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Philip

@wildlifeprecey.bsky.social
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nature geek, bibliophile, middle child, amiable misanthrope, angry conservationist Wildlife Travel Director and sometime tour leader #NotARealJob

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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
last day in Colombia, managed to grab a couple of hours in the botanic gardens in between flights my first Acadian Flycatcher, a trio of Blackburnian Warblers, 2 more Yellow-billed Cuckoos and handfuls of Red-eyed Vireos, Eastern Kingbirds and Wood-Pewees from both east and west Migration is ace
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
from the Andean cloud forest, we dropped all the way down to the great wet plains of the Llanos, where we finished the day with two fantastic Giant Anteater sightings and a handful of Hoatzins #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia (and the least said about the lost passport, the better...)
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
on the first day of our #famtrip to Colombia, we had a breakfast appointment with the Cundinamarca Antpitta only discovered in the 1990s, the entire world population is squeezed into the cloud forest between 2000m & 2200m asl on a handful of Andean hillsides #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
three Yellow-billed and my first ever Black-billed Cuckoo were the chief prizes from 25,000 jetlagged steps in Bogotá's parks today #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
the garden's tenth odonata, not the expected Migrant Hawker but instead a Willow Emerald Damselfly, another species which has marched up the country whilst I wasn't paying attention...
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
some very cross taxa ...
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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There are also a mouthwatering array of itineraries to more distant destination in the @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social 2027 brochure, including Botswana, Bhutan, Tasmania, Svalbard, the Drakensberg, the Danube delta, Colombia, the Kalahari, & Brazil wildlife-travel.co.uk/wp-content/u...
An array of Tasmanian scenery and wildlife. Images taken directly from the Wildlife Travel 2027 brochure.An array of scenery and wildlife from the Drakensberg. Images taken directly from the Wildlife Travel 2027 brochure.An array of Colombian birds and butterflies. Images taken directly from the Wildlife Travel 2027 brochure.An array of scenery and wildlife from Bhutan. Images taken directly from the Wildlife Travel 2027 brochure.
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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@wildlifetraveller.bsky.social are again offering a range of no-fly holiday destinations in 2027, including a return to the sublime Vercors, the stunning Cevennes & Grand Causses, and the wonderful wetlands of La Brenne wildlife-travel.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Close up of a Chequered Skipper butterfly, taken in profile facing left and perching on a purple-green flower bud. The butterfly is orange-brown in colour, with large, paler, spots on the underside of the hindwing.Close of a a bright pink and white Military Orchid flower spike, against a blurred green backdrop.Close of a bright yellow and magenta Lady's-slipper orchid flower, silhouetted against its broad green leaves.Profile view of a stunning Scarce Swallowtail butterfly, facing right as it puddles on damp brown soil, showing of its vibrant yellow and black tiger stripes.
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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As the ONLY natural history travel company donating ALL of its profits to nature conservation, & having provided expert guided holidays for nearly 40 years, it's great to see the @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social 2027 brochure up on the website wildlife-travel.co.uk/wp-content/u... Do take a look.
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The dumbing down and enshitification of conservation bodies continues... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘They’re part of folklore’: storks return to Derbyshire after 600-year absence
Conservationists are thrilled at the arrival of three juvenile birds at Willington Wetlands, hoping more will follow
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
the second Hummingbird Hawk-moth of the week, and Zonaria inanis buzzing about the fennel in the garden, both Belper this afternoon #TeamMoth
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Richard Lewington @rlewington2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Who said moths are dull and eat clothes? Royal Mail stamps issue, release date 9th July
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
enjoying watching the garden pond develop stagnant, long neglected and filled with goldfish 6 months ago, it's now fish free, and crammed with hornwort. this afternoon the fourth damselfly species arrived, with two male Small Red-eyed Damsels jousting over the duckweed
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
www.birdguides.com/birdguides-t...
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Morocco: Easy birding and wildlife | Overseas - BirdGuides
A relaxed introduction to the birds and natural history of southern Morocco
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
time to get the garden moth list started...
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
ended our leaders' meet up with a lazy wander around @rspb.bsky.social Arne reserve, with soaring Ospreys, a showy Dartford Warbler and snoring sows #WildlifeTravelling
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
a roasting day on the Purbeck heaths, catching up with @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social leaders a whole suite of rare Purbeck inverts, Hobby and Woodlark and Dartford Warblers, lovely Lesser Water Plantain, overly friendly pigs, screaming Sika Deer, and my most wanted plant... Mousetail at long last
the diminutive stunner that is Mousetail, just about done for the year, on the outskirts of Warehamon the Mousetail huntChrysotoxum vernale, with her smoky infusion...Lesser Water Plantain on Hartland Moor
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/08/w...
