# The House Bunting


## Posts

- [Oil spill and seabirds of Varanger](https://thehousebunting.com/oil-spill-and-seabirds-of-varanger/): While birding in Norwegian Lapland with friends, a recent oil spill has affecting numerous seabirds. We notice its impact on common and thick-billed murres, Atlantic puffins, and black-legged kittiwakes.
- [Bingo of Helsinki owls](https://thehousebunting.com/owl-bingo-in-helsinki/): I finally managed to spot all nine owl species in Helsinki after two years: long-eared, short-eared, tawny, Ural, great grey, boreal, Eurasian pygmy owl, Eurasian eagle-owl and northern hawk-owl
- [The sacred Lake Ravelobe](https://thehousebunting.com/the-sacred-lake-ravelobe/): Within Ankarafantsika National Park, Lake Ravelobe holds an enchanting, mysterious beauty. Highly endangered Coquerel's sifaka, Madagascar fish eagle, and Madagascar jacana are some specialties.
- [King Julian in Anja Community Reserve](https://thehousebunting.com/king-julian-in-anja-community-reserve/): Anja Community Reserve stands as a capacity building project to conserve biodiversity in a dry forest of south Madagascar. Ring-tailed lemurs are the highlight of this tiny but biodiverse park.
- [The wonders of Île-aux-Aigrettes](https://thehousebunting.com/the-wonders-of-ile-aux-aigrettes/): A cancelled flight is giving me the chance to explore Mauritius for few days. Île-aux-Aigrettes stands out as the best place to spot local specialties: pink pigeon, Mauritius fody and day geckos.
- [Of whales and volcanos](https://thehousebunting.com/of-whales-and-volcanos/): I visited São Miguel Island during the aftermath of COVID-19 lockdown. Besides incredible landscapes and a welcoming atmosphere, I looked for endemic plants and birds and went on a pelagic outing.
- [Rocks and goats in Antequera](https://thehousebunting.com/rocks-and-goats-in-antequera/): Impressive geological formations and a wonderful starry night. Visiting El Torcal de Antequera in summer pays off: western Orphean, Bonelli's, and Iberian warblers, western black-eared wheatears...
- [Storm petrels of Benidorm](https://thehousebunting.com/storm%20petrels-of-benidorm/): I join the monitoring staff of the local wildlife rescue center for a day to ring and count chicks of Mediterranean storm petrel in the caves of Benidorm Island, a breeding bulkward for this seabird. 
- [Releasing threatened waterfowl](https://thehousebunting.com/releasing-threatened-waterfowl/): Amidst an avian botulism outbreak, several birds are released after recovering in the local wildlife rescue center. These include the common pochard and ferruginous duck, both locally and globally threatened.
- [Midnight sun in Varanger highlands](https://thehousebunting.com/midnight-sun-in-varanger-highlands/): Kongsfjordfjellet in early June provides incredible landscapes and wonderful Arctic species: horned lark, long-tailed jaeger, red-throated pipit, Lapland longspur, long-tailed duck, red-necked phalaropes and ruffs.
- [The lake of freshwater seals](https://thehousebunting.com/looking-for-saimaa-ringed-seals/): A University of Helsinki course on conservation brings me to Saimaa, the largest lake in the European Union. We find the endemic Saimaa ringed seal and learn how it is perceived by local communities.
- [Pampas wetlands](https://thehousebunting.com/pampas-wetlands/): Coastal Buenos Aires Province produced several endemics and thousands of waders over a short trip marked by terrible weather: Hudson's canastero, sulphur-bearded reedhaunter, Olrog's gull and more.
- [Birds in Buenos Aires: Costanera](https://thehousebunting.com/birds-in-buenos-aires-costanera/): Buenos Aires serves as a hub for travelling through Argentina, and also as a great location to connect with local specialties. Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur brings Paraná Delta avifauna into the city center.
- [Yungas salteñas](https://thehousebunting.com/yungas-saltenas/): A short visit to the cloud forests surrounding Salta offered my first-ever hummingbirds and guans, represented by attractive endemics. Yungas specialist Tucuman amazon, yungas sparrow and brushfinches followed.
- [August archive](https://thehousebunting.com/august-archive/): August has been a month of changes. My last days in Spain involved beach terns and waders. Moving to Argentina, both visiting the yungas and living in Patagonia brought a whole new set of birds.
- [Mirlo de agua](https://thehousebunting.com/mirlo-de-agua/): A montane creek within the yungas cloud forest north of Salta is home to the mega rufous-throated dipper, which provided great views. Torrent ducks, Andean condors and endemic brushfinches also obliged.
- [Short stopover in Viru Viru](https://thehousebunting.com/short-stopover-in-viru-viru/): My first time birding in the Neotropics involved a couple of hours walking the grasslands around Viru Viru Airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, featuring grasping looks at nothuras, tinamous and rheas.
- [Gem birds of fynbos](https://thehousebunting.com/gem-birds-the-fynbos/): Mythical locations around The Cape delivered memorable encounters with Cape rockjumpers, sugarbirds and griffons, Verreaux's eagles, sunbirds and rock thrushes surrounded by flowering proteas and ericas.
