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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

10,000 Birds

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. I already have a history of searches for this species. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. What are your best wildlife moments?

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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

10,000 Birds

This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? And a mere 120 bird species would be a good reason not to take Polynesia as an option.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

10,000 Birds

In addition, it has over 450 bird species and more than 30 in-country endemics, of which it is possible to see every single species! And the answer to the question I am raising here is, yes, I would travel to Sri Lanka in the next period. Where to look for the birds? What makes this guide different from many others?

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