8+ hour, 8+ min ago  (782+ words) In a previous post, I described some of the birds seen at one hide at Kaeng Krachan, the one commonly named (Mr.) Bird's hide. While it is generally described as the best one, I found another one, the Lung Sin…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (556+ words) Urban environments expose birds to chemical pollutants. The most important ones are heavy metals and organic pollutants, produced by traffic, industry, energy production, waste processing, and agriculture. As many bird species live close to people, they are vulnerable to these…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (971+ words) This post is republished in our "From the Archives" series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalogue of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 years or so." In a warm Catalonian March (I was about to say Spanish,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (319+ words) Whether you love them or hate them, there's no escaping the fact that European Starlings are birds of character. Often regarded as the spivs of the bird world, they are a species that will, given half a chance, take over…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (278+ words) This particular subspecies " not being the Icelandic one " thus is not featured in excitingly titled papers such as "Genetic divergence of'Troglodytes troglodytes islandicus'from other subspecies of Eurasian wren in northwestern Europe. Poor subspecies. Indeed, the Eurasian Wren has 29 subspecies, maybe…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (120+ words) A surprising number of birds are named after other animals " in fact, so many that I had to apply some relatively strict rules to the list below: Still, that leaves an impressive 20 names, which of course means hundreds of species…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (311+ words) Like many self-declared geniuses, Chairman Mao thought he could positively contribute to everything, whether inside or outside of his area of expertise. So, in 1958, he started the "Four Pests" campaign, one of the first campaigns of the Great Leap Forward…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (148+ words) Evolution rewards specialization. Right up until the moment it doesn't. Few birds show this more clearly than the Spoon-billed Sandpiper " a species so precisely adapted to its ecological niche that changing conditions have turned expertise into a disadvantage. The pattern…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (934+ words) In one of his recent posts, David mentioned the Red-flanked Bluetail. While rare in Britain, it is quite common in Shanghai in winter. However, that is not 100% true " while it is very easy to find a female or immature bird,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (40+ words) Red-backed Flameback " Tissamaharama area, Mar 23, 2025 White-naped Woodpecker " Tissamaharama, Mar 20, 2025 Yellow-crowned Woodpecker " Yala NP, Mar 21, 2025 Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker " Sigiriya area, Mar 14, 2025 Crimson-backed Flameback " Kandy area, Mar 15, 2025...