Images from Slovenia and Poland. And a few nictating membranes in action, too.
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Andean Avocet, in Bolivia
Uganda’s Baboon Boulevard, Revisited
Video: Chimp Tracking in Uganda’s Kalinzu Forest
The rain didn’t start until just after we took our first steps into the Kalinzu Forest. As if on cue, it wouldn’t cease until we climbed back out nearly five hours later. In between it was a steady rain, sometimes a loud pelting on large green leaves the size of doormats, other times soft, sensual drops that drizzled the forest floor with a stream of sloppy kisses. Mostly though, it leaned towards the former.
Continue readingStrolling With Magellanic Penguins on Martillo Island
A visit to an island colony that’s the seasonal home for more than 3,000 pairs of mating Magellanic Penguins.
Continue readingEmbouchure du Var, Nice – Birding Notebook #4, May 2026
Where the Var River meets the Mediterranean. This month: Whimbrels, Squacco Herons, Stilts and more.
Continue readingEastern Warbling Vireo, in Ohio
A House Sparrow, With Leucism
Lausanne Birding: 90 Minutes at Ouchy Port
Red-crested Pochards, Great Crested Grebes, a pair of Eurasian Coots, Carrion Crows, a Greater Cormorant, Yellow legged Gulls and a Mute Swan on the Lake Geneva shore line.
Continue readingWhite-Necked Jacobin, in Ecuador
Hamerkop, in Western Uganda
Hippos in the Kazinga Channel
My 25 Best Bird Photos of 2025
My favorite bird photographs from the past year, captured in France, Portugal, Italy and Slovenia.
Continue readingBlack-tailed Godwit, in Portugal
Godwit is from the Old English for ‘good creature’; its Latin name, Limosa limosa, means ‘muddy, muddy’. Both work for this sensational creature.
Continue readingA Hyrax Family Portrait – Boulders Beach, South Africa
Meet a clan of Hyraxes, smallish and thick rodent-like animals I spent about 20 minutes observing as they lurked among shrubs and climbed over rocks at Boulders Beach, a public beach area and nature preserve near Cape Town.
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