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A New Moth Season
Believe it or not, the new 2013 moth season has already started. Yes, back in early January when we had a spell of mild weather, south coast “Moth’ers” were already catching early migrants but for us...
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Is this a Whistling Swan?
By Terry China doesn’t yet have a rarities committee. That will come as birding becomes more popular. And so, for the time being, there is no formal way to assess reports of unusual birds. I am...
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Frontier Birding Israel style
Still haven’t purchased a proper sound-recording system, but with my phone (Samsung Galaxy S2) I manage to get semi-decent recordings of close birds. Here are some of my adventures in recent weeks: On...
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Enfoque en: Trepatroncos Centroamericanos
After publishing Focus on: Central American Woodcreepers on Birding Frontiers in January, Honduran friend and colleague, Fabiola Rodriguez, mentioned that after sharing the piece with some friends in...
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Russell Slack
You Take Care Numb. I’ve been writing this in my head for over 2 weeks now. The trouble is words feel so small and will fail to communicate how much the touch of another’s life affects you. Like many...
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Merganser Bonanza
By Terry This special photo was taken by Liu Mingyu on the Yalu River, Liaoning Province in China during a birding trip with good friend, Bai Qingquan from Dandong. And what a photo it is… it...
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Remembering Martin Gilbert
Billy Morton has done fitting tribute to an old friend. Martin died 3 years ago today. Never really said enough at the time. Well done Billy. Read all the tributes by clicking : Martin (Gilly) Gilbert...
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ARCTIC NORWAY – Land of the Eider
Along with three other friends and fellow birders, from 12th – 17th April 2013 I visited Varanger in Arctic Norway. It was a great experience and a fantastic birding destination. Unfortunately I wasn’t...
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British or Yellow-headed Yellow Wagtail?
On Helgoland, the British Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava flavissima) used to breed in the 1920s and 1930s, but then disappeared due to rats. Since it is a scarce spring migrant with the occasional...
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Eastern Grasshopper Warbler – are they do-able in the hand?
Now that I’ve rediscovered the login details for the BF site, here’s another bird from Shetland, a Grasshopper Warbler trapped last weekend (11th May) in my garden in the south mainland. I was chuffed...
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Invitations to Birding Frontiers Stuff
Coming up. Contact me here to find out more about any of the events below: Digiscoping and photography – Sunday 9th June at Bempton RSPB Come and join us for spectacular scenery, great birding and...
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Asian Black-shouldered Kite in Turkey
Following the birds in Israel last 2 years this must represent the westermost record yet of the Asian form ‘vociferus’. Been around for a month or so in Turkey. Seems the first to clock these as Asian...
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UK Butterflies Suffer Another Set-Back
With 2013 recording one of the coldest springs for 50 odd years, our British Butterflies have suffered a further set-back. Many have been late to emerge and our rarer species are now on the wing...
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Atypical female Semicollared Flycatcher…
And other interesting stuff from Turkey Yesterday, 31st of June, while leading a birding tour in NE Turkey, I came across an interesting-looking female Semicollared Flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata)....
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The Fair Isle Collared Flycatcher
by Roger Riddington Sunday 9th June 2013 was day 2 of the FIBOT AGM weekend, and in the morning I was helping out with the daily census, since warden David Parnaby had gallantly forgone census duties...
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Welcoming New Team Member
Pleased to be welcoming onto the Birding Frontiers team, Steve Blain. Steve heralds from Bedfordshire in the UK where I lived a long time ago). He is particularly skilled with cameras and at...
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Birding Frontiers + 1
Catch-up With a flurry of excellent posts recently I am having trouble keeping up! In case you missed any here’s a quick recap, with links, of posts over the last few days: Female Collared Flycatcher...
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Some more flight shots of the Israeli sandplover
By Irad Solnik, showing how difficult it is to identify birds from pictures only, especially of such difficult taxa pairs like atrifrons / columbinus: More on this bird to follow.
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West Papua
Birding’s Last Frontier by Dani Lopez-Velasco Several birding locations around the world rank amongst the most difficult ones to bird, for various reasons. Places like the Philippines, the Solomons,...
View Article2013 – A Butterfly Revival
According to a number of recent publications, the long hot summer of 2013 has helped to revive many of our species of British Butterfly. The recent Big Butterfly Count that was conducted by Butterfly...
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