How Good Is Emirates Airlines Gluten-Free Menu?
The Emirates Gluten-Free Meal: Solace for “Gluten-tummies” Do you have trouble with your stomach after eating cereal, bread, pasta, or drinking beer? — If you get stomach aches and a lot of gas after eating these foods, you may have a gluten allergy, which is relatively common, or it could be the beginning of the […]
Is Birdwatching a Perfect Hobby for Children?
How can we encourage our children and grandchildren to spend more time outside the home? Spending too much time on the Internet is causing emotional and physical stress in children. Parents worldwide have been trying to find ways to keep their children away from mobile gadgets and computer games. Unfortunatly we parents often fail in […]
Is bird Watching A Healthy Outdoor Activity?
It is. Let me explain why! I recently went to see a friend and his family. When I was about to leave, his wife, who is always a soft-spoken and contented lady, asked me the same question that I put in the title. I picked up on the seriousness and urgency of her question right […]
Birding for Beginners ?
According to the USFWS, approximately 46.7 million Americans self-identify as birdwatchers. Although we do not have reliable data from various countries worldwide on this topic, the US numbers are staggering. The hobby is now gaining popularity by the day. Birding was once thought to be a retirement activity. A typical birdwatcher is mostly depicted as […]
Whiskered Pitta: Jewel Of The Philippine Forests
I was shivering and thoroughly soaked in the torrential rain that had been pounding the Philippines’ Luzon province for the past ten hours when I asked my guide from Bangkong Vally to cancel the mission and return to the camp below the hills. Ra Sya Ana, my host and a gifted birder from the Philippines […]
Phoebe Snetsinger: The Lady who went birdwatching on borrowed time
Even now, the majority of us will experience shudders and dread when we receive a cancer diagnosis. Imagine being diagnosed with cancer in the 1980s, when cancer treatment was still in its infancy and almost always entailed a period of excruciating physical and mental suffering, living in a revolting body, palliative care, and anticipating death. […]
Cheer Pheasants Of Munsiyari
Cheer Pheasants While planning a birding photography trip, many of us will have a specific bird in mind that we desire to photograph. During my first-ever central Himalayan birding trip in 2013, it was the Cheer Pheasant. I just missed the bird at Pangot in the Kumaon hills on the second day of the trip. […]
Wilson’s Bird of Paradise Of West Papua
Where To Go To See Wilson’s Bird of Paradise? When a group of bird photographers met for the first time at Sorong airport a few days before arriving on Indonesia’s remote Waggieo Island, none of us knew what to expect from the expedition to the remote Raja Ampat Islands. Despite the fact that I had […]
Flame Bower Bird Of Papua New Guinea.
Is Flame Bower Bird The Most Brightly Coloured Bird On Earth? After a 4-hour ride on a chugging speed boat, we arrived at the flame bower bird display ground up in the fly river in Papua New Guinea around noon. We took our positions in a cool hide and waited. We didn’t have to […]
In Quest For A Rare Owl in Sri Lanka
While searching for endangered endemic birds in Asia in February 2015, Google presented a trip report by a British birder who had visited Sri Lanka three times to see one endemic: the Serendeb Scops Owl. His report inspired me so much that I immediately asked my travel agent to make arrangements. Having visited Sri Lanka […]
