Bird Observer

06/09/2026

Years of hearing antpittas without seeing them ended in Colombia with superb views of Chestnut-crowned and Brown-banded Antpittas.

https://bird-observer.org/antpittas-are-no-longer-only-voices/

Years of hearing antpittas without seeing them ended in Colombia with superb views of Chestnut-crowned and Brown-banded Antpittas.

06/09/2026

World Shorebirds Day 2026 looks at recent progress for shorebirds and why continued monitoring of local sites matters beyond a single day or count.

02/09/2026

Alpine Swifts first bred in Hungary in 2020. Six years later, numbers are growing and new breeding sites are appearing. A new breeding bird is becoming established.

01/09/2026

Whether you are an experienced birder or just beginning to discover shorebirds, your counts are welcome. Visit a local site, record what you find and help us build a record that grows stronger year after year. By taking part, you also join a worldwide community of people who watch, count and care about shorebirds.

Sign up and tell us where you’ll be counting →

https://www.worldshorebirdsday.org/get-involved/

31/08/2026

The Global Shorebird Counts start tomorrow! From 1–7 September, count shorebirds at your local sites and share your eBird checklists with WorldShorebirdsDay. Big counts, small counts or zero counts — they all matter.

24/08/2026

An experiment with Common Bulbuls found that condition before moult and diet during feather growth affected different parts of the process. A new Conceptual Note on how birds finance the replacement of their feathers.

12/08/2026

We had walked straight past it. A Ruddy Quail-Dove sat barely metres from the trail, hidden in the Colombian forest, until a thermal camera picked it.

https://bird-observer.org/a-different-way-of-seeing-birds/

We had walked straight past it. A Ruddy Quail-Dove sat barely metres from the trail, hidden in the Colombian forest, until a thermal camera picked it.

19/07/2026

A personal exploration of the Andean tapaculos: why they are so elusive, how geography shaped their evolution, and why they continue to fascinate ornithologists and birders alike.

https://bird-observer.org/the-secret-life-of-the-andean-tapaculos/

A personal exploration of the Andean tapaculos: why they are so elusive, how geography shaped their evolution, and why they continue to fascinate ornithologists and birders alike.

16/07/2026

One roadside U-turn. One fruiting tree. Nineteen bird species in forty-five minutes. Sometimes the best birding stops aren’t on the map.

https://bird-observer.org/the-tree-of-life

One roadside U-turn. One fruiting tree. Nineteen bird species in forty-five minutes. Sometimes the best birding stops aren’t on the map.

21/05/2026

Celebrating 40 years of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network and thanking the people who have supported World Shorebirds Day.