Twice a year Cyprus, the third greatest island in the mediterranean, is a crucial stopover site for millions of migrating birds during their sea crossings. Due to these huge numbers of migrating birds, hunting and trapping has alwasy been part of the island’s history. In the past, songbirds – mainly Blackcap and similar-sized warblers – […]
Author: Marc Guyt
Marc Guyt is a Dutch photographer and owner of wildlife stock agency AGAMI.
A Wanderer by birth, Marc has always made his way to the door searching for new adventures. Even at three years old he sneaked out and left his parents searching and they usually found him somewhere near an open area or some water edge. The need to see for himself was strong.
The combination of Birding, photographing and travelling has brought him to many stunning places on this beautiful globe, and it will bring him no doubt in many more. It is in his blood.
Owner of Dutch stock agency www.agami.nl.
A Birthday Gift to Stop the Illegal Slaughter of Migrating Birds
The countdown has started – in only 18 days the Dutch Knights, represented by Martijn Verdoes, Marc Guyt & Gert Ottens, will take part in the biggest birding event of the year – the Champions of the Flyway 2015. This is a fundraising event to stop the illegal trapping and slaughter of millions of migrating […]
Dutch Knights defending their title at the 2015 Champions of the Flyway
STOP THE ILLEGAL KILLING OF MIGRATING BIRDS AND DONATE HERE! Last year editor Gert Ottens from Birdlife Netherlands, AGAMI photographers Marc Guyt and Martijn Verdoes together with Ken Billington, founder of Focusing on Wildlife, joined the Champions of the Flyway in Eilat, Israel. Aptly named Champions of the Flyway Sprinters we joined this extraordinary bird race […]
The magic of migration
The magic of migration has always attracted me. Living at a coastal migration hotspot in the Netherlands, I spent my birding childhood glued to a small hill just north of Katwijk. This small hill overlooked beautiful dunes, and this was our theater in autumn – the site for 100,000’s of migrating birds to pass through, […]
Whiskered delight
This spring news emerged in the Dutch Birding scene that in the northern part of the Netherlands a colony of beautiful Whiskered Terns had formed in a new estableshed nature reserve. Whiskered Tern is a scarce vagrant bird in the Netherlands with only a few reported breeding pairs in the last 100 years, so a […]
Well worth the wait!
For over last 15+ years every winter some of my friends, or me, would say; this spring we are really going to Israël! And for some reason we never did. We went all over the world, but we never ever went to Israël. And each year we said it again. It became a practical joke […]
First for Israël!
Vittata Pied Wheatear, KM20, March 2012 On our last full day in Israël, Arjan van Egmond and I decided to check the palmtrees around KM20, north of Eilat, for Dead Sea Sparrow. A species we hadn’t find so far during our week holiday. On arrival we split up and I checked all the rows in […]
Me and my Tiger
I was absolutely sure: there were NO Tigers in Bandhavgarh. Despite being one of the most hailed Tiger reserves in India and promoted with quotes for the National park like “you are unlucky not to see a Tiger in Bandhavgarh”, I was certain: it was a hoax! A tourist trap. I had taken 8 safari’s […]