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Kgalagadi: September 2009 (Part 2)
Right, let’s continue with this trip report, shall we? We’re picking up from the last episode, where we finished our morning drive from Twee Rivieren on our first full day. The heat in the middle of...
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Ritje Oostvaardersdijk
Enige weken terug was ik onderweg van Amsterdam naar Lelystad en had wat ruimte ingepland voor het maken van foto’s als de gelegenheid zich voor deed. Normale mensen nemen de A6 om er te komen. Ik ga...
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Not many birds – Qaryat Al Ulya Pivot Fields
Phil Roberts and I went ‘up north’ in search of eagles, or anything else of interest last weekend. The large number of Greater Spotted Eagles seen at Sabkhat Al Fasl and Dhahran this winter made us...
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Lesser Kestrel – Alba Marsh (Bahrain)
Whilst ringing at Alba Marsh Nicole and I heard some gunshots and saw a couple of Bahraini men in a four wheel drive car. We said hello as they passed by and let them know we were ringing in the marsh...
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Spring alive…
Birding is such a great activity, always surprises, lots of interesting stuff and interesting people you meet along the way. Last Monday we added to the ringing team at the IBRCE Roger Riddington and...
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Rain Sun Rain
Our newly arrived Red-Rumped Swallows start the task of nest building, feeding as the go. Black-eared Wheatears have been arriving with the lovely male photographed on the 15th. With a backdrop of the...
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Great Bustard: the great show in the plains
The Great Bustard (Otis tarda) is one of the largest and most spectacular European birds. Mature males can attain a wingspan of 2,4 meters and a weight of 18 kg, and are among the world’s heaviest...
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Kiwi reports from the Arava…
Over the last few weeks I’ve been overloaded with guiding, monitoring, managing and in between being a father to my two sons who are enjoying a Passover vacation and a husband to my lovely wife who...
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Rain of Birds at last…
This spring has been very strange. After such a rainy winter with 4-6 floods in the southern Arava, we all expected that the desert will be filled with migrants. Then came March and by the end of it...
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Windhover Woes
“I caught this morning morning’s minion, kingdom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding high there, how he rung...
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Why Are Birds of the Arctic in Decline?
With some species of Arctic birds experiencing steep drops in population and their prey also undergoing marked shifts, scientists are working to understand what role climate change is playing in these...
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Malta – Massacre on Migration (Episode 4)
Chris Packham and the BirdLife Malta Team were busy yesterday delivering illegally shot birds from all over Malta to a veterinary practice for examination and treatment. The videoclip covers a...
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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald – review
The arcane world of falconry is infamous for a snobbery that dates back to the medieval period, when different raptors were pegged to a hierarchical list of feudal stations. So the noble peregrine was...
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The 1,300 Bird Species Facing Extinction Signal Threats to Human Health
Birds are the planet’s superheroes, built for survival. The ice of Antarctica doesn’t faze them. Nor does the heat of the tropics. They thrive in the desert, in swamps, on the open ocean, on sheer...
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Lots of birds – Sabkhat Al Fasl
My trip to Sabkhat Al Fasl last weekend proved quite rewarding with lots of birds seen including a few good ones. The first bird we saw on arrival was a Mauryan (Steppe) Grey Shrike sitting on an...
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Video: Harvesting Cuckoo Shrike Eggs for Captive Breeding
The Mauritian Wildlife Foundation (MWF) is a non-governmental, non-profit conservation agency working in Mauritius to save threatened endemic local flora and fauna. The Mauritian Wildlife Appeal Fund...
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Rain Sun Rain
Our newly arrived Red-Rumped Swallows start the task of nest building, feeding as the go. Black-eared Wheatears have been arriving with the lovely male photographed on the 15th. With a backdrop of the...
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Much more at Rakhyut
There was much more to Rakhyut than owling (see yesterday’s blog). On the mountain top before we (Saeed Shanfari, Hedi Khecharem and I) descended into Rakhyut the action started. There were four...
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Past The Old Tobacco Fields In Search Of Birds
I took a walk on Easter morning and passed by some old agricultural fields where I earned my first paycheck picking tobacco leaves in the late 70’s. All that remains of those days are the ghostly...
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