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Back to Spain

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After travelling to the Middle East, our work required us to spend one more week in Algeciras, Spain. Our friends/hosts, you see, live in an unattached house (a rarity in Spain, where most people live in apartments); and that house is only a few minutes’ walk from the delta of the Palmones River.

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My Favorite 2023 Birds

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Well, 2023 has ended, so it’s time to look back at the past year’s birding. The pleasures of birding are many and varied, so this kind of post always involves a list. I will also return to several birds which have already appeared here. But Morocco’s example is by far the “housiest” of them all.

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When the sun beats down with anger

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The outside temperature in the shade reads 47 degrees Celsius and I’m about to enter a hide to photograph birds. This is central Spain instead, and I am well into the worst time of year for birds. The ground is parched, the plants are yellow and dry and many birds are clearing out. But I keep coming back for more.

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My Birding Buddies

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It was apparently all the way back in 2012, when I was first getting back into birding after a 30 year hiatus, that I took a sad little picture, with my sad little camera, of a cute little bird that seemed to not show up anywhere at all in my field guide. My birding buddies from the forum/chat include quite a few more biologists.

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Las Terrazas de Dana Boutique Lodge & Spa

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Marcelo Arias has 25+ years of experience guiding. In Ecuador, there are 1.600+ species of birds.

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More Swamp Stories

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Some weeks ago, I elaborated on some of my experiences on the eastern and southeastern ends. These small macaws don’t show their namesake red bellies often, but with yellow faces and blue flight feathers they are still flashy little birds. From Port of Spain, the journey can take approximately three hours.

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

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Do birds use odors and a sense of smell to communicate with each other? The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent focuses on this last question, but you might find yourself fascinated by the first two, which come early in the book but linger on in the imagination as author Danielle J. ” (p.

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