10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2024

It proved strong enough to take the many knocks and falls that a hard-used scope experiences during its lifetime. A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India. Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) I got used to lugging it around, but the real disadvantage was when I was travelling.

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Estonia Poland India Pelicans 212

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2023

When I returned from my first passage to India and started my story to my best mate, he asked: No, no, don’t skip anything, start from the beginning, from landing. My Big Year is such a succession of new experiences that there is simply no time to think of other things. I’ve had so many incredible experiences.

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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. If you’re open to ideas, might I suggest India? Naturalist Journeys is offering an enticing India: Wildlife and Birding Safari – Birds, Tigers & the Taj Mahal package in February 2015.

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Tigers India Litter Asia 184

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I birded savannas of Southern Africa, I birded India and Central America, and I always missed having a local mammal guide with me. Yes, field guides to other groups of organisms, as there’s hardly any room left in your baggage or the energy to carry it. Yet, those bird guides are hefty. Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales.

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Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 253

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The poor Mountain Bulbul carries the scientific name mcclellandii , after Sir John McClelland (1805–1875) … … even though said man mainly worked as an ichthyologist … … apart from also being sent to north-eastern India to identify if tea could be grown there. ” Contribution to the vibrant bird community.

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Nepal Birds Owls Fish 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

I was trying to find that answer for a while and it turned into a very annoying experience. India 1341 10. The most bird-rich northeast of India includes e.g. the Kaziranga NP and the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, respectively, together with the world’s largest Amur Falcon roost in Nagaland.

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Uganda Bolivia Ecuador Indonesia 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 245

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

6%: Antarctica, Argentina, Indonesia (including the votes for West Papua), India. 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. 4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. 8%: Brazil, Panama. 17%: Ecuador, Peru.

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Papua New Guinea America Costa Rica Sri Lanka 214

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. I was thrilled to see many of these gorgeous birds at the fort at Ranthambore NP, India. It was a good birding year. 4) Small Pratincole.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2020

While I don’t have a lot of experience with tropical terns, I believe that narrows it down to Sandwich Tern ( Thalasseus sandvicensis ), a bird that – while still quite rare in the Northeast – seems to be occurring with greater frequency , along with an increasingly northward incursion of Royal Terns ( Thalasseus maximus ).

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India Squirrels North America America 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Three-striped Palm Squirrel by the side of the track, while Jungle Bush Quails are running across it in front of our Maruti Gypsy, almost the official safari vehicle of India. She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

However, the typical birding experience for someone down here also includes a large menagerie of other species such as Orange-winged Parrot , Mitred Parakeet , Egyptian Goose and Nutmeg Mannikin. Their loud, descending whistles, gurgles and screeches are a common feature of parks and suburban neighborhoods in parts of Miami-Dade.

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Miami Asia Florida Malaysia 208

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. So, beside a lot of birds and the sunny sky, I want the coldest thing to experience year-round to be my beer. India (1180 / 1171). Map by BirdLife International. As is every one after it.

Sri Lanka 257

Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

even before I took binoculars, I was always chasing, hmm… impressionable experiences. The intensity of experience is not the same, but, e.g. focusing on a single bird and trying to solve the puzzle… or finding the rarest owl of India , that was a mind-blowing one. Museums – majority of them? Town squares?

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Farming Serbia Europe India 247

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Gorman’s personal field experience informs much of the text and his total grasp of the field means he relates one research finding to another with narrative ease. I do wish that Gorman included more of his personal experiences and stories in the natural history tradition of ornithologists like Alexander Skutch.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 247

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

My extensive birding experience allows me to be very confident that the bird below is a Rosefinch. He was from the area but had apparently been traveling to India to see the Dalai Lama. It is indeed rufous-ish. Please consult your own bird guide for more details. Or the Black-rumped being a Sagittarius while the Oriental is a Pisces?

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Birds Germany India 2018 226

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Low Bing Wen is a terrestrial ecologist and a keen birdwatcher with more than 20 years of field experience in Southeast Asia, India, China and Australasia. Yong Ding Li is the vice-chair of the Southeast Asian Biodiversity Society and a committee member of the Nature Society (Singapore)’s bird group.

