Vishal writes: This is a male Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher. I always refer to this bird as the Colour Bomb of the Western Ghats. This bird becomes extremely active and vocal during the monsoons when the semi evergreen forests of the Ghats really turn into a dark maze as the cloud cover thickens and the undergrowth…
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Review – The Beauty of the Sound Approach
This is a selection of bird songs – quite an eclectic selection from Caspian Snowcock to Greater Hoopoe-Lark and from Marsh Sandpiper to Wood Warbler by way of Gyr Falcon, Western Olivaceous Warbler and Red-rumped Wheatear. This is the first time that The Sound Approach has produced recordings on vinyl. For young readers, vinyl is…
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In this occasional series of links to other interesting blog posts, here are some more blogs that have caught my eye: James McCulloch, Only Natural: Royalty visits Peacehaven Jack, Green Snail Animations: Welcome to my first blog Simon Wills, The birds and the trees: Names of our birds Matt Miller, Cool Green Science: the remarkable…
Behind More Binoculars – readers’offer
A follow-up to Behind the Binoculars to be published in October. Behind More Binoculars follows the same model as its predecessor: we ask birdy people the questions we think you’d like to ask. Interviewees: Frank Gardner Ann and Tim Cleeves Roy Dennis Kevin Parr Tony Marr Tim Appleton Tim Birkhead Dawn Balmer Jon Hornbuckle Tony…
Tim Melling – Twite
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Tim writes: Twite (Linaria flavirostris) are scarce and extremely localised breeding birds. The main population is in Scotland but in England they are almost wholly restricted to the South Pennines where fewer than a hundred pairs breed. They are one of just two British songbirds that feed almost exclusively on seeds, the other being…