Birds Indonesia Species Suffering 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
Given that according to the HBW, the species prefers dense primary and secondary montane forests, the note that the bird also forages among kitchen waste (in the same HBW entry) seems somewhat incongruous. Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2023
Chinese Penduline T**s are not particularly woke birds. White’s Thrush is described as “burly” on eBird – not entirely unjustified, I guess, but this description fails to capture the way the intricate patterns of the bird make for great camouflage and also for its own kind of beauty. Maybe the grandparents help.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2013
Here, I show you a few images of Savanna Nightjars , a Southeast Asian species I was able to observe nicely and commonly on Java and South Borneo in 2012 and 2013. You will clearly see a nice bird, but you will see no legs whatsoever. Here is a further series of images from another typical day-roost of the species: roof-tops.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging kind of person, trust me on this). There are about 50 different species of flowerpeckers globally. There are about 50 different species of flowerpeckers globally. “Dull, me?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2023
Strangely, the Oriental Dollarbird seems to suffer a bit from an image problem. Otherwise, why would eBird call it a “heavily built, flat-headed dark blue bird”, which sounds more like a description of a robot or a piece of machinery than that of a beautiful bird?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2012
I also love bird identification. And I believe there’s a place for taxonomy, and there’s a place for bird identification. The place for bird identification is a field guide and a field. I’ve been birding for 30 years now, and for the last 20 year, I’ve mostly birded in the same geographic regions.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2013
Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, which comprises the twin volcanoes Gede and Pangrango (with gunung meaning “mountain”), surely must rate as one of the birding highlights of Southeast Asia, and is arguably the most important and well-known birding site on the island of Java. Allow for at least three days if you can.
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