[adinserter block=”1″] Once upon a time, there was an adventurous Mexican young woman called Miriam. She packed her bags, waved her family goodbye, and left for Sweden. At Lund University she studied economics, braved the cold, and found love: a nice ABBA-loving Viking called Fredrik. They bought a wee house and lived happily ever after. […]
[adinserter block=”1″] Looking for a bird book that has appeal to cross the generations, one that will delight both the preschooler and the seasoned birder? Try New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Rachel Ignotofsky’s What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest? and Other Questions and Answers about Nature & Life Cycles. Ignotofsky is best known for her 2016 […]
[adinserter block=”1″] The Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus has been one of my favourite birds since I was little. Look at it close up and it does look grotesque. I couldn’t describe it better than Willoughby Verner did in his book “My Life Among the Wild Birds in Spain” published in 1909: “It is when the […]
[adinserter block=”1″] I hereby confess that last week I failed to write a post, although I should do so each week. In my defense, I spent my Thursday morning “deadline” three hours away from my home, in the eastern Michoacán town of Zitácuaro. I was participating as a speaker and guide in the Third Bird […]
[adinserter block=”1″] The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness is about birds and taxonomy, history and art, the birding god we have revered and torn down, the ornithological originals we’ve ignored or simply don’t know. It’s also about personal journeys, where knowledge comes from and how it is shared, investigating […]
[adinserter block=”1″] May is the month in which spring migration basically comes to an end in Shanghai. The month starts with many birds and ends with very few – but some of those are quite spectacular. So, particularly near the end of May, we have the usual mixture of boredom and excitement that birdwatchers all […]
[adinserter block=”1″] In a recent post, I already covered some impressions of birding in Bonn in spring. But since this is easily the place where I go birding most frequently (if you’re allowed to call a stroll around the block birding!), I noticed that many birds had moved from setting up territories and breeding to […]
[adinserter block=”1″] Global BirdFair is an extraordinary sight that, up until 2022, we had only heard tales of. So, Erik and I decided we would have to see it for ourselves. The first time we experienced it, we flew into Leicester and took the short drive over. Then, when we chose to go back in […]
[adinserter block=”1″] Given how far Hokkaido is from Europe, it seems a bit surprising how many bird species wintering on this Japanese island have a name starting with “Eurasian”. Or how many of these species I have also seen in my parents’ garden in Germany. Like the Eurasian Nuthatch. It keeps itself busy in winter […]
[adinserter block=”1″] By Clive Finlayson Growing up in Gibraltar, it is impossible not to notice large birds of prey, in the thousands, overhead. That, and his father’s influence, got Clive hooked on birds from a very young age. His passion for birds took him eventually to the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at Oxford […]
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