16 hours ago | 10,000 Birds

Last Sunday it was a dull, cool morning when we awoke and we decided to do a day trip to Derby. It gave us a chance to hopefully add a few new birds to our 2021 bird list and...
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Birding Laifengshan, Tengchong, Yunnan, China

3 days ago | 10,000 Birds

Good news for those frightened by the title of my last blog post - we are now back in the safe and boring world of highly descriptive headers. You are welcome. Laifengshan is a...
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A Slacker's Guide to Bird Photography

4 days ago | 10,000 Birds

Last week I humbly offered up a totally unprofessional, possibly misinformed guide to taking bird photos that aren't completely embarrassing, and that might even make you proud...
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Trogons, Trinidad and Tobago

4 days ago | 10,000 Birds

It's been a crazy few days here in the tropical paradise of T&T to be honest. Let's just say that there is a single, well-known place where one can comfortably see all three of...
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Birds Singing for Us

6 days ago | Ornithology

The reasons birds sing is to declare or defend a territory and to attract a mate as part of courtship. They don't sing because they are happy, although some philosopher and...
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Locusts and Oriental Pratincoles around Broome

7 days ago | 10,000 Birds

Although we have not had a lot of rain recently there has been enough to turn the dry dusty landscape into a lush green environment. We often think about how deceiving it would...
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Pat's Costa Rica Bird List, 2021

8 days ago | 10,000 Birds

2021 is already well underway, are you birding? I hope so because watching a flock of redpolls bound through wintery airs that echo with the calls of crows is nature connection...
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Bodegas Navarro Lopez Laguna de la Nava Gran Reserva (2013)

9 days ago | 10,000 Birds

I'm moving house at the end of this month, which provided a good opportunity for me to dig around my modest wine cellar - my basement, that is - for any older bottles of aging...
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Birding crème de la crème: Africa - Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

10 days ago | 10,000 Birds

This is the second post in the Birding crème de la crème series (the first, focused on southern Asia, is here ). This time we travel to Africa, or to narrow it further, to the...
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Snow Geese in Florida

11 days ago | 10,000 Birds

By their very name, most would assume you can't spot Snow Geese in Florida. The Sunshine State isn't known for its massive snow drifts, nor for the massive flocks of Snow Geese...
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A day trip to Derby

Last Sunday it was a dull, cool morning when we awoke and we decided to do a day trip to Derby. It gave us a chance to hopefully add a few new birds to our 2021 bird list and... Read more ...