Birding & Birds 2nd Annual Global Blind Birder Bird-a-Thon 2026 - Fat Birder What is the Blind Birder Bird-a-Thon? A Bird-a-Thon is a birding event during which birders try to see or hear as many bird species as possible during a set period of time, in this case, a 24-hour per...

Can I ask any follower who is also a member of any other birding group to share this announcement to get the word out about this international event. fatbirder.com/announcement...

Busy updating all the species pages of FATBIRDER.COM - all non-passerines fully updated, intros re-written, hundreds of new bird pics. A third of the way through the passerines...

Save the painted woolly bats UPDATE: eBay has banned the sale of painted woolly bats on its platform! Now let's keep up the pressure to make sure Amazon follows suit.------Painted woolly bats are selfless little forest guardians,

Tell Amazon: Stop the trinket trade with the painted woolly bat! action.eko.org/a/painted-wo...

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After a solid 18 months work all Fatbirder.com geographical pages are fully updated and checked, new intros written and all pages illustrated. Now for all the bird species pages… recon that’s another 12 months work Phew!

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

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...just three more India states to go then ALL fatbirder.com geographical pages will have been completely revised - yeeehaw!

This morning' Frog's Porn

Mega milestone reached while I've been quiet nearly all year... ALL fatbirder.com/world-birdin... pages are now fully updated, illustrated and expanded, all links checked and fully researched endemic lists etc al... phewwee!

Another mini milestone... all South American countries not have a revised and illustrated Fatbirder page... I'll be back to do lots of Brazilian and Argentine state pages but for now its time to go to Africa :-)

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With Sri Lanka, Thailand and South Korea done that now completes the updates for all country-level Asia pages - phew! All are re-written, illustrated and expanded, with all links checked and many new reports, tour links and all another yeeehaw! moment :-) [Lots of individual asian states to go :-(]

5 R-N Parakeets were sat in a bush in my tiny garden… first time since I stopped string up apples for them last year- drew my attention to a pair of blackcaps that were drawn to the apple we lodged in a tree fork… ❤️ blackcaps!

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...another yippeeee moment... Oceania & Australasia now completely updated! Joins North America and the Middle East where every page is now full revised and illustrated. Asia, Africa, Europe and the rest of the Americas to go!

Finished North America and am currently visiting Oceana... just completed Cook Islands, Tuvalu and the Cocos Ismand...

A definite YEEHAW moment... all 103 N American pages, updated, enhanced and illustrated... that's all US & Mexican states, Canadian provinces and country pages of fatbirder.com... whew!

Birding, Birdwatching & Bird Articles Flock to Marion with BirdLife South Africa - Fat Birder Want to combine a trip of a lifetime with a superb cause? Many of the toughest birds to twitch on the planet are seabirds, particularly species that make their home in the Southern Ocean. Some albatro...

Sail out to help out? See the trip of a lifetime for a good cause here: fatbirder.com/articles/flo...

Just five Mexican state pages to update and ALL of North America will have been overhauled.... thanks for the feedback all

Yeeeeeeeehawwwww! All of US pages now fully updated after my long sojurn in California (ironic as the longest I ever spent there is three days hahaha).

Working on the last US state… California is not just the most populous state it’s also the size of Italy with an incredible habitat range

Totally revising the New York page has been an interesting journey making me sooo want to visit the vast forests and coast near the Big Apple

New York and California to go before all Fatbirder US pages will have been completely overhauled teens!

Just four US states left to update having spent happy hours in Texas, New Hampshire, Arkansas and more.

Four fifths of the US states now revamped (first big change since 2018) having completed Ohio, Oregon and Oklahoma. Think I'll defy Trump and slip over the border into Mexico and up date a few of their states. I wish I could persuade more of my followers on X to jump ship!

@ornithology.bsky.social I'm desperately trying to lead my followers @fatbirder on X into the blue sky

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After the long haul of updating Texas I decided to temporarily step away from North America... so flew south and Updated my Ecuador page(s) - so the Northern Ecuador sub-page and the offshoot Galapagos page to... now I'm migrating north again!

Still plodding on with more US states completely revised and checked with added pictures. Culminated in the huge page that reflects the size of the lone star state of Texas. 16 states left to go... as soon as I can get back to it!

Downed tools and went birding with my granddaughter for the first time... there is NOTHING better than seeing someone else get excited, entranced and falling in love with birds! But still managed to update Fatbirder Washington and Rhode Island pages!

Almost Heaven... just updated the West Virginia page of fatbirder.com/world-birdin...