It’s returning, creeping into an olive grove or acacia thicket near you. Bird trappers are poised and ready to spread their unique brand of slow death across the countryside once more, if they ever truly vanished… This is an old and tragic story, and you’ve undoubtedly heard the majority of it before. But it’s worth […]
Tag: Flycatchers
Two new Cyornis and Zosterops bird species discovered on Borneo
Cyornis is a genus of passerine birds in the Muscicapidae family of Old World flycatchers. This genus contains 25 presently known species, including several previously classified as Rhinomyias. It is found in southern Asia, from the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Indonesia. The plumage of most Cyornis flycatchers is sexually dimorphic, […]
Mass die-off of birds in south-western US ’caused by starvation’
The mass die-off of thousands of songbirds in south-western US was caused by long-term starvation, made worse by unseasonably cold weather probably linked to the climate crisis, scientists have said. Flycatchers, swallows and warblers were among the migratory birds “falling out of the sky” in September, with carcasses found in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Arizona […]
Al Abraq Al-Khabari – a western oasis in Kuwait
Spring migration in Kuwait is in full force and migrants are literally everywhere – foraging, resting and passing by overhead. Al Abraq is a very small dot of green in a vast expanse of open desert in the far west of Kuwait. It is a working oasis and an absolute magnet for migratory birds that […]