@wisebirding.bsky.social
Tour Leader / Freelance Ornithologist. Love all wildlife, particularly birds, the challenge of rarity finding & searching for elusive cats, especially Lynx & Snow Leopard. Bird & Mammal Tours: www.wisebirding.co.uk Beaver Walks: www.devonbeavertours.co.uk
Despite monsoon rain and very strong wind in Sierra de Andujar, our perseverance finally paid off and we had some special views of two Lynx together late this afternoon. A well deserved result for a great team! #Mammals #IberianLynx #WiseBirding
28.01.2026 22:05 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Great to finally see some Greater (Euro) White-fronted Geese on the patch, thanks to Ranger Rick 👍🏻 A flock of 22 birds in total. Last time only the patch was back in December 2021, so a very welcome sight on an otherwise miserable grey and windy day. #DevonBirds
23.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a wrap! Great team!🙌
All to go again next year…..
Always a good read👇🏻👇🏻
#DevonBirds
Pallas’s Sandgrouse
Oriental Plover
Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
Mongolian Lark
Come and join us in Mongolia in May/June 2026 and see some fabulous birds, amazing landscapes, wonderful people and some great mammals too. It really is a fabulous country! #Birds #Mongolia #WiseBirding
17.01.2026 08:47 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
Broad-billed Roller
Purple Roller
West African Crested Tern
Final day of the @wisebirding.bsky.social tour of Senegal. Another boat trip on the Saloum Delta this morning, and a trip to Sipo Island. Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, Broad-billed Roller, Purple Roller & West African Crested Tern the highlights. Next stop: Blaise Diagne Airport, Dakar....home time.
14.01.2026 13:57 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
A couple of South African Shelduck on the patch late this evening. I was hoping they were going to be Ruddy Shelducks, as a talking point at least! 😂 Sadly not, despite the right hand bird looking superficially like one. Though could even by a hybrid.🙄
#DevonBirds
We have just had 2 places come available for our South Pantanal and Emas NP Mostly Mammals Tour in July. Please contact us if interested for this guaranteed departure at discounted price and just group size of 5: www.wisebirding.co.uk/brazil-emas-...
#Mammals #WiseBirding
More news from the field in Senegal 🇸🇳 #Birding #WiseBirding #Senegal👇🏻
14.01.2026 07:51 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wreathed Hornbill (male), Khao Yai NP 🇹🇭
Early start on @wisebirding.bsky.social Thailand tour to catch Wreathed Hornbills feeding at a fruiting tree in Khao Yai NP #phonescoped #WiseBirding 🇹🇭 #Thailand
12.01.2026 06:07 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0One of, if not THE most wanted species on this tour. A new site from previous years produced fab views this morning 😮👇🏻👇🏻
We will be running this again next year.
#WiseBirding #Senegal #WorldBirding #Birds
The Scissor-tailed Kite roost in Senegal really is one of the stand-out highlights of our tour here.😍 #Birds #Senegal #WiseBirding
12.01.2026 08:31 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White-throated Rock Thrush, Khao Yai 🇹🇭 11/1/26
End of a long and busy day in Khao Yai NP on the @wisebirding.bsky.social Thailand tour with Mugimaki Flycatcher and this female White-throated Rock Thrush among the highlights #phonescoped #WiseBirding #Thailand 🇹🇭
11.01.2026 14:46 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Exciting news from the field from Colin with an exciting bonus mammal from our current Thailand birding tour 😍 #Mammals #WiseBirding
10.01.2026 08:51 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0More from Dave leading our current Senegal 🇸🇳 tour 👇🏻👇🏻 #Birds #WiseBirding #Senegal
10.01.2026 08:49 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0More from our Senegal tour yesterday as Dave and the group spent a full day birding in the far north near Podor. #Birds #WorldBirding #Senegal #WiseBirding
09.01.2026 08:55 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Glad you managed to get there Marcus. A great country….👍🏻
07.01.2026 22:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A great start to our Senegal tour with Dave and Carlos leading.👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #Birds #WorldBirding #Senegal #WiseBirding
07.01.2026 22:33 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0More exciting waders from Thailand 👇🏻
#Birds #WorldBirding #WiseBirding
Looks like the first day of the Wise Birding Thailand tour started with a bang then!😍
👇🏻👇🏻 #Birds #WiseBirding
This evening, I managed to get closer to the Little Stint I found on the Otter Estuary NR yesterday. An interesting plumage for UK of what appears to be Juv moulting to 1st winter plumage. Be interesting to see if it stays the whole winter….. #UKBirds #DevonBirds
31.12.2025 18:05 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An unseasonal and slightly odd plumaged Little Stint on the Otter Estuary NR late this afternoon was a surprise. Always distant & fading light, but couldn’t turn it into anything rarer….. #UKBirds #DevonBirds
30.12.2025 23:13 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Great to see the Slavonian Grebe again on the patch today, feeding on what I think are Sand Goby? #Birds #DevonBirds
29.12.2025 17:44 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Days. A mighty patch tick and pretty certain it’s a first for the Otter Estuary too. Slavonian Grebe 😊 Thanks AJ👌🏻 #DevonBirds #Birds
27.12.2025 17:05 — 👍 40 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Snow Leopard on your wish list for the New Year? We have a guaranteed departure in Feb: www.wisebirding.co.uk/mongolia-win...
#Mammals #SnowLeopard #WiseBirding
There are certainly plenty of domestic cats out in Oman and often in remote places, but this male was one of the best candidates for the Arabian subspecies of African Wildcat during our recent trip. #Mammals #Oman #WiseBirding
20.12.2025 16:57 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Male Pallid Harrier, Oman. What a cracking harrier 😍 #Birds #Oman #WiseBirding
16.12.2025 19:50 — 👍 47 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0More exciting birds from our current Oman tour with this fabulous Desert Owl😍
#Birds #Oman #WiseBirding
Our private Birds and Mammals Tour of Oman is now in full swing and we have spent a few nights looking for mammals. Arabian Wolves have certainly been one of the highlights. #Mammals #Oman #WiseBirding
10.12.2025 18:21 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well that’s the first of this year’s Oman tours wrapped up, with a total of 230 species. We ended in style yesterday with great views of Sociable Lapwing and this cracking Caspian Plover. Now onto tour 2 with some time for mammals too 🤞🏻 #Birds #Oman #WiseBirding
05.12.2025 18:03 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
