I recently spent a week on three Hawaiian islands, with the main target of filming honeycreepers, the only bird family in the world that I had not seen in the wild. These little birds are not normally easy to get on video, as they move very fast and in general they are scarce and highly threatened. Despite this, I got some footage ... [+]

Birds of the Tinamidae family are heavily hunted by carnivores and humans, and perhaps due to this reason and the fact that they do not fly very often, these birds sleep perched on branches in high trees to avoid predation.
One of the most difficult species to find when sleeping is the Near Threatened Solitary Tinamou ... [+]

Common Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) use natural or artificial cavities as nests. Despite being a common species in its native and introduced ranges, like in the United States, it is not that common to ... [+]

As you know, New Zealand is one of the best places on Earth to watch seabirds, and on my recent comprehensive visit to the country I did seven pelagic trips. Over the next few weeks, I hope to upload a few hundred seabird videoclips, including a good number showing interesting behavioural and/or biological aspects. ... [+]

Hector Slongo uploaded a series of new materials taken in Argentina while guiding for Seriema Tours. Some contributions are "firsts" for the site, with species that had no videos until now. There are three records from Córdoba: Chaco Owl vocalizing, Stripe-capped Sparrow singing and ... [+]

James Eaton is helping the IBC cover more and more species! Today we want to highlight three Vulnerable species (Marsh Babbler, Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler and Sumatran Cochoa), four Near Threatened species (Blackish-breasted Babbler, Rusty-bellied Shortwing, Chevron-breasted Babbler and ... [+]

I'm just back from four weeks in New Zealand and I've uploaded a series of videos of the Critically Endangered Kakapo taken on Codfish Island. This visit was possible thanks to a special permit from the New Zealand Department of Conservation, which is doing fantastic conservation work on the island, and assistance from Forest and Bird, the BirdLife International ... [+]

IBC contributor Nick Athanas has been digging deep into his archives, adding at least 13 new species for IBC in the last few days. Two of these are photos taken recently while leading tours for Tropical Birding: Cuzco Brush-Finch and Streak-crowned Antvireo. The rest are sound recordings dating back to 2000, including ... [+]

I have made ​​many observations in the region of the Department of Maldonado, Uruguay, South America, where it is considered an important wetland. One of the places that most will is Laguna del Diario, a spectacular place to observe and record birds. It is a coastal lagoon with the sea water inlet.

Many species of ducks and gallinulas looking for the lagoon to eat or breed. ... [+]

On our holiday in North and Central Peru we filmed more than 30 new species for the IBC and we have already posted 29 of them. Two of them are new to science, the Milpo Tapaculo and the Mantaro Thornbird, and a few are ... [+]

This time we don't mean a new species for the IBC (which it also is), but one that has just been described for science and of which Philippe Verbelen offers us a couple of great photos. We're referring to Rinjani Scops-owl (Otus jolandae), endemic to Lombok Island (Lesser Sundas) ... [+]

James Eaton continues to provide interesting material from South-east Asia for the IBC. Thanks to his collaboration, we now have the first photos, and in some cases even the first material, of endemic species like Orange-breasted Laughingthrush from Annam (S Vietnam); ... [+]

Last weekend we put the video camera in front of a stream where a good number of birds usually drink and bathe, and we recorded 14 species in 7 hours. Last year we recorded another 4, so we have a total of 18 species recorded so far on exactly the same stone. They are: Eurasian Collared-dove ... [+]

With a song of the Critically Endangered Seychelles Paradise-flycatcher we just passed the 5000-species mark for sound recordings! Although over 50% of the species on the IBC have at least one sound recording, it is still the least well-covered material. We hope ... [+]

These videos show what may be one of the few cases described (maybe the only one?) of allopreening between two different bird species (Black Vulture and Crested Caracara ... [+]