Archive for the 'Birders' Category

Last year read a book called “The Big Twitch“ written by Australian birder, writer and sometime comedian Sean Dooley. This is an excellent read if you are even mildly interested in birds, and especially if you enjoy books relating adventure, quests, the search for unusual things and not without a little humour thrown into the […]

I’ve heard quite a bit about conferences for bloggers but these have usually been for people who write blogs about blogging.
Now we have the First Bird Blogging Conference which is being organized by Sharon Stiteler on her blog called Birdchick.com. This sounds like being a great get together of birders who also blog on […]

I have only had a limited experience at birding in an unfamiliar country. In late 2005 and early 2006 I spent four days in Thailand and three weeks in Nepal. A handful of species were easily identified; I recognized them from birds I’d seen here in Australia. Most species were a struggle to identify, despite […]

Someone who is a regular visitor and commenter here on my birding blog is Duncan from Ben Cruachan Blog. I must admit that I frequently check out his blog too. Duncan displays a very broad knowledge base and intense interest in all things of the natural world and his posts are always fascinating reading. His […]

Lifer: the first ever time that a birder sees a species of bird it is called a ‘lifer’ or a ‘tick’.

Birders are like everyone else; they love to see new things - in their case it’s new birds.
Many birders keep a life list of all the birds they have ever […]