The most unpromising landscapes – see the picture above – can hold the most interesting birds: larks. Like us humans, larks hail from Africa and like us, they like wide open landscapes. Unlike the majority of Homo Sapiens, most larks are still in Africa, so that’s where we will start our list. The Greater Hoopoe […]
Apologies for this week’s late posting. Adult Bearded Vulture I woke up in the middle of the night with a Blackbird (Turdus merula) persistently singing from a tree outside. It was five in the morning and sunrise was still three hours away. The noticeably increasing daylength after 21st December soon gets local birds into the […]
New Year’s resolutions are my Achilles’ heel: I have no vices to quit. I don’t drink much on Tuesdays, I don’t smoke, and I recycle. For the coming year, I can promise to take better pictures or I can go for a Big Year 2025 in Rotterdam. Since the latter seems more doable than the […]
Ask any British birdwatcher to name their least favourite birds and the chances are high that the Common Pheasant, Phasianus colchicus, will top the list. Here in Britain we never use the affix Ring-necked, as many of our Pheasants don’t have rings on their necks, but I am talking about the same bird that is […]
What is your favorite bird species? The Yellow-eared Parrot, an endemic treasure of Colombia, has to be my favorite! What is your name, and where do you live? I’m Leyden Heredia, but most people know me as Asherita Viajera. I call Cali, Colombia, my home, although I’m rarely there since I’m always traveling, birding, guiding, […]
In my last article I highlighted some of the birds that I associate with this time of the year. Two of them, Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) and Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis) are species that are now wintering along the coasts of Gibraltar. We have had a spell of strong easterly winds and this pushed many […]
Last year, the oldest Christmas Bird Count in Mexico turned 50 years old. That would be the CBC in San Blas, Nayarit, founded by American birders in 1973. We have a long ways to go before we reach that milestone in Michoacán. We held our very first CBC just three years ago, making a complete […]
As I mentioned in my September 4 blog, Rouge Park is on the easternmost edge of Toronto. It is an urban park and you can take public transportation to get there. But, the park is sprawling and driving there is a better option. Bobolink When my birding buddy and I figure it is quiet at […]
While the main reason to come to Tangkoko is to see birds at the Tangkoko Nature Reserve, it is also worth considering a shortish boat trip along the coast – even for people like me who do not particularly like boat trips. My trip started how many activities on Sulawesi seem to start – with […]
Say you are in Johannesburg for business, and you are really tired of sitting in the dark during the inevitable South African load shedding. What better remedy than driving an hour north for some serious birding? Much richer than the Cape in terms of species and with a variety of landscapes, Zaagkuildrift Road is an […]
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