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Rediscovering Black Vultures: A Journey from Ignorance to Awe

September 3, 2024 by Fitzroy Rampersad 1 Comment

My childhood home in Trinidad, sits in a tranquil rural area on the very edge of the boundary limits of the Borough. As a...

Birding

When is a Vulture Not a Vulture?

February 15, 2024 by Paul Lewis 4 Comments

I think we don’t give vultures all the love they deserve. When you consider all the nasty stuff they uncomplainingly dispose of, and what...

Birding

Just had my lifer Cinereous Vulture this morning (Serbia)

March 23, 2023 by Dragan No Comments

I woke up this morning and checked social media before the coffee, only to notice a post: “MEGA – a Cinereous Vulture [a.k.a. Eurasian...

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Lockdown Serendipity

May 27, 2020 by Paul Lewis 1 Comment

Because of our age, Mexico’s rising COVID-19 numbers, and my wife’s anxiety about infectious diseases in general, we have been in total lockdown at...

Trips

Searching for vultures in India

May 24, 2018 by Dragan No Comments

What was the weirdest place you ever birded? Some smelly sewage ponds? Oh, don’t bother responding. A war zone? Then you are worse than me....

Trips

Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries

April 26, 2018 by Dragan 1 Comment

Morning at the slopes of Mt. Povlen, a quick stop filled with a song that sounds familiar, but I haven’t heard it since last...

Trips

Rosefinches, Griffons and Woodcocks

June 25, 2015 by Dragan No Comments

Early morning finds me driving southeast through spruce forests, mountain meadows, pastures and an occasional potato field, across Mt. Zlatar in western Serbia, heading...

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White-backed Vultures are Proper Birds

May 13, 2015 by Duncan 8 Comments

It can’t have escaped your notice lately that the blog has been overrun with articles about North America’s pseudo-warblers (or wood warblers, as some...

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