10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2020

Its waterproof fold-able covers bring back childhood memories… I must have had some illustrated children book with similar covers – my fingertips remember the experience. The author, Otani Chikara, has travelled and birded extensively in Japan and elsewhere in Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas. What I don’t like?

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Japan Asia Birds 2000 214

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The scope is worldwide; of the 24 birds depicted, five are from the Americas; five from Eurasia; three from New Zealand; two from Australasia; three from Africa; one from Africa and Asia; one from Antarctica; two worldwide, and two from Asia, introduced worldwide.

Chicago 171

Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2019

Based on how naturally parrots and leafbirds (the real ones in Asia, not the figments that plague birders in every country) blend into foliage, I’d imagine that most arboreal avian species would want the same advantages. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2019 Asia Turkey Parrots 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He is also a serious birder (and a birding friend), and his birding observations and adventures are used throughout the book to introduce evolutionary questions and illustrate the mental interplay between personal experience and scientific curiosity. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. This is a book that requires attention.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In my mind, nothing beats traveling to memorable destinations to experience the grandeur of both human culture and natural beauty. Destinations Asia India' You’ve probably enjoyed shopping for the birders in your life, carefully choosing amazing optics , books , apps , or assorted gifts to impress female friends.

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Tigers India Litter Asia 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

Not surprisingly, ten of these 19 countries are in the Americas, but what does surprise me, there are just 4 in Africa and just 1 in Asia (2 if you count Indonesia). With 400 endemics, Indonesia tops the list of the world’s most wanted lister’s destination, but the only destination in Asia proper is India.

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Papua New Guinea America Costa Rica Sri Lanka 214

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

I don’t want my Best Bird of the Weekend to be Red-breasted Merganser while I’m in Asia. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Unfortunately for me, that special species spotted in the bay separating Hong Kong from China was Red-breasted Merganser.

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2014 Feral Asia China 181

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

I was trying to find that answer for a while and it turned into a very annoying experience. With improved stability and infrastructure, the Irrawaddy plains and Eastern Himalayas of Myanmar could offer some of the greatest bird species densities in the whole of Asia. Which countries topped the list?

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Uganda Bolivia Ecuador Indonesia 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

Trying to breed the species in an aviary provided some disappointments, for example with regard to their nest-building abilities: “I don’t know what previous experience the birds had at nest construction, but their attempt was pretty pathetic” ( source ). I think I pointed out in previous posts that mammals are kind of evil.

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Hamburgers Birds Science China 198

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Nature lovers who love to travel know that few experiences are more enjoyable than preparation for a big trip. I’ve never birded Asia, so you can probably imagine how delirious I am in contemplating the daunting diversity ahead of me. Who doesn’t love that feeling of endless possibility? Why is travel on my mind?

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New Zealand 2012 Singapore Japan 131

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

With nine years of experience using it and birding with beginning birders, I would like to update that opinion. This is, in a way, no surprise since it was designed by birders who have used their own experiences in the field to determine what warbler seekers really need. This is a guide for all birders. The Warbler Guide. 50 maps.

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United States North America Species 2013 204

Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2010

Here's an article about an increase in animal experiments at Cardiff University in Wales. In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia.

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Animal Research Guinea Pigs Research Mice 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Great Reed Warblers breed across huge chunks of Europe and Asia and winter across large swaths of southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Many thanks to Swarovski Optik for inviting me along and letting me experience both some awesome new optics and the natural wonders of the wonderful country of Hungary. ……….

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia. Judging by my experiences with the species, the Black-tailed Godwit’s behaviour is restricted to two aspects.

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Germany Russia Iceland India 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2012

Eurasian Wrynecks are found breeding across the temperate zones of Europe and Asia. They migrate to warmer climes in Africa and south Asia to winter. Many thanks to Swarovski Optik for inviting me along and letting me experience both some awesome new optics and the natural wonders of the wonderful country of Hungary. ••• a.

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Hungary Asia Woodpeckers Africa 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

However, if out of courtesy one of the other woodpeckers switches the talk to another favorite topic, ants, the Ground Woodpecker is happy to share its experience. For example, the Northern Flicker (Reno, USA) is always interested in discussing the nutritional merits of different ant species.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 221

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

Those large international agencies use reputable local ground agents, and in my experience this creates a safety cocoon around the travellers. Birding agencies seem to stick to their announced plans and no news of cancelled tours had reached the bird tourism market.

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Sri Lanka Ghana Uganda Eagles 147

Reddit Animals

JULY 7, 2023

I'm already hard at work on the next edition of the "Spirit Animals Unleashed" series, which will take us on a captivating exploration of Asia's spirit animal traditions. Get ready for a whole new realm of enchantment! ??

