Birds

The bills of the broadbills

December 13, 2015 by Jochen 2 Comments
Since this is the season of love and harmony and all things nice, I sincerely and originally had planned to write an equally nice,...
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Leaf Leaf Leaf Leaf Leaf Leaf Leaf Leaf Leaf Bird Leaf Leaf Leaf Leaf

November 15, 2015 by Jochen 2 Comments
You’d think that dressing in green to hide from predators inside a dense rainforest is as a strategy as plain as day, yet only...
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Pygmy Wren-babblers on Java

October 18, 2015 by Jochen 7 Comments
The pygmy wren-babbler is a tiny babbler that looks like a wren, making it a bird well named. This is not an insignificant fact...
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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

December 21, 2014 by Jochen 6 Comments
It must suck to be called “Brown Prinia“. Try as I might, I can’t think of a name that implies more boredom and more unattractiveness, and is...
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The Sunda Teals of Jakarta

October 26, 2014 by Jochen 2 Comments
The Sunda Teal is a brown duck. This may make it very popular amongst European birders who can relate, but it doesn’t make it...
Trips

Birding Gunung Gede on a weekend without suffering a mental break-down, part 1

December 22, 2013 by Jochen No Comments
Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, which comprises the twin volcanoes Gede and Pangrango (with gunung meaning “mountain”),  surely must rate as one of the birding highlights...
Birds

Savanna Nightjars prove that growing old is a process of becoming increasingly disillusioned

September 1, 2013 by Jochen 17 Comments
I am starting to feel my age. To be clear, in my early 40’s I really am not complaining. However, I feel the wind of...
Birds

The Mystery of the Red Munia

May 5, 2013 by Jochen 2 Comments
To all but the greediest rice and spirulina farmers of Southeast Asia, any member of the genus Lonchura is a joy to watch. The munias, or...
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