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Birds and music

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The Housemartins were another UK band with good tunes and the heart at the right (left) place – to quote from “Get up off on our knees” : “Don’t shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today” Two Asian Housemartins , one in the house (a true housemartin), one outside (Balangshan, China).

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We Got the Wrong Starling

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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.

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Birding: Time and Effort

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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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It feels like spring….

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Striolated Bunting ( Emberiza srtriolata ) This member of the bunting family (that’s bunting, not sparrow. Sparrows are from the family Passeridae.

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The Six Good Birds of Christmas

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I observed my first GS eagles in India some 8 years ago, then the first for Europe in Greece only last December , and finally I have them in my home country list. And so, driving through the snowfall I spotted what I believed to be Tree Sparrows foraging on the road in front of me.

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Birding the Little Rann of Kutch

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we’re already in an open 4×4 heading for the salt pans of the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, India. Continuing by the yellow sandstone Hindu temple under construction, than by the large heaps of salt (two thirds of all the salt used in India comes from here) and finally entering the Kutch Biosphere Reserve. Trips desert India'

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Surpassing 300 Species in Costa Rica on Global Big Day, 2019

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From India to Argentina, they also want show how well their local birding communities can do. On a Big Day, every single bird counts, even a House Sparrow. A thick-knee called from the field, hoped for Crested Owl growled from the forest, and a Barn Owl flew right overhead! A Northern Potoo from another day.