In case you missed it last night (or were out celebrating Valentine’s Day), the Orioles agreed to a one-year deal with center fielder Adam Jones, thus avoiding an arbitration hearing which had been scheduled for Friday. You can read contract details and more quotes on that here, but I wanted to focus in on the [...]

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Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) feeding in a tidal channel of the Ria Formosa Natural Park near Faro, Algarve, Portugal on the 11th of February 2012.The bird has been colour-ringed as a nestling in north Germany (Mellum, Niedersachsen) in June 2011 by Olaf Geiter, with whom I catched and ringed Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) near Cologne [...]

I never thought I would say this but I can see some of the attraction of twitching having spent a large part of Friday evening and Saturday afternoon watching a European Eagle Owl in the wild. For me and many local residents the sight of such a magnificent bird in trees just yards from their [...]

Can you name the no 1 viewer sport in North America? It is not baseball, figure skating or racing. It’s bird watching. That is right, more folk are watching birds than soccer and hockey combined. With so many folks looking to see a bird they have not seen before, it’s not surprising to see [...]

Cyprus Cyprus, a former British colony, is today an independent island in the eastern Mediterranean and since 2004, a member-state of the European Union. The capital of Cyprus is Nicosia. The official languages of Greek, Turkish and English are widely spoken. Cyprus is one of the few European [...]

Big Schools Bird Watch Update. February 6, 2012 Posted by Mrs Harper in : Uncategorized , trackback Bird watching from the windows in Scott’s Hut. Last week Mary and Crystal from the RSPB came to help us with our Big Schools Bird Watch. We worked in groups to spot birds [...]

Birdwatching in Catalonia, Spain: hide-and-seek with lapwing and vulture The delta, an area of 124 square miles of which 75 per cent is given over to rice fields, is a confusing place in which to travel, a network of lakes and watery fields where one lake, one field, looks much like another. I can say [...]

Janson Media announced today that its has licensed the series All Bird TV (26 x 24′) to Reel Corporation Australia Pty Ltd. Per the agreement Reel Corporation obtains Home Video Rights of  for the Australian/New Zealand Territory. The adventurous weekly series allows viewers to experience the best birdwatching locations around the world, with locations everywhere [...]

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