So we’ve given the Stejneger’s Stonechat at Dungeness three goes. We got a a good soaking got blown away by the wind and then today walked around in freezing conditions. The good news was that today we finally found the bird and enjoyed good views of this very GREY individual. The bird has been the […]
Category: Wildlife
Doradito copetón (Crested Doradito) Pseudocolopteryx sclateri
Los pirizales del Portal Cambyretá del Parque Nacional Iberá son el refugio del Doradito copetón, pequeño tiránido de hábitos ocultos que brinda pocas posibilidades al fotógrafo para poder registrarlo en imágenes, su tenue vocalización tampoco ayuda para localizarlo cuando canta; solo nos resta estar atentos cuando vemos que algo se mueve entre los tallos de […]
Mammals that rival our intelligence
Of all the wondrous animals inhabiting the earth, one of the most physically vulnerable would be the human. After all, it’s not as if we have the legs to outrun predators, or the teeth and claws to hunt prey, or thick-coats to survive harsh winters. But for all our weaknesses, humans have emerged as the […]
Eurasian Scops Owl – Dhahran Main Camp
Chris Boland a birdwatcher who lives in Dhahran saw a Scops Owl at very close range in his garden on the evening of 6 November and sent me a message the next day saying he would look for it again that evening and let me know if it was still present. I got a text […]
Squirrel Appreciation Day
Today is squirrel appreciation day… Howzabout a bright and bushytailed hip hip hooray!
Arabian Green Bee-eater
The Arabian Green Bee-eater is usually treated as conspecific with M. viridissimus and M. orientalis, but differs from both in its very short stub-ended central tail feathers; bright blue forehead, supercilium and throat, and bluer lower belly; broader, smudgier black breast-bar; marginally larger size and clearly longer tail (minus the tail extensions) than the other […]
Arabian Magpie
The taxonomic position of Arabian Magpie Pica asirensis is certainly uncertain, although it is generally regarded as a subspecies of Eurasian Magpie. Gill & Donsker (2016) regard it as such, though there is a caveat “MtDNA phylogeny suggests that Eurasian Magpie comprises several potential species including Korean Magpie P. sericea, Mahgreb Magpie P. mauritanica and […]
Great visit to Wallasea Island
Sometimes a days birding can deliver very little and then sometimes days like today come along where it all seems to go right. A Barn Owl as we pulled into the track to the reserve followed by two Short-eared Owls hunting at first light then a male Merlin flashes across us and sits out on […]