[adinserter block=”1″] There’s something improbably delicious about glistening, glutinous mud, freshly washed by a receding tide. I was sitting in the insulated warmth of my car, watching the sea slide silently out of the creeks, gutters and drains it had drowned completely only hours before. The moon was full, so its gravitational pull was at […]
[adinserter block=”1″] Don’t you love it when blog post writers split topics that do not interest you in the first place into two separate parts? Welcome to Birding Tongbiguan, part 1. The boring title is not even entirely true – the post includes photos taken at Rongshuwang and Nabang, places a few dozen kilometers away […]
[adinserter block=”1″] As my parents live in Bonn in Germany, I have been birding a few times in some spots surrounding the city when visiting them over the last few years, including the Siegaue (riverine and grassy habitats) and the Siebengebirge (mainly forest). Having recently started an internship in Bonn, I hoped to have some […]
[adinserter block=”1″] A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. The […]
[adinserter block=”1″] In his book Tales of a Tribe, author Mark Cocker describes an unfortunate event befalling a friend. One night while camping in the Himalayas, the birding friend hears a Satyr Tragopan calling. He leaves the camp to look for the bird, and has never been seen again. Non-birders will ask: what has happened, […]
[adinserter block=”1″] John Whitehead (1860-1899) was a British explorer who once a year starting in 1885 tried to climb Mount Kinabalu and finally succeeded in 1888, the first person to do so. When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. Three of them can be found on […]
[adinserter block=”1″] The word “endemic” has always seemed rather vague to me. Oxford Languages offers this definition: 2. (of a plant or animal) native and restricted to a certain place. When a birder uses the word, we usually refer to a species that canbe mostly or exclusively found in a single country. Which means that […]
[adinserter block=”1″] While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around the city where I lived, Maastricht. This makes sense as the area is not that interesting for birding, but I also was not aware of some of […]
[adinserter block=”1″] The Varied Tit is a rare species in Shanghai – this was the first time I ever saw one, even though it is relatively common further North in China. Shanghaibirding reports that the species was seen in Shanghai in 2012, so it is not the first time but still a rare event for […]
[adinserter block=”1″] Memorable encounters with Mammals: Part I Most birdwatchers enjoy seeing mammals, but the trouble with mammals is that they tend to be much more challenging to see than birds. Only in Africa is it really easy to see a big variety. I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that […]
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