As I write these lines, I am excited and preparing for the start of a Calpe Conference here in Gibraltar. We have been organizing...
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When I grew up in the seventies we didn’t have global warming, we had global cooling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling). Consequently, the summer weather was awful, always....
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What does the average person go looking for, in a new place to live? Close to schools, grocery store, a nice neighborhood, all things...
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With its bright yellow eyes, and bold arrow shaped breast markings, the Gray Thrasher, Toxostomsa cincerum is one of my favorite photography targets. This...
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In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, not a magical place—you’re thinking of Tahiti, Agent Coulson.) But it’s not always so...
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If one was a serious twitcher – kinda like Phoebe Snetsinger (who saw approximately 8,400 species before her death), Tom Gullick (reputedly the first...
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Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Only twenty years...
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My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise! Although in raw numbers (843 species recorded to date) it...
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