Selecting my Top Ten Breckland birds should have been easy, but there was one crucial decision to be made. Should my Top Ten be birds that birders come to the Brecks to see, or my 10 favourite species? In the end I opted for a combination of the two. Great Bustards were lost from the […]
It is a time-honored tradition among Shanghai-based birders to go to some coastal places two or three hours north of the city to unsuccessfully look for Spoon-billed Sandpipers. This quest was difficult enough a few years ago but has since become more frustrating, as ever more areas are blocked off – not to protect the […]
Having spent several days on a birding and hiking trip in the Alps, my two buddies and I had two more days remaining. The last segment of our hiking trip (and correspondingly the last post of this mini-series) took us to the Soierngruppe, a relatively free-standing group of mountains forming a circular barrier arround two […]
Some years ago I was birding in the hills outside Ranikhet, in Uttarakhand, in the foothills of the Himalayas. We had seen an interesting selection of birds, including Streaked Laughing Thrushes, Grey-winged Blackbirds, Rufous-cheeked Scimitar Babblers and a Scaly-bellied Woodpecker, but nothing unexpected. Then, suddenly, our guide, Gajendra, got excited. He enthusiastically pointed out a […]
I’ve lived all my life in Toronto, Canada. I have been lucky to be able to travel to other places to bird, but Toronto is where my birding adventures began. There is always so much to see in every season. Toronto is located on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The three rivers that run […]
What is your favorite bird species? This is a real hard one, but I would have to say the stunning Pel’s Fishing Owl as this was my Spark bird-it’s the bird that got me into birding. Also, a firm favorite is the prehistoric-looking Shoebill from Uganda. Pel’s Fishing Owl What is your name, and where […]
We have been talking trash a lot lately. There was a post on trash birds and Kai recently really went for the knock-out by trashing our beloved hobby. Time for a friendlier view: why I absolutely adore sparrows. Adore? I love them! What’s so adorable about sparrows, these common, ubiquitous little brown birds? I will […]
Our two new blog post series are now one month old, with five posts published each. For our series on Birder’s Lists, we already have lists on Surely you will want to read one or all of them … If instead, you want to on a birding trip, maybe our series on bird guides is […]
It starts with a flight, then another, then another, then still, one more – to then realise that the island you’ve just landed on is only as big as the airstrip itself which by some miracle is covered in tarmac – to then get on a boat to go to a market to then get […]
When writing about pittas, even the normally rather reserved HBW sounds more like to a teenage Taylor Swift fan than a neutral scientist: “Elusive jewels of Asian forests, these striking passerines are adorned in some of the purest colors of any bird …” … which is immediately followed by the warning “… yet their shyness […]
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