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White stork, black stork and other vagrant bird species
By Jeremy Sabel and Matt Heydon Natural England’s Species Recovery & Reintroductions Team Projects involving the release of white stork Ciconia ciconia capture the public imagination. If fairy tales a...
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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
What a time to be alive!! #FliesofBritainandIreland coming out SOON @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
in a moment of idleness during a 24 hour layover yesterday, I found this tool for analysing @inaturalist.bsky.social records & discovered that seven of my records are the sole occurrence for that species amongst the 250million+ inat records which signifies nothing, but made me smile #NotARealJob
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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Lot of wonderful photos from @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social holidays now available at www.flickr.com/photos/wildl..., including mine from the joy-filled Cyprus Christmas 2025 trip and some amazing bird images from @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social in Bhutan… Ideal to banish the winter blues!
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Wildlife Travel’s albums | Flickr
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
well worth the early start this morning we had Tharpaling Monastery and it's famous Himalayan Monals all to ourselves. #Bhutan has been mind-blowing: stunning scenery, friendly people, good food, easy travel and AMAZING wildlife
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
all the #oof used up for today, with a hyperactive group of Fire-tailed Myzornis (Myzornises?) at Latong La, Bhutan well, that's the colour scheme for the spare room sorted! #NotARealJob #BirdsArentReal
a ridiculously coloured Fire-tailed Myzornis: fantastic name for a tangtastic bird
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Bhutan is full of exciting, exotic, near mythical birds: Himalayan Monal, Beautiful Nuthatch, Fire-tailed Myzornis, Ibisbill, Ward's Trogon... but the bird I most wanted to see was this one, White-crested Laughingthrush, a feature of childhood nature books and zoo visits #DreamBird #JobDone
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
glad I packed my shorts...
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
another couple for the Redstart fans White-throated Redstart (hiding his white throat) and Plumbeous Redstart (minus any red at all) Bumthang, Bhutan
White-throated Redstart, the sixth and probably final redstart of the tripPlumbeous Redstart
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
consider that gob well and truly smacked the first thing my guide did when I arrived in Bhutan, was manage my expectations. Spring is the time for pheasants: maybe we will find Blood Pheasant, Kalij perhaps, but for the others... no chance. a male Satyr Tragopan ambling calmly across the road wow
a male Satyr Tragopan, a dream bird, ambling across the road in Bhutan
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
well there's a thing I never thought I'd see: not one but two Critically Endangered White-bellied Herons, of which perhaps no more than 60 birds exist, and even that is thought to be an optimistic count Bhutan is probably the best last hope for this stately bird #VisitBhutan #BhutanBirdTours
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
and at last the temperatures rose high enough to get some butterflies on the wing #WildlifeTravelling in #Bhutan #ButterfliesOfBhutan #VisitBhutan with @langurecotravelsbhutan and @tourismbhutan
Common Imperial, Cheritra freja
Red-breasted Jezebel, Delias acalis
Yellow Orange-tip, Ixias pyrene
Indian Tortoiseshell, Aglais caschmirensis
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Bhutan day 4: travelled down from Trongsa into the foothills, spending time with this characterful crew along the way jst in case it hasn't become immediately obvious, we will definitely be bringing a group to #Bhutan. Get your name on the list for spring 2027: you won't regret it! #VisitBhutan
Golden LangurSultan TitBlack-crowned Scimitar Babblerthe bizarre Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
and I'm not the only one stalking these Bhutan roadsides... came round the corner this morning to see a pack of Dhole, who quickly put some distance between us and the same stretch of road had some very fresh Tiger pug marks #MammalWatching and #WildlifeTravelling in #Bhutan
a Dhole high-tailing it away from meTiger pawprints along the same stretch of sandy road
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
a wing-flicking Wallcreeper, just before lunch road verges are a bit different in Bhutan! #VisitBhutan #WildlifeTravelling in #Bhutan
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
a covey of 14 Blood Pheasants along the old Pele La road #WildlifeTravelling in #Bhutan
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
as the sun sets for the last time in 2025, it turns out a Wallcreeper just before lunch was my 1010th bird of the year, including 152 lifers there have been some crackers, from Emperor Penguin to Ibisbill and 2spp of Helmetcrest, with a party of Red-headed Bullfinch as bird number 1000
Emperor Penguin in JanuaryBuffy Helmetcrest in Colombia Ibisbill, after 25 years of hurtbird number 1000 for the year
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Today's journey took us to Phobjikha Valley, home to Hodgson's Wagtail, Royle's Pika, swarms of Plain Mountain-Finches and at least 150 Black-necked Cranes Fingers crossed for closer crane encounters tomorrow... #WildlifeTravelling in #Bhutan #VisitBhutan #BhutanBirdingTours
Hodgson's Wagtail, a very smart form of Pied Wagtail, Phobjikha ValleyRoyle's PikaPlain Mountain Finch flock, Phobjikha ValleyBlack-necked Cranes, Phobjikha Valley
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
today we drove east, from Thimphu, the capital, to Bhutan's largest protected wetland, the Phobjikha Valley, via two passes over 3,000m asl, some good looking redstarts and a couple of exciting Himalayan finches #VisitBhutan #BhutanBirdingTours
Hodgson's RedstartBlue-fronted RedstartCrimson-browed FinchGold-naped Finch
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
five minutes from the airport... a bird I first looked for 25 years ago, unsuccessfully, on the Kosi River with @birdingdad.bsky.social something tells me I'm going to enjoy Bhutan!