- [Birds in Cape Town: penguins and proteas](https://thehousebunting.com/birds-in-cape-town-penguins-and-proteas/): Cape Town arguably offers some of the world's most interesting urban birdwatching experiences. Within few kms, the city area harbors pelicans, penguins, albatrosses and a set of smart endemics.
- [July archive](https://thehousebunting.com/july-archive/): A whole month exploring different landscapes across South Africa delivered memorable encounters with rockjumpers, sugarbirds, bustards, secretarybirds, finfoot, albatrosses, penguins and more.
- [Epic pelagic off Simon's Town](https://thehousebunting.com/epic-pelagic-off-simons-town/): Waters around Cape Town gather some of the best seabird densities worldwide. We connected with hundreds of albatrosses, thousands of petrels including several spectacled petrels and Antarctic prions.
- [The Lion King cast](https://thehousebunting.com/the-lion-king-cast/): Lions, warthogs, meerkats, giraffes, blesboks, bat-eared foxes, aardwolf, secretarybirds, sandgrouse, bustards, owls, falcons, eagles, hornbills and a variety of weavers and finches awaited us in the Kalahari desert. 
- [Karoo about to bloom](https://thehousebunting.com/driving-the-karoo/): The shrublands and grasslands of the karoo offered an array of habitat endemics including numerous bustards, warblers, chats and larks as we drove north of Cape Town for some days.
- [June archive](https://thehousebunting.com/june-archive/): Although busy, June provided some time to catch up with local summer specialties including Eleonora's falcon, common rock thrush or western olivaceous warbler, plus a welcome variety of waders in El Hondo.
- [May archive](https://thehousebunting.com/may-archive/): June combined typical local breeders with excursions chasing summer targets. Outings this month featured marshland waders, mountain specialties, some late coastal seabirds and nocturnal encounters.
- [A parliament of owls](https://thehousebunting.com/a-parliament-of-owls/): Spending a day with colleagues from Asociación Ulula taught me a good deal about owl ecology while monitoring nests and driving Saladares de Guadalentín for little bustards and black-bellied sandgrouse.
- [April archive](https://thehousebunting.com/april-archive/): This typical but idyllic month of April brought typical migrating passerines, several great encounters with displaying bustards and sandgrouse in the steppes, a couple of lifers at home and some others on a short trip.
- [Cracking time in the marshes](https://thehousebunting.com/cracking-time-in-the-marshes/): Crakes are an elusive group of waterbirds that strongly caught my attention lately. This season, I enjoyed connecting with two of the local combo of three species: spotted and little crake.
- [Ravines, deserts and golf courses](https://thehousebunting.com/ravines-deserts-and-golf-courses/): The arid island of Fuerteventura holds a diversity of habitats with different specialties, from Canary Island stonechat in gorges to trumpeter finches in deserts or introduced species in lawns and gardens.
- [Magical Tindaya](https://thehousebunting.com/magical-tindaya/): Houbaras, coursers, Berthelot's pipits, sandgrouse, tropicbirds and Barolo shearwater converge in a barren corner of Fuerteventura, covered in a fine red carpet of plants and a mystique for the aboriginal islanders.
- [Fennels from the Cretacious](https://thehousebunting.com/fennels-from-the-cretacious/): Early spring in Isla Grosa ringing campaign produced passerine migration: Iberian chiffchaffs, subalpine warblers, pipits, wheatears, nightingales and an exceptionally early garden warbler, the first of the season.
- [March archive](https://thehousebunting.com/march-archive/): March provided a nice mix of lingering winter birds and early migrants. Seawatching and spending time in a couple of islands were garnished with the arrival of a mega Moussier's redstart.
- [Sailing the Rift Valley lakes](https://thehousebunting.com/sailing-the-rift-valley-lakes/): A couple of days within student life in Naivasha and amidst local fishermen in Lake Oloiden provided close encounters with large mammals plus storks, pelicans, hamerkops, buzzards, swallows and more.
- [Birds in Nairobi: broadleaf and savanna](https://thehousebunting.com/birds-in-nairobi-broadleaf-and-savanna/): Kenya's capital city provided an unexpected deal of specialties over a couple of days at Wildebeest Eco Camp and a short visit to Karura Forest: sunbirds, cuckoos, mousebirds, robin-chats, waterbirds and more.
- [February archive](https://thehousebunting.com/february-archive/): Strong windstorms throughout February swept in kittiwakes, little and common gulls. While looking for different targets (and failing some), I connected with mega isabelline wheatear, citril finch and phalarope.
- [Uphill in the Nilgiris](https://thehousebunting.com/uphill-in-the-nilgiris/): Eravikulam National Park delivered stunning Western Ghats endemics. Nilgiri tahr, flycatcher and pipit, black-and-orange flycatcher and Palani laughingthrush obliged within breathtaking montane grassland and forest.
- [Marjaleo: a weekend of gulls](https://thehousebunting.com/marjaleo-a-weekend-of-gulls/): Flooding and plowing of rice paddies brings thousands of gulls to l'Albufera. Despite the intense winds, we connect with several common gulls, Caspian gulls, herring gull, little gull plus bonus ring-necked ducks.
