Lesser Whitethroat – Eastern Province

معركة الصباح -8 ابريل – 29 رمضان 1445

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ما ان نزلت الحديقة حتى تنبهت لحركة غير عادية واصوات المواء المييزة
للتميرات بشكل عال ومتواصل وغير عادي. غير عادي من حيث التوقيت لانها عادة
تنشط بهذا الص…

2 weeks ago

Champions of the Flyway 2024

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On Monday (April 1st) it was Champions of the Flyway again, for the 11th
year. It was a strange one, all-Israeli, without the international
component. Be…

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…

3 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…

4 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

[PaleoIchthyology • 2024] Exceptionally preserved Shark Fossils from Mexico
elucidate the Long-standing Enigma of the Cretaceous Elasmobranch Ptychodus
(Lamniformes: Ptychodontidae)

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*Ptychodus *Agassiz, 1834

*in *Vullo, Villalobos-Segura, Amadori, Kriwet, Frey, González, Gutiérrez,
Ifrim, Stinnesbeck *et *Stinnesbeck, 2024.
DOI: *1…

38 minutes ago

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A lazy northerly wind made for a cooler start to the day, though this was
brightened considerably by the rattle of auk chatter which drifted inland
from th…

5 hours ago

24th April

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Samey conditions – even those that were initially propitious, migrant-wise
– eventually see numbers fizzle out as birds get the hang of what’s going
on a…

5 hours ago

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A trip out with the boys today and an early start saw us at Winterbourne
Down where we saw 2 Stone Curlew , a Grey Partridge and a few Corn Bunting
. We…

5 hours ago

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22nd-23d April 2024 This evening, Richie Aston came across this Black Kite
over Lower Moors. A few minutes later I was observing it over Carn Vean
where I …

1 day ago

Lagunas de Campotéjar

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Hola a tod@s
El 18 de abril por la tarde Karolina López y yo estuvimos viendo aves en
las Lagunas de Campotéjar.

Las especies de aves que vimos u oímos f…

1 day ago

UNAS IMAGENES DEL PITO BEREBER

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En la bajada de Oukaimeden paramos junto a un pequeño bosque para ver y
fotografiar al Pito Bebeber ” Picus vaillantii”.

Pájaro carpintero bien distr…

1 day ago

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The day began calmly but remained overcast, by midday the wind had
gradually increased creating a brisk northerly set in for the day. Cloud
eventually pr…

2 days ago

Kevätlintuja 18.4.2024

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Viime tortaina oli mahdollisuus vähän aikaistaa töistä lähtöä, joten
painelin Viikkiin, tarkemmin Keinumäen tornia kohti puolen päivän jälkeen.
Tsekkasi…

2 days ago

18th-20th April

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Its been a rather quiet few days here with very little to get excited
about, rubbish weather has played a large part in that with winds picking
up on th…

3 days ago

Mist netting 21/3/24

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A small team assembled for a mist netting session around the willows &
Stafford Brook. We set up a base in the pond dipping shelter, and finished
settin…

4 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…

3 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 …

3 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…

4 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 …

4 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…

8 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