Hundreds of birdwatchers have been flocking to the Wadden Sea island of Texel hoping to catch sight of an unprepossessing small bird – which has never been spotted in the Netherlands before. The Blackpoll warbler has been seen in a graveyard in the far north of the island, having crossed the Atlantic from Canadian and American forests on its way …
The warblers had begun to arrive! After the birdwatcher’s yearly dry spell through summer, and with the monsoon migrants flying away, we heard a metallic che…che, followed by a dry rattle, in the Aravalli Biodiversity Park in Gurugram. The bird is fairly adaptive, adjusting to varied habitats like open country, thorny shrubs and acacias of arid scrubland, and even inhabits …
