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The Turkey Vulture
I know that the Turkey Vulture is not everyone’s favourite bird, but I admire them. Even to me, they aren’t very handsome looking, except in flight, when they gracefully soar upon the thermals. They...
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Ask a Birder: Do Extroverts Cheat More?
Of course, the clickbait headline is immediately followed by a partial disclaimer: Not exactly. First, the birds examined weren’t cheating. And second, they weren’t exactly extroverts either. But that...
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Brent Geese spotted in Dungarvan Bay
By Tania Dey Tania Dey is an academic specialising in chemistry, materials, and nanotechnology, with 20 years of post-PhD experience from North America and Europe, and is currently relocated to India....
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No Reasonable Doubt: Why It Takes a Median of 36 Years to Declare a Bird Extinct
By Marco Marco writes birdshistory.com, where he builds small, fully sourced datasets about extinct and endangered birds — last confirmed records, the lag before a formal declaration, the founder...
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Bird Guides of the World: João Jara, Portugal
What is your favorite bird species? My favorite species in Portugal is perhaps the Iberian Imperial Eagle (also known as the Spanish Eagle). What is your name, and where do you live? My name is João...
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Extreme Birdwatching: A KidLit Bird Book Review
What’s extreme birdwatching? How about getting to know every single one of hundreds of individual birds! Author Loree Griffin Burns tells the story of scientists Rosemary and Peter Grant in her new...
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Birding Lodges of the World: Rogitama Biodiversidad, Colombia
Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors of your lodge (please only name one species)? Coeligena prunellei (Black Inca), also known as the Prince of Arcabuco, as it is an...
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Great World Literature, Improved by Birders
Literature is great. World literature is greater. Great world literature is greatest of all. But even great world literature can be improved by taking a birder’s perspective. “For sale: Bird Guide...
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Bird Names, Geography, and Reality
Thanks to Christopher Columbus and his distorted sense of geography, Native Americans came to be known as Indians. A few bird species share a similar fate. The Turkey is a bird native to North...
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Three Photos: Camouflage
Photos of Oriental Scops Owl taken by Kai Pflug at Nanhui, Shanghai on Oct 02… Source
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Finally, Summer is Over
Surely the most horrible season: summer. Birds are moulting and quiet, pre-dawn rising is at 3:00 hrs and there are ticks and biting insects everywhere. And then add the minor issues of glaciers...
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Saving a New Zealand Icon
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. This...
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Cabranosa’s autumn delights
Monte da Cabranosa sounds rather more impressive than it really is. It’s a low, pine-clad hill, just a short distance away from Cabo São Vincente, the south-western most point on the European mainland....
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Species Spotlight: Light-vented Bulbul
The Light-vented Bulbul is ubiquitous in Shanghai. I once used its characteristic call as the ringtone for my mobile phone but had to abandon this idea as it was simply too confusing to decide whether...
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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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