Sound track advice: Stormy weather - Billie Holiday I’ve always considered myself a birder with a camera, rather than a bird photographer. What I do is funct...

In many respects autumn was remarkably slow. But November turned everything upside down! Like in spring (with an Alpine Swift), the girls from De Wulp delive...

pics © Marijn van Oss & Jorrit Vlot sound © Thijs Fijen Earlier I wrote about Siberian Chiffchaffs with common Chiffchaff calls (here). That bird (mostly) l...

There's a big if - but another big redpoll invasion could be in the making. The if depends on stuff like weather conditions, and the exact turn the majority...

The ID article on Eastern Black Redstart ID that I wrote with Nicolas Martinez has been published! It was published in the latest Dutch Birding issue (40:3)...

Early May I spent a week on the lovely island of Sardinia. I was of course keen to see Balearic Shrike, the endemic west Mediterranean island ssp (badius) of...

I just spent a lovely week on Sardinia. The recently split Mediterranean Flycatcher (Muscicapa tyrrhenica tyrrhenica) is pleasantly common there. It seems to...

Probable Russian Common Gull, 5 February 2012, Meijendel, Wassenaar, the Netherlands I don't like using measurements as a diagnostic feature to ID sexes or s...

Eastern Black Redstart, 1 cy male, October 2008, Kazakhstan (Arend Wassink) Redstart articles coming up! The ID article on Eastern Black Redstart vs. hybrids...

With the current redpoll invasion in Europe, it was time to spend some words and pics on these wonderful birds. Redpolls all the way from China Even though i...

Right. Chiffchaffs never stop to amaze me. But I now feel we're really getting somewhere. Only very recently Peter de Knijff and I wrote something about Sibe...

Autumn 2016 was nothing less than perfect. But this autumn, well... it was a bit boring to be honest. I missed most good vis mig days, ringing was often impo...

On 14 July I stumbled upon a calling Iberian Chiffchaff (ca 45th record) in my hometown The Hague. Since calling birds are probably overlooked in The Netherl...