- [Winter in the South](https://thehousebunting.com/winter-in-the-south/): Mild winters in Alicante draw Alpine accentors, thrushes, finches and buntings to the mountains, raptors and waterfowl to wetlands and provide some good seawatching along the shores, plus some winter oddities.
- [Winter in the North](https://thehousebunting.com/winter-in-the-north/): Bright snow and northern lights lit up Helsinki over winter. Different owls, woodpeckers, crossbills and other northbound specialties show up randomly over cold breezes, turning outings harsh but rewarding.
- [January archive](https://thehousebunting.com/january-2026-bird-archive/): I started a challenge trying to see a different bird every single bird this 2026. January brought nice sights in northern Spain, mountains and wetlands of Alicante and ultimately frozen forests in Finland.
- [Driving the desert on a quest](https://thehousebunting.com/driving-the-desert-on-a-quest/): A full day in Qatar with a rental car was the perfect scenario to look for the hypocolius, a mythical Persian Gulf wintering specialty. Namaqua doves, wheatears, desert warblers, sparrow-larks and more awaited.
- [Far East visitors in El Hondo](https://thehousebunting.com/far-east-visitors-in-el-hondo/): A fieldwork-birdwatching day in El Hondo Natural Park provided awesome encounters with local winter goodies. Pallid harrier and several greater spotted eagles obliged, but a self-found red-breasted flycatcher stood out.
- [Birds in Mysore: Temples and pelicans](https://thehousebunting.com/birds-in-mysore-pelicans-and-temples/): Our only city visited in India provided hornbills and hundreds of kites. Nearby Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary hosts pelicans, eagles, herons and ibises. Mysore blends culture and vibrant city life with some great birding.
- [Cantabrian Sea breakaway](https://thehousebunting.com/cantabrian-sea-breakaway/): Ría de Santoña in New Year's provides cracking winter specialties: brant geese, horned grebes, loons and waders. Mega red-breasted geese and redpolls are bonus additions to an awesome short trip.
- [2025: A year in review](https://thehousebunting.com/2025-a-year-in-review/): My local birding reached a new level in 2025. I connected with 276 species in Comunitat Valenciana including unexpected rarities, highlights of different seasons and countless hours shared in the field with friends.
- [Seawatch jackpot](https://thehousebunting.com/seawatch-jackpot/): On a legendary seawatching day with friends, while twitching Richard's pipit and ring-billed gull, we connect with great skua, black-legged kittiwake and Castellón's 4th red-throated loon and 10th velvet scoter.
- [Merja Zerga: brink of extinction](https://thehousebunting.com/merja-zerga-brink-of-extinction/): A recent visit to the coastal lagoon of Merja Zerga, a stopover of the East Atlantic Flyway and home to slender-billed curlews before their extinction, yielded some of the critically endangered and WP's last marsh owls.
- [Moroccan and Nearctic treats](https://thehousebunting.com/moroccan-and-nearctic-treats/): Flocks of waterfowl in Merja de Fouwarate included American visitor ring-necked duck and blue-winged teal. We connect with Morocco goodies: Maghreb magpie, plain martin, African chaffinch, common bulbul...
- [Scanning through lapwings](https://thehousebunting.com/scanning-through-lapwings/): A friends meeting in l'Albufera in the onset of winter resulted in good numbers of ducks and waders. Short-eared owl, black storks, several goldcrests and a cracking sociable lapwing were highlights of the day.
- [Jewels of Ampijoroa](https://thehousebunting.com/jewels-of-ampijoroa/): The dry forest of Ankarafantsika provided mega birds and mammals including Van Dam's vanga, Madagascar fish eagle and jacana, white-breasted mesite, Schlegel's asity, mongoose lemur or Coquerel's sifaka.
- [Birds of Ranomafana: Beyond the jungle](https://thehousebunting.com/birds-of-ranomafana-beyond-the-jungle/): Rainforest and vibrant town life merge in the village of Ranomafana: lemurs by the road, partridges in the outskirts and vangas in the village gardens bring nature into everyday life.
- [Centre ValBio](https://thehousebunting.com/centre-valbio/): A fieldwork stay in this research station in the middle of Madagascar's montane rainforest resulted in living among incredible endemics: sunbirds, vangas, tetrakas, cuckoo-rollers, lemurs, geckos, chameleons and more.
- [Red-footed falcon fallout](https://thehousebunting.com/red-footed-falcon-fallout/): An unprecedented influx of juvenile red-footed falcons shifted their southbound migration through Western Europe. While autumn records are being broken, I managed to connect with one of these raptors in El Hondo.
- [Birds in Port Louis: Bat city](https://thehousebunting.com/birds-in-port-louis-bat-city/): Mauritius capital city turned out to bear good numbers of the endemic and endangered Mauritius flying fox. Curlew and Terek sandpipers or greater sand plovers occur in the city's Terre Rouge bird sanctuary.
- [Autumn in the South](https://thehousebunting.com/autumn-in-the-south/): The transition between summer visitors and wintering birds brings numerous species that are only seen during fall passage in Alicante. Chats, warblers, raptors, waders and seabirds all oblige during autumn.