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Asia Laos Myanmar Indonesia 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2016

They explained that Japanese Great T**s “experience a number of threats, and in response to predators, they give a variety of different calls. I did a bit of wind farm surveying, which forced me to spend hours at the same point. Instead, syntax may be a general adaptation to social and behavioural complexity in communication systems.

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Sweden Research Japan Germany 184

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

If you cannot share the bird with your guest, try not to share the experience because it makes everything they have seen a little league birding, compared to your mega tick. And that experience has recently put me in a role of an ecotourism consultant in a project aiming at creation of a local ecotourism product.

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Birds Botswana Free Range Leopards 220

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 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar. In my (fortunately rather limited) experience, Chinese karaoke singers adapt their singing based on the chosen song, the audience, and the amount of alcohol in their blood. They also eat more when together with other people.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 211

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I observed this species in the Little Rann of Kutch in India and since then, have been burning with desire to see them back home. I observe them, but feel I still lack experience to tell with certainty the SEO from LEO in flight. And the citizens of Kikinda are justly proud of it. Long-eared Owls are irresistibly cute.

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Serbia Owls Rodents Eagles 244

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. Nate’s best was also a rarity in India. It was easily one of the best birding experiences I’ve ever had, even impressing my nonbirder fiance.

2013 168

2013 Birds Costa Rica India 168

Critter News

MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. The plans by India's Vivo BioTech Ltd.

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Malaysia Monkeys Animal Research Rats 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

’ They are challenging to find, frustrating to photograph, and the antbird experience often includes heat and humidity, mud and bugs. It was one of those magic experiences when you are so absorbed you forget you have a camera. However, all is forgotten when you get a good look at them.

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Brazil Birds Los Angeles Tigers 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. Knowing this, we were certainly far from disappointed by our experience but we of course all dreamed of a closer view. Mammals Blue Sheep Hemis National Park hunting India Ladakh Snow Leopard'

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

And in India, when Strycker tied the previous one-year record, his guides Sanu and Harsha took a fair amount of trouble to make sure that a special bird, the Sri Lanka Frogmouth (“nocturnal and not easy to see!”)

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Sri Lanka Birds Cleveland 2014 144

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The Black Kite ( Milvus migrans ) is ubiquitous as a scavenger across the whole of India, often seen by the hundred wheeling over towns. As a bittersweet afterthought, it was also the last bird I photographed in India before losing my sponsored travel opportunities.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

I bought my first 20 years ago from some Russian on the seashore in Greece, but have not used it much because of rather dark images (I even took it to India with me – and didn’t use it even once). How to describe the experience in one word? This is not my first spotting scope. in which way? In every way!

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Greece Battery Experience Experiments 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Orange-headed Thrush Orange-headed Thrush By Redgannet • March 6, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share The Orange-headed Thrush , Zoothera citrinus, is common across much of India and south-east Asia. In the Z.c.

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2011 Deer India New York 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. We were able to spend hours sitting right in amongst super-groups of 500-600 Geladas that just carried on with their daily business in total oblivion to our presence. Photo by Adam Riley.

Ethiopia 161

Ethiopia Primates Mammals Fur 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever. The Latin species name akool is not a misguided and misspelled attempt of the species to appear cool – rather, akool means restless in Hindi (even though the birds did not seem particularly restless to me, but maybe they are in India).

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. Cocker focuses on the love-hate relationship we have with raptors. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S., About 300 stories are used throughout the book.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 224

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

No computers, just “a bottle of India Ink, a crow-quill pen nib in a handle, and a watercolor brush.” The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors. David also writes Sibley Guides , a blog in which he talks about natural history subjects.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 234

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

An impressive Rhinoceros Beetle by Adam Riley Lion The big – Lions are ferocious predatory felids that used to range through most of the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa, but are now restricted to tiny wildernesses in Africa and one relict population in the Gir Forest of western India.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 213

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Rubbish dumps are another favorite, and just like the most reliable stake-out for the endangered Greater Adjutant is Guwahati’s stenching rubbish-dump in Assam, India; so can Marabous be found at many rubbish dumps in Africa, slowly picking their way through the rotten mess looking for anything edible.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 246