Welcome to the “Best Photo of the Week” competition showcasing and celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. Voting is easy and lots of fun. First click an image and browse through the slideshow. Then select the three images you like best of all and click the VOTE button at the bottom of the page. […]
Tuquito gris (Crowned slaty-Flycatcher) Empidonomus aurantioatrocristatus
Recién llegados del Club Refugio Ombú con los amigos Javier, Seko Y Luis luego de disfrutar de dos días y medio aprovechando el fin de semana largo en los que el clima estuvo bastante complicado durante la mayor parte del tiempo. Mucha llovizna, viento y nubes no brindaban condiciones óptimas para fotografiar aves, pero a […]
Out East Again
I have been out to some of the sites east of the city quite regularly over the last week and have sometimes ended up at Khawr Rori if I have had time. In the springs (ayns) I have been looking for any rare passerine migrants and at Khawr Khawr for little crake. Unfortunately I have […]
POLL: Should Diclofenac “the vulture killing drug” be banned?
Would you care if vultures were dying because of a man-made drug? Meet a man in Spain who really cares about vultures—so much so that he travels great distances and climbs rocks to feed them. The majority of Europe’s vultures live in Spain, and these vultures are in danger of being decimated, following the country’s […]
Socotra Cormorant – Dhahran Expro Wader Roost
Whilst birding the seafront next to the Dhahran Expro Wader Roost I found a Socotra Cormorant Phalacrocorax nigrogularis sitting in a small tree next to the water edge at very close range but unfortunately it flew after I had only taken a single photo. This is probably the best place in Dhahran to see the […]
Video: Staring Down Angry Elephants (graphic scenes!)
Filmmakers and conservationists Dereck and Beverly Joubert come face-to-face with a herd of angry elephants. Their only option is to stare the elephants down. If they try to flee, it could provoke an attack. This video was first published by PBS.org on 14 Oct 2015.
Admiring a Great Blue Heron
I was admiring this photo of a great blue heron and its shadow when I remembered the poem “Heron Rises from the Dark, Summer Pond” by Mary Oliver: So heavy is the long-necked, long-bodied heron, always it is a surprise when her smoke-colored wings open and she turns from the […]
POLL: Should Scotland be “rewilded” with wolves?
The last wolf in the UK was shot centuries ago, but now a “rewilding” process could see them return to Scotland. Adam Weymouth hiked across the Scottish Highlands in the footsteps of this lost species. In Glen Feshie there stand Scots Pines more than 300 years old, and in their youth they may have been […]