- [Autumn in the North](https://thehousebunting.com/autumn-in-the-north/): Short days and bad weather make birding challenging in Helsinki during autumn. However, flocks of geese, waxwings, thrushes, cranes and raptors plus the chance of connecting with vagrant passerines are truly magical.
- [A day in Maasai Mara](https://thehousebunting.com/a-day-in-maasai-mara/): Maasai Mara protects a massive pristine grassland and is home to millions of ungulates. A day in the National Reserve resulted in a vast list of mammals, raptors, lapwings, larks, cisticolas, cranes plus some surprises.
- [Maasai stories](https://thehousebunting.com/maasai-stories/): Maasai people strive to coexist with wildlife in a rapidly changing cultural and ethnic reality in Kenya. We interviewed communities in Mara North while bumping into ungulates, barbets, vultures, whydahs and more.
- [Our Delta Birding Festival](https://thehousebunting.com/our-delta-birding-festival-2025/): A fantastic weekend in Delta de l'Ebre with friends resulted in many bonus species including mega white-tailed lapwing, pectoral sandpipers, buff-breasted sandpipers, Pacific golden plover or western reef heron.
- [Brothers and dotterels](https://thehousebunting.com/brothers-and-dotterels/): A Saturday with my brother in Tabarca resulted in some fun snorkeling but few birds. However, migration is in full swing, and a flock of dotterels has returned to El Hondo again.
- [Vagrant gulls](https://thehousebunting.com/vagrant-gulls/): A Cape gull from Southern Africa and a laughing gull from the Americas have shown up in Northern Spain. We enjoyed awesome birding while twitching these stunners on a roadtrip.
- [Birds in Bangkok: Wetlands and waders](https://thehousebunting.com/birds-in-bangkok-wetlands-and-waders/): Bustling Bangkok offers local goodies in urban Lumphini and Rot Fai Parks and many waders and migrants in Bang Pu wetland. We face exotic bird trade at a local market and see a lost species on a museum.
- [Hasta el rabo todo es toro](https://thehousebunting.com/hasta-el-rabo-todo-es-toro/): Estaca de Bares is the ultimate seawatching location in the Western Palearctic, offering dozens of shearwaters, skuas and jaegers, two fulmars, a Wilson's storm petrel and a cracking brown booby.
- [Picos de Europa amid wildfires](https://thehousebunting.com/picos-de-europa-amid-wildfires/): Dramatic wildfires are sweeping across northeast Iberia this summer. A visit to Fuente Dé in Picos de Europa National Park still yielded alpine specialties, persisting beneath the heavy smog from a nearby blaze.
- [Home far from home](https://thehousebunting.com/home-far-from-home/): Exotic species and birds reminiscent of European forests co-occur in central Vietnam at Mount Lang Bian. Range-restricted treecreepers, nuthatches and tits share this forest with sunbirds, babblers and laughingthrushes.
- [Birds in Hanoi: Bikes and canoes](https://thehousebunting.com/birds-in-hanoi-bikes-and-canoes/): Vietnam's capital city gardens are a passerines haven. We bagged grey-throated martins, sooty-headed bulbuls and grey-breasted prinia on a Red River island and 'commixtus' Asian tit in the Botanical Gardens.
- [Summer in the South](https://thehousebunting.com/summer-in-the-south/): Summer season is the prime time for waders in south Alicante, with marsh sandpipers, godwits and curlew sandpipers in El Hondo and black tern, pratincoles and regular rarities as elegant terns in El Pinet.
- [Summer in the North](https://thehousebunting.com/summer-in-the-north/): Summer season brings an array of specialties to Helsinki, including broad-billed sandpiper and common rosefinch in Viikki, red-breasted flycatcher in Haltiala and stakeouts of Blyth's reed warbler and river warbler.
- [People of the forest](https://thehousebunting.com/people-of-the-forest/): Rainforest Discovery Center in Sepilok holds a large patch of lowland dipterocarp forest, home to many Borneo specialties. Orangutans and many other species call this vast tropical woodland home.
- [Overcast in Fraser’s Hill](https://thehousebunting.com/overcast-in-frasers-hill/): Bukit Fraser is a prime highland spot just 100 km away from Kuala Lumpur. A couple of foggy, rainy days offered terrific views of Atlas moth, red-headed trogon, fire-tufted barbet and other targets.
- [Friday up in El Maestrat](https://thehousebunting.com/friday-up-in-el-maestrat/): Tinença de Benifassà Natural Park provided red-backed shrikes, ortolan buntings, stock dove, common rock thrush, tawny pipits — all localized breeders in the region — and a handful of picturesque villages.
- [The lakes of Saliencia](https://thehousebunting.com/saliencia/): A highlight of a recent trip to Somiedo was Saliencia lakes. The incredible montane landscape offered great views of breeding water pipits, common rock thrushes, Egyptian vultures and Alpine choughs.
- [Of brooms and heaths](https://thehousebunting.com/of-brooms-and-heaths/): Laguna de los Peces is a glacial lagoon surronded by prime montane scrub near Sanabria. Ortolan buntings, red-backed shrikes, bluethroats, Galán's rock lizards and Seoane's vipers live in a magical yellow and pink infinity.
