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  1. Birding Peru

    Foreign Birding trips during the COVID 19 pandemic. List current situation for different destinations here!

    Even though most birders that I have been in contact with are waiting for the vaccine, some birders are still traveling. And while this may seem irresponsible to some, there is a lot of variations in different countries in active virus occurrence, as well as local COVID policies, so let us not...
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    Birdparty - new video!

    Too much lockdown time.... ...I just made a video for my song Birdparty. Check it out on YouTube! https://youtu.be/3I_yCnvSf4o There are about 90 species of birds in the video. See if you can spot them all? Which are on your bucket list? Saludos from quarantine in Peru. Gunnar
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    World Virtual BirdFair?

    British BirdFair - Cancelled Biggest Week - Cancelled Asian BirdFair - Cancelled Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival - Cancelled African BirdFair Cancelled Space Coast Birding Festival Jan 2021 - Cancelled Every fecking bird fair/festival in the whole wide world - Cancelled. Perhaps this is...
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    BIG MONTH IN PERU OCT 1-31. 1006 species!!

    Hi Everyone, It has been a while since I logged onto Bird Forum, which is a quite a shame as the content here always rocks. Anyway, my birdwatching outfitter company in Peru turns 20 years this year so I thought I do something I had never done before. A BIG MONTH. There are many reasons for...
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    Peru Birding Tours - stealing copyrighted material

    In recent years there are many new bird tour operators in Peru, and I for one is happy about this fact. It means Peru as birding destination is gaining ground, and this is vital for conservation of important habitat and conservation of threatened species. Many of the local guides who are both...
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    BirdParty - Rock'n'Roll for birders

    Hi everyone , I have entered a studio to record my song Birdparty with my band Guran Guran. Problem is, that we have three version to chose from. Help me out. Which one do you like the best? http://gunnarengblom.com/birdparty-the-birders-number-1-hit/ The final version will be out before the...
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    World Birding Destination Cup 2013

    Never played the final, but it is playing right now with only 2 days left. It is Kenya vs New Guinea and Kenya has a comfortable lead. Having said that only some 120 votes so far. This could easily change with more voters. Check...
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    World Birding Destination Cup 2013

    Second round of the unofficial World Birding Destination Cup 2013 is up and running. http://birdingblogs.com/2013/Gunnar/world-birding-destination-cup-2013-second-roun Voting closes at midnight 24.00H GMT on Sunday. These were the results a few days ago. Half time results: South East Peru 28...
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    California Bird

    What's this, please? Taken in California.
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    The Biggest Day.

    I will probably regret sticking my neck out, but I am intending to break the 24h World Record of birds seen or heard on Sep 27. It was 26 years since John Fanshawe, Terry Stephenson and Andy Roberts set their record of 342 species in Kenya and 30 years since Ted Parker and Scott Robinson set 331...
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    Birdlife Globally Threatened Species Charts

    Dear all Does anyone have access to the Birdlife Globally Threatened Species annual updates for the following years 2008 Red List category changes 2007 Red List category changes 2006 Red List category changes 2005 Red List category changes 2000-2004 Red List category changes The links...
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    Kill Bill Tanager - again.

    A popular thread from 2004 was called New Species on Manu Road - Kill Bill Tanager http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=21875 Here is the photo... on Facebook. My guess is that this one will also soon be retracted so watch it while you can. Or, maybe it is being published soon and this...
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    Semifinals - Bird World Cup

    How would you vote? Large and powerful or tiny, peculiar and cute? http://birdingblogs.com/2011/Gunnar/semifinals-bird-world-cup In the semifinals are: Spoon-billed Sandpiper vs Philippine Eagle Marvelous Spatuletail vs Harpy Eagle Difficult choices... but so far the Eagle is...
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    Round Two - World Bird Cup.

    Hi all The 16 finalists are selected. It is getting very exciting this game and the interest is very high. Our host server almost broke the other day. Here are the 8 games competing: Spoon-billed Sandpiper vs Ibisbill Marvelous Spatuletail vs Long-whiskered Owlet, Harpy Eagle vs Blue Bird...
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    The World's best bird?

    I accidently put the wrong link in my recent post: "The world's best bird photographer". Now that the cat is out of the bag, although I wanted to wait a couple of days to post again, I might as well tell you what the "wrong link" is about. The title is similar. The world's best bird? The whole...
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    The World's best bird photographer?

    A quite bold title, and maybe there are several good ones out there, which could make this a long thread, but I recently came across some photos of birds from Peru, some that are difficult enough just to see, that were so mindblowing, jawdropping and so WOW!, that I felt throwing my Canon D50...
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    British Birders - a separate subspecies?

    Dale Forbes posted a nice blog post today on Birdingblogs, presenting convincing ecological and evolutionary data showing that British birders are quite unique compared to birders of other countries and that they should probably best be treated as a separate sub-species. Ground-breaking news...
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    How to use a birding forum!

    Hi all Although, I have been a BirdForum member for some time, I don't participate as often as I would like. I simply forget to check the forum regularly - and generally I have had little knowledge how to best get the information I am interested in. I asked Greg Neise - owner of the North...
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    Birding with iPad

    I finally gave in and bought an iPad two months ago. I think it shall be great for birding. Here are some thoughts and links to resources. I realize that the format of the iPad is slightly to large to be too practical (it does not fit in a pocket), but I am thinking of some sort of padded...
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    Christmas blogs from Birdingblogs.com

    Merry Christmas everyone.... Just thought I'd share with you some Christmas inspired blogposts from the people at birding blogs. Tom McKinney is top form in his A Christmas Carol - watch that supressing Scrooge. Parental guidance advised! Foul language...but you know Tom! Rebecca Nason is...
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    Lee Evans interviewed by David Lindo

    Hardly news for many Brits tuning into Birdguides. Controversial Lee Evans - uncut. http://birdingblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Lee_Evans_-_twitcher.png Enjoy!!! Gunnar
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    New multi-author birding blog

    My previous posts on BirdForum have lead up to this event. The new site birdingblogs.com have finally been launched to day with its first post. http://birdingblogs.com/2010/Gunnar/multi-author-birding-blog-launched-today Look who is next: Thursday Oct 21 Kenn Kaufman (US), Friday Oct 22...
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    Identify the birders!

    Hi all Hard enough to ID birds, but can you identify the birder? Here is a blog series presenting 10 birdingbloggers. Can you ID them? We have just started so there is time to join the fun. * BirdingBlog 1 * BirdingBlog 2 The reason I am doing this blogseries is because this is...
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    Peru's Satipo road will have community lodge soon

    Hi all Just wanted to alert BirdForum members that RainForest Partnership is raising money in Global Giving Open Green Challange to build a lodge with the community which will house birders. More info can be found on a post I just sent to the Birding Peru list. RainForest Partnership has a...
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    Long-whiskered Owlet twitchable

    Just wanted to update you all that it seems like the Long-whiskered Owlet is well staked out now for those who plan a trip to Peru. Since Shachar Alterman filmed the Owlet at Esperanza it has been seen 4 more times, with an additional record of two birds calling nearby - with no attempt to see...
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