Collaborative list – December 2021
A Happy New Year to you all. December in the UK has been the mildest on record with even Lady...
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My Ten Best Birds of 2021
As sad as I am to say it, I must: 2021 was one of my worst years for birding since...
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What was your first bird of the year this year, 2022? Here’s hoping it was something memorable, awesome, exciting, or...
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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2
Have you ever birded a place so young that birds still have no names? …– part 2 –Once I finish...
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Birds Worth The Trip
As this holiday week advanced and my Wednesday deadline approached, I was torn between two post themes. One was to...
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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 3)
My last trip to Balangshan was in July 2021 – now I was back, three months later. Yes, I know...
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Ringed Plover in Broome
Although the official paperwork has not been completed with the Rarities Committee it appears that we have the honour of...
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The Wintering Wood-Warblers of Costa Rica
Winter birding can be fun, especially when you do it in a place with palms, parrots, and weather for wearing...
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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa
Given the strict covid prevention measures here in China, I have not left the country in almost 2 years now....
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Low-effort Warbling
This time of year the canopies of the Neotropics are alive with countless warblers escaping the cold grip of the...
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