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The Favorite Birds of Our Profiled Bird Guides
In our series on bird guides, so far, 131 profiles have been published. To start the interview, we asked each of them the same question: What is your favorite bird species? Not surprisingly, given that...
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Demotivational Posters for Birds (LI)
Occasionally, chicks visit our editorial offices and ask why our posters paint such a negative picture of bird life. We have noticed that adult birds never ask us the same question. We therefore see no...
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Hummingbird Curiosity
Central Mexico is a great place to get to know lots of hummingbirds. I have seen 19 hummingbird species within an hour of my home in Morelia. Thirteen of those species can be seen year-round here, but...
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Beholding a Jewel
Chris Gooddie describes them as “the ultimate forest prize” – and this couldn’t be a more apt description of members of one of the most reclusive families of birds in the Great East. Scattered across...
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Interviews with 10,000 Birds Writers: Kelly Isley, USA
Your Birding History and Future How long have you been a birder, and how did you get into birding? I’ve been around birds for as long as I can remember. My parents introduced me to both fishing and the...
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Ask a Birder: What was your most unpleasant experience while birding?
We asked several of our writers the same questions. Here are the answers to the one above. — Anything involving crowded places or long transfers usually annoys me, but I put up with much more than I...
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The Well-Dressed Lily-Trotter
A few days ago I was birding along Gatun Lake in the Gamboa area of Panama. No guides, no crammed backpack with gear and nibbles etc., just my camera and me having a quiet walk. Casual Birding as...
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The Return of the Oystercatcher: A Book Conservation Review
Scott Weidensaul seems to have optimism in his DNA. I wrote that a little over five years ago in my review of his second book about bird migration, A World on the Wing, and if anything Weidensaul’s...
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The Bird Photo I Could Use Was Not The Bird Photo I Wanted
By Jihun Oh Jihun is a Korean developer and the creator of KoreAves, an English-first evidence atlas for birds recorded in South Korea. The project connects species, regional records, source...
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Bird Guides of the World: Raymond Rampolokeng, South Africa
What is your favorite bird species? The Secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius). Watching this terrestrial raptor stride across the Highveld grasslands hunting prey is always a thrill. Its regal...
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Counting Sparrows
Last summer I decided to tackle the world of Sparrows. I’d been a little intimidated by this category of birds. There are 49species in the US and Canada, which is a lot. Also, to the inexperienced eye...
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Birding Shanghai in September 2026
I completely missed the spring migration season in Shanghai in 2026. Then I read about the Black Paradise Flycatcher breeding in Jeju (see this profile), so I was glad to see the species again in early...
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Birding Lodges of the World: Renz Himalayan Retreat
Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors of your lodge (please only name one species)? The Cheer Pheasant is a star attraction of the lodge. Even though the region offers...
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Three Photos: Endemic Birds of Northern Peru
Long-whiskered Owlet Marvelous Spatuletail Scarlet-banded Barbet Photos by Pablo Romo of Ikamexpeditions. Source
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The Birds That Fertilised the World: Peru’s guano boom, and what it cost the...
By Alfredo Fernandez Alfredo Fernández is a biologist and nature photographer based in Lima, Peru. A National Geographic Explorer since 2017, when his project documented Peru’s threatened lomas, he...
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A day at Neeracherried
A natural reserve near Zurich welcoming to visitors is Bird Life Nature Center Neeracherried. Its two observation huts, equipped with spotting scopes, are freely accessible. From our hide, we saw the...
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Bulgaria in spring is just magical!
By Anton Schultz Anton Schultz is a bird guide at Birding Ecotours. He is based in South Africa and recently completed his honours degree in Zoology at the University of Pretoria, studying Red Larks in...
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Lakshmi’s Owl
This post is republished in our “From the Archives” series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalogue of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 years or so. As we pass...
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Spring on Skomer Island, Wales
Skomer Island is one of Wales’ best birding spots. Situated along the Pembrokeshire Coast, it hosts a large seabird colony that is particularly well-known for its Atlantic Puffins. As this has been a...
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Encounters with globe trotters
While the focus of my recent visit to Portugal was to watch seabirds, there’s a lot more to see there than shearwaters and petrels. The Algarve has a number of impressive estuaries that attract great...
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