You shouldn’t be surprised to learn that there is a bird blogger in Libya, where people have become emboldened enough to try to take down the brutal dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. Bird bloggers are everywhere after all.
The situation in Libya makes my having missed seeing a woodcock so far this year a bit more tolerable and makes me feel virtually powerless and wishing there was something I could do. I guess it can’t hurt to pay a visit to Birding for a Lark or another blog based in Libya that I found today, Khadija Teri, who has been posting every day through the current crises, and maybe even leave a comment letting them know that they are in our thoughts.
Here’s hoping that the al-Gaddafi goes quickly and a democracy flourishes in Libya and in a couple of years a big bunch of bird bloggers goes to see what north Africa has to offer!
Being trapped at home due to a cyclone does not even compare to being trapped at home because of violence.
Let us all hope they can still make contact to the outside world, but it does look like someone is controlling phone and internet access.
Thanks for this. We are free in Tripoli but the war still rages on in other parts of Libya. Soon you’ll be able to go birding in Libya again.