Pallid Swift – Dhahran Waste Water Lake

Excellent day made even better!

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Friday was one of those crazy days… I started early at the Jerusalem Bird
Observatory, leading a birding walk for the birding club operated by
BirdLife…

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…

1 month 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

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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…

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

28th September

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After two rather blank days passage resumed in earnest in today’s much
finer conditions. It was perhaps a little too fine to have expected a big
arrival of…

5 hours ago

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It was another spectacular day, with huge skies and glorious light making
for exceedingly pleasant time in the field. There was no sign of the
lingering …

7 hours ago

12 Sep 24 – Autumnal Garden Butterflies

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I returned from a visit to Brands Bay, to find a pristine Comma had joined
the recently emerged Red Admirals in my Swanage garden.
*Red Admiral: *One of the…

12 hours ago

[Herpetology • 2024] A Redescription and Range Extension of Trimeresurus
caudornatus Chen, Ding, Vogel & Shi, 2020 (Serpentes: Viperidae)

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*Trimeresurus caudornatus *Chen, Ding, Vogel & Shi, 2020

*in *Nguyen, Idiiatullina, Oo, Lee, Poyarkov, David *et* Vogel, 2024.
DOI: *10.11646/zootaxa.551…

14 hours ago

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I went down to Exmouth to try a sea watch . I should have known better as
the winds were northerly ! So I did not see much at all with only numerous
Nor…

22 hours ago

Eider en el Port de Vilanova i la G.

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Tras leer varias citas ornitológicas del avistamiento del Eider común en
Ornitho y eBird, me llenó de ilusión la idea de poder observarlo en
persona. Final…

1 day ago

Esnorquel en El Portús

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Hola a tod@s

El 16 de septiembre por la tarde Irene Amorós y yo estuvimos haciendo
snorkel en El Portús.

Paisaje marino en El Portús

Las especies de pec…

1 day ago

Mist-netting 26/9/24

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The weather forecast kept changing & we almost cancelled the session due to
impending rain showers….but decided to give it a go. We’d originally
planne…

2 days ago

23rd – 26th September

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23rd was one of our biggest days for migrants so far this autumn, with a
total of 20 Yellow-browed Warbler, one Rosefinch, two Barred Warbler, six
Lesser W…

2 days ago

SENDERO CACHOEIRAS

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Mañana del 29 de agosto y después de barajar varias opciones nos decidimos
a recorrer el Sendero Cachoeiras lo mas temprano posible debido al intenso
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2 days ago

Male Baya Weaver feeding on grass seeds

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Male Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus infortunatus)

eating the savanna grass *(Axonopus compressus)* seeds
yellow cap
Male Baya Weaver (Ploceus philippinus…

3 days ago

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It was a wet and windy day on Enlli with strong south-easterlies bringing
heavy showers. An *Osprey *battled its way south against the wind, low over
the…

3 days ago

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23rd September 2024 It don’t get better than this when it comes to moths in
the UK!! This OLEANDER HAWKMOTH is the highlight of the year so far for on
Scil…

4 days 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 …

1 week 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…

2 months ago

Toukokuun lopput ja kesäkuun alku

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Toukokuun puolessa välissä alkoi uudet työt lentoasemalla, joten suurin
aika mennyt uusien asioiden omaksumiseen ja viikonloppuisin toki vähän
tullut my…

3 months ago

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“Another fantastic short tour in Majorca, beautiful weather, amazing
scenery and fabulous Birds”

The post Majorca – Spring 2024 appeared first on Cornwal…

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…

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 …

8 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…

9 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 …

9 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…

5 years ago