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Creepin’ on Walls in Bonn

February 10, 2024 by Luca 5 Comments

As I noted in my last post, I recently found out that a Wallcreeper had been discovered already in December just outside Bonn, conveniently...

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Don’t Ignore the Barnacles – they’re Real Birds

February 9, 2024 by David T 4 Comments

Serious birders may have an obsessive interest in birds, but one thing they universally don’t like are birds which, they believe, aren’t properly wild....

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Please Don’t Ask for an Aztec

February 8, 2024 by Paul Lewis 3 Comments

If, someday, you make your way to Morelia, and ask for me to show you some of our best birds, I will surely do...

Reviews

Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

February 6, 2024 by Donna No Comments

Journeys With Penguins: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin is a different type of penguin book. Author Gerald L. Kooyman (co-author with Jim Mastro)...

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Birding Shanghai in January 2024

February 5, 2024 by Kai Pflug 3 Comments

In German colloquial language, there is the jokingly derogative term “Warmduscher”, indicating a person who prefers warm to cold showers (the efficiency of the...

Trips

Business Birding Basics

February 3, 2024 by Peter 1 Comment

My recent posts may have given the impression that business birding is always exotic, on remote islands or with lots of birds. Seeing Solitary...

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As the tide falls: an hour at Brancaster Staithe

February 2, 2024 by David T 1 Comment

There’s something improbably delicious about glistening, glutinous mud, freshly washed by a receding tide. I was sitting in the insulated warmth of my car,...