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The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt tour is drawing to a close: we have arrived in Luxor and visited the Temples of Luxor and Karnak. Birds still coming: recent highlights included a big flock of Trumpeter Finches on a Nile Island, multiple Bluethroats, Isabelline Wheatear and Turtle Doves.
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt tour is drawing to a close: we have arrived in Luxor and visited the Temples of Luxor and Karnak. Birds still coming: recent highlights included a big flock of Trumpeter Finches on a Nile Island, multiple Bluethroats, Isabelline Wheatear and Turtle Doves.
Today the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt tour found two tropical African birds at their only outpost in the Western Palearctic: Abu Simbel in far southern Egypt. African Pied Wagtail and Long-tailed (or Reed) Cormorant.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Today the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt tour found two tropical African birds at their only outpost in the Western Palearctic: Abu Simbel in far southern Egypt. African Pied Wagtail and Long-tailed (or Reed) Cormorant.
Today the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continued to the far south of Egypt and the astonishing Abu Simbel, via Mourning Wheatears, a Greater Spotted Eagle and Black Storks.
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Today the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continued to the far south of Egypt and the astonishing Abu Simbel, via Mourning Wheatears, a Greater Spotted Eagle and Black Storks.
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts....Red-throated Pipit: a migrant from the Siberian tundra to East Africa. Only a few winter in Egypt. 6/6
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts....Red-throated Pipit: a migrant from the Siberian tundra to East Africa. Only a few winter in Egypt. 6/6
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts.... White-winged Tern, the scarcest tern we are seeing, behind Whiskered and Gull-billed. 5/6
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts.... White-winged Tern, the scarcest tern we are seeing, behind Whiskered and Gull-billed. 5/6
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts....Senegal Thick-knee 4/6
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts....Senegal Thick-knee 4/6
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts.... Siberian Stonechat (maura), one of two Stonechat species which winter here. 3/6
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts.... Siberian Stonechat (maura), one of two Stonechat species which winter here. 3/6
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts....Ferruginous Ducks in abundance and very confiding on the Nile. 2/6
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts....Ferruginous Ducks in abundance and very confiding on the Nile. 2/6
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts.... 1/6
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts.... 1/6
Day 2 of the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour was all birds, around Qarun Lake west of Cairo. Masses of waders and waterbirds, African Green Bee-eaters, Little Heron, 3 kingfisher species, Senegal Thick-knee, Senegal Coucal and the near-endemic Nile Valley Sunbird.
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Day 2 of the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour was all birds, around Qarun Lake west of Cairo. Masses of waders and waterbirds, African Green Bee-eaters, Little Heron, 3 kingfisher species, Senegal Thick-knee, Senegal Coucal and the near-endemic Nile Valley Sunbird.
Day 1 of the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour was almost all history! Much of the day was at the extraordinary, brand-new Grand Egyptian Musuem, where we enjoyed ALL of the Tutankhamun trove, Khufu's solar funerary ship and so much more. An incredible start!
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Day 1 of the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour was almost all history! Much of the day was at the extraordinary, brand-new Grand Egyptian Musuem, where we enjoyed ALL of the Tutankhamun trove, Khufu's solar funerary ship and so much more. An incredible start!
Some fantastic wildlife on the @naturetrek.bsky.social Go Slow in Switzerland tour: Nutcracker, Lammergeiers, Snowfinches, dozens of glorious butterflies and masses of great plants. 15 species of orchids today, including Coralroot, Lesser Twayblabe, Globe-flowered, and the epic Lady's Slipper.
June 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Some fantastic wildlife on the @naturetrek.bsky.social Go Slow in Switzerland tour: Nutcracker, Lammergeiers, Snowfinches, dozens of glorious butterflies and masses of great plants. 15 species of orchids today, including Coralroot, Lesser Twayblabe, Globe-flowered, and the epic Lady's Slipper.
Western Olivaceous (Isabelline) Warbler, Coto Doñana, Spain with @naturetrek.bsky.social - client photo. Sometimes a tough-to-find species! #birds 🪶
April 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Western Olivaceous (Isabelline) Warbler, Coto Doñana, Spain with @naturetrek.bsky.social - client photo. Sometimes a tough-to-find species! #birds 🪶
Success! A client's photo of two fabulous Iberian Lynxes in the Coto Doñana yesterday evening, during the @naturetrek.bsky.social Doñana/Extremadura tour.
April 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Success! A client's photo of two fabulous Iberian Lynxes in the Coto Doñana yesterday evening, during the @naturetrek.bsky.social Doñana/Extremadura tour.
Siberian Crane, India, 2001. An ancient photo from the pre-digital age, but what a bird! Siberian Cranes no longer winter in India; this bird was one of the last two that returned: the entire population of about 3000 birds breeds in NE Russia and winters in a select few wetlands in China. #birds 🪶
March 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Siberian Crane, India, 2001. An ancient photo from the pre-digital age, but what a bird! Siberian Cranes no longer winter in India; this bird was one of the last two that returned: the entire population of about 3000 birds breeds in NE Russia and winters in a select few wetlands in China. #birds 🪶
One last shot from Gambia with @naturetrek.bsky.social: the fabulous White-throated Bee-eater. #birds 🪶
March 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
One last shot from Gambia with @naturetrek.bsky.social: the fabulous White-throated Bee-eater. #birds 🪶
Last full day leading Gambia with @naturetrek.bsky.social, and still the great birds come. Pearl-spotted Owlet, Northern White-faced Owl, Senegal Eremomela and African Darter. #birds 🪶
March 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Last full day leading Gambia with @naturetrek.bsky.social, and still the great birds come. Pearl-spotted Owlet, Northern White-faced Owl, Senegal Eremomela and African Darter. #birds 🪶