10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2023
This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. What is the right stuff for you? Tropical Easy but Active – few hours in the morning, rest and few hours in late afternoon.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2022
This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. What is the right stuff for you? Tropical Easy but Active – few hours in the morning, rest and few hours in late afternoon. Time and effort-wise, what types of birding do you recognise?
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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.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
Not that the iridescent sheen on an adult European Starling isn’t attractive in its way when the light hits it just right, but when your native avifauna consists of orioles and warblers and hummingbirds, nothing the starling is dressed in can really compare. Rosy Starlings winter in this part of India in huge numbers.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2016
This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. What is the right stuff for you? Tropical Easy but Active – few hours in the morning, rest and few hours in late afternoon. Time and effort-wise, what types of birding do you recognise?
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). And I learned the lesson: in accordance with the laws of optic, fixed focal length is always superior. This is not my first spotting scope.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2023
Sarah Amherst, Countess Amherst (1762–1838) was a British naturalist and botanist who lived in India. William also had connections to both China and Napoleon, but I am too lazy to copy these bits from Wikipedia right now. She was responsible for sending the first of these birds to Britain in 1828. Read it there if you want.
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