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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

September has been a big month for us in South America Laurie's group enjoyed spectacular sightings of at least eight Jaguars in the Pantanal, followed by Philip's jaw-dropping encounters with Harpy Eagles in the Sierra de la Macarena in Colombia October is going to feel very quiet after all that!

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

some flashes of Gesneriaceae that caught my eye from the last few days (cos who can resist a Gesnerid?) Kohleria stuebeliana, endemic to the eastern slope of the eastern Andes in Colombia Columnea microcalyx Episcia cupreata Besleria solanoides #WildlifeTravelling in #Colombia

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the second Harpy Eagle encounter in two days, in the Sierra de la Macarena words fail. just an awesome beast, in an awesome location, thanks to some awesome people, who have brought us to a place where tourism was unimaginable just a decade ago. we will be back.

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we were invited back to #Colombia this autumn by @procolombiaco.bsky.social and our friends at Nature Colombia with the promise of the world's biggest bird of prey. as you can see, they have more than lived up to their promise. and it's not over yet... #HarpyEagle #WildlifeTravelling

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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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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

for the last few days of our Brazil trip, Laurie and the group have left the Pantanal behind and headed into the mistily lush Atlantic Forest: fewer spots, but a lot more colourful #WildlifeTravelling in #Brazil

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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can't wait to lead this @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social holiday to the amazing #Pantanal in September 2027 - check out wildlife-travel.co.uk/our-holidays... if you fancy joining us in exploring one of the world's most amazing wild places.

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Brazil, where even the small cats are big our group are now headed back along the Transpantaneira, having spent three amazing days with the Jaguars of Porto Jofre but the trip is far from over, as this Ocelot (our 2nd of the trip!) would like to point out #WildlifeTravelling in the #Pantanal

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the Jaguars of the Three Brothers rivers have been putting on an amazing show for our group in the #Pantanal this week Something tells me we will be back here next year... #WildlifeTravelling #MammalWatching

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

our group in Brazil are sharing breakfast this morning with this big blue brute #WildlifeTravelling in the #Pantanal

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

our 2027 brochure is on its way... dropping through your letter box any day now

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Very sad news that Rosemary Parslow has passed away. She joined the Society in 1979 & served as our Vice-County Recorder for the Isles of Scilly since 1983: an immense service to the botanical world. We send our condolences to her family & friends. More information here: bsbi.org/about/news/l...

The pink flowerheads and long thin leaves of Thrift (Armeria maritima), the county flower of the Isles of Scilly

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We are very sad to hear that Rosemary Parslow, a much-loved Wildlife Travel leader, great friend, wise counsel and botanical inspiration to many, has passed away We will never search for Least Adder's Tongue or Dwarf Pansy on our hands and knees without thinking of Rosemary She will be much missed

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A little more about my local population of Crested Cow-wheat...a species very nearly lost from the Soke of Peterborough. Wonderful to have this so close and to be able to share it with special friends... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Country diary: A single act of care 40 years ago, and we have this splendid, rare colony | Sarah Lambert

Ailsworth, Cambridgeshire: It’s hard enough to find the crested cow-wheat, it would be even harder were it not for one far-sighted warden

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Cyprus Warbler and Greater Sandplover; Narcissus, Hyacinthella, Colchicum and Romulea; Troodos Wall Lizards and Cyprus Agama; winter sun, great company and zero fuss! Perfect Christmas, anyone? wildlife-travel.co.uk/europe/cypru...

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

walked a little bit further than I planned today, and may have lost the path for a little bit... but well worth the extra steps when I bumped into this beautiful Asp #oof #lifer #WildlifeTravelling in the #Pyrenees

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

a handful of highlights of a few days in the Spanish Pyrenees, giving our Aragon itinerary a bit of a refresh, 14 years since I was last here... Pyrenean Iris, Alpine Marmot, Pyrenean Honeysuckle and Spanish Fritillary so far, so fab #WildlifeTravelling in the #Pyrenees

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

another year, another profile pic... I'm not sure the perfect Scarce Swallowtail* photo exists, but that doesn't stop me trying to take it, time and again... (*Iberian Scarce Swallowtail on this occasion...) #WildlifeTravelling in the #Pyrenees #NewProfilePic #ThirstTrap

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

this year's spring visit to Estonia is coming to an atmospheric end last night our group headed out onto the bogs of Soomaa, where lekking Great Snipe bounced and a Lynx casually sauntered across the track... #WildlifeTravelling at it's best

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

As there's an #orchid theme going on this evening, I thought I'd share four stunning species seen on the recent @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social Transylvania holiday that I led - intensely purple Green-winged-orchid, Three-toothed Orchid, Monkey Orchid and a very stately Sword-leaved Helleborine

A very deeply coloured Green-winged Orchid Anacamptis morio in meadows at Magura

Three-toothed Orchid Neotinea tridentata in steppic grassland at Apold

Monkey orchid Orchis simia in in steppic grassland at Apold

Sword-leaved Helleborine Cephalanthera longifolia in beech woodland at Breite

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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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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

thanks to @beardybirder.bsky.social for organising, and for laying on a great Nightjar display this evening

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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A lovely morning spent on Hartland Moor, as part of an an enjoyable get together with some of the other @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social leaders, saw us taking in a wealth of rare and/or range-restricted heathland species, incl'g Southern Damselfly, Thomisus onustus, Chrysotoxum vernale, & Sand Lizard

A blue and black banded male Southern Damselfly rests at an angle on a dry rush stem, against a blurred green backdrop.

