10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2019
Perhaps you don’t know it yet, but with more than 1000 bird species, palm-fringed sandy beaches, developed tourism infrastructure, moderate prices and political stability, Thailand is a country you definitively want to visit. Binoculars and a field guide, perhaps a scope and anti-leech hiking socks too. Everything else is secondary.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
They may eat other insects if they have to, but all they really want are ants and Gorman lists 24 species of ant that are part of their diet in Europe, any life stage will do. Gorman also leads bird tours in central and Eastern Europe and posts photos and updates on his work on his own website and, as I said before, Facebook.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2019
America) or westbound (from Europe). In such a case, you might opt to book an eastbound flight, or a series of flights, from Lisbon to Sao Tome and Principe, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, then Sri Lanka, Thailand, Borneo, PNG, Tahiti, Ecuador, Guyana and finally to Costa Rica…. Yet, for most people, birders are all eccentric.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
I don’t remember where I first learned about Elizabeth Gould–possibly when I was birding Doi Angkhang, Thailand and saw a stunning little bird named Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird–but I have been fascinated by her story and her art for the past five years. Unlike Audubon, she didn’t pose the skins.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2015
I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. Here where I live – in one of the bird-richest corners of Europe, but I miss the species diversity of my yester years. Thailand (925 / 948). Map by BirdLife International. The Oriental realm.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2023
Apparently, in Europe Bramblings are the species appearing in the largest flocks and are thus “an interesting case study for discussing number estimates” ( source ). Fortunately, some Buddhist temples at least in Thailand have now spoken out against the practice ( source ).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
The Bronzed Drongo must be a bit of a romantic at heart – the HBW reports it as “singing on moonlit nights in Thailand” In this post, the Blue bearded Bee-eater only has a cameo role … … as the activities of a pair of Green Bee-eaters were much more photogenic. It thought the name sounded lucky.
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