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Horrible Hybrids

November 30, 2023 by David T 3 Comments

As a general rule, birders don’t like hybrids. For a start, they may struggle to identify them, while secondly they can’t even tick them....

Trips

Looking for Lazarus

November 29, 2023 by Peter 2 Comments

When I grew up in the seventies we didn’t have global warming, we had global cooling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling). Consequently, the summer weather was awful, always....

Reviews

Birds of the Northern Forest – An homage

by Aleksandar No Comments

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to learn how to draw, but alas I never made it past the stickman. More precisely...

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 3)

November 27, 2023 by Kai Pflug 4 Comments

The Bornean Bristlehead is kind of the star bird of Sepilok. eBird calls it “a ‘grail bird’ of many birders visiting Borneo. Ironically, while...

Birding

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...