Gyorgy Szimuly

Founder of World Shorebirds Day, birder, bird photographer, shorebird conservationist.

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

Years of recording owls along Britain’s roads have produced an interesting geographical picture. Explore the PatchBird Nocturnal maps and see how your own observations could contribute.
https://t.co/qDn5BzRnVt
#NocturnalBirds #CitizenScience #BirdMonitoring #birds #BirdObserver

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

@RobertEFuller Beautiful art. 😍

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

An extraordinary autumn morning at Whaddon, Buckinghamshire. Thousands of migrating birds, a clearing sky and an intriguing question about flight altitude.

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#VisMig #ornithology #BirdObserver #birding #birdmigration #birds #birdwatching

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

An extraordinary autumn morning at Whaddon, Buckinghamshire. Thousands of migrating birds, a clearing sky and an intriguing question about flight altitude.

https://t.co/cPOMM52q2K

#VisMig #ornithology #BirdObserver #birding #birdmigration #birds #birdwatching

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

Explore the new PatchBird Nocturnal maps. Records I collected from May 2024 to October 2026 – including visits with no detections.

It's an early visual overview, not a scientific analysis.

https://t.co/yq2kraJlR8

#PatchBird #Birding #ornithology #PatchBirdNocturnal

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

Two autumns, the same Aberdeen road, and two self-found Yellow-browed Warblers. Sometimes bird migration produces remarkable coincidences.

https://t.co/XCyIu3ydIN

#BirdObserver #Birding #Rarities #birdwatching #ornithology

[RareBirdAlertUK @RareBirdAlertUK]

Captive-bred Great Indian Bustards take first steps in the wild https://t.co/TdTy2wriak

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

Years of hearing antpittas without seeing them ended in Colombia with superb views of Chestnut-crowned and Brown-banded Antpittas.
https://t.co/mxUY5a6L09
#birds #birding #tropicalbirding #antpittas #colombianbirding #birdsofcolombia #BirdObserver

[World Shorebirds Day @ShorebirdsDay]

World Shorebirds Day 2026 looks at recent progress for shorebirds and why continued monitoring of local sites matters beyond a single day or count.

https://t.co/p6mxklHQ9t

#WorldShorebirdsDay #Shorebirds #Waders #ShorebirdConservation #WHSRN

[The Ornithologist @OrnithoMagazine]

Alpine Swifts first bred in Hungary in 2020. Six years later, numbers are growing and new breeding sites are appearing.

A new breeding bird is becoming established.

https://t.co/9ztjuqFYGJ

#ornithology #alpineswift #birds #birding #birdinghungary

[World Shorebirds Day @ShorebirdsDay]

Visit a local site, record what you find and help us build a record that grows stronger year after year. By taking part, you also join a worldwide community of people who watch, count and care about shorebirds.

Sign up:

https://t.co/OfS9HVHrRq

[World Shorebirds Day @ShorebirdsDay]

The Global Shorebird Counts start tomorrow!

From 1–7 September, count shorebirds at your local sites and share your eBird checklists with WorldShorebirdsDay.

Big counts, small counts or zero counts — they all matter.
https://t.co/CtTmOrcMiA

#shorebirds #birding #birds #waders

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

A personal exploration of the Andean tapaculos: why they are so elusive, how geography shaped their evolution, and why they continue to fascinate ornithologists and birders alike.

#ornithology #birds #birding #neotropicalbirding #tapaculos #colombia

https://t.co/OyogkJDqhA

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

We had walked straight past it. A Ruddy Quail-Dove sat barely metres from the trail, hidden in the Colombian forest, until a thermal camera picked it.

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#birdobserver #birding #birdwatching #birds #tropicalbirding #birdsofcolombia

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

We had walked straight past it. A Ruddy Quail-Dove sat barely metres from the trail, hidden in the Colombian forest, until a thermal camera picked it.

https://t.co/8043T98ila

#birdobserver #birding #birdwatching #birds #tropicalbirding #birdsofcolombia

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

One roadside U-turn. One fruiting tree. Nineteen bird species in forty-five minutes. Sometimes the best birding stops aren’t on the map.

https://t.co/TCBmqysYga

#birds #birdwatching #birdobserver #Colombia #birding #eBird

[The Ornithologist @OrnithoMagazine]

A new study on Kentish Plovers finds no detectable impact from solar-powered GPS tags—but raises deeper questions about the limits of biologging.

#sciencecommunications #shorebirds #ornithology #TheOrnithologist #waders

https://t.co/3qKQOliOiT

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

A Sungrebe, Northern Screamer, Capybara and a wetland full of life.

A short detour to Laguna Guarinocito became one of the most memorable stops of our Colombian journey.

https://t.co/nwYkM1DU0C

#BirdObserver #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #TropicalBirding #Colombia

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

Celebrating 40 years of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network and thanking the people who have supported World Shorebirds Day.

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#WHSRN #WorldShorebirdsDay #Shorebirds #Waders #ShorebirdConservation #Birds #ornithology

[Gyorgy Szimuly @WorldWaders]

Oystercatcher Day has officially launched as a new international awareness initiative focused on oystercatchers, coastal habitats, and beach-nesting birds.

https://t.co/BcdL8YUs5i

#Shorebirds #Waders #Ornithology #ShorebirdConservation #OystercatcherDay