been a wet and windy few days here, with gale force winds being a
constant presence, while driving rain has had most of us sheltering behind
dykes …

1 day 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…

1 day ago

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This morning I was able to get better shots of the wintering *Long-Billed
Dowitcher* that has been coming into Bowling Green Marsh on the high tides .

N…

1 day ago

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An extremely windy day started very wet before clearing with winds hitting
81.6 mph during the evening, this combined with a high spring tide was some
sp…

2 days ago

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Another amazing week guiding our 8 guests on the magical isles of Scilly!
Six of us, with Paul as guide, joined the Scillonian III at Penzance on
Friday …

2 days ago

Marina del Carmolí

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Hola a tod@s

El 10 de octubre por la tarde estuve un rato viendo aves en la Marina del
Carmolí, en la costa del Mar Menor.

Marina del Carmolí

Las especi…

2 days ago

Short visit to Putrajaya

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Putrajaya is the administrative capital city of Malaysia.
Recently, I got the chance to go to the city.
I was last here seven years ago when my son was a st…

2 days 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…

6 days ago

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11th October 2024 Late morning and Paul Kemp turned up this Isabelline
Wheatear on the slopes below Star Castle. At last things are starting to
liven up af…

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 …

5 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

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 …

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