This October marks the first Global Wildlife Fair in Delhi, an international event promoting wildlife conservation and ecotourism. As part of this, the very first Global Mammal Big Day will run on...
AviList is coming!
30 May 2025
Joshua Bergmark
The highly-anticipated unified bird taxonomy (AviList) is now slated for release on the 10th of June. Our good friends at iGoTerra have confirmed that within a couple of weeks they will be...
Lost Bird Grants (and our new webstore)
15 May 2025
Joshua Bergmark
Are you a skilled birdwatcher aged 18-30 who wants to rediscover a species lost to science? We’re now funding grants of up to $5000 USD to inspire driven young birders to seek out and document the...
The best place in the world to see Spoon-billed Sandpiper
13 March 2025
Joshua Bergmark
During our February tour covering the winter specialties of eastern China, we ended up with some extra time on Hainan which allowed us to visit the north-western corner of the island to search...
Cabanis's Bunting and Brown-backed Honeybird in Senegal
1 February 2025
Joachim Bertrands
During our recent tour to Senegal, some welcome surprises joined the list. First of all, at Campement de Wassadou, we unexpectedly sighted a Brown-backed Honeybird (formerly known as Wahlberg’s...
Demolitions and constructions of Masked Bowerbird
20 November 2024
Joshua Bergmark
Those who have been in recent years to New Guinea may have been lucky enough to see either Masked Bowerbird in the Arfaks of West Papua, or the closely related Flame Bowerbird in the southern...
Rediscovery of the Bougainville Thicketbird
1 November 2024
Joshua Bergmark
Whilst birding in a thickly-vegetated gully at about 1500m during the pretour scouting for our Bougainville expedition in September 2024, I accidentally flushed a bird which subsequently began...
Moustached Kingfisher notes from Bougainville
20 October 2024
Joshua Bergmark
The enigmatic Moustached Kingfisher is an extremely poorly-known species, with no published records of the bougainvillei taxon by ornithologists or birdwatchers since 1928. The only photos which...
The "Cipo" Long-tailed Reed Finch
14 October 2024
Eduardo Patrial
An interesting observation on our Brazil: Interior tour this month was a pair of Long-tailed Reed Finch hopping around on rocks and clambering in low vegetation at the top of the Pico da Lapinha...
First Nazca Booby for Indonesia
2 August 2024
Daniel López-Velasco
Last week, on the ferry crossing to Waigeo during our regular West Papua Vogelkop tour, I photographed an adult Nazca Booby. This was a completely unexpected first for Indonesia, New Guinea, and...