Big gull studies for #SuperSeabirdSunday at Old Moor RSPB recently. Herrings (Inc a nice 'argentatus' candidate, Lesser and Great Black-backed Gulls. At the site's quietest times there's always the larids to sketch! Cheers

#Birding #Morocco 510sp, 210 breeding in the country, 190sp/12days; regions: Atlas mountains #Ouarzazate (📷 #HôtelLeFintOuarzazate) and #BoumaleneDades; Sahara Erfoud temporary lake of #Merzouga & dunes of #ErgChebbi (📷 #MerzougaDesertGlamping); Agadir coast Souss & Massa estuaries; late Apr-May🌴🌴

A small selection of the Christmas cards that are available on my website. You can see the full range at www.robertvaughanillustrations.com

25 years ago! Where does the time go.... ##fieldnotes #fieldsketches #birdart #notebooks

#Birding #Panama: the #CanopyCamp in #Darien lowland rainforest, safari-style tents with wooden floors, beds, fans &private bathrooms: 250sp/5days: Harpy, & Crested Eagle, White-eared Conebill, Red-billed Scythebill, Royal Flycatcher, Pied Puffbird; five-hour-drive from Panama City; Sep to early Nov

#Birding the saline desert of #LittleRann which floods every monsoon, #Dasada, #Gujarat, #India: 250sp 🦩🦩🦩, MacQueen’s Bustard, Indian Courser, Long-legged Buzzard, Greater Hoopoe-Lark, Sykes’s Nightjar, Pallid Scops Owl, Variable Wheatear; #RannRiders Lodge, 2.5hrs by road from Ahmedabad ✈️; Dec-Feb

Each spring, shorebirds gather in Delaware Bay to feast on the eggs of horseshoe crabs. What happens when this food is not available? Red Knot suffer more than flexible Ruddy Turnstones. wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/11/15/r... Blog from 15 Nov 2019 🎂 Paper by Anna Tucker et al #ConservationScience🌎

White-tailed Eagles are becoming an increasingly regular sight in Donegal, and can almost be guaranteed at a few favoured locations. This was a rough study from a few years ago to help me age the birds I was seeing.

Latest watercolor effort - two Lapwings at the Northumberland coast. Worked up from various field sketches. Cheers #BirdArt

I was glad to see the 2 Taiga Bean Geese last week at Dooey in West Donegal. Having managed brief views of 1 of the 9 Taiga's that had been at Inch, it was a great opportunity to be able to take in the structure and details. A Pink-footed sleeping in a roadside field made for a much better subject.

#Birding tropical moist and dry deciduous forests of #Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, #India, 330sp: endemic Malabar Trogon, M. Grey Hornbill, M. Parakeet, White-bellied Woodpecker, Indian Pitta, the largest population of Asian Elephants; 📷 #KAAVSafariLodge @ #Kabini, 5hrs drive from #Bangalore ✈️; Oct-Mar

f you have ever reported a colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit, you have helped to establish connections that cross national and continental boundaries. Here's how the Wash links to other sites. Draw your local map using a ShinyApp: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... #UKbirding

A message of thanks and gratitude from the ABA's Executive Director, Wayne Klockner!

If you have ever reported a colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit, you have helped to establish connections that cross country and continental boundaries. Here's how the Dee Estuary links to other sites. Draw your local map using a ShinyApp: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... #ornithology

#Birding #SadiriLodge, 550sp, in the foothill rainforest @ 900m asl, inside the #Madidi NP (1250sp) in the #Amazonia #Bolivia, 2hrs drive from #Rurrenabaque: Military & Red-Bellied Macaws, Yungas & Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulets, Sharpbill; Sep-Nov when many sp breed ▶️ www.10000birds.com/birding-lodg...

Longevity record! Last night, @washwader.bsky.social recaught this Black-tailed Godwit, first caught and ringed 29 years ago. The metal ring was wearing thin (and was replaced) but the bird is still going strong. Blog about longevity of waders: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w... #ornithology

The Prairie Provinces: Winter 2024–2025 Regional Report is out! Highlights include large numbers of Great Gray, Northern Hawk, and Northern Saw-whet owls, plus an extraordinary Sage Thrasher. Read the report here: www.aba.org/prairie-prov...

The 🪶Ring-billed Gull is certainly an #underrated bird, but then again, aren’t all gulls? #BirdOfTheDay #VermontBirds

A recent watercolor of Curlews on the Northumberland coast, compiled from various field sketches. Cheers #BirdArt

After a recent early morning airport drop off, I continued down to Wexford for the first time in years. I was delighted to find a juvenile American Golden Plover at Tacumshin, before a harrier spectacle. The male Northern Harrier joined a few Hen and Marsh Harriers as the sun set.

BTO Ringing Report for 2024 now on-line. New longevity record for Green Sandpiper. Oystercatcher is still the 'grand-daddy'. Updated WaderTales blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w... Link to BTO report: www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology

And the sensation of discomfort somehow vanishes. I am on a mission to finally see my first #BrownBear and everything else becomes secondary. We are in the #TaraNationalPark in western #Serbia, ranging from 1,000-1,500 m above sea level ▶️ 10000birds.com/birding-the-... #birding 🌳🌲🐻🌳 #bearwatching

WaderTales blog about wader roosts and the energy that's lost when birds are disturbed. wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a... Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣ Over 3000 reads #ornithology

I enjoyed the Suffolk Brown Shrike ~ so smart & an example of a rarity that you can still dig into in terms of identification. Arrows highlight the classic bull-headed look, a large-looking bill, striking mask & longish tail, with the shortish primary projection is in yellow. See ALT too. 1/4

