I think most people who are into wildlife and nature have a favourite bird, but one that keeps appearing on every social media feed annually, without fail – and for good reason – is the Atlantic Puffin. For me, my favourite place to photograph puffins is Skomer Island off the […]
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About Fia: My first expedition in polar waters was in 2015. I had just completed my university studies and finished my final cadetship aboard the Swedish polar icebreaker Oden. As fate would have it, they were one deckhand short for their upcoming summer expedition – and that is how I […]
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From November 2024 to April 2025 Birdingplaces and Leica organized a nice contest for birdwatchers. Any birder who added a birdwatching area to Birdingplaces had a chance to win a pair of Leica binoculars. Birders from all over the world joined in. More than thousand new birdwatching areas have been […]
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Animal filmmaker and extreme diver Christina Karliczek takes us into the mysterious world under the ice. In her latest NDR documentary ‘Ghosts of the Arctic’, she portrays rare sea creatures such as ice sharks – which can live up to 500 years – and narwhals, the ‘unicorns of the Arctic’. For her […]
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I feel very grateful to spend much of my time following nature’s rhythms, in my work as a freelance ecologist on the estate around ‘Wilderness Reserve’, by the Suffolk coast. As cold weather lingers, certain species become more apparent in the landscape. Wildlife is forced to be more resourceful, increasing […]
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ARRIVAL IN CHATBUT I found an accommodation through one of the online platforms and the house seemed quite hospitable and the reviews showed a certain cordiality on the part of the host, Marian. And above all I had a single room and there were no other people in the house. […]
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I was at a point in my life where I felt it was time to push, to move, to move forward. I felt that the only thing to do was to join my strengths and my passions, to merge them into something big and make a dream come true. I […]
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I don’t know about you but I have definitely felt over the last few weeks spring is definitely on the way. I heard my first chiffchaff just a couple of days ago, which is something I always look forward to every year. The characteristic call which is almost onomatopoeic “chiffchaff […]
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Ornithological research on the small islands of Northern Europe has its roots in a now remote past, when data on the migration of birds on numerous islands in Scotland, England, Sweden, Norway, France and Germany were already collected since the mid-19th century. It was precisely in Germany, on the island […]
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For more than fifty years, experts from Iran’s Department of Environment have been conducting mid-winter waterbird censuses across the country. This long-running monitoring program has played a crucial role in understanding population trends among migratory waterbirds that occur in the country. However, recent improvements in equipment, including through the donation […]
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