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Stormy weather
Sound track advice: Stormy weather - Billie Holiday I’ve always considered myself a birder with a camera, rather than a bird...
Vincent
20 okt 20192 minuten om te lezen
Save the best for last: ID & age of a mega
In many respects autumn was remarkably slow. But November turned everything upside down! Like in spring (with an Alpine Swift), the girls...
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27 nov 20183 minuten om te lezen
Tristis: not always a peep show
pics © Marijn van Oss & Jorrit Vlot sound © Thijs Fijen Earlier I wrote about Siberian Chiffchaffs with common Chiffchaff calls (here)....
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13 nov 20181 minuten om te lezen
Arctic surprise
There's a big if - but another big redpoll invasion could be in the making. The if depends on stuff like weather conditions, and the...
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10 nov 20182 minuten om te lezen
Out now: the redstart ID article!
The ID article on Eastern Black Redstart ID that I wrote with Nicolas Martinez has been published! It was published in the latest Dutch...
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11 jun 20181 minuten om te lezen
senator in disguise: thoughts on Balearic Shrike
Early May I spent a week on the lovely island of Sardinia. I was of course keen to see Balearic Shrike, the endemic west Mediterranean...
Vincent
23 mei 20183 minuten om te lezen
The Med Fly
I just spent a lovely week on Sardinia. The recently split Mediterranean Flycatcher (Muscicapa tyrrhenica tyrrhenica) is pleasantly...
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19 mei 20182 minuten om te lezen
Size doesn't matter
Probable Russian Common Gull, 5 February 2012, Meijendel, Wassenaar, the Netherlands I don't like using measurements as a diagnostic...
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8 mrt 20183 minuten om te lezen
Redstart headaches: moult & primary spacing
Eastern Black Redstart, 1 cy male, October 2008, Kazakhstan (Arend Wassink) Redstart articles coming up! The ID article on Eastern Black...
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25 feb 20183 minuten om te lezen
Double trouble: redpolls!
With the current redpoll invasion in Europe, it was time to spend some words and pics on these wonderful birds. Redpolls all the way from...
Vincent
16 jan 20181 minuten om te lezen
The look-alike that turned out to be a tristis after all. Maybe. I think so. Right?
Right. Chiffchaffs never stop to amaze me. But I now feel we're really getting somewhere. Only very recently Peter de Knijff and I wrote...
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22 dec 20171 minuten om te lezen
Hume's Leaf Warbler: my bird of the autumn
Autumn 2016 was nothing less than perfect. But this autumn, well... it was a bit boring to be honest. I missed most good vis mig days,...
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11 nov 20172 minuten om te lezen
ageing a calling Iberian Chiffchaff
On 14 July I stumbled upon a calling Iberian Chiffchaff (ca 45th record) in my hometown The Hague. Since calling birds are probably...
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27 jul 20172 minuten om te lezen
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