We don’t get to see the Spoon-Billed Sandpiper in Shanghai that often – actually, this is the first time ever I have seen it in my hometown. But this October, three of them spent some time on the Nanhui mudflats, just a few kilometers away from the microforests that are the main photo source for […]
Whitby is a quaint fishing port on the Yorkshire coast. I lived nearby with my family in the early nineties – my youngest son was born a Yorkshireman. According to Bram Stoker, it is in Whitby that Count Dracula landed in England. That’s the beginning of the end of that story, but I was standing […]
My wife and I reached southern Spain’s Costa del Sol region on October 19th, staying until the 4th of November. Spain, coming out of a multi-year drought, had begun receiving promising early season rains. And then, on October 29th, these rains turned torrential, leading to Spain’s worst-ever natural disaster. To date when I’m writing this, […]
Most readers, the peripapatic ones, may know the Lonely Planet house as a publisher of travel guides segregated by country, city, or other geographic area, as many travel guides are. A variation on this practice and, perhaps, a natural outgrowth of it, is The Joy of Birdwatching (by multiple authors, with a Foreword by Tenijah […]
After having had a summer with a rich set of different birding experiences – from Rock Ptarmigan in the Alps to scoping out Little Bustards in a steppe in southern France – it was quite a contrast to get back to Bonn in Germany for work and suddenly having my bird sightings reduced to my […]
In The Music Man, a wonderful work of musical theater to which I was much exposed as a child, the first scene begins with several traveling salesmen considering the threat of a new, even less honest competitor. One of them repeatedly insists that the interloper could not be serious competition because “he doesn’t know the […]
What is your favorite bird species? That’s the hardest question ever! But I love Red Warblers, I think they look whimsical and cute, when I see Red Warblers, the forest feels like home. What is your name, and where do you live? My name is Pamela García, born and raised in fabulous Mexico City What […]
Time’s almost up for the Scopoli’s (Calonectris diomedea) and Cory’s (Calonectris borealis) Shearwaters to leave for waters in the South Atlantic where they will spend the winter. These two sister species were considered a single species until fairly recently when they were separated as full species based on genetic evidence. Broadly speaking, Scopoli’s Shearwaters breed […]
Guest post by Kerenza Vlastou, Outreach Manager, Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) Love dogs? Love birds? Guess what—they can coexist peacefully, but it takes a little bit of responsibility on our part. Whether you’re a dog lover, a birder, or both, you might be surprised to learn that our furry friends can sometimes cause […]
By Cat Fribley Cat Fribley (she/her) is the Executive Director of Birdability. Cat began birding for mental health and healing in college after a PTSD diagnosis, and had to find new ways to access birding as her form of joy and mindfulness in the natural world after a series of physical injuries and illnesses left […]
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