A white and pink-banded Thomisus onustus crab spider rests on the pinkish palm of man's hand.

A wasp mimicking Chrysotoxum vernale hoverfly, photographed inside a transparent plastic pot, rests on white netting material and the red inside of the pots lid.

Close up of the bright green and brown patterned head and forelegs of a male Sand Lizard, resting amongst green and brown grass stems.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

New blog: #wildlifetravelling on Lesvos, Greece, at the turn of the month. Two nests of Krüper's Nuthatch, several Persian Squirrels & much more besides. @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social www.jameslowen.com/blog-10-may-...

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BLOG 10 May 2026 Lesvos III

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Some of the varied highlights of our last 24h on Lesvos, with the @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social tour. Birds, moths, irises, orchids, scorpions…

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

you can't come to Crete and not walk a gorge and get a cricked neck staring up at endemic chasmophytes so today that's exactly what we did, with Staehelina petiolata, Ebenus cretica and Brassica cretica amongst the cliff-loving treasures we'll be coming back to Crete in April 2027: come & join us!

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

while the plants have been amazing in #Crete, the birds have been pretty good too Little & Spotted Crakes appeared in a ditch before breakfast, 30 White Storks just flew north, Red-footed & Eleonora's Falcons, daily flocks of Golden Orioles & Bee-eaters... migration is all go! #WildlifeTravelling

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

from the hilltops, we dropped down to the beach, to "admire" the critically endangered Colchicum reichingeri, a December-flowering geophyte found at just a handful of coastal locations in western Crete and across in Libya #WildlifeTravelling in #Crete

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#WildlifeMaxxing at it's Cretan best today, with Griffons overhead, Cretan Festoon along the track sides, and amazing wild flowers, including two very localised endemics: Dianthus xylorrhizus and Centaurea redempta subsp redempta #WildlifeTravelling with @sarahlambert7.bsky.social

Centaurea redempta subsp redempta, at it's bloody best

Dianthus xylorrhiza, whose entire world range was within sight during our morning walk

Cretan Festoon: at last, one stopped long enough for the photographers

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

a day for the botany nerds amongst us the tiny Muscari cf heldreichii, perhaps an as-yet-undescribed endemic the critically endangered, endemic Salix kaptarae, described as recently as 2019 and the iconic Tulipa saxatilis up on the Omalos plateau. #WildlifeTravelling in #Crete

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

day 4 of our Crete trip began with a staggering 14 (!!) Golden Orioles in a mulberry tree continued with Cretan Wall Lizards getting jiggy, the stunning Orobanche lavandulacea and a sultry Eleonora's Falcon at Aptera & ended with Nathusius's Pipistrelles by the pool #WildlifeTravelling in #Crete

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

a couple of gory highlights from our sunny day on the Akrotiri peninsula, in the fleshy form of Cytinus hypocistis, (ant-pollinated, parasite & member of the Rafflesiaceae) & the always wonderful Dragon Arum, filling the hillsides with the aroma of rotting sheep... #WildlifeTravelling in #Crete

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

getting giddy on the bumps, on the first day of our return to Crete orchids, orchids everywhere Orchis italica, Naked Man Orchid Ophrys tenthredinifera, Sawfly Orchid Ophrys cretica, Cretan Bee Orchid Anacamptis boryi #WildlifeTravelling in #Crete

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NEW BLOG: Cyprus spring 2026 with @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social, led by @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social Click www.jameslowen.com/blog-3-apr-2... to read

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Between checking our Cyprus-touring @travel_wildlife group in to Paphos airport yesterday, and going through security for the flight, @WildlifePrecey and I had time to march along to Timi Beach to tick Bimaculated Lark, with a side-order of Trumpeter Finch. Rubbish photos, but much excitement!

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

the Black Forest looking pretty white this afternoon... #HomeTime

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

one last jog along the beach, in between bag drop and security, resulted in Bimaculated Lark at Timi beach ('most wanted' for @wildlifeprecey.bsky.social), as well as the bonus male Trumpeter Finch, neatly bookending the trip with pinky-buff finches #WildlifeTravelling in #Cyprus #CyprusBirds

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Wildlife Travel @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

anyone for #MothBreakfast? and our first rain of the week just before we left the hotel brought Purple Heron, Whinchat and a Thrush Nightingale into the garden. Cyprus, we will be back... #WildlifeTravelling in #Cyprus with @jameslowenwild.bsky.social

Dyscia simplicaria, a little known Cypriot endemic geometrid moth

Striped Hawkmoth, always a crowd pleaser

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

A fine farewell from the hotel gardens of our @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social Cyprus tour, which proffered Dyscia simplicaria (a little-known endemic), a crowdpleasing Striped Hawk-moth, an intermittently showy Thrush Nightingale and an ostentious Collared Flycatcher (among 8 Ficedula in the garden)

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Spot the moth-er’s hotel bedroom…

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