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Birds of Greater Southern Africa
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This is an excellent book that I recommend for birders visiting Zambia, Malawi or northern Mozambique which are not covered in the classic.........

Birds of Cambodia
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Birds of the Middle East (Porter and Aspinall). This book covers Turkey, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, and the Saudi Peninsula. It has very good plates ......

Field guides of Africa
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Collins Bird Guide/Birds of Europe (Svensson, Mullarney and Zetterström). This guide is the best for North Africa. It covers Morocco east to Egypt.........

birdwatchers’ choices matter
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Birdwatchers are always looking for birds, whether it be in their backyard, their local patch, or hundreds of miles away in a tropical.........

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In March 2023 I did a family trip with my parents and partner, to southern Namibia to explore a region of this vast country that I had yet to properly visit.......

Ravensbeard Wildlife Center blog
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Founded in 2000, the nonprofit Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in Saugerties, NY, rescues and rehabilitates orphaned, injured, and compromised.........

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Nearly a quarter of the year is already over, and our team has logged almost a quarter of the world’s bird species in that time during our tours! We started o...

west papua blog
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Birding in West Papua should be on everyone’s bucket list. It is a remarkable place.........

UK capercaillie
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As human disturbance threatens to push the now tiny (only 542 currently) Scottish population of Western Capercaillie even ......

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Johannesburg, more readily known as Joburg or Jozi is the largest city in South Africa, and located on the highveld plateau of central South Africa.........

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This is a good and brand new (May 2023) field guide but not necessarily superior to the older (2014) book by other authors that we also recommend for Costa Rica...

Birds of Dominican Republic
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For any birder visiting the large Caribbean island of Hispaniola (either the Dominican Republic or Haiti), this book will prove invaluable. It's good to have an...

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The author of this beautiful book spent over 2500 hours searching for all of Australia’s finch species, capturing photos of all of them that tell a story abou...

Bird book review: Birds of Belize
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This compact book is well worth purchasing if you are planning a trip to Belize. If you are wanting to visit other Central American countries in the near future...

Masked Finfoot tour
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Really exciting news! One of Asia’s most highly sought after and enigmatic birds, the Critically Endangered (BirdLife International) Masked Finfoot, is curren...

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I always find it extremely surprising that Zambia and Malawi are not bombarded by birders. I guess these countries are just not......

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Birds of New Guinea. Hooray, the second edition is now out and is AMAZING! Please buy it, whether or not you’re planning a trip to West Papua or PNG......

David-Letsoalo birdguide
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I have been fortunate enough to have had a successful career as a bird guide in Limpopo (South Africa) where I am based, but I often think back to when I first ...

Papua New Guinea birding tours
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New Guinea immediately invokes the stuff of dreams amongst us birders, doesn’t it? It certainly does for legendary BBC wildlife broadcaster Sir David Attenbor...

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Pallas’s Fish Eagle is found in central, eastern and southern Asia. Its migratory pattern is complex and poorly studied. The species’ small global populatio...

People and birding
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Being a global tour company we have developed deep and lasting friendships and business relationships with many people all over the .........

Mongolia Snow Leopard
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“It was a nerve-chilling moment when we faced the Snow Leopard eye-to-eye for the first time in the Altai Mountains of far western Mongolia. This moment is as...

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2022 has been my third year at the British office of Birding Ecotours in Norwich, Norfolk, and what a spectacular birding year it has been so far! It’s been e...

Hummingbirds
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This is an awesome coffee table book with truly spectacular photos of a wide variety of the world’s hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are remarkably diverse, .........

book review _gouldian
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This wonderful coffee table book gives the reader a spectacular photographic tour of the life of this dazzling-colored finch species.........

Greece spring birding tour
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In European birdwatching terms, Greece is not a country that has the fame of other areas like Spain, Poland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom.........

Covid-19 Birding Ecotours
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Naturally, safety is of paramount importance to us (and we are one of the very most cautious companies), so we will have social distancing and safety rules in p...

Norfolk birding
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On 1 January 2022 I set out to try and answer this question by embarking on a 31-day birding marathon with the aim of trying to set a record. I have no idea ......

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Collins (or the Princeton version, Birds of Europe) has been the standard in field guides for some time, and this second edition goes from strength to strength....

Birding in Norfolk
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What a privilege it is to be able to spend a second year based at the UK office of Birding Ecotours, right in the middle of one of Britain’s best birding coun...

bulwers-pheasant-trip
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We have an amazing opportunity in late-September 2022 to visit a birdwatching site in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo to try and observe one of Borneo’s most........

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Field guides covering North America, in this context, include Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48 of the United States. It does not include Hawaii, Greenland.........

Field guides of neotropics
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Birds of Mexico and northern Central America (Steve N.G. Howell and Sophie Webb). Though this book is almost twenty years old, it still stands up .........

French list of birds of South Africa
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The French list of the birds of South Africa is in part a recognition that a large proportion of the people of Africa are French speaking. Since the .........

maputo special reserve
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Summary. A two-week journey from Harare, in the centre of Zimbabwe's high plateau, to the coastal city of Beira in Mozambique traverses........

Which taxonomy to use
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In this article I compare three of the main world bird lists. I then also discuss why these lists give different.........


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