- [Lizards of Sálvora](https://thehousebunting.com/lizards-of-salvora/): The Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park is composed of four small archipelagos. Among them, Sálvora bears different herp gems: Boscá's newt, Lusitanic wall lizard and the island-endemic ocellated lizard race.
- [Neljän Tuulen Tupa](https://thehousebunting.com/neljan-tuulen-tupa/): Bird feeders at this hotel-restaurant in the middle of Finnish Lapland provide world-class photographic opportunities of Arctic specialties while enjoying a warm atmosphere and tasty food.
- [Surveying the desert](https://thehousebunting.com/surveying-the-desert/): The fieldwork of a new ornithological project in Cabo Cope y Puntas de Calnegre provided great views of trumpeter finches and rufous-tailed scrub-robins, as well as numerous migrants and other highlights.
- [Falcon of the sea](https://thehousebunting.com/falcon-of-the-sea/): A pelagic outing reaches Illes Columbretes, a Mediterranean archipelago inhabited by the Eleonora's falcon. Dozens of shearwaters and gulls, storm petrels, parasitic jaegers and sunfish add to the show.
- [Wildlife in the Forest Edge](https://thehousebunting.com/wildlife-in-the-forest-edge/): Today marks one year since this website was launched. A story of serendipity, with great people and fantastic birding experiences at Sepilok Forest Edge in Borneo, celebrates bird diversity at its finest.
- [Researching scavengers in Ranomafana](https://thehousebunting.com/researching-scavengers-in-ranomafana/): A side project during my thesis fieldwork provided key insights on Malagasy scavenger mammals and the role of protected areas. During the survey I connected with Malagasy ibis and pitta-like ground roller.
- [Primavera gaditana](https://thehousebunting.com/primavera-gaditana/): Southern Cádiz ensures top-class birding. Local specialties such as house swift and northern bald ibis were combined with migratory birds such as ortolan bunting in La Janda or puffins and poms in Tarifa.
- [Birds in Ceuta: Maghreb specialties within Spain](https://thehousebunting.com/maghreb-specialties-within-spain/): Ceuta hosts different North African birds: African chaffinch and blue tit, common bulbul, Levaillant's woodpecker, long-legged buzzard, house bunting, black-crowned tchagra, Maghreb owl and Barbary partridge.
- [The dance of bustards](https://thehousebunting.com/the-dance-of-bustards/): April in Spain calls for the steppe. Little and great bustards are busy with their spectacular displays, a must-see show which ensures views of larks, shrikes or orchids in awesome green-and-red landscapes.
- [Dupont's expedition](https://thehousebunting.com/duponts-expedition/): The enigmatic Dupont's lark is extremely range-restricted in our region. Some friends and I try tracking them down at their habitat, and end up having a fantastic migration day with 13 raptor species seen.
- [Traveller swallows](https://thehousebunting.com/traveller-swallows/): Spring has arrived to Alicante and prenuptial migration is all around us. Besides a surprising Rüppell's vulture in Alcoi, the lowlands provide nuptial displays of ducks and different migratory warblers and swallows.
- [Reedlings amid the reeds](https://thehousebunting.com/reedlings-in-the-reeds/): The bearded reedling is an uncommon inhabitant of reedbeds in south Alicante wetlands. Skulky and skittish, we eventually enjoyed some views of a couple of this stunning species in El Hondo.
- [The ossifrage](https://thehousebunting.com/the-ossifrage/): Fieldwork brings me to picturesque Sierra de Cazorla, where I encounter my first-ever bearded vulture after conservation efforts brought the species back to southern Spain.
- [Lecturing outdoors](https://thehousebunting.com/lectures-in-the-outdoors/): I recently started collaborating in teaching at university during field courses. We visited Murcia region and monitored Barbary sheep, Greek tortoise and griffon vultures with students on the way. 
- [Frenzy at the harbour](https://thehousebunting.com/frenzy-at-the-harbour/): Exceptional days in Santa Pola — four different Caspian gulls hit the regional record of the species. Kittiwake, razorbill, eider, dolphins and hundreds of shearwaters have also been noted in the area lately.
- [Bouldering butterfly](https://thehousebunting.com/bouldering-butterfly/): The mythical wallcreeper is Spain's 2025 Bird of the Year. One has shown up for almost a month near a recreational area, giving us great views of this special bird close to home.
- [Hiking Sokoke trail](https://thehousebunting.com/hiking-sokoke-trail/): Arabuko Sokoke is the largest remnant of East African coastal forest. Walking its trails produced endemic Sokoke scops-owl, Amani sunbird and golden-rumped sengi and a close encounter with an elephant!
- [Operation 1,000: A year in review](https://thehousebunting.com/operation-1000/): What started as a joke ended up as a quest. Through living between Finland and Spain and travelling across Africa and Asia, I managed to find 1,000 bird species in 2024.
- [Birds in Kuwait: Western Palearctic borderline](https://thehousebunting.com/the-corner-of-the-western-palearctic/): A quick stopover in Kuwait provided WP specialties using public transport: white-tailed and spur-winged lapwings, isabelline and masked shrikes, white-throated kingfisher, clamorous reed warbler and more.
