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Jupiter Birding: Tanzania - Ngorongoro Crater
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The birds and birding travels of June and Peter. Saturday, 1 August 2015. Tanzania - Ngorongoro Crater. Our last three nights in Tanzania were spent at the Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge, situated on the eastern rim of the wonderful Ngorongoro Crater. Here we were at 7,800 feet above sea level, high enough for a significant drop in the temperature and also high enough for occasional pauses for breath to be needed when walking uphill! This was Avian Adventures' fourth time in Tanzania; we reported here. If you lik...
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Jupiter Birding: August 2015
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The birds and birding travels of June and Peter. Wednesday, 26 August 2015. Last weekend saw the 27th British Birdwatching Fair held at Rutland Water and as usual we were there! Tim Appleton, co-founder of the event, reports another record attendance this year and almost certainly a record amount of money raised for conservation. The recent publication by BirdLife International of a report. Patricia Zurita, CEO of BirdLife International. What we all have to do! Stand promoting the company’s program...
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Jupiter Birding: July 2015
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The birds and birding travels of June and Peter. Thursday, 30 July 2015. In May this year we saw Red-footed Falcons in both the Algarve and the Baixo Alentejo, birds that were part of an unprecedented influx of this species into Portugal. We reported here. On the first ones that we saw near Faro after a tip-off from Thijs Valkenburg. Castro Verde, Portugal; May 2015. Chatterley Whitfield; July 2015. And Chatterley Whitfield is where we went this morning! With the falcon having been present in more or les...
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Jupiter Birding: Red-footed Falcon(s)
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The birds and birding travels of June and Peter. Thursday, 30 July 2015. In May this year we saw Red-footed Falcons in both the Algarve and the Baixo Alentejo, birds that were part of an unprecedented influx of this species into Portugal. We reported here. On the first ones that we saw near Faro after a tip-off from Thijs Valkenburg. Castro Verde, Portugal; May 2015. Chatterley Whitfield; July 2015. And Chatterley Whitfield is where we went this morning! With the falcon having been present in more or les...
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Jupiter Birding: May 2015
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The birds and birding travels of June and Peter. Saturday, 30 May 2015. Having a light meal! Although it couldn’t be described as common the Blue Rock Thrush is a widely distributed species in the Algarve and is usually not difficult to find. It is perhaps mainly associated with the sea-cliffs and rocky coastline of the western Algarve but it also occurs elsewhere, breeding in steep-sided, rocky valleys, in quarries, on ruined buildings and on churches and other large, town-centre buildings. It was soon ...
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Jupiter Birding: December 2014
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The birds and birding travels of June and Peter. Friday, 26 December 2014. Is a species that we see fairly often in Portugal, most frequently in the Baixo Alentejo but also, from time to time, in the Algarve. We usually refer to it as Black Vulture or sometimes Eurasian Black Vulture, which are the names used in the Collins Bird Guide. And which have been in use as far back as one cares to look. However, just a few years ago came the IOC World Bird List. At about the same time, the British Ornithologists...
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Jupiter Birding: January 2015
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The birds and birding travels of June and Peter. Thursday, 29 January 2015. Making our birding count. Although January might not be thought of as the most exciting time of the year for birding in the Algarve, there continue to be a succession of interesting birds to see and plenty of reasons to be out, including the really nice weather. Walking the beach for Project Arenaria. Project Arenaria is a survey of the non-estuarine coast. Last week we were back to high tide counts. These were at Santa Luzia...
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Jupiter Birding: November 2014
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The birds and birding travels of June and Peter. Monday, 3 November 2014. Also found near Cabranosa on the 21st was a Yellow-browed Warbler, which proved to be the first of many! So far there have been about a dozen in the Algarve and others further north. There is still time for more to be found and numbers look certain to exceed last year’s total, which itself far surpassed anything that had gone before. Yellow-browed Warbler - Castro Marim, November 2013. The 2009 bird was a juvenile; we believe the s...
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Jupiter Birding: April 2015
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The birds and birding travels of June and Peter. Sunday, 19 April 2015. At this time of the year it is difficult to beat a day‘s birding in the Castro Verde area of the Baixo Alentejo, particularly if you enjoy seeing birds of prey. We’ve been up there three times during the past week and seen 16 raptor species! And it’s not just a visual experience! As well as the constant jangling song of the Corn Buntings and the zitting of Cisticolas, most of the water courses with any vegetation have Nightingales si...
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