Rufous-tailed Scrub Robins – Al Uqair

أجمات الرطريط خلال شهر مارس 2024

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الموافق في معظمه رمضان من العام اربع وعشرون واربعمائة والف للهجرة

لم اكن اذهب لتلك المنطقة في الشهرين السابقين في وقت التريض الصباحي لان
المنطقة تكون ما…

8 hours 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…

1 day 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…

3 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

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Although it was wild at times, with the wind regularly gusting at over 35
knots, it was dry and the Farm complex pleasingly sheltered in places,
meaning …

4 hours ago

5th April

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Yesterday’s hint of things getting going again did indeed prove to be the
precursor to migration gaining substantially more momentum, with a far more
typic…

4 hours ago

Gaviota de Audouin CDJF, al vuelo

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Anillada en el Port de Barcelona en la campaña de 2017,

Gaviota de Audouin. Gavina corsa. Audouin’s Gull. Larus audouinii.

Observada mientras volaba…

5 hours ago

Sierra Espuña – Bajil – Calblanque

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Hola a tod@s

Los días 28 y 29 de marzo Bobby Bok, Tieme, Chiel, Robin, Tijmen, Mett,
Willem, Zeb, Jari y yo estuvimos viendo fauna, principalmente anfibios…

7 hours ago

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Back again and today its my favourite bird species Woodpeckers . Hope you
enjoy them .

1 day ago

31st March – 2nd April

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Light westerlies and bright sunshine on 31st meant there was a clear out of
a fair few migrants, but Common Scoter was added to the year list when two
we…

2 days ago

ENTRE CETINA Y EL RIO SAN PEDRO

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Breve visita a la marisma de Cetina, un poco pobre en aves en esta ocasión.
Estamos al principio de la migración primaveral.
En la imagen algunos Correl…

2 days ago

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The nets were opened for much of the day at Cristin thanks to this calm
weather with 112 new birds caught including the first *Firecrest *and *Bullfinch
…

3 days ago

Great Egret at Taman Tasik Raub

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Great Egret *(Casmerodius alba modestus)*
First time see this big bird in Raub.

[image: Great Eagret head picture at Raub Lake Garden]
Great Egret head and …

5 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…

2 weeks ago

Lapinpöllö 16.3.2024

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Käytiin eilen lasten kanssa bongaamassa Helsingin Laajasalossa paljon
julkisuutta saanut Lapinpöllö vuosilistalle. Lappareita näkyy melkein
vuosittain p…

2 weeks ago

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13th-14th March 2024 This crackin Mediterranean Gull was hanging out with
some 3-400 Black-headed Gull at Horton Wood The only species of note 14th,
was a …

3 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…

2 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 …

2 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…

3 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 …

3 months 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 …

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…

7 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