- [The morning of three diamonds](https://thehousebunting.com/the-morning-of-three-diamonds/): A morning visit to Lake Kerkini looking for lesser white-fronted geese and tundra swans resulted in three Greek rarities: a Siberian chiffchaff, three little bustards, and an Oriental turtle dove.
- [Winter birds in Aitana and Penyagolosa](https://thehousebunting.com/winter-birds-in-aitana-and-penyagolosa/): Hiking paid off lately with montane winter specialties. Aitana provided goldcrest, ring ouzel, fieldfare, and redwing. Penyagolosa with friends resulted in white-winged snowfinch, citril finch, and alpine accentor.
- [Sunsets in l'Albufera](https://thehousebunting.com/sunsets-in-lalbufera/): Two days birding l'Albufera finished with terrific sunsets. Highlights included a mega greater yellowlegs, wintering jack snipes, a common scoter, the local sacred ibis, and numerous waders and waterfowl.
- [Firecrest business](https://thehousebunting.com/firecrest-business/): Firecrests are working hard to defend their territories during my morning walk in El Romeral urban park in Alcoi today. A female hawfinch returns to this wintering hub for the species.
- [Trekking the tuit-tuit volcano](https://thehousebunting.com/trekking-the-tuit-tuit-volcano/): A trip to visit friends in Réunion Island years ago included a hike to Roche-Écrite as the birdwatching highlight. While looking for the extremely rare Réunion cuckooshrike, I encounter most of the island endemics.
- [DANA brought an eider home](https://thehousebunting.com/dana-brought-an-eider-home/): Two common eiders showed up in south Alicante after the deadliest storm of the century casted over Valencia. Looking at the sea seems promising this incoming winter, with jaeger, gannets, and shearwaters seen too.
- [Yellow-browed warblers in Font Roja](https://thehousebunting.com/yellow-browed-warblers-in-font-roja/): A Siberian migrant next to home: Birdwatching rarely gets as exciting as this! Only the 4th record of the species in Font Roja, the only inland place in the region where the species has been recorded.
- [Veles e vents](https://thehousebunting.com/veles-e-vents/): Different seabirds seek shelter in the rocky shore of Cabo Cervera during a stormy day . Audouin's and Mediterranean gulls, ruddy turnstones, sanderling and grey plover are seen at close range.
- [Enjoying the hobby on Global Big Day](https://thehousebunting.com/enjoying-the-hobby-on-global-big-day/): An intense full day watching birds in Alicante delivers a great final count for our party of three. Different migrant birds seen include four different Eurasian hobbies, definitely the top species of the day. 
- [Tales of the Greater Caucasus](https://thehousebunting.com/tales-of-the-greater-caucasus/): A trip to Kazbegi five years ago marked my first experience watching birds abroad. Highlights include wallcreeper, Caucasian snowcock, and flocks of migrating kites, buzzards, sparrowhawks, chiffchaffs, and wheatears
- [Closing loops during fall migration](https://thehousebunting.com/closing-loops-during-fall-migration/): September brought the opportunity to look for long-awaited species: dotterel and northern bald ibis. Bee-eaters, wheatears, flycatchers, honey buzzards, and whinchats showed up everywhere.
- [Hidden in Cat Tien](https://thehousebunting.com/hiding-for-pheasants-in-cat-tien/): We visit the photographic hides at Cat Tien National Park. Nearly-endemic Germain's peacock-pheasant is readily seen, along with other specialties such as Siamese fireback or green-legged partridge.
- [Birds in Manila: Sensational endemics](https://thehousebunting.com/sensational-endemics-in-metro-manila/): A visit to La Mesa Eco Park fits in a one-day stopover in Manila to connect with Luzon and Philippine specialties without leaving town: ashy thrush, western hooded pitta and stripe-sided rhabdornis.
- [A thousand different birds](https://thehousebunting.com/a-thousand-different-birds/): Palawan island is a paradise of dreamy beaches and rainforest endemics. Despite several inconveniences, we connect with great specialties of the island. I reached my 1000th lifer in Palawan with an unexpected species.
- [After the hornbills of Borneo](https://thehousebunting.com/after-the-hornbills-of-borneo/): On a quest during a trip through Sabah (Malaysia), we contacted seven of the eight hornbills of Borneo: oriental pied, black, rhinoceros, bushy-crested, wreathed, wrinkled, and the mythical helmeted hornbill.
- [Birds in Singapore: Dreamy gardens](https://thehousebunting.com/the-gardens-of-singapore/): The first stop of a long backpacking trip allowed us to get the hang on Southeast Asian birds. Gardens by the Bay and Singapore Botanic Gardens are mandatory stops in the Lion City.
- [Birds in Dubai: Piping hot in the Gulf](https://thehousebunting.com/piping-hot-in-dubai/): A full-day stopover in Dubai can provide some goodies despite extreme heat. We connected with Indian rollers, purple sunbirds, shikras, white-cheeked terns, Socotra cormorants or sooty gull within the city.
- [Inland wildlife in a dry spell](https://thehousebunting.com/inland-wildlife-in-a-dry-spell/): A long drought is especially evident by June. Rufous-tailed rock thrush, tawny pipit, pin-tailed sandgrouse, stone martens, and Lataste's vipers are some specialties found with friends and family. 
