Lamington, still some setups and Dayboro In an eggshell Big Zigzag bird species count: 103 (+64 this week) Big Zigzag bird families count: 44 (+11 this week) Big Zigzag Lifers: 4 (+2 this week: Albert’s Lyrebird & White-throated Gerygone) Campsite Lifers: 1 (+1 this week: Albert’s Lyrebird) Big Zigzag New for Australia list: 7 (+5 this […]
RV Handover, setup, first birds of new adventure In an Eggshell Big Zigzag bird species count: 39 (+39 this week) Big Zigzag bird families count: 23 (+23 this week) Big Zigzag Lifers: 2 (+2 this week: White-eared Monarch & Russet-tailed Thrush) Big Zigzag New for Australia list: 2 (+2 this week) Bird of the week White-eared […]
Mission accomplished! All 250 Bird Families of the ticked! This 5 decades project, which actually become a project in 2013 (bird families member seen already from 1976) was possible to start only in 2011, as at least one member of each bird families seen since than. Time for new adventure! “Plains-wanderer”, our new home on […]
Pink tail at Tibetan plateau, Mission Accomplished – ALL 250! Project progress – Bird Families of the World 250/250 100% Not many records this year for Przevalski’s Pinktail. Originally, we plan to check the Rubber Mountains near Qinghai Lake, but just 2 weeks before our trip, a local birder reported the bird near Haibei. We […]
Almost There Beyond Wallace’s Line Project progress – Bird Families of the World 249/250 99.6% More then 100 endemic bird species can be seen in this unique shaped island but I had only one main target on my short Sulawesi visit. Luckily we’ve got Hylocitrea, the only endemic bird family here, on our first stop […]
Bornean Bird Families of the Oldest Rainforest Project progress – Bird Families of the World 246-248/250 99.2% Borneo is defiantly one of the top birding destinations on earth. Three nations share the third biggest island: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. We visited the two counties on the Malaysian part: Sabah and Sarawak. Accommodation varied from the […]
Old cars, cigars and Cuban Warblers! Project progress – Bird Families of the World 245/250 98% Ticking Cuban Warblers for me: Clean up Caribbeans, clean up Neotropics, clean up non-monotype. The 2 members of Cuban Warblers have different distributions. Yellow-headed Warbler can be seen on the west third of Cuba, while Oriente Warbler seen on […]
Bird Families of the World holly grail – New Guinea! Project progress – Bird Families of the World 244/250 97.6% Most of New Guinea’s 7 endemic bird families member seen only on the highlands. Tari Gap area is less accessible than legendary Kumul Lodge and trails, but it seems that birding there is more productive. […]
Wonderful plain plan for the Plains Wanderer Project progress – Bird Families of the World 236/250 94% Clean up Australian continent endemic families, clean up non-passerines families, second try after the failure in 2018, finally I’ve ticked Plains Wanderer! Thanks Simon Starr for great tour! After wandering an hour or so in the dark, wet […]
The Tiniest Territory for Endemic Bird Family Project progress – Bird Families of the World 235/250 94% One of the easiest ticks during Puerto Rico endemics cleanup is the monotype family of Puerto Rican Tanager. This species is common on mid and high elevation. Most of our trip was on the south-west corner of the […]