Rose-ringed Parakeets – Dhahran Cricket Field

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…

2 days ago

Five years

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Yesterday was a pretty big day for me. I celebrated five years of eBird
checklist streak: for the past five years I have been out birding every
day. 1825…

6 days 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…

1 week ago

دردشة فوتوغرافية – ج2

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ذكرت في التدورينة السابقة معلومات واقتراحات عن كيفية استخدام خاصية

Pro capture

او ما يقابلها في موديلات الكاميرات الاخرى. وهنا قد يبرز في الذهن سؤال مه…

3 weeks 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…

2 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

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A trip up to Abberton Reservoir today with my birding mates Paul Bray and
Andy Bond in hope of seeing an American duck that has been there for a
while n…

2 hours ago

Sierra del Saliente

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Hola a tod@s

Los días 20, 21 y 22 de diciembre estuve unos ratos viendo aves en la
Sierra del Saliente.

Sierra del Saliente

Las especies de aves que obs…

5 hours ago

Garceta grande se acerca del azud

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Una vez más, he avistado una Ardea alba en el tramo del río Besós, cerca
del azud en Santa Coloma de Gramenet. Moviéndoselos, levantando el vuelo
pero n…

6 hours ago

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28th December 2023 This Indian Mongoose was in the local park next my digs
a few days ago This afternoon, I made my first visit to the patch,
Bhakunde, in …

7 hours ago

ENTRADA DEDICADA A BULBULES

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En esta entrada algunas fotos de bulbules tomadas en los alrededores del
lodge en el P.N. Taman Negara.

Este primero es el Bulbul de Finlayson ” Pycn…

1 day ago

26th December

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We’ve been absent or otherwise engaged quite a lot just lately so a brief
catch-up this evening. Today’s odds and ends included 3 *Fieldfares *and
singles …

2 days ago

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Report from our Norfolk Tour 3rd to 9th December 2024 DAY 1 – HOLKHAM AND
STIFFKEY After arriving the night before at our wonderful accommodation at
The …

6 days 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…

2 weeks 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 …

3 weeks ago

Start of the winter Chiffs

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It’s not often we start our winter sewage works ringing in December, but a
couple of weekends of cold weather recently gave us the chance to venture
out …

3 weeks ago

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We can only apologise that tonight’s Blog is dropping on the wrong side of
midnight, but it has been quite a day! It began well before dawn as
inevitably…

3 weeks ago

Gedau Estate, Sandakan

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15-17th November 2023

My 2nd visit to Gedau Estate since 1993 and the 3 days visit were mainly to
observed birds and other wildlife found within the vi…

4 weeks ago

King Fisher at Rambutan Tree

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A pair of White-throated King Fisher on Rambutan Tree *(Nephelium
lappaceum)*
White-throated Kingfisher *(Halcyon smyrnensis)*
jumping

5 weeks ago

30th October – 5th November

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With continued easterlies, we’ve had some more great birds during the last
week, including a yet more additions to the year list. That being said,
espec…

1 month ago

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A seawatch off the South End produced the first two *Eiders *of the year
alongside 19 *Common Scoters*, four *Dunlins*, 1520 *Kittiwakes*, two *Mediternea…

2 months ago

Mist netting 17/10/2023

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Four members of the Group were joined by Fiona, a Countryside Assistant
with Wild East Devon, for a session in the ‘Willows’. This area, which is
quite …

2 months ago

Isovesipääsky 13.10.2023

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Pohdittiin perjantaina 13 päivä Juliuksen kanssa, että mitähän sitä
pitäisi värkätä. Poika toivoi karkkipäivänkarkkien hakua, ja sovittiin,
että näin te…

2 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…

4 months ago

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*Welcome to Lundy Bird Observatory*

As a proud member of the Bird Observatory community, Lundy Bird Observatory
is committed to and promo…

9 months 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.

3 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…

3 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