- [A farewell story](https://thehousebunting.com/a-farewell-story/): My last days in Helsinki are coincident with the arrival of thousands of migrant birds and the vegetation green-up. Scenic walks with friends result in European otter, red-breasted flycatcher, corn crake, and much more.

## Pages

- [Rollers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/coraciidae/)
- [Ground rollers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/brachypteraciidae/)
- [Hornbills](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/bucerotidae/)
- [Wood hoopoes and scimitarbills](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/phoeniculidae/)
- [Hoopoes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/upupidae/)
- [Trogons](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/trogonidae/)
- [Cuckoo-roller](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/leptosomidae/)
- [Mousebirds](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/coliidae/)
- [Hawks, eagles and kites](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/accipitridae/)
- [Osprey](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/pandionidae/)
- [Secretarybird](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/sagittariidae/)
- [Owls](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/strigidae/)
- [Barn-owls](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/tytonidae/)
- [Swifts](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/apodidae/)
- [Treeswifts](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/hemiprocnidae/)
- [Frogmouths](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/podargidae/)
- [Nightjars](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/caprimulgidae/)
- [Herons, egrets and bitterns](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/ardeidae/)
- [Pelicans](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/pelecanidae/)
- [Cormorants and shags](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/phalacrocoracidae/)
- [Hamerkop](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/scopidae/)
- [Ibises and spoonbills](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/threskiornithidae/)
- [Anhingas](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/anhingidae/)
- [Boobies and gannets](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/sulidae/)
- [Storks](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/ciconiidae/)
- [Shearwaters and petrels](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/procellariidae/)
- [Northern storm petrels](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/hydrobatidae/)
- [Loons](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/gaviidae/)
- [Tropicbirds](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/phaethontidae/)
- [Gulls, terns and skimmers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/laridae/)
- [Auks, murres and puffins](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/alcidae/)
- [Skuas and jaegers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/stercorariidae/)
- [Pratincoles and coursers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/glareolidae/)
- [Crab-plover](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/dromadidae/)
- [Buttonquail](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/turnicidae/)
- [Sandpipers and snipes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/scolopacidae/)
- [Jacanas](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/jacanidae/)
- [Plovers and lapwings](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/charadriidae/)
- [Oystercatchers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/haematopodidae/)
- [Stilts and avocets](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/recurvirostridae/)
- [Thick-knees](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/burhinidae/)
- [Rails, gallinules and coots](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/rallidae/)
- [Cranes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/gruidae/)
- [Grebes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/podicipedidae/)
- [Flamingos](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/phoenicopteridae/)
- [Cuckoos](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/cuculidae/)
- [Turacos](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/musophagidae/)
- [Bustards](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/otididae/)
- [Sandgrouse](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/pteroclidae/)
- [Mesites](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/mesitornithidae/)
- [Pigeons and doves](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/columbidae/)
- [Pheasants, grouse and gamebirds](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/phasianidae/)
- [Guineafowl](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/numididae/)
- [Ducks, geese and waterfowl](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/anatidae/)
- [Ostriches](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/struthionidae/)
- [Passerine families](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/)
- [Non-passerine families](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/)
- [Trip Report Borneo 2024](https://thehousebunting.com/world/borneo2024/)
- [Malay Peninsula 2024 List](https://thehousebunting.com/world/malay2024/2-2/)
- [India 2025 Chronicle](https://thehousebunting.com/world/india2025/1-2/)
- [Trip Report India 2025](https://thehousebunting.com/world/india2025/)
- [Trip Report Greece 2024](https://thehousebunting.com/world/greece2024/)
- [Trip Report Mauritius 2023](https://thehousebunting.com/world/mauritius2023/)
- [Trip Report Lapland 2024](https://thehousebunting.com/world/lapland2024/)
- [Trip Report Madagascar 2023](https://thehousebunting.com/world/madagascar2023/)
- [Birds](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/birds/)
- [Trip Report Kenya 2024](https://thehousebunting.com/world/kenya2024/)
- [Trip Report Qatar 2024](https://thehousebunting.com/world/qatar2024/)
- [Amphibians](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/amphibians/)
- [Reptiles](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/reptiles/)
- [Mammals](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/mammals/)
- [Gallery](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/)
- [World](https://thehousebunting.com/world/)
- [Blog](https://thehousebunting.com/blog/)
- [Home](https://thehousebunting.com/)
- [New World vultures](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/cathartidae/)
- [Hummingbirds](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/trochilidae/)
- [Penguins](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/spheniscidae/)
- [Albatrosses](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/diomedeidae/)
- [Finfoots](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/heliornithidae/)
- [Painted-snipes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/rostratulidae/)
- [Guans, chachalacas and curassows](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/cracidae/)
- [Screamers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/anhimidae/)
- [Tinamous](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/tinamidae/)
- [Rheas](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/rheidae/)
- [South Africa 2025 List](https://thehousebunting.com/world/southafrica2026/2-2/)
- [South Africa 2025 Chronicle](https://thehousebunting.com/world/southafrica2026/1-2/)
- [Trip Report South Africa 2026](https://thehousebunting.com/world/southafrica2026/)
