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 […]
What is your favorite bird species? My favorite bird species is the Western Tanager, because this is the bird that inspired my love for birding when I was just nine years old. Wrentit What is your name, and where do you live? My name is Rachel Clark and I live in Fresno, California, which is […]
Back in June, I wrote about the birds of the Macaronesian islands – Azores, Madeira, the Canaries and Cape Verde. Today I’m going to zoom into the desert islands in the east of the Canaries archipelago – Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. These islands lie close to the western edge of the continental Sahara Desert. Fuerteventura, the […]
I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated on 40 species. So one day, in search of new birds, I drove from my base at Agios Nickolas, south of Kalamata, to the Gialova Lagoon, on the west coast. Described as “one of the most […]
It started with an email regarding another birder’s blog. Then, the blogger in Panama mentioned that he was going to be in Toronto in early October. The blogger in Toronto asked if he would like to spend a day birding together. That is how Fitzroy and Leslie became possibly the first writers in recent times […]
The winter months are dark in the boreal forest. Hours of available hunting are low and temperatures are extremely low. It’s a miracle that anything can find sustenance and survive here. The birds that live here are tough and belong mainly to particular families of birds. Owls do particularly well here, the long nights actually […]
You know things are getting desperate when you get excited by an unexpected flock of Starlings. Here I was, six days into a trip to Mani, in the Greek Peloponnese, and my bird list had yet to reach 40 species. It was early in the morning, and I was trudging up a dried-up river valley […]
By John Hague John moved to Leicester in 1993 to start training as a mental health nurse and recently retired after 30-odd years in the NHS to start Shrike Birding Tours. His passion for birds extends into writing and using the power of words and birds to try and engage with people to enjoy the wildlife […]
This is not a post about The Machine Learning and Optimisation (MALEO) group, led by Prof. Dr. Heike Trautmann, so if you want to read about machine learning, you need to look somewhere else … Unlike machine learning, the Maleo is critically endangered. The females lay their eggs in burrows at , and […]
While The Observer’s Book of Birds was an inspirational little book for me as a small child, it didn’t take me long to want to learn more. My father was a keen reader, and on most Saturday afternoons he would go the local public library. I would often accompany him, and I soon discovered the […]
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