Birding What's Next? <i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A Franklin’s Gull in breeding plumage, photographed in Mexico 21 years ago — from a time when tools like eBird did not yet exist, and many moments like this could only be held in memory. © Gyorgy Szimuly</em></i> Projects How PatchBird Changed the Way I Bird PatchBird began not as a project, but as a shift in attention — fifteen minutes of stillness that transformed everyday birding. <i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Calm, observant, and content to remain at the margins — where noise thins out. © </em></i><a href="https://500px.com/p/SzimiStyle?view=photos" rel="noreferrer"><i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Gyorgy Szimuly</em></i></a> Reflections A place to stand still A quiet reflection on observation, stillness, and birds as a discipline of attention, marking the opening of the Bird Observer site. A Vogelkop Lophorina illustrated by the Hungarian wildlife artist, Szabolcs Kókay for David Attenborough’s 95th birthday. For many people around the world, Birds-of-paradise first became living reality, rather than myth, through Attenborough’s documentaries. © Szabolcs Kókay Reflections A Wandering Albatross in a Hungarian Village: The Documentary That Changed How I Understood Birds Before the internet, a young birder wrote a letter to David Attenborough — and received a signed photograph beside a Wandering Albatross chick in return. A familiar presence in Central European woodlands, the Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus europaeus carries the darker head pattern that defines much of the region’s breeding population—an anchor against which rarer, paler forms reveal themselves. © Alexis Lours (CC-BY) Birding When Variation Doesn’t Become a Boundary: A Putative Mixed Subspecies Pairing in Long-tailed Tits A pair of Long-tailed Tits reveals how subspecies boundaries, so clear on paper, begin to soften in the field when variation and behaviour intersect. Among many other beautiful hummingbirds, the Crowned Woodnymph glows in the humid forests of the Colombian Andes — a fitting emblem of the landscapes awaiting us along our carefully planned route. © Patrick Maurice Birding Trip How We Plan Birding Through Colombia Planning a birding trip through Colombia requires more than chasing species lists. Here is the method we used to design a realistic itinerary using eBird hotspots, habitat diversity, and a slower PatchBird-style approach.
<i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A Franklin’s Gull in breeding plumage, photographed in Mexico 21 years ago — from a time when tools like eBird did not yet exist, and many moments like this could only be held in memory. © Gyorgy Szimuly</em></i> Projects How PatchBird Changed the Way I Bird PatchBird began not as a project, but as a shift in attention — fifteen minutes of stillness that transformed everyday birding.
<i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Calm, observant, and content to remain at the margins — where noise thins out. © </em></i><a href="https://500px.com/p/SzimiStyle?view=photos" rel="noreferrer"><i><em class="italic" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Gyorgy Szimuly</em></i></a> Reflections A place to stand still A quiet reflection on observation, stillness, and birds as a discipline of attention, marking the opening of the Bird Observer site.
A Vogelkop Lophorina illustrated by the Hungarian wildlife artist, Szabolcs Kókay for David Attenborough’s 95th birthday. For many people around the world, Birds-of-paradise first became living reality, rather than myth, through Attenborough’s documentaries. © Szabolcs Kókay Reflections A Wandering Albatross in a Hungarian Village: The Documentary That Changed How I Understood Birds Before the internet, a young birder wrote a letter to David Attenborough — and received a signed photograph beside a Wandering Albatross chick in return.
A familiar presence in Central European woodlands, the Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus europaeus carries the darker head pattern that defines much of the region’s breeding population—an anchor against which rarer, paler forms reveal themselves. © Alexis Lours (CC-BY) Birding When Variation Doesn’t Become a Boundary: A Putative Mixed Subspecies Pairing in Long-tailed Tits A pair of Long-tailed Tits reveals how subspecies boundaries, so clear on paper, begin to soften in the field when variation and behaviour intersect.
Among many other beautiful hummingbirds, the Crowned Woodnymph glows in the humid forests of the Colombian Andes — a fitting emblem of the landscapes awaiting us along our carefully planned route. © Patrick Maurice Birding Trip How We Plan Birding Through Colombia Planning a birding trip through Colombia requires more than chasing species lists. Here is the method we used to design a realistic itinerary using eBird hotspots, habitat diversity, and a slower PatchBird-style approach.