- [Trip Report Vietnam 2024](https://thehousebunting.com/world/vietnam2024/)
- [Trip Report Malay Peninsula 2024](https://thehousebunting.com/world/malay2024/)
- [Lapland 2024 List](https://thehousebunting.com/world/lapland2024/2-2/)
- [Lapland 2024 Chronicle](https://thehousebunting.com/world/lapland2024/1-2/)
- [Mauritius 2023 List](https://thehousebunting.com/world/mauritius2023/2-2/)
- [Mauritius 2023 Chronicle](https://thehousebunting.com/world/mauritius2023/1-2/)
- [Qatar 2024 List](https://thehousebunting.com/world/qatar2024/2-2/)
- [Qatar 2024 Chronicle](https://thehousebunting.com/world/qatar2024/1-2/)
- [Madagascar 2023 List](https://thehousebunting.com/world/madagascar2023/2-2/)
- [Madagascar 2023 Chronicle](https://thehousebunting.com/world/madagascar2023/1-2/)
- [Kenya 2024 List](https://thehousebunting.com/world/kenya2024/2-2/)
- [Kenya 2024 Chronicle](https://thehousebunting.com/world/kenya2024/1-2/)
- [Greece 2024 Chronicle](https://thehousebunting.com/world/greece2024/1-2/)
- [Greece 2024 List](https://thehousebunting.com/world/greece2024/2-2/)
- [India 2025 List](https://thehousebunting.com/world/india2025/2-2/)
- [Old World buntings](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/emberizidae/)
- [Longspurs and snow buntings](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/calcariidae/)
- [Finches and euphonias](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/fringillidae/)
- [Wagtails and pipits](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/motacillidae/)
- [Old World sparrows](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/passeridae/)
- [Accentors](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/prunellidae/)
- [Waxbills](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/estrildidae/)
- [Indigobirds and whydahs](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/viduidae/)
- [Weavers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/ploceidae/)
- [Fairy-bluebirds](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/irenidae/)
- [Leafbirds](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/chloropseidae/)
- [Sunbirds and spiderhunters](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/nectariniidae/)
- [Flowerpeckers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/dicaeidae/)
- [Old World flycatchers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/muscicapidae/)
- [Thrushes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/turdidae/)
- [Dippers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/cinclidae/)
- [Starlings](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/sturnidae/)
- [Oxpeckers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/buphagidae/)
- [Wrens](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/troglodytidae/)
- [Treecreepers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/certhiidae/)
- [Nuthatches](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/sittidae/)
- [Wallcreeper](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/tichodromidae/)
- [Kinglets](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/regulidae/)
- [Hypocolius](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/hypocoliidae/)
- [Waxwings](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/bombycillidae/)
- [Laughingthrushes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/leiothrichidae/)
- [Ground babblers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/pellorneidae/)
- [Tree-babblers and scimitar babblers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/timaliidae/)
- [White-eyes and yuhinas](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/zosteropidae/)
- [Sylviid warblers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/sylviidae/)
- [Bulbuls](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/pycnonotidae/)
- [Bush warblers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/cettiidae/)
- [Yellow flycatchers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/erythrocercidae/)
- [Long-tailed tits](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/aegithalidae/)
- [Swallows](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/hirundinidae/)
- [Grassbirds](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/locustellidae/)
- [Malagasy warblers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/bernieridae/)
- [Reed warblers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/acrocephalidae/)
- [Cisticolas, prinias and tailorbirds](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/cisticolidae/)
- [Larks](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/alaudidae/)
- [Bearded reedling](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/panuridae/)
- [Tits, chickadees and titmice](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/paridae/)
- [Penduline-tits](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/remizidae/)
- [Fairy flycatchers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/stenostiridae/)
- [Leaf warblers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/phylloscopidae/)
- [Crows, jays and magpies](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/corvidae/)
- [Shrikes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/laniidae/)
- [Monarch flycatchers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/monarchidae/)
- [Drongos](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/dicruridae/)
- [Fantails](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/rhipiduridae/)
- [Whistlers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/pachycephalidae/)
- [Old World orioles](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/oriolidae/)
- [Vireos, shrike-babblers and erpornis](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/vireonidae/)
- [Vangas and helmetshrikes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/vangidae/)
- [Wattle-eyes and batises](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/platysteiridae/)
- [Bushshrikes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/malaconotidae/)
- [Ioras](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/aegithinidae/)
- [Woodswallows and bellmagpies](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/artamidae/)
- [Cuckooshrikes](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/campephagidae/)
- [Thornbills and gerygones](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/acanthizidae/)
- [Pittas](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/pittidae/)
- [Asian broadbills](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/eurylaimidae/)
- [Asities](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/passeriformes/philepittidae/)
- [Old World parrots](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/psittaculidae/)
- [New World and African parrots](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/psittacidae/)
- [Falcons and caracaras](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/falconidae/)
- [Woodpeckers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/picidae/)
- [Honeyguides](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/indicatoridae/)
- [African barbets](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/lybiidae/)
- [Asian barbets](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/megalaimidae/)
- [Kingfishers](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/alcedinidae/)
- [Bee-eaters](https://thehousebunting.com/photo/bird-families/meropidae/)

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