Some birds are seen before they are met. This one remains a reason to return — perfectly understood, simply not yet in season. © Tamba Jefang The Shorebirds That Keep Me Going Back Gyorgy Szimuly January 30, 2026 – 3 min read Share Share this article Facebook X LinkedIn Email WhatsApp Telegram Threads More Bluesky Mastodon Reddit Pinterest LINE Page Link What's Next? <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Orange light folding over the dunes of Merzouga – distance felt tangible, and silence stretched beyond the horizon.</span> Birding Trips A New Continent at Thirty: Notes from a Moroccan Birding Trip A father–son journey through Morocco at thirty – landscapes, method, missed species, and a long-awaited Cream-coloured Courser. <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 Orange light folding over the dunes of Merzouga – distance felt tangible, and silence stretched beyond the horizon. Birding Trips A New Continent at Thirty: Notes from a Moroccan Birding Trip A father–son journey through Morocco at thirty – landscapes, method, missed species, and a long-awaited Cream-coloured Courser.
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Orange light folding over the dunes of Merzouga – distance felt tangible, and silence stretched beyond the horizon.</span> Birding Trips A New Continent at Thirty: Notes from a Moroccan Birding Trip A father–son journey through Morocco at thirty – landscapes, method, missed species, and a long-awaited Cream-coloured Courser.
<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
Orange light folding over the dunes of Merzouga – distance felt tangible, and silence stretched beyond the horizon. Birding Trips A New Continent at Thirty: Notes from a Moroccan Birding Trip A father–son journey through Morocco at thirty – landscapes, method, missed species, and a long-awaited Cream-coloured Courser.
