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Category Archives: Travel
The Sun Never Sets on the Icelandic Empire
We are now taking a brief deviation from the usually scheduled chronological post order to talk about what I am doing today (and I promise I will get back to Israel eventually). Today, sadly, marks the last day of my gap year. … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Travel, Western Palearctic
Tagged beer, Birding, fulmar, gap year, Iceland, kittiwake, layover, layover birding, midnight, ocean, oystercatcher, ptarmigan, redshank, rock, sea, seabirds, shorebirds, travel, Western Palearctic
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The Road to the Flyway: Tel Aviv
I have the huge privilege this year to be participating in the Champions of the Flywaycompetition. For those who don’t know, this is a Big Day in southern Israel in the middle of migration. The goal is to raise money to … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Travel, Western Palearctic
Tagged Birding, Category C, COTF, COTF18, exotic, hoopoe, Israel, Jordan, Levant, Middle East, migrants, myna, Palestine, Tel Aviv, vinous-breasted starling, Western Palearctic
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The Road to the Flyway: Cyprus
I have the huge privilege this year to be participating in the Champions of the Flyway competition. For those who don’t know, this is a Big Day in southern Israel in the middle of migration. The goal is to raise … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Travel, Western Palearctic
Tagged Ayia Napa, Birding, black francolin, Cape Grecko, Champions of the Flyway, Cyprus, Greek, gull, Israel, lapwing, Larnaca, Mediterranean, Middle East, migrants, migration, Pallas's, shorebirds, Turkish, warbler, Waterfowl
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The Plight of the Red-breasted Goose
Halfway through a long day of birding on the northern coast of Bulgaria, I found myself eating lunch along the shores of Lake Durankulak, a picturesque birding spot adjacent to the town of the same name and nestled in the … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Travel, Western Palearctic
Tagged Birding Lodge, Black Sea, Branta, Bulgaria, conservation, Durankulak, environmentalism, geese, Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, lake, ornithology, poaching, radio-tag, red-breasted goose, Romania, Waterfowl
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Barely Bagging Bulgarian Birds in Burgas
A Plea for Forgiveness: before I start, I sincerely apologise for the title… I just couldn’t resist. Birding is a sport of highs and lows. Sometimes you see what you want and sometimes you don’t. This is an accepted part … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Travel, Western Palearctic
Tagged 200, Birding, Black Sea, Bulgaria, Burgas, gull, lake, moustached, Pallas's, spoonbills, warbler, Waterfowl, Western Paleartic, White-headed duck, White-tailed eagle
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Never Stop Birding: The Saga of a Bulgarian Mega
Part One: The Discovery A couple days ago I decided to visit the Ethnographic Museum in the Old Town of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was right around the corner from my hostel, located in a beautiful building, and just generally seemed … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Travel, Western Palearctic
Tagged Balkans, Bulgaria, Central Asia, first record, Hume's, Plovdiv, rarity, self-found, vagrant, warbler
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A Snowy End to the Year
I returned from my self-imposed Bosnian exile in late December to celebrate the holidays with my friends and family for a couple weeks. My first port of call in the US was Delaware where I would be spending Christmas at … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Rarities, Travel
Tagged ABA, Delaware, Longspur, National Wildlife Refuge, New Year, NWR, owl, Prime Hook, rough-legged hawk, snow bunting, snow goose, snowy, snowy owl
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Football Fanaticism, Cormorant Counting, and Waterfowl Watching in Belgrade
Sport has a lot of interesting traditions. However, few are quite as crazy (bordering on the psychotic), or fanatically violent as what’s known as the Eternal Derby, the soccer match between the two Serbian teams Red Star and Partizan. Essentially, … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Travel, Western Palearctic
Tagged Balkans, Belgrade, Birding, Caspian, count, Danube, Dragan Simić, eternal derby, football, gulls, Partizan, pygmy cormorants, Sava, Serbia, soccer, Waterfowl, White-tailed eagle, Zvezda
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Albania’s Natural Crown Jewel: Karavasta National Park
When I first visited Tirana, about a week ago, I met for a beer with Taulent Bino of the Albanian Ornithological Society (AOS). The AOS, for those who don’t know, is doing some really valuable work with conservation and promotion … Continue reading
That OTHER Red Crossbill Complex
One of the newest, most cutting edge challenges of modern, ABA Area birding is identification of red crossbills to type. For those not aware, it has been shown that red crossbills in North America can be divided into as many … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Travel, Western Palearctic
Tagged Accursed Mountains, bird identification, Birding, call notes, finch, Kosovo, recording, Red crossbills, spectrogram, types
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