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Animal Asia Eagles Humane 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Dragan]: The best birding in Asia is not even on the Asian mainland! A good supplement to your Sibleys, Nat Geo, or Petersons if you reside in or plan to visit Maine, and a wonderful gift for aspiring birders who live there [If you live in NYS, Corey’s American Birding Association Field guide to Birds of New York is a great gift.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Birds Suriname 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2021

Spangled Drongo – a common and conspicuous member of a family that has many species in Asia. The second part of my page’s experience was for members, preferably the beginners were to identify the birds posted. Ken Cross]. I wanted my site to ‘work’ for beginners as well so I added a small but important detail. Ken Cross].

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Birds 2020 Australia Species 262

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2012

After all, North America has no native hedgehogs and seeing something so outside of our normal experience was pretty exciting, even if the little guy quickly headed for cover and refused to show itself for Clay Taylor, who came upon the scene a minute too late. New Zealand has a host of hedgehogs but they are introduced.

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Hedgehogs Hungary Opossums North America 168

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

Since Craig Robson’s “Birds of Thailand” (2002) is taxonomically outdated, the choice was Robson’s “Birds of South-East Asia” (the updated second, 2014 edition of the 2001 classic). The paintings are, no doubt beautiful, but how successful they are, I can judge only by checking those birds I have a lot of experience with. Or tertiary.

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Thailand Zambia Birds Asia 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Also of use, as Gregory points out in the Introduction, is his experience with painting birds of iridescence, having painted a whole book on sunbirds! It’s easy to forget that Gregory himself has had years of experience with these birds through his ‘day job’ as a bird tour guide for Field Guides, Inc.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The population that nests in the western reaches of North America’s Arctic will cover about twice that distance, through Asia and down in to Africa. In my experience here, the Wheatear arrive at the end of May to early June and quickly establish territories. Nests are usually made in a sheltered cleft in rocks.

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Africa Somalia North America Nigeria 192

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

Greater Adjutants are huge birds that were once widespread across much of Southeast Asia; today there are two small breeding populations in India and Cambodia. There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one. There were several there, plus Lesser Adjutants.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 108

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Other great birds here included a flock of Asian Rosy-Finches and a Siberian Rubythroat that should have been several thousand miles away in Southeast Asia. Setsurigawa Bridge must be done at dawn, and is another amazing experience – over a hundred cranes partially enshrouded by mist rising off of the river at dawn.

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Japan Massachusetts Birds Eagles 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Like the Adjutants in Asia and Jabiru of the Americas, the Marabou is our bare-headed scavenging stork. Only slightly shorter, but more elegantly built than the Marabou, the Saddle-billed also has a sister species in Asia, the Black-necked Stork. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 233

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. Fortunately, some birds seem to be ok with a concrete environment – like this Blue Rock Thrush.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 204

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2016

By plumage and distribution, they can very roughly be divided into 2 groups (probably not reflecting taxonomic relations): One group inhabits central Asia ( personata ), the mountains of southern Asia ( alboides ), central East Asia ( leucopsis ) and the Pacific coast from the southern half of Kamchatka to Japan ( lugens ).

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Germany Sharks Morocco Europe 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2020

Having more than 1300 bird species, including over 75 endemics, it is hard to resist the lure of India – something I know from personal experience. In the end, this guide is what we were awaiting for quite some time, possibly since Nigel Wheatley’s Where to Watch Birds in Asia from 1996.

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India Lions 2020 Groups 234

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though mysteriously (and as far as I can tell from my experience of living in China for almost 20 years, not indicative of fundamentally different physical needs of Chinese people) missing a bathroom.

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Birds Mammals St. Louis Monkeys 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Hornbills are spectacular under any circumstances, but when a pair lands in a bush beside you at eye-level and begin mutual preening , it makes for a spectacular experience. It was easily one of the best birding experiences I’ve ever had, even impressing my nonbirder fiance. You can read more about his experience here.

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2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2011

This is exactly how I remember the experience: dark forest with little dapples of sunlight and crazy birds everywhere. For much of the morning, we were entertained by a rather bold Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher ( Cyornis tickelliae ) and a young White-rumped Shama ( Copsychus malabaricus ).

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Thailand Birds Asia Collecting 164

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014. A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. By Louis-Jean Germain Influenced by his mother, Louis-Jean Germain has long been interested in art, and in recent years, he has become an avid painter of Asian birds.

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Birds China Emotional Vietnam 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

Asia is home to all kinds of cuckoos, but none are as elaborately colorful as malkohas with those gaudy faces and painted bills. All in all, a memorable Malaysian experience. Con is a master at his craft and an uncanny resource on the birds of Singapore, Malaysia, and much of Asia. Bats under a rocky overhang.

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Malaysia Singapore Monkeys Birds 170