Life List: A Birding Podcast

11/08/2025

Newest episode is Phil Chaon & chatting with on Phil & Alex are set to lead the Hillstar tour in June. This pic is from Coffee Dome where George took this shot of Alex after our gang got to soak up sightings of Bristle-thighed Curlew in Nome. We discuss, Nome, bears & vagrant birds. Have a listen & let us know what you think.

15/06/2025

is out & in place & this bird we all know & love may have ~new name. Have a listen as Marshall Iliff & Frank Rheindt school is up on AviList.

04/06/2025

An amazing birder and statesman for bird conservation in England & well beyond, it was truly an honor for us to have Tim Appleton in conversation on . Learn about coming up in July, the biggest birdfair in the world & a force for conservation. This year’s cause is with .international Thanks to Tim & his partner Penny photo’ed above for all their dedicated work.
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17/05/2025

New episode featuring our friend talking about Leopards, King Cobras, birds & .
Have a listen & let us know what you think.

07/02/2025

Tomorrow! New season begins as Mollee, Alvaro & George gather again to talk birds and birding.

We wanted to make a quick interjection to inform you that starting Saturday, February 8th, Season 5 of Life List: A Birding Podcast is set to kick off.

04/02/2025

Season 5 of takes flight on Saturday. Mollee & George are just back from scouting Life List’s 2026 Safari Assam trip (link in bio!) & Alvaro is just back from Thailand. We share recent birding experiences & catch up in a season opening roundtable with your 3 hosts. This was 1/5 of the Mollee, George & saw last week in Assam.

28/01/2025

A common bird of Southern Asia, the bird showed well on the grounds of our lodge at Kaziranga. The leafbird family is monogeneric with the genus containing just 11 species, several of which are endangered due to trapping for the caged bird trade. We’ve seen 2 species on this trip so far. Consider joining us in 2026!

26/01/2025

Birders emerge from the mists of the Kameng River at Nameri National Park. Today we saw 5 Ibisbills, near 500 Small Pratincoles, Great Horbills, & so much more.

19/01/2025

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In this week’s newsletter, learn why the Cuban Blue-headed Quail-Dove is a biogeographic relict, read about a new-found Spoon-billed Sandpiper breeding ground, watch a Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl (yes, the one with the pink eyelids) swallow a scorpion, test your state bird knowledge, and much more. And...

26/10/2024

Latest bi-monthly Life List: A Birding Podcast newsletter is out. Have a look and consider signing up!

This week’s newsletter is a little inspired by Halloween. So, read about the world of taxonomy in New Zealand, how a migrating shorebird got killed by a raptor at 9,800 ft, how the blood-thirsty Vampire Ground-Finch rules the roost, and much more. And, see upcoming trips with Mollee, Alvaro, & Geo...

23/10/2024

Check out this phylogeny of the vertebrates. A lot of this is not new, but it is cool to see it in this visual. In any case, alligators and crocs are closer to birds than they are to lizards/snakes. The term "reptile" is essentially meaningless as turtles are quite distant too from the core reptiles (lizards/snakes). How about fish? Well, you could make an argument that sharks and skates are not really fish, but their own thing. Cool stuff. The link to the paper is below.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-02100-3.epdf?sharing_token=siJsl5G1GtZx4CdbXPlJq9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NY_ubIAUOuSIaplQO7PxPxVH9EsfZr8kDlIzllKz52RE6fKpGkDeL1iR74azGiVtbsSEzE82YzsruF0faIgofWINM7LDgh-EVE9Yak6YVPiDe1s04ghb55P6ZIMrIXsbs%3D

08/10/2024

I will leave this here to contemplate. Interesting to read what can happen in 50 years of doing research in the Arctic.

He came to Alaska as a young man to study seabirds on this barren barrier island. Decades later, he found the fingerprints of climate change. After a lifetime, will he see this colony disappear?