Scottish Dotterel. Blog published 10 years ago suggeseted 57% decline 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/u... Update in 2020 - climate drivers? wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/s... Better news from Eastern Cairngorms from 2023 survey? www.waderstudygroup.org/article/19702/ #ornithology

Who are 10,000 Birds Writers and why do they contribute to the site without pay? We thought they deserved a proper introduction, so we started this series to find out: Dragan Simic — Playback is the murder of the impossible ▶️ www.10000birds.com/interviews-w... #Belgrade #birding #birdsuniteourworld

A long-term nestbox campaign in Norway has brought encouraging signs for Ural Owl, showing a clear increase in occupied nest sites:

An inland Common Scoter studies for #SuperSeabirdSunday This handsome drake at Pugneys CP recently gave me some of the best views of the species I've ever had. I usually see them far out at sea. Cheers

A recent commission: 1st winter Ross's Gull (watercolour on paper). I would really love to see this species! #gull #birdart #natureart #wildlifeart #watercolour

Wonderful waders David Campbell discusses his favourite family of birds, recalling memorable encounters old and new:

#Belgrade holds an important #PygmyCormorant winter roost, numbering around 4,000 birds, representing 2 % of the global, and over 5 % of their European population. In the last few hours of daylight, they are commuting along the Danube to their undisclosed roost. 📷Z. Nikodijevic #birding

Cryptic plumage is such a challenge 🎨😅! It’s a true artistic challenge! Still, I love #bird s with this kind of plumage — ptarmigans, owls, #shorebird… real masters of camouflage 👑🌿 #sciart #AmericanGoldenPlover #PluvialisDominica #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #WildlifeArt

Mid-October #birding the #Danube Backwaters' seasonally inundated riparian forests of willow and poplar, yet not in this season: bone-dry at the moment! White-tailed Eagle, Great Grey Shrike, Chiffchaff, Wren, Robin, Black Redstart, Dunnock, Hawfinch — #ForlandLeveObaleDunava Reserve🌳 #Belgrade

On this day in 2021, WaderTales was celebrating a new Bar-tailed Godwit subspecies. wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/10/18/n... Today, Jesse Conklin tells us about 2 subspecies that have started to hybridise after 16,000 years separation. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/r... #ConservationScience🌍

Field studies of 5 Whoopers from RSPB Old Moor recently. Always a pleasure to sketch these magnificent birds. They're by far the easiest when taking a nap! Cheers #BirdArt #Birding

Oooof! 😍

A tale of two Terns for #SuperSeabirdSunday. Little 'n' large. The world's biggest and smallest sketched at Salinas de Isla Cristina, Spain in May. Gracias.

#Birding #CanoNegro, #CostaRica, a shallow 10K ha lagoon surrounded by rainforest, grassland and marshes, 450sp.: Jabiru, Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture, Spot-breasted Wren, Boat-billed Heron, Green Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill, American Pygmy Kingfisher; #CanoNegroLodge; 4hrs drive from San Jose; Dec-Apr🌴

The Ogston Reservoir #Derbyshirebirds Ring-necked Duck on 2 dates separated by about 3 weeks in July and August and in vastly differing weather conditions. #UKbirding #birding #birdart #birds #art

#Birding #Tortuguero NP on the Caribbean coast, #CostaRica 350sp, Tiger, & Agami Herons, White-fronted Nunbird, all 6 kingfishers, Lineated Woodpecker, Sungrebe, Great Green Macaw, Great Potoo; 📷 #LagunaLodge; from San Jose drive to Pavona, plus boat ride, 6hrs, or 30min by plane; timing Aug to Oct🌴

A watercolor of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper for my birding buddy. This bird paused at East Halton, Lincs back in May and was much wanted lifer and was worked up from my field sketches. Cheers #BirdArt

One of the benefits of studying wader migration is that you learn how interconnected places are. The world seems smaller and country borders seem trivial. Black-tailed Godwit blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... #ornithology

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

#Birding #Kinabatangan River #Borneo #Malaysia 📷 #KinabatanganWetlandsResort freshwater swamps & mangrove forest 250sp., 100sp/3days: Black, & Rhinoceros Hornbill, White-fronted Falconet, Buffy Fish-owl, Large, & Sunda Frogmouth, 10 primate sp., 🦧🐘; 1.5hr by speedboat from #Sandakan ✈️; Jun-Sep

Enjoyed excellent but brief views of the Holy Island Red breasted Flycatcher on Sunday afternoon. Its a while since Ive seen one... #Northumberland #BirdArt

Field studies of Greenshanks at RSPB Old Moor recently. At least 5 were busily feeding in the morning sunshine. A bit of colour added later. #BirdArt #Birding

Any birders reporting autumn passage Ring Ouzels (esp in southern England) please look out for coloured leg rings on juveniles from the Peak District Eastern Moors project. 🙏 Report to [email protected] Combo of 3 colours on left leg @birdguides.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social #ukbirding

I didn't post these before but I think I will after all. The Hickling Black-winged Kite.

Field studies of Black Terns, Ruff and Sandwich Tern from Druridge Bay CP, Northumberland recently. Nice to be able to sketch these from the comfort of hide as it poured it down! #wildlifeArt #sketchbook Cheers

#Birding #Nepal #Chitwan NP 930km2 of grassland, Sal &riverine forest, 600 bird sp, 150sp/day: Indian Grassbird, Bristled Grassbird, Jerdon’s Babbler, Slender-billed Babbler, White-tailed Stonechat, Black-breasted Weaver; 📷 #BarahiJungleLodge; 30min flight or 5hr drive from Kathmandu; timing Oct-Apr