Several hundred Hypocolius – Al Uqair

Uvda Valley

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Nice morning yesterday in Uvda Valley. The habitat looks promising –
earlier rains produced a fresh, lush carpet of annuals. Surely this area
will attrac…

4 days ago

حصاد الهجرة في شهر اكتوبر

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ظلت دخلات منتيري تظهر حتى يوم العاشر من اكتوبر. وقد عرفت ان العديد منها قد
وصل إذ كانت الذكور بحلل مخلتفة ما بين اليافع و ذلك الذي بدأ ريشه الصيفي في
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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…

2 weeks 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 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

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6 years ago

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Back to par today, with 2 *Goosanders *on the Fleet beyond Ferrybridge
perhaps only tenuously qualifying as a Portland sighting. Twenty more *Red-throated…

5 hours ago

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11th January 2024 Up to 6 Brahminy Starling in the garden where I’m staying
at, were a species that I’ve never seen before! I finally left Chitwan City
in …

10 hours ago

ZEPA Estepas de Yecla – Monte Arabí

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Hola a tod@s

El 13 de enero Arancha Puche, María Martínez y yo estuvimos observando aves
en estos dos lugares del municipio de Yecla.

*ZEPA Estepas de Ye…

14 hours 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 …

18 hours ago

ALGUNAS FOTOS DE AVES EN KUALA LUMPUR

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En esta entrada algunas fotos de aves tomadas en un pequeño parque urbano
en Kuala Lumpur, junto al que a un lado estaba el hotel en el que nos
alojamo…

20 hours ago

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A short trip up the the Haldon Forest just outside of Exeter to look for*
Common Crossbill* and I managed to see 12 of them . Also seen was a single
Eur…

1 day ago

12 Jan 23 – Argentina – Rio Grande

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After arriving in Argentina, I enjoyed three days travelling down to the
coast to the East of Buenos Aires and back, before flying to Ushuaia. I
arrived in…

3 days ago

Primera salida de 2024

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Como vengo haciendo desde 2012, hice una salida de observación el día 1
de enero por la zona rural del partido de Monte, en inmediaciones de la
localidad…

1 week ago

Spote Dove Courtship Behavior

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Spotted Dove *(Spilopelia chinensis chinensis).*
sepasang Terkukur
male in the background

Kissing
The male is making a lot of noise
The male circling the f…

2 weeks 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 …

3 weeks 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 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 …

5 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 …

5 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…

1 month 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…

2 months ago

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With the season coming to an end, most of the day was spent busily sorting
out the observatory for the winter. However, mid-morning there was one last
su…

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…

5 months ago

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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