Tag: endemic birds

Birding

Islands in the Sun

June 30, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 6 Comments

As I write these lines, I am excited and preparing for the start of a Calpe Conference here in Gibraltar. We have been organizing...

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....

Birding

What to look for in a new home

May 17, 2017 by Tom Brown 5 Comments

What does the average person go looking for, in a new place to live? Close to schools, grocery store, a nice neighborhood, all things...

Birds

A Baja Endemic, the Gray Thrasher

April 19, 2017 by Tom Brown 1 Comment

With its bright yellow eyes, and bold arrow shaped breast markings, the Gray Thrasher, Toxostomsa cincerum is one of my favorite photography targets. This...

News

This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

September 14, 2016 by Meredith Mann 2 Comments

In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, not a magical place—you’re thinking of Tahiti, Agent Coulson.) But it’s not always so...

Birds

The Remotest Endemic Birds

August 13, 2013 by James 4 Comments

If one was a serious twitcher – kinda like Phoebe Snetsinger (who saw approximately 8,400 species before her death), Tom Gullick (reputedly the first...

Trips

Ethiopia’s Endemics

February 14, 2012 by Adam Riley 31 Comments

Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Only twenty years...

Birds