Still lots of Purple Heron – Dhahran Waste Water Lake

Global Big Day, 11 May 2024

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Yesterday was Global Big Day and World Migratory Bird Day. Global Big Day
is organised by the Cornell Lab, in association with Swarovski Optik and Global …

2 days ago

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…

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

[image: Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita)]

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6 years ago

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There’s still plenty of time for spring to come good on the rarity front
but it’s fair to say that the twelve hours of working the Obs garden
mist-nets for…

5 hours ago

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A blustery, but in the most part dry, day allowed us to crack on with the
seabird monitoring. Gwennan and Judith got to grips with the *Fulmar*
productiv…

5 hours ago

EN CAMINO A MERZOUGA

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Dejamos Tagdilt Track y nos esperan mas de 240 Kms para llegar a nuestro
próximo destino, Merzouga.
Por el camino haríamos varias paradas en busca de e…

20 hours ago

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Devon Birds Lundy Island trip

The M . V .Oldenburg left Bideford for Lundy Island around 9.30 am and on
the way we saw Common Guillemot , Razorbill , *M…

1 day ago

10th-12th May

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The last few days have been a little bit quieter than than the previous
week but still not without birds, there have been a few new additions to
the year l…

1 day ago

Nokisorsa ja mökkeilyä 12.5.2024

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7.5 lähdettiin Kari Lindblomin kanssa ajelemaan kohti Poria aamusella, kun
olin saanut pojan päiväkotiin. Nokisorsasta tuli päivityksiä pitkin matkaa
ja…

2 days ago

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10th May 2024 This Temmink’s Stint was feeding only at arms length away at
the project Pool, lower Moors. A Temmink’s Stint turned up at the project
Pool e…

2 days ago

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A moderate south-westerly breeze kept temperatures mild despite glorious
sunshine for much of the day. Wader numbers were down from the day before,
with …

6 days ago

Archibebe común atrapando una lombriz

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El Archibebe Común con movimientos precisos y elegantes se aproximó al
borde del agua, buscando presas. Con un rápido movimiento, se abalanzó
sobre una l…

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…

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 …

4 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…

9 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