Los almuerzos en el Camping Monterrey del Parque Cambyretá se disfrutan por partida doble; compartir un buen asado entre amigos y con los pájaros es algo único. Mientras se prepara el asado unos trozos de pan en el pasto en las cercanías del quincho aseguran la visita de los Cardenales y los Pepiteros, quienes nos […]
Ghana – rainforest birding on the brink by Adam Riley
My connection with Ghana began rather unexpectedly (and as it turned out, rather humorously) more than ten years ago. I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. During each trip we would discuss a destination for the following year. We already had South […]
POLL: Should the grizzly bear be taken off the Endangered Species List?
Chris Servheen knows why grizzly bears matter. Like millions of others, he and his two teenage sons make a summer pilgrimage each year to Yellowstone National Park to catch glimpses of these symbols of the U.S. West. “We treasure seeing grizzlies, and often we speak of how bears make the places we visit so much […]
Early morning at Ghaftayn
On Wednesday morning, I got up early at Ghaftayn rest house to see what passage there had been over-night. These desert stops have highly variable windfalls of migrants during the passage seasons. One morning can be heaving while another can have virtually nothing. The same goes for the rarity of the birds. This was only […]
How to watch the great migration of animals from Serengeti
Every year a million wildebeest, half a million gazelle and 200,000 zebra make the perilous trek from the Serengeti park in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya in their search for water and grazing land. It is one of nature’s most spectacular sights – and one that few people are able to see […]
Short-toed Snake Eagle – Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm
Whilst birding Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm, near Jubail on 11 September 2015 I saw a juvenile Short-toed Snake Eagle over one of the spray fields. The bird dropped down behind the horizon and looked like it may have landed in the field. We drove around and saw the bird take off and fly away […]
POLL: Should the Western Australian shark cull be stopped?
There is a simple populist action that would quickly see a reduction in the numbers of sharks, including great whites, off the north coast of New South Wales. It would definitely cut down on the number of shark attacks – so far there have been 13 attacks, including one death, in the area this year, […]
Águila crestuda negra (Black-Hawk Eagle) Spizaetus tyrannus
El Águila crestuda negra (Spizaetus tyrannus), también conocida como el águila tirana, es una especie de ave Accipitriforme de la familia Accipitridae. Se trata de un ave rapaz neotropical ampliamente distribuida por la América Central y del Sur. Se puede observar desde México hasta la zona central del Perú, el sur de Brasil y en […]