Field notes
Posts of birding outings, visits to natural areas, research, and all sorts of wildlife encounters at home and abroad.
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Itineraries, travel experiences, and checklists of species from adventures looking for birds all over the globle.
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A wide selection of pictures of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibian species by the site’s author.
FIELD NOTEBOOK
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A space to share stories of birding outings, visits to natural areas, experiences during field work and research, conservation biology and all sorts of encounters with wildlife.
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Chronicles and adventures looking for birds on different trips, both nature and work-oriented. Content on itineraries, checklists of species contacted, pictures, travel tips, and much more.
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Greece
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Lapland
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Kenya
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about
“Fui por el mundo buscando la vida:
pájaro a pájaro conocí la tierra”
“I’ve wandered the world in search of life:
bird by bird I’ve come to know the earth“
Pablo Neruda
I am Adrián Colino Barea, a junior wildlife researcher from Alcoy, a Mediterranean town lying in a valley near Alicante (Spain) surrounded by vultures and holm oak forests and flanked by two Natural Parks.
The joy of watching birds started during my childhood but has expanded greatly during these last years, as I shape my career as a junior wildlife researcher.
House buntings (Escribano sahariano, ‘Saharan writer’ in Spanish) gave me the bug of birding while traveling. Foraging on the streets of Marrakech, effortless daily encounters with this species during a short trip back in 2018 inspired my writing of birding adventures home and abroad, and the eventual creation of this site.
I am currently a PhD researcher at Miguel Hernández University (Elche, Spain) with a focus on carrion ecology and scavengers.
Neruda’s words resonate in my mind as I get to know new people, cultures, places, and ideas by looking for birds in my free time and during work-related trips.
As my experiences often build up on tips from other nature enthusiasts, I here share my own adventures in the field as a small contribution to help connect nature and people.