birding

Probably my coolest find ever out in nature, found at Parsons Pond Park in Franklin Lakes, NJ on 11/29/2025

As you can see from the title, I have started on a trip, by far the most ambitious thing I've done yet, intended a direct clone of a certain ' Marsh tern's ' travels- (No not really, I had planned this before I saw @Chlidonias was returning to the continent :p. I'm also not really going to the...

This thread is long overdue, but here is a thread dedicated to information about wildlife-watching hotspots and species in Japan. Since Japan is home to a variety of endemic wildlife, it is a key destination for any wildlife watcher. Furthermore, the diversity of ecosystems from the...

So I’ve been wanting to get into birding for quite a bit, I love taking note of local species I see on iNaturalist, and the place where I am soon going to move will have a ton of interesting new birds and great hiking locations. Issue is, I’m functionally blind in my left eye due to a weird...

This thread is inspired by WhistlingKite’s What’s on my Doorstep thread. He has graciously given his blessing for me to develop this similar thread for my own local area. Thank you! As I have basically ‘birded out’ my local area, having seen everything there is to see, I am hoping that this...

Hey all, Since I have been to Cyprus a fair few times now in just about every time of year, I figured I'd write up a guide on visiting the place, with extra info on zoos and on birding. It's quite long so I've split it into the relevant sections to make it more manageable to read. Hopefully if...

I am planning on being the Miami-Dade area in March and was wondering if there are any great places to go birding, especially to see Reddish Egrets as I haven't seen one in the wild yet. I've been to Wakodahatchee Wetlands and seen the rookery there, but not anywhere in the Miami area. If you...

Seaing as we have a lot of birders hear on zoochat. i was wondring what is your kind of birdin .do twich raritys. do you us a scope and binoculars ? do you trawel to now palces good for birds or do you just enjoy them close to your home. my self i have a bothe binoculars and a scope. some times...

Later this month I am heading to outback NSW to do some wildlife watching, mainly birding. I have a few target species in mind: Rufous Fieldwren Redthroat Chirruping Wedgebill Black-eared Cuckoo Grey Falcon Little Woodswallow Hall's Babbler Gibberbird Australian Pratincole Flock Bronzewing...

I was just wondering what websites are good for keeping track of wild animal observations? I use ebird.org for all my bird lists, but I haven't found any websites that I really like for mammals or herptiles. I use inaturalist.org for those species, but it doesn't tabulate data like ebird does...

According to an email I received, Lynx Edicions and Birdlife International will publish at the end of the month a new field guide to the Birds of Thailand, and a guide to the Birds of Vietnam will be published at the end of the year. The blurb says these will be the first in a series of "a...

This is a thread to talk about what eBird is, how to use eBird, and eBird updates. Here is an update. It adds a way to repot sensitive species without showing them in Explore Data. Sensitive Species in eBird | eBird

Hi all, As some of you will know I'm coming/going (I'm sure it's one of those two...) to Florida very shortly! I should be arriving, all being well, on Friday 4th October and will be in the States for two weeks, with the last two days in Atlanta (no prizes for guessing what I'm going there...