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When you are a New York City-based birder that is pretty pleased with the amount of boxes ticked off on your New York State checklist you would normally want a rarity that you have not seen in the state to show up within an hour drive of your home.  But you do not want this [...]

What is true in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US holds true for Cyprus as well: Spring is prime-time for Passerines. They’re just so easy to hear and to see that now, with how they advertise themselves with their songs and vibrant plumages, they sometimes give the impression of being more numerous than in Autumn. [...]

South African ex-pat Mike Pope is Chair of the Kuwait Ornitholigical Records Committee (KORC), runs the excellent Birding Kuwait website, is a superb photographer (genuinely, his photos are as good as most of those published by professionals – see below – and are posted on his website at 800px wide so every detail is there [...]