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Birding Cape Town

September 19, 2019 by Kai Pflug 3 Comments

In November 2018, I spent a few days birding in Cape Town, South Africa. While apparently not the safest of places, it is a...

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Nightingale-Thrushes

September 18, 2019 by Paul Lewis 3 Comments

We all have them: families of birds that are maddeningly similar, forever leaving nagging doubts about our identifications. Gulls. Terns. New World Warblers in...

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of September 2019)

September 16, 2019 by Mike 2 Comments

Mid-September conjures up visions of migrating shorebirds, songbirds, and waterfowl all joining together under ideal natural lighting for one perfect moment of birding. Sometimes,...

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Freckled Ducks and field guides

September 15, 2019 by Clare M No Comments

Anybody that has spent some time birding and using field guides will soon realise that the field guides are written for humans. Birds do...

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Foreign Languages on a Birding Trip

September 12, 2019 by Dragan No Comments

Don’t you hate it when you cannot communicate while birding overseas? Having mobility issues, I still remember birding from a van along a rather...

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Ground-Sparrows and Brush-Finches

September 11, 2019 by Paul Lewis No Comments

Most birders love a good double-hyphenate. Except, of course, for those who don’t yet know what a double-hyphenate is. Double-hyphenates are birds with two...