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Kerkini in Winter

November 24, 2023 by David T 3 Comments

Back in July, my fellow 10,000 Birds contributor Dragan wrote a delightful piece about birding Lake Kerkini in spring. I first visited Kerkini and...

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Birding the Garden City of Georgetown

November 22, 2023 by Faraaz Abdool 3 Comments

Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown, a quaint, sprawling network of roads and waterways is a regulated introduction to the country’s 800+ species of birds....

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The Snow Partridge

November 20, 2023 by Kai Pflug 1 Comment

eBird calls the Snow Partridge a “stone-colored terrestrial bird of stony hillsides, mountain ridges, and meadows above treeline” – and in fact, it is...

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Birding Heligoland in Late September

November 18, 2023 by Luca 4 Comments

Volunteering on Heligoland for a month allowed me to get a sense of changing migration patterns in autumn. The first half of September (covered...

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What’s in a Name?

November 17, 2023 by David T 5 Comments

David Tomlinson The recent announcement by the American Ornithological Society that it intends to replace names of all birds named after people has caused...

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Necessities aside, what do you carry with you on a field trip?

November 16, 2023 by Dragan 1 Comment

Some years ago, I was doing research of waterbird migrations with a young ornithologist friend of mine. A knowledgeable birder and great company, he...