Species Spotlight

Species Spotlight: The Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher

December 13, 2024 by Kai Pflug 3 Comments
Maybe this kingfisher should have chosen another island to live on – according to one paper on the species, Java is the most densely...
Birding

Two Owls of North Sulawesi

November 25, 2024 by Kai Pflug 1 Comment
Unfortunately, I only saw two owl species during my week or so on Sulawesi – for a comprehensive description of the owls on the...
Birding

Some Halmahera Parrots

September 25, 2024 by Kai Pflug 1 Comment
Parrots are among the most threatened of all birds – of the 202 parrot species of the Old World and Africa, only a bit...
Birding

Birding the Tomohon area, North Sulawesi

September 9, 2024 by Kai Pflug 9 Comments
Tomohon is a town in North Sulawesi about 30 km south of Manado, the city and airport where birders are most likely to arrive....
Birding

Not your standard bird: Standardwing on Halmahera

July 29, 2024 by Kai Pflug 5 Comments
Yes, I know. It would have been quite hard to come up with a lamer headline than the one above. And the “standard” in...
Reviews

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea 2nd edition – A Field Guide Review

April 22, 2021 by Dragan 3 Comments
“Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea” by James A. Eaton, Bas van Balen, Nick W. Brickle and Frank E. Rheindt is...
Trips

World birding from a Schrödinger’s house

August 13, 2020 by Dragan 2 Comments
What I truly hate about the pandemic is that it mentally puts me back into the 1990s in the Balkans. Tensions, failing economy, depression...
Birds

“Keep your taxonomy out of my field guide” – revisited

April 30, 2017 by Jochen 18 Comments
Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why field guides that arrange...
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