an Ibisbill, the only member of the family Ibidorhynchidae, looking sheepish for keeping me waiting so long
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Headed to the Himalayas for New Year, I had a spare day to spend in transit in Delhi spent it in a jetlagged blur of little brown jobs, masses of waterbirds and ten lifers around Sultanpur National Park, thanks to Sanjay from Asian Adventures
Sind Sparrow, bird 4362Bengal Bushlark, bird 4357Indian Bushlark, bird 4356Yellow-wattled Lapwing, bird 4355
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Screamers, done Northern Screamer, my third and final member of the #Anhimidae doing what screamers do best, on the outskirts of Barranquilla. only 28 years after I last looked for it, whilst backpacking in Venezuela
Northern Screamer, screamingNorthern Screamer, not screaming
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
a brightly coloured morning in the dry coastal forests of Los Flamencos expecting things to take on more of a rosy hue this afternoon... #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia
Vermilion CardinalRuby Topaz
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
major oof-age up in the clouds of Los Nevados, with a friendly Buffy Helmetcrest smiles all round #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
while the hummers buzzed about, some more sedated visitors entertained us at the feeders #WildlifeTravelling at Hacienda El Bosque
Sickle-winged Guan Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan, amazingly one of two species of mountain toucan we saw todayEquatorial Antpitta White-throated Quail Dove
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
we spent this morning at the dairy farm turned ecotourism hotspot, Hacienda El Bosque, where birds are now the major economic driver yet more wonderful hummers, including those with the longest (Sword-billed Hummingbird) and shortest (Purple-backed Thornbill) bills #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia
Purple-backed Thornbill Mountain Velvetbreast Sword-billed Hummingbird White-bellied Woodstar
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
up to the Sumapaz paramo this morning, south of Bogotá and 3500m asl Green-bearded Helmetcrest was the star of the show, along with Apolinar's Wren (both endemic to #Colombia) and some spectacular scenery well worth the early start #WildlifeTravelling
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
back to the US for a three-tick road trip (Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Clapper Rail & King Rail, coincidentally on "No Kings" day) from AOC's Queens down to Trumpian Virginia Beach & back, via Monarchs aplenty on Cape May, some fun late-summer flowers & a random suburban colony of Collared Doves #NoKings
King Rail, Back Bay NWR, VirginiaGhost Pipes, Monotropa uniflora, First Landing State Park, VirginiaAmerican Painted Lady and Monarch on Northern Seaside Goldenrod, Cape May Point State Park, New JerseyMarsh Ladies Tresses, Spiranthes odorata, Back Bay NWR, Virginia
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
a poser of a Connecticut Warbler in Madison Square Park this afternoon was the 18th warbler of my long weekend in New York, followed by a stonking Yellow-breasted Chat in Verizon Plaza, my "most-wanted" for this visit. #UrbanBirding gets no better
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Philip @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
an Arctic Warbler in New York is just... 🤯😵‍💫 I made do with a bright Dickcissel on Governor's Island ebird.org/checklist/S2...
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eBird Checklist - 27 Sep 2025 - Randalls Island - 25 species (+1 other taxa)
Submitted by leo wexler-mann.
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Next spring, in addition to our regular orchid-focussed itinerary, @jameslowenwild.bsky.social and @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social are looking forward to spending a week enjoying Cyprus's amazing bird life. wildlife-travel.co.uk/europe/cypru...
join us for a relaxed week of island birding in Cyprus in spring 2026
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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
our 2026 holiday brochure is ready to download from our website. Have a read, and let's start making plans for the year ahead! wildlife-travel.co.uk/our-holidays...
Download our holiday brochure for the year ahead and travel with us in 2026
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