Pallid Swift – Dhahran Waste Water Lake

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…

4 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…

5 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…

4 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

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6 years ago

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What a difference a day makes: in broadly similar conditions to yesterday –
the light breeze a tad more easterly than northerly but the sky just as
clear a…

15 hours ago

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Last night was spectacular, with a check of the Petrel Station nest box
cameras revealing birds in four of the boxes (including three pairs),
whilst the …

15 hours ago

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A quick look at the Exminster Marshes only got me 2 male Garganey . I then
decided to do some birding on Dartmoor where I saw .3 *Whinchat* , Northern
W…

21 hours ago

4th-7th May

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Its been a superb few days here with plenty of migrants still lingering
about and even a couple of rarer birds that would be better suited to
mid-Octobe…

1 day ago

Alcaudón común en La Catalana

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Hoy un Lanius Senator se encontraba posado en una de las pocas parcelas de
terreno sin construir en Sant Adrià de Besòs, y que permanece vallada, en
med…

1 day ago

EN EL TAGDILT TRACK

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Dejamos Boumalne de Dades y a corta distancia nos desviamos a la derecha
por el llamado Tagdilt Track, lugar conocido desde hace muchos años por
los o…

2 days ago

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The wind had switched to northerly overnight and dominated the days
weather, causing a few birds to drop on the island. A vocal *Blue*-
*headed Wagtail *w…

2 days ago

White-Breasted Waterhen preening

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white-breasted Waterhen *(Amaurornis phoenicurus phoenicurus)*

I have seen this solitary adult water-hen foraging and preening in a dry
open area near t…

1 week ago

Esnorquel en El Portús

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Hola a tod@s

El 22 de abril por la tarde estuve un rato haciendo esnorquel en El Portús.

Las especies de peces que vi fueron: *Oedalechilus labeo, Diplodus…

1 week ago

Una pico de plata

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Unas imágenes tomadas este verano a orillas de la laguna Las Perdices, a
poca distancia de mi casa en San Miguel del Monte.
Son de una hembra joven de pico…

1 week 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 …

2 weeks 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…

1 month 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…

5 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 …

5 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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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