It’s January and another year list begins. This is what many of us birders do, we start another list. And this doesn’t mean you...
They came home exhausted. For lack of shields, they were carried on their “Helm field guides to the Birds of East Africa”. 429 species...
Despite last month being a record month by every measure we could think of, the cumulative total for the year had barely scraped past...
15 countries were birded this month by 13 beats; a record participative effort! 173 lists were shared and 1070 species were seen, both records for...
eBird have applied their new taxonomy as of July/August 2019. What a boon for listers. Desk-top birders have been anxiously awaiting the new catalogue,...
During July, 11 beats birded 12 countries (USA, UK, Ireland, Australia, Spain, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Japan, UAE, Mexico, China and Saudi Arabia) and...
Here comes summer. The beats have been embracing the benign weather and cruising gently into the crazy, hazy, lazy days